Mount Pleasant, Iowa — Coffee Depot
BNSF Ottumwa Sub double main and Amtrak California Zephyr at the Mount Pleasant depot
Mount Pleasant, Iowa — Coffee Depot
BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision · Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 40.97151, -91.55053
- Location
- Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — Ottumwa Subdivision
≈ MP 233.4 on the Ottumwa Subdivision — derived from FRA grade crossing 063038V, 30 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
20reported to the FRA
Daytime
10
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 72 min
Nighttime
10
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 72 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 063038V, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 10 to 20.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 60 mph timetable speed
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 6, to ChicagoDaily9:55 AMdeparts Mt. Pleasant Amtrak Station
- Train 5, to EmeryvilleDaily6:06 PMarrives Mt. Pleasant Amtrak Station
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated November 6, 2026 — trains often run late.
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
This camera looks over the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision double main track at North Adams Street in downtown Mount Pleasant, Iowa, from the Coffee Depot coffee shop next to the Amtrak station. Traffic includes BNSF local and road freight trains and Amtrak's California Zephyr (trains 5/6), which calls at the Mount Pleasant depot. A companion camera two miles west (this operator's "West" feed) covers the same subdivision in open country.
Mount Pleasant, Iowa sits on BNSF Railway's Ottumwa Subdivision, a double-tracked freight main line that also carries Amtrak's daily California Zephyr between Chicago and Emeryville. This camera is hosted by the Coffee Depot coffee shop at 420 N Adams St, directly beside the Mount Pleasant Amtrak station (418 N Adams St) and its street-level grade crossing.
The view takes in the depot building, the passenger platform, and the double main, with the station's own countdown board visible in frame showing the next scheduled Amtrak movement. A second Steel Highway Railcams feed, "Mount Pleasant (West)," covers the same subdivision about two miles west of town.
What to watch for
BNSF freight traffic (locals and road trains) on the Ottumwa Subdivision double main, and Amtrak's California Zephyr (trains 5 westbound / 6 eastbound) calling at the Mount Pleasant depot just behind the camera.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Passenger station
- Traffic
- Freight & passenger
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- September 21, 2026
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