Mount Pleasant, Iowa — West Camera
BNSF Ottumwa Sub double main in open country west of Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, Iowa — West Camera
BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision · Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 40.97680, -91.61105
- Location
- Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — Ottumwa Subdivision
≈ MP 236.6 on the Ottumwa Subdivision — derived from FRA grade crossing 079056R, 110 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
10reported to the FRA
Daytime
5
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 2.5 h
Nighttime
5
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 2.5 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 079056R, 110 m from 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
- 1 main track · 79 mph timetable speed
Train types
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · bridge inventory Oct 14, 2022 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
This camera shows the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision double main track at County Road W-55, about two miles west of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Traffic includes BNSF local and road freight and Amtrak's California Zephyr passing through without stopping. It is a companion feed to this operator's "Coffee Depot" camera in downtown Mount Pleasant.
This is the second of two Steel Highway Railcams feeds covering BNSF Railway's Ottumwa Subdivision at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Where the "Coffee Depot" camera sits downtown next to the Amtrak station, this one is positioned at County Road W-55, roughly two miles west of town, showing the double main in open farm country with a road overpass visible in the distance.
Traffic on this stretch includes BNSF local and road freight trains and Amtrak's daily California Zephyr, which does not stop here.
What to watch for
BNSF freight movements on the Ottumwa Subdivision double main in open country, plus Amtrak's California Zephyr passing through without stopping.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Grade crossing
- 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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