Mount Vernon, Iowa — Highway 1 Crossing
Union Pacific's Clinton Subdivision at the Highway 1 grade crossing in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Mount Vernon, Iowa — Highway 1 Crossing
Union Pacific — Clinton Subdivision, at the Highway 1 (8th Avenue North) crossing in Mount Vernon, Iowa, between Beverly (Cedar Rapids) and Clinton (operator's description) · Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 41.92958, -91.41090
- Location
- Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Clinton Sub
≈ MP 65.4 on the Clinton Sub — derived from FRA grade crossing 190471L, 90 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
35reported to the FRA
Daytime
18
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 40 min
Nighttime
17
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 42 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 190471L, 90 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 35 to 41.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 70 mph timetable speed
Train types
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
This camera looks along Union Pacific's Clinton Subdivision double track at the Highway 1 (8th Avenue North) grade crossing in Mount Vernon, Iowa, on the line between Beverly (Cedar Rapids) and Clinton.
Steel Highway Railcams operates this trackside camera at the Highway 1 (North 8th Avenue) grade crossing in Mount Vernon, Iowa, overlooking Union Pacific's Clinton Subdivision between Beverly, on the west side of Cedar Rapids, and Clinton, Iowa.
The view is a double-track main line with centralized traffic control signals on both approaches to the crossing, the road crossing itself in the foreground, and a ballast pile visible off to one side.
Steel Highway Railcams monitors AAR channel 62 (161.040 MHz) on this feed, giving viewers a radio cue for approaching Union Pacific trains before they reach the crossing.
What to watch for
Union Pacific freight movements on the Clinton Subdivision between Cedar Rapids and Clinton, at the Highway 1 grade crossing.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Grade crossing
- Traffic
- Freight
- 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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