Ottumwa, Iowa — Main Street Donuts, BNSF View
BNSF freight past Main Street Donuts, looking toward Tisdale Street
Ottumwa, Iowa — Main Street Donuts, BNSF View
BNSF Railway — Ottumwa Subdivision · Ottumwa, Iowa, United States
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Credit: Live stream by Steel Highway Railcams, hosted by Main Street Donuts in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Where this camera films
Camera position: 41.02252, -92.42013
- Location
- Ottumwa, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — OTTUMWA
≈ MP 280.2 on the OTTUMWA — derived from FRA grade crossing 062965E, 120 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
22reported to the FRA
Daytime
11
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 65 min
Nighttime
11
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 65 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 062965E, 120 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 10 to 40.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 40 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
Steel Highway Rail Cams watches BNSF's Ottumwa Subdivision looking west near Tisdale Street in Ottumwa, Iowa, hosted by Main Street Donuts at 606 W Main St. The stream monitors AAR channels 39 and 44 (160.695 and 160.770 MHz), also carried on Broadcastify.
This camera looks west along BNSF's Ottumwa Subdivision near Tisdale Street in Ottumwa, Iowa. The webcam is hosted by Main Street Donuts at 606 W Main St in Ottumwa, which also hosts a second Steel Highway camera looking south toward CPKC's Ottumwa Subdivision near Caldwell Street. The feed monitors AAR channels 39 (160.695 MHz) and 44 (160.770 MHz), also carried on Broadcastify. An on-screen data overlay also displays live departure information for Ottumwa's Amtrak station (California Zephyr) a few blocks away.
What to watch for
BNSF freight passing the industrial buildings west of downtown; a data overlay on the feed also shows the Ottumwa Amtrak station board.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- 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
Filmed location
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