Springfield, Missouri — BNSF Cuba Subdivision, North Yard
Thirty-five trains a day at the old Frisco yard, four routes fanning out
Springfield, Missouri — BNSF Cuba Subdivision, North Yard
BNSF Railway — Cuba Subdivision, milepost 236, at North Yard (former St. Louis–San Francisco "Frisco"); Thayer North, Cherokee and Ft Scott Subdivisions also radiate from here · Springfield, Missouri, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 37.23011, -93.29024
- Location
- Springfield, Missouri, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — Cuba
≈ MP 237.6 on the Cuba — derived from FRA grade crossing 664159D, 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 664157P, 1.4 km from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 2 to 10.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 35 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"You may see as many as 35 trains a day ranging from local yard activity, to Powder River Coal trains, to hotshot intermodal and manifest traffic." — operator's YouTube description
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
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
Springfield is where the Frisco left its deepest mark. The operator sets the scene plainly: "This camera shows the BNSF Cuba Sub along the BNSF North Yard in downtown Springfield, Missouri", at "roughly MP236 of the BNSF Cuba Subdivision near the intersection of Jefferson and Commercial Street in the Commercial Street Historic District". The line's ancestry runs "from the old St Louis and San Francisco FRISCO Railroad to the current day Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad which you are currently viewing".
Four routes radiate from the yard, and the operator names them all: "To the east is the Thayer North Subdivision to Memphis TN and the Cuba Subdivision routed towards St. Louis Mo. To the West is the Cherokee Subdivision routed towards Tulsa OK, and the Ft Scott Subdivision routed towards Kansas City and other points Northwest."
The installation is a community project rather than a lineside pole: the Commercial Street Community Improvement District funded the camera system, WON Internet supplies the connection, and Mosaica Rose Studio hosts the equipment. A published volunteer rota decides who is driving the PTZ at any given hour.
What to watch for
The operator's own list is the best guide: "as many as 35 trains a day ranging from local yard activity, to Powder River Coal trains, to hotshot intermodal and manifest traffic." Because four subdivisions meet here, a single train can leave toward Memphis, St. Louis, Tulsa or Kansas City — the direction it takes tells you which railroad geography you are watching.
Two details reward patience. First, as the operator notes, "several caboose are employed as shoving platforms" in the yard — a working use for equipment most railfans only see in museums. Second, "locomotives from all of the Class one railroads are frequent visitors to Springfield", so foreign power on BNSF metals is common rather than rare.
This is the PTZ unit; a companion static camera on the same installation watches the Commercial Street market area.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Classification yard
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Cameras
- 2 cameras at this location
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 13, 2026
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