Council Bluffs, Iowa — PTZ Camera
Union Pacific freight rolls past a grain elevator on the Omaha Subdivision, streamed from the Railway Inn in downtown Council Bluffs.
Council Bluffs, Iowa — PTZ Camera
Union Pacific Omaha Subdivision · Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 41.26089, -95.86139
- Location
- Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — UP Omaha Subdivision (MP 350.85)
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 191136M, 140 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 12 to 32.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 10 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 PTZ camera is hosted by the Railway Inn (railwaycb.com) in Council Bluffs, Iowa, overlooking Union Pacific's Omaha Subdivision at milepost 350.85. An integrated radio scanner carries the Omaha Sub road channel and the Council Bluffs Yard switching channels.
This live PTZ camera is part of the SouthWest RailCams network and is hosted by the Railway Inn (https://www.railwaycb.com) in Council Bluffs, Iowa. It looks out over Union Pacific's Omaha Subdivision at milepost 350.85, with grain storage silos and a rail-served warehouse visible alongside the double-track main line.
An integrated radio feed broadcasts the Omaha Subdivision's road channel (160.740 MHz, AAR Channel 042) on the left speaker, and the Council Bluffs Yard switching channels (160.680 MHz and 160.650 MHz, AAR Channels 038 and 036) on the right speaker. The operator notes no defect detectors are currently heard from this location.
What to watch for
Union Pacific through freight on the Omaha Subdivision, plus yard switching moves audible on the Council Bluffs Yard radio channels carried by the camera's integrated scanner.
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
- Camera movement
- Aimed by the operator
- Feed checked
- September 21, 2026
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