Glidden, Iowa — Cam 1 West
A sky-cam looking west over Glidden
Glidden, Iowa — Cam 1 West
Union Pacific — Boone Subdivision, milepost 251 (operator's description) · Glidden, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 42.05541, -94.72829
- Location
- Glidden, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Boone Subdivision (MP 251)
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
31reported to the FRA
Daytime
16
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 45 min
Nighttime
15
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 48 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 190764P, 50 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 70 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
Operator claim, verbatim: "On the Boone Sub you can see 20 - 35 trains a day (used to be at least 60 a day)."
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
About this cam
Trains On Demand's west-facing camera at Glidden, Iowa, which the operator calls a Rail/SkyCam.
Trains On Demand runs four cameras at Glidden, Iowa, and this is the west-facing one, which the operator labels a "Rail/SkyCam" and uses as the home of its live chat. The operator places the site at milepost 251 of Union Pacific's Boone Subdivision.
The Boone Sub runs between Missouri Valley and Boone, Iowa, and was previously the Chicago & North Western's West Iowa Subdivision. The operator says 20 to 35 trains a day pass here, down from at least 60 a day in earlier years.
The same operator publishes an east-facing camera at Glidden carrying the Boone Sub radio channel, plus a south camera and a north camera, and two more camera pairs at Boone and Nevada, Iowa.
What to watch for
Union Pacific freight on the former Chicago & North Western main line, seen from above as it cuts through the middle of Glidden between brick buildings, a grade crossing and a concrete platform. The operator counts 20 to 35 trains a day on the Boone Subdivision. The live chat runs on this camera; for the railroad radio (AAR 52, 160.890 MHz), open the operator's east camera at the same site.
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 17, 2026
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