Colorado Springs, Colorado — Joint Line Siding
Live freight traffic on the Colorado Joint Line, hosted by the Pikes Peak Trolley Museum in Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs, Colorado — Joint Line Siding
Colorado Joint Line (UP Colorado Springs Sub / BNSF Pikes Peak Sub) · Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 38.86687, -104.83196
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
- Railroad
BNSF, Union Pacific — Colorado Springs Sub (MP 72.6)
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
What the stream’s operator says
~15 trains per day (2025), mostly coal loads/empties and manifests, occasional unit grain/autorack/intermodal/tanker; majority BNSF, UP runs two nightly manifests
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
This trackside camera overlooks the UP/BNSF Colorado Joint Line at milepost 72.6 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from a siding next to the Pikes Peak Trolley Museum's roundhouse. It shows a siding track in the foreground and the double-track mainline behind it, carrying a mix of BNSF and Union Pacific freight between Denver and Pueblo.
This camera sits on the property of the Pikes Peak Trolley Museum and Restoration Shop (2333 Steel Dr, Colorado Springs), overlooking milepost 72.6 of the Colorado Joint Line — the roughly 120-mile shared corridor between Denver and Pueblo split between Union Pacific's Colorado Springs Subdivision and BNSF's Pikes Peak Subdivision. The nearer track is a siding; the far track is the mainline.
The operator, Colorado Railcams, states the line sees about 15 trains a day (as of 2025), mostly coal loads and empties plus general manifests, with occasional unit grain, autorack, intermodal, or tanker trains. Union Pacific runs two nightly manifests, but the operator notes a majority of the traffic is BNSF.
Camera presets show the approach signals: northbound trains are typically lined at Kelker (roughly 15 minutes' notice on a green main-track signal), while southbound trains are typically lined at Monument (roughly 40 minutes' notice, both signals red) — though maintenance-of-way work or meets can change these windows significantly.
What to watch for
Mixed BNSF and Union Pacific freight on the Colorado Joint Line: coal loads and empties, manifests, and occasional unit grain, autorack, intermodal or tanker trains. Watch the signal presets — a green signal at Kelker flags a northbound train in ~15 minutes; both signals red at Monument flags a southbound train in ~40 minutes. No scheduled passenger service runs on this line.
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 23, 2026
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