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Houston, Texas — Sampson Street, East Camera

A live camera at the Sampson Street rail crossing, Houston's East End

Houston, Texas — Sampson Street, East Camera

Union Pacific — Sampson Street grade crossing (Galveston Sub per l'exploitant sur les fiches soeurs ; West Belt Sub selon le texte de cette video precise — contradiction non tranchee) · Houston, Texas, United States

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Where this camera films

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Camera position: 29.74566, -95.34364

Location
Houston, Texas, United States

Weather & light at the camera

Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.

Trains on this camera

Train types

Freight

On the line here

Nearest grade crossingSampson StreetUnion Pacific Houston West Belt Sub, MP 234.45 · FRA ID 288229E · public crossing · 3 main tracks · timetable speed 20 mph · horns sounded here
< 50 m
Nearest named bridgePolk StUnion Pacific Houston West Belt, MP 235 · steel through girder · multiple tracks
570 m
Yards nearby
Congress · Union Pacific1.0 km
Old South · Union Pacific2.9 km
East Belt · Union Pacific3.0 km

FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · bridge inventory Oct 14, 2022 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)

About this cam

LIVE Trains' "East" camera at the Sampson Street crossing in Houston's East End, one of a cluster of cameras (South, North, East) the operator runs at this location. The view is street-level, looking along/across Sampson Street rather than down the tracks.

This is the third of LIVE Trains' Sampson Street cameras (alongside "South" and "North"), described by the operator across sibling video descriptions as "SAMPSON ST EAST CAM (GALVESTON SUB)", though this specific video's own boilerplate description text (shared with the South camera) instead says "watching over the UP HOUSTON WEST BELT SUB" — the two labels conflict, so the subdivision is left unrecorded pending clarification. At qualification on 2026-09-20, the frame showed a street-level view (Sampson Street) with a crossing signal visible near a crosswalk, but no rail track clearly in frame at capture time.

What to watch for

Railroad activity at the Sampson Street crossing; the exact line watched by this specific camera (Houston West Belt Sub vs Galveston Sub) is unconfirmed — see notes.

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 20, 2026

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