Houston, Texas — Sampson Street, South Camera
A live camera on the Union Pacific Houston West Belt Subdivision at Sampson Street
Houston, Texas — Sampson Street, South Camera
Union Pacific — Houston West Belt Subdivision, Sampson Street grade crossing · Houston, Texas, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 29.74559, -95.34408
- Location
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Houston West Belt Sub
≈ MP 234.4 on the Houston West Belt Sub — derived from FRA grade crossing 288229E, 40 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
20reported to the FRA
Daytime
10
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 72 min
Nighttime
10
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 72 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 288229E, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 1 to 36.
- Track at the crossing
- 3 main tracks · 20 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
LIVE Trains' camera watching Union Pacific's Houston West Belt Subdivision at the Sampson Street crossing in Houston's East End, one of several LIVE Trains cameras clustered at this location alongside the North and East units.
This camera looks south along Union Pacific's Houston West Belt Subdivision from the Sampson Street grade crossing in Houston's East End. LIVE Trains operates three cameras at this general location (South, North and East), each pointed down a different line; this one is explicitly described by the operator as watching "the UP Houston West Belt Sub." At qualification on 2026-09-20, the view showed a curving multi-track alignment with a signal and a trackside structure in the middle distance, and a Mobil gas station visible beyond the right-of-way.
What to watch for
Union Pacific freight movements on the Houston West Belt Subdivision through the Sampson Street crossing; the operator states an average of 20-30 trains a day for the LIVE Trains Houston camera cluster as a whole (BNSF, KCS and UP), not specifically counted for this camera.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Junction
- 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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