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Houston, Texas — Tower 26, PTZ Camera

A pan-tilt-zoom camera watching the Tower 26 rail complex near downtown Houston

Houston, Texas — Tower 26, PTZ Camera

Union Pacific — Tower 26 interlocking (Houston Sub x Houston West Belt Sub), West Street grade crossing · Houston, Texas, United States

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Where this camera films

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Camera position: 29.77506, -95.34570

Location
Houston, Texas, United States

Weather & light at the camera

Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.

Trains on this camera

Train types

FreightPassenger

On the line here

Nearest grade crossingWest StreetUnion Pacific Houston Sub, MP 360.63 · FRA ID 758284D · public crossing · 4 main tracks · timetable speed 30 mph · horns sounded here
< 50 m
Nearest named bridgeJensen DrUnion Pacific Terminal, MP 5 · steel other · multiple tracks
410 m
Yards nearby
Hardy Street · Union Pacific1.1 km
Congress · Union Pacific2.4 km
Lockwood Intermodal · Union Pacific2.6 km

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

About this cam

LIVE Trains operates this pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera at Tower 26, a multi-track rail complex on West Street near downtown Houston, Texas. A companion fixed camera at the same site is already catalogued on Spotatrain; this PTZ unit can pan, tilt and zoom across the crossing and its signals.

Tower 26 is a historic railroad interlocking near downtown Houston where multiple Union Pacific lines cross, including the Houston Subdivision and the Houston West Belt Subdivision. The tower structure itself was demolished in 2001, but the diamond and grade crossing remain a well-known railfan vantage point, a short distance from Houston's Amtrak station. This camera is LIVE Trains' pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) unit at the site, distinct from the operator's fixed "Tower 26 East" camera already on Spotatrain (olt-houston-tower-26). At qualification on 2026-09-20, the view showed a grade crossing with "2 TRACKS" crossbuck signage in the foreground, two mainline tracks curving toward signal masts, and the downtown Houston skyline in the background.

What to watch for

Union Pacific freight movements through the West Street grade crossing and the Tower 26 diamond. Third-party railfan sources report BNSF, KCS and Amtrak trains also passing through on trackage rights, though LIVE Trains' own description for this camera does not state a train count.

The camera

Stream
YouTube live stream
Filming
Crossing diamond
Traffic
Freight & passenger
Sound
Live lineside audio — horns and engines
Hours
Streams around the clock, 24/7
Camera movement
Aimed by the operator
Feed checked
September 20, 2026

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