Little Falls, Minnesota — PTZ Camera
A pan-tilt-zoom view of BNSF's Staples Subdivision through Little Falls, Minnesota.
Little Falls, Minnesota — PTZ Camera
BNSF Staples Subdivision (Northern Transcon) · Little Falls, Minnesota, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 45.97817, -94.36978
- Location
- Little Falls, Minnesota, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — BNSF Staples Subdivision (MP 106.3)
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
23reported to the FRA
Daytime
12
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 60 min
Nighttime
11
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 65 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 097668K, 100 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 17 to 30.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 30 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
Nearly 40 trains every 24 hours, mostly BNSF and Amtrak, with occasional CP, CSXT, Ferromex, KCS, UP, CN, SP and Otter Tail Valley Railroad power (operator claim)
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 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
This pan-tilt-zoom camera watches BNSF's Staples Subdivision through Little Falls, Minnesota, sponsored by the Little Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. The operator counts nearly 40 BNSF and Amtrak trains a day here, plus occasional foreign power from CP, CSXT, Ferromex, KCS, UP, CN, SP and the Otter Tail Valley Railroad.
Little Falls sits on BNSF's Staples Subdivision, part of BNSF's Northern Transcon route across central Minnesota. This PTZ camera, part of the Northern Transcon Railcams / Steel Highway network, is sponsored by the Little Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, which is not responsible for the stream's content.
The operator's daily train log tracks road numbers, times, directions, cargo, car counts, symbols and axle counts for trains through the area, and reports an average of nearly 40 trains every 24 hours, mostly BNSF and Amtrak, with occasional foreign power from CP, CSXT, Ferromex, KCS, UP, CN, SP, and the Otter Tail Valley Railroad.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- 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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