North East, Pennsylvania — Museum West Camera
CSX and Norfolk Southern mainlines pass right beside the Lake Shore Railway Museum's west platform.
North East, Pennsylvania — Museum West Camera
CSX & Norfolk Southern · North East, Pennsylvania, United States
This operator has not granted Spotatrain permission to embed the feed, so we link to it instead.
Watch at Lake Shore Railway MuseumStreamed by Lake Shore Railway Museum
Stream hosted by Lake Shore Railway Museum. Spotatrain links to the original feed and does not rebroadcast.
Where this camera films
Camera position: 42.20965, -79.83862
- Location
- North East, Pennsylvania, United States
- Railroad
CSX, Norfolk Southern — ERIE WEST / LAKE ERIE
≈ MP 74.0 on the LAKE ERIE — derived from FRA grade crossing 471871G, 120 m away
- Best viewing times
- Any time of day — the museum states 40 to 60 trains pass daily on the combined CSX/Norfolk Southern lines.
- Through the seasons
- The museum grounds and platform shown here are open to the public daylight to dusk year-round; the indoor museum building keeps seasonal weekend hours (May-November).
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
50reported to the FRA — ERIE WEST only
More than one line meets here. This count covers the ERIE WEST alone — each other line is counted separately below.
Daytime
24
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 30 min
Nighttime
26
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 28 min
Other lines here
- LAKE ERIE12 trains/day (FRA 471871G, 120 m)
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 524026B, 150 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 18 to 50.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 79 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
Between 40 and 60 trains pass the museum a day on both railroads
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 449, to ChicagoDaily≈ 1:56 AMestimated from Erie Amtrak Station, 22 km
- Train 49, to ChicagoDaily≈ 1:56 AMestimated from Erie Amtrak Station, 22 km
- Train 448, to BostonDaily · to Rensselaer Nov 6–8≈ 7:37 AMestimated from Erie Amtrak Station, 22 km
- Train 48, to New YorkDaily≈ 7:37 AMestimated from Erie Amtrak Station, 22 km
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated November 4, 2026 — trains often run late. Estimated times are worked out along the line from the nearest scheduled stop.
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · bridge inventory Oct 14, 2022 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
This camera looks west along the multi-track CSX/Norfolk Southern main line that runs directly beside the Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, Pennsylvania. The museum reports 40 to 60 trains a day on the combined lines, making this one of the busiest freight corridors on Spotatrain's live cam directory.
The Lake Shore Railway Historical Society and Museum sits at 31 Wall St in North East, Pennsylvania, directly alongside a former New York Central "water level route" corridor now split between CSX (Erie West Subdivision) and Norfolk Southern (Lake Erie District). This camera faces west down the museum's trackside platform, with a companion camera (East) covering the opposite direction.
The museum operates a scanner feed of railroad radio traffic separately on Broadcastify, and states that between 40 and 60 trains pass on both railroads each day.
What to watch for
CSX and Norfolk Southern freight traffic on parallel main tracks; occasional museum equipment moves on the adjacent siding; a companion East camera covers the opposite direction from the same platform.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Railway museum
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- September 21, 2026
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