Wadena, Minnesota — PTZ Camera
A pan-tilt-zoom view of BNSF's Staples Subdivision through Wadena, MN, hosted by Lunde Auto Sales.
Wadena, Minnesota — PTZ Camera
BNSF Staples Subdivision · Wadena, Minnesota, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 46.44311, -95.13957
- Location
- Wadena, Minnesota, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — Staples Subdivision (MP 165.9)
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
What the stream’s operator says
nearly 40 trains every 24 hours
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
About this cam
This pan-tilt-zoom camera watches BNSF's Staples Subdivision as it passes through Wadena, Minnesota, near Milepost 165.9. Hosted by Lunde Auto Sales and run by Northern Transcon Railcams — part of the Steel Highway Railcams network — it shows a steady mix of BNSF freight and Amtrak's Empire Builder, with the operator citing an average of nearly 40 trains every 24 hours.
BNSF's Staples Subdivision is the Northern Transcon main line across central Minnesota, carrying Amtrak's Empire Builder alongside a heavy freight timetable. This camera sits at Milepost 165.9 in Wadena, hosted by Lunde Auto Sales, and is one of about twenty cameras Northern Transcon Railcams operates along the corridor between the Twin Cities and the Dakotas.
The operator reports an average of nearly 40 trains every 24 hours, with BNSF power sharing the route with CP, CSXT, Ferromex, KCS, UP, CN, SP and the short-line Otter Tail Valley Railroad, in addition to BNSF's own trains and Amtrak's Empire Builder.
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 21, 2026
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