Amherst (Ohio)
About 50 Norfolk Southern freights a day past the restored 1905 Nordson Depot
Amherst (Ohio)
Norfolk Southern — Chicago Line, milepost 213 (former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern / New York Central "Water Level Route") · Amherst, Ohio, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 41.39523, -82.21903
- Location
- Amherst, Ohio, United States
- Railroad
Norfolk Southern — Chicago Line
≈ MP 213.1 on the Chicago Line — derived from FRA grade crossing 523874Y, 110 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
49reported to the FRA
Daytime
24
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 30 min
Nighttime
25
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 29 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 523874Y, 110 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 49 to 50.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 79 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"about 50 freights daily, including intermodals and manifests — plus Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited and Floridian" — Virtual Railfan stream description, read 2026-08-05
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 41, to MiamiDaily≈ 1:08 AMestimated from Elyria Amtrak, 11 km
- Train 40, to ChicagoDaily≈ 3:35 AMestimated from Elyria Amtrak, 11 km
- Train 449, to ChicagoDaily≈ 4:42 AMestimated from Elyria Amtrak, 11 km
- Train 49, to ChicagoDaily≈ 4:42 AMestimated from Elyria Amtrak, 11 km
- Train 448, to BostonDaily≈ 4:51 AMestimated from Elyria Amtrak, 11 km
- Train 48, to New YorkDaily≈ 4:51 AMestimated from Elyria Amtrak, 11 km
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated September 21, 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
Virtual Railfan's two cameras at Amherst, Ohio, stand at the historic Nordson Depot — a 1905 passenger station donated to the city — and look out over Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line at milepost 213, one of the railroad's busiest freight corridors.
Virtual Railfan's live cameras at Amherst are mounted at the Nordson Depot, a 1905 passenger station built by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (later New York Central) that served passengers until 1963. Nordson Corporation donated the building to the City of Amherst in 2021; it was restored and now houses senior activities, with Nordson Depot Park and playgrounds alongside. The City of Amherst hosts the cameras.
The tracks below are Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line at milepost 213. The line opened in 1853 and was widened to four tracks by the LS&MS in the early 1900s under the "Water Level Route" name. It is double-tracked today, with modernised signalling and dispatching that lets Norfolk Southern move the same volume over two mains.
Virtual Railfan operates two views here: a fixed camera, free to watch with chat, and a PTZ camera reserved for channel members. The stream carries the NS road and dispatcher radio channels for the Toledo–Cleveland stretch.
What to watch for
Norfolk Southern intermodals and manifests dominate — the operator puts the count at about 50 freights a day on the Chicago Line. Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited (Chicago–New York/Boston) and the Floridian both pass here. The bridge at the east end of the view frames westbound trains; the depot platform side gives the closest angle on eastbounds. Virtual Railfan publishes the scanner frequencies in use: 161.070 MHz (AAR 64) and 160.980 MHz (AAR 58) for the road channels, 160.815 MHz (AAR 34) for the Toledo Terminal / Cleveland East dispatcher.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Historic depot
- Traffic
- Freight & passenger
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Cameras
- 2 cameras at this location
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 8, 2026
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