Austell (Georgia)
Two Norfolk Southern main lines diverge in downtown Austell — 60+ trains a day
Austell (Georgia)
Norfolk Southern — Atlanta North Subdivision (MP 134) meets East End Subdivision (MP 650) · Austell, Georgia, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 33.81370, -84.63468
- Location
- Austell, Georgia, United States
- Railroad
Norfolk Southern — Atlanta North
≈ MP 134.6 on the Atlanta North — derived from FRA grade crossing 719831B, 30 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
29reported to the FRA
Daytime
14
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 51 min
Nighttime
15
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 48 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 719831B, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 25 to 45.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 60 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"over 60 trains roll through daily — NS intermodal, manifest, and more — with Amtrak's Crescent passing once each way on the East End Sub" — 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 19, to New OrleansDaily≈ 9:31 AMestimated from Atlanta, 27 km
- Train 20, to New YorkDaily≈ 10:30 PMestimated from Atlanta, 27 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 cameras in Austell, Georgia, watch the point where Norfolk Southern's Atlanta North Subdivision and East End Subdivision split — one line north to Chattanooga, the other west to Birmingham — from a concrete viewing area on Broad Street.
Austell sits where two Norfolk Southern main lines part company. The Atlanta North Subdivision (Georgia Division, milepost 134) runs between Atlanta and Chattanooga; the East End Subdivision (Alabama Division, milepost 650) heads west to Birmingham. Both are Southern Railway legacies: the Atlanta North Sub began as the East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad in 1836, the East End Sub as the Georgia Pacific Railroad in 1854, and both had joined the Southern Railway by 1894.
The cameras — one PTZ and one fixed — have been running since 10 August 2023, hosted by Cincinnati Junction, Frog Rock Brewing Company and Austell Cowork. They look out from a concrete viewing area on Broad Street, directly onto the diverging routes.
A mile and a half to the north-west lies Whitaker Yard, named for John Wesley Whitaker — a Tuskegee Airman and the Central of Georgia's first Black locomotive engineer — whose intermodal terminal adds to the traffic passing the camera.
What to watch for
Norfolk Southern intermodal and manifest freights on both routes, with the split itself as the payoff: watch which way a train takes at the junction to know whether it is Chattanooga-bound or Birmingham-bound. Amtrak's Crescent passes once each way on the East End Sub. Whitaker Yard traffic feeds the corridor from the north-west. Scanner: 160.740 MHz (AAR 42) toward Atlanta, 160.950 MHz (AAR 56) toward Birmingham, 160.320 MHz (AAR 14) for the Whitaker intermodal terminal.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Junction
- 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
- Aimed by the operator
- Feed checked
- August 8, 2026
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