Quanah, Texas — Virtual Railfan
A pan-and-zoom camera in the Texas panhandle
Quanah, Texas — Virtual Railfan
BNSF Railway — Red River Valley Subdivision, milepost 191.88, at the wye with the Chickasha Subdivision branch to Altus, Oklahoma (the operator's own wording) · Quanah, Texas, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 34.29986, -99.73936
- Location
- Quanah, Texas, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — Red River Valley
≈ MP 191.9 on the Red River Valley — derived from FRA grade crossing 274745V, 40 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
13reported to the FRA
Daytime
7
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 1.5 h
Nighttime
6
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 2 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 274745V, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 2 to 13.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 60 mph timetable speed
Train types
About this cam
What to watch for
Freight across the north Texas plains, on a camera the operator moves to follow the action.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Passenger station
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Aimed by the operator
- After dark
- Infrared night view
- Feed checked
- September 9, 2026
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