Wauwatosa, Wisconsin — CPKC Watertown Subdivision
The Empire Builder and the Borealis at a landmark crossing outside Milwaukee
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin — CPKC Watertown Subdivision
CPKC — Watertown Subdivision, milepost 90.6 · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
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Credit: Live stream by Steel Highway Railcams, hosted by the Wauwatosa Historical Society at the Little Red Store.
Where this camera films
Camera position: 43.04926, -88.00915
- Location
- Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
- Railroad
CPKC — Watertown
≈ MP 90.7 on the Watertown — derived from FRA grade crossing 390504Y, 30 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
21reported to the FRA
Daytime
10
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 72 min
Nighttime
11
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 65 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 390504Y, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 35 mph timetable speed
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 1333, to St. PaulDaily≈ 12:54 PMestimated from Milwaukee, 8.6 km
- Train 1340, to ChicagoDaily≈ 5:31 PMestimated from Milwaukee, 8.6 km
- Train 28, to ChicagoDaily≈ 2:51 PMestimated from Milwaukee, 8.6 km
- Train 8, to ChicagoDaily≈ 2:51 PMestimated from Milwaukee, 8.6 km
- Train 27, to PortlandDaily≈ 4:51 PMestimated from Milwaukee, 8.6 km
- Train 7, to SeattleDaily≈ 4:51 PMestimated from Milwaukee, 8.6 km
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated September 19, 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
Wauwatosa sits on CPKC's Watertown Subdivision, the former Milwaukee Road main west out of Milwaukee, and the operator places this camera precisely: milepost 90.6. Steel Highway Railcams states that movements here include CPKC trains working between Portage and Milwaukee, alongside Amtrak's Empire Builder and the newer Borealis service.
The host is the Wauwatosa Historical Society, and the camera is mounted at the Little Red Store at 7720 Harwood Avenue — a designated landmark that hosts historical programmes periodically. The building stands right at the tracks in the village centre, which is why the view is a tight one: gates, signals and passing equipment fill the frame rather than a long lens down the right of way.
The operator runs a scanner at the site, a Uniden Bearcat BC355N, and publishes the channels it monitors: AAR 84 (161.370 MHz) and AAR 94 (161.520 MHz).
What to watch for
Two Amtrak services use this line, and they are different animals: the Chicago–Seattle/Portland Empire Builder is the long-distance train, while the Borealis is the newer Chicago–St. Paul day train added to the corridor. Both run past the Little Red Store rather than stopping. CPKC freight between Portage and Milwaukee fills the rest of the day, and this is post-merger territory, so watch for CPKC, legacy CP and legacy KCS paint working together. The crossing gates in frame give you warning before anything arrives, and the scanner audio on AAR 84 and 94 gives you more.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Grade crossing
- Traffic
- Freight & passenger
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 5, 2026
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