Winlock, Washington — BNSF Seattle Subdivision
Fifty to sixty freights a day on the Seattle–Portland main
Winlock, Washington — BNSF Seattle Subdivision
BNSF Railway — Seattle Subdivision, milepost 71.4 (Seattle–Portland corridor); Union Pacific traffic also present · Winlock, Washington, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 46.49227, -122.93831
- Location
- Winlock, Washington, United States
- Railroad
BNSF, Union Pacific — Seattle
≈ MP 71.3 on the Seattle — derived from FRA grade crossing 092494Y, 120 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
37reported to the FRA
Daytime
19
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 38 min
Nighttime
18
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 40 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 092494Y, 120 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 37 to 46.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 67 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"Winlock, WA is located at MP 71.4 on the BNSF Seattle Subdivision and sees 50-60 daily BNSF and UP trains along with 14 daily Amtrak trains." — operator's YouTube description
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 500, to SeattleDaily≈ 8:01 AMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 503, to EugeneDaily≈ 9:09 AMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 502, to SeattleDaily≈ 9:46 AMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 505, to PortlandDaily≈ 10:52 AMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 504, to SeattleDaily≈ 11:56 AMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 517, to PortlandDaily≈ 2:07 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 518, to VancouverDaily≈ 3:26 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 507, to EugeneDaily≈ 4:17 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 506, to SeattleDaily≈ 7:11 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 509, to PortlandDaily≈ 7:37 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 508, to SeattleDaily≈ 8:41 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 511, to PortlandDaily≈ 9:47 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 11, to Los AngelesDaily≈ 12:04 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
- Train 14, to SeattleDaily≈ 5:16 PMestimated from Centralia Amtrak Station, 28 km
Tap a train for its times.
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated October 14, 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
Winlock sits on the Seattle–Portland main line, and the operator gives the numbers without embellishment: "Winlock, WA is located at MP 71.4 on the BNSF Seattle Subdivision and sees 50-60 daily BNSF and UP trains along with 14 daily Amtrak trains."
The host is a local business rather than an institution: "Thank you to our host location Winlock Liquidation Warehouse at 307 NW Kerron St at Winlock, Washington. Please consider stopping in and checking out the great deals the next time you are in the area!"
Audio is not carried in the video. The operator points instead to an external scanner stream: "Radio feed provided by the BNSF Centralia South feed on RailroadRadio.net", itself "made possible by Pacific Northwest Railroads Streaming Network."
What to watch for
This is a volume camera rather than a scenery camera. At 50 to 60 freights a day plus fourteen Amtrak trains, something is usually moving, and the mix is what makes it worth watching: BNSF road freight on its own iron, Union Pacific trains running the corridor, and Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight equipment in between.
The frame takes in the grain elevator and the small commercial buildings of the town alongside the track, so trains pass a genuine trackside settlement rather than open country.
For context on the wider line, the same operator runs cameras at Chehalis and at the Olympia-Lacey depot to the north — the three together cover a long stretch of the same subdivision.
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
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 13, 2026
Filmed location
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