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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Milepost 71.4 of BNSF's Seattle Subdivision, seen from the forecourt of the Winlock Liquidation Warehouse. The operator counts "50-60 daily BNSF and UP trains along with 14 daily Amtrak trains" past this lens — one of the busiest counts on the whole Steel Highway network.
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.
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