Flagstaff Station Train Camera

A Front-Row Seat on the Southern Transcon

This camera overlooks the tracks at Flagstaff, Arizona, along BNSF Railway's Seligman Subdivision at milepost 344.8. The mainline here forms part of the Southern Transcon, the vital double-track route linking the railyards of Chicago with the ports of Southern California.

Trains You Can Expect to See

Dozens of BNSF freight trains thread through the city each day, from intermodal stacks to mixed manifests. The camera also captures Amtrak's Southwest Chief, which calls at the historic Flagstaff depot, making this a favourite vantage point for railfans worldwide.

The Setting: Downtown Flagstaff

The depot sits in the heart of downtown Flagstaff, with its century-old brick storefronts lining old Route 66. At an elevation of around 2,100 metres on the Colorado Plateau, the city is surrounded by the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in North America.

A Living Crossroads

Flagstaff has been a railroad town since the 1880s, and the rhythm of passing trains still defines its character. This pan-tilt-zoom feed lets viewers follow each consist as it works through the junction, a window onto one of the American Southwest's great rail arteries.