Flagstaff Train Station - Arizona, USA

This PTZ camera from Virtual Railfan sits at milepost 344.8 on BNSF Railway's Seligman Subdivision in Flagstaff, Arizona - part of the Southern Transcon, the busiest freight corridor in North America connecting Chicago to Los Angeles. Between 50 and 70 BNSF freight trains pass through daily, alongside Amtrak's Southwest Chief, which stops here twice a day on its 3,400-kilometre route between Chicago and Los Angeles. The camera is hosted by the Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau and operates as a designated quiet zone, though crews may sound horns at their discretion.

Flagstaff station was built in 1926 in Spanish Colonial Revival style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At 2,134 metres above sea level on the Colorado Plateau, it sits higher than almost any other Amtrak stop on the Southwest Chief route - a fact that gives the surrounding landscape its distinctly alpine character, with ponderosa pine forests replacing the desert scrub found further south and east along the same line.

The BNSF Seligman Subdivision carries primarily intermodal container traffic, automotive parts, and consumer goods moving between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and distribution hubs across the midwest. Train lengths on this corridor regularly exceed 2.5 kilometres, with distributed power units visible at the rear as well as the front on the steeper grade sections approaching Flagstaff from the west.

Did You Know? The Southern Transcon handles more intermodal container movements than any other rail corridor in North America - on peak days, a train passes through Flagstaff every 8-10 minutes in each direction.

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