St Louis Gateway Rail - MO, USA

This PTZ railcam from LiveTrains.com sits near St Louis Gateway Station on the Mississippi riverfront, with the historic MacArthur Bridge visible in the left background, a double-deck rail and road bridge completed in 1917 that carries Union Pacific freight across the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois. St Louis is one of the most significant rail gateways in the United States, sitting at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers where freight from the midwest, south, and east converges.

Union Pacific is the primary operator visible on this feed, running freight through St Louis on routes connecting Kansas City and the west to Chicago and the eastern network via the Mississippi crossings. The Gateway Station visible in this feed sits adjacent to the Gateway Arch, which stands 192 metres tall on the St Louis riverfront and marks the historic starting point of the westward expansion routes that the railways later followed across the Great Plains.

St Louis handles freight from six Class I railroads crossing or terminating in the metropolitan area, making it one of the top five rail hubs in the United States by tonnage. The graffiti wall visible along the track corridor is a long-standing feature of the urban rail environment through downtown St Louis, where the elevated freight lines run close to the historic riverfront district.

Did You Know? The MacArthur Bridge visible in this feed has carried rail traffic across the Mississippi since 1917 and remains one of the busiest rail river crossings in the United States, handling Union Pacific freight between Missouri and Illinois daily.

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