Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station - WA, USA

This live railcam from Steel Highway is positioned at the Olympia-Lacey Amtrak station (OLW) at milepost 32.2 on the BNSF Seattle Subdivision, looking north along the platform as an Amtrak Cascades service arrives. The camera captures between 45 and 55 train movements per day, including 14 Amtrak station stops, plus BNSF freight operations running between Vancouver, British Columbia and Vancouver, Washington, and Union Pacific trains operating on trackage rights between Portland, Oregon and Tacoma, Washington. The live departure board visible at the top of the frame shows scheduled Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight services in real time, including the train number, destination, and current delay status.

The Amtrak Cascades route connects Vancouver BC to Eugene, Oregon across 467 miles of Pacific Northwest corridor, passing through Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia-Lacey, and Portland. The Coast Starlight, also serving this station, runs 1,377 miles between Seattle and Los Angeles and is consistently rated one of the most scenic long-distance train routes in the United States, traversing the Cascade Mountains, the Sacramento Valley, and the California coast in a journey of approximately 35 hours. The station itself was built in 1993 following a fundraising campaign launched by the Amtrak Depot Committee, a volunteer non-profit formed in 1987 that continues to staff every passenger train arrival at the station today, including late-night and delayed services.

Olympia-Lacey station sits 25.6 miles north of the Chehalis Steel Highway camera on the same BNSF corridor, with the Steel Highway network linking multiple railcam positions along this route for continuous train spotting coverage. The BNSF Seattle Subdivision at this location carries a mix of intermodal container trains, manifest freight, and grain traffic alongside the Amtrak passenger services, with trains monitored on BNSF Channel 87 at 161.415 MHz. Lacey sits within Thurston County, 60 miles south of Seattle and 3 miles east of Olympia, the Washington state capital.

Did You Know? The Olympia-Lacey Amtrak station is staffed entirely by community volunteers who have met every single passenger train arrival since the station opened in 1993, including all late-night and delayed services.

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