Caliente Railroad Depot - NV, USA

This PTZ railcam from LiveTrains.com is positioned at the restored Caliente depot in Lincoln County, Nevada, looking along the Union Pacific Caliente Subdivision as a heavy freight consist led by UP locomotive 8660 passes through with tank cars and intermodal containers. The Caliente Sub is a key Union Pacific corridor connecting Salt Lake City to Los Angeles via the Nevada desert, carrying a steady flow of freight through one of the most sparsely populated stretches of railway in the American West.

Caliente is a town of around 1,100 people sitting in the Meadow Valley Wash canyon at an elevation of 1,463 metres, 150 miles north of Las Vegas. The depot building visible in this feed was built in 1923 in a distinctive Mission Revival style by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, serving today as Caliente's city hall and a railway heritage attraction.

Lincoln County, where Caliente sits, covers 10,637 square miles but has a total population of under 6,000, making it one of the least densely populated counties in the contiguous United States. The rugged canyon walls of the Meadow Valley Wash visible behind the tracks forced early railway engineers to blast through some of the most challenging terrain on the original Salt Lake Route, completed in 1905.

Did You Know? The Caliente depot was built in 1923 in Mission Revival style and now serves as the town's city hall, one of the few examples in the United States of a functioning municipal government operating from a listed railway depot.

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