La Plata Amtrak Station - MO, USA

This Virtual Railfan camera is hosted by the American Passenger Rail Heritage Foundation at La Plata's historic Amtrak station and Lookout Park, positioned at milepost 312.7 on BNSF's Marceline Subdivision, part of the Southern Transcon between Chicago and Los Angeles. The feed captures 50 to 70 daily trains including BNSF manifest, intermodal, and local freight, making it one of the busiest single-track railfan camera locations in the midwest.

La Plata is one of the stops on Amtrak's Southwest Chief, the long-distance service running 2,265 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Train 4 eastbound calls in the morning and Train 3 westbound stops in the evening, with the station staffed and maintained by the American Passenger Rail Heritage Foundation as part of its mission to preserve small-town Amtrak stops on the route.

La Plata sits in Macon County, Missouri, with a population of around 1,200 people, making it one of the smallest towns in the country to retain a daily Amtrak stop in each direction. The station's Lookout Park, from which the PTZ camera operates, was developed specifically to give railfans and visitors a dedicated viewing area for one of the most heavily trafficked freight corridors in the United States.

Did You Know? La Plata, with a population of just 1,200, retains a daily Amtrak stop in both directions on the Southwest Chief, one of the smallest communities in the United States to maintain scheduled long-distance passenger rail service.

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