Grand Mound Depot, Iowa Live Cam

Union Pacific double track runs east through Grand Mound, Iowa, past the level crossing this webcam watches. A car waits on Smith Street while nothing is coming.

The caption gives the subdivision and the milepost: Clinton Sub, milepost 24.9. This is the former Chicago and North Western main line between Chicago and Omaha, and freights use it around the clock.

Radio traffic is mixed into the stream, so a train can usually be heard being called before it appears. The town has about 600 residents, and the first station stood here from 1858.