La Plata Amtrak Station West, Missouri Live Cam

The platform of the Amtrak station in La Plata, Missouri, faces west along two BNSF tracks toward a plank crossing and a row of trees. A wooden bench and the white wall of the station building stand at the right edge of the frame.

La Plata lies on the Marceline Subdivision, the BNSF stretch of the old Santa Fe main line that now forms part of the Southern Transcon between Chicago and Southern California. Amtrak's Southwest Chief calls at a single side platform beside the two main tracks, and the rest of the traffic is BNSF freight.

The camera stays fixed on the platform. A yellow edge strip runs beside the rails, a signal mast and a lamp post stand near the crossing in the middle distance, and a green wall of trees closes the view on the left.