Tacna Rail Line, Arizona Live Cam

This camera in Tacna, Arizona, watches Union Pacific freight trains pass beyond Highway 80 and a signalled crossing. The view stays on a wide stretch of desert, with a low mountain range along the horizon.

Tacna is a small community in Yuma County, along Interstate 8 between Yuma and Gila Bend. The track is the single-track Gila Subdivision of the Union Pacific, part of the Sunset Route, at milepost 780.9. Amtrak's Sunset Limited between Los Angeles and New Orleans also uses this line. The camera is hosted by a roadside business beside the highway and the main line.

The daytime frames show one wide view across the road to the rails, with crossing signals, a yellow railroad warning sign and bare desert ground. Long double-stack container trains roll past in front of the distant ridge.