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Virtual Railfan’s live train cameras at Texarkana, Arkansas, are installed at the Historic 1894 Market, which also owns and overlooks the Alley Cats Coffee Bar, a unique local spot for fresh-brewed coffee located within the Ocho, a former Santa Fe 27-seat club-lounge-dorm car, built by Pullman-Standard in 1940. Situated on the Arkansas-Texas state line, our cameras showcase the double-track Union Pacific Pine Bluff and Shreveport Subdivision, formerly the Missouri Pacific and St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) main lines, and Kansas City Southern’s Shreveport Subdivision.

Viewers can expect approximately 55 daily freight trains (KCS: 20, UP: 35), including unit and intermodal trains, plus two daily Amtrak Texas Eagle trains servicing the adjacent Amtrak station. Union Pacific employs directional running, with eastbound/northbound trains primarily using the former Missouri Pacific from Big Sandy, Texas (112 miles southwest), to southeastern Missouri via Little Rock, and westbound trains using the former Cotton Belt via Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Typical motive power on KCS includes EMD GP38-2s, GP40-2s, SD40-2s, SD60s, and GE AC4400CWs, GE ES44ACs, and on UP, you’ll see GE AC4400CWs, GE ES44ACs, ET44ACs, and the occasional EMD SD70 series model.