Fairport Railway Webcam

Fairport Railway

Fairport railway in New York State is part of a historic and still-busy rail corridor running through the village of Fairport, about 21 kilometers east of Rochester, where rail lines developed alongside the Erie Canal and helped shape the town's growth from the mid-19th century onward. The railroad reached Fairport in the 1850s, bringing faster movement of goods and passengers and turning the village into an important local transport point for agriculture, industry, and canal traffic. For many decades passenger trains stopped here, linking Fairport with Rochester, Syracuse, and longer-distance routes toward Buffalo, Chicago, and New York City, until local passenger service ended in the mid-20th century. Today the line through Fairport forms part of a major east–west mainline used primarily by freight trains, with long intermodal, automotive, and general freight services passing through daily at speed.

The webcam looks at the railway from the Fairport Train Viewing Platform, offering a front-row view of CSX's Rochester and West Shore Subdivisions where more than 40 trains a day roll through this lively village. Viewers can watch powerful CSX freight trains thunder past, four daily Amtrak Empire Service passenger trains glide along the corridor, and occasionally spot Canadian National locomotives or rare BNSF movements that add excitement for railfans.