The 'Empire Builder' service travels through Minnesota on its way from Chicago to the west coast and vice versa. Here, one of the occasional Amtrak services can be seen. The Staples Subdivision, on which Detroit Lakes, Perham and Staples lie, is the busiest section of railroad in the state of Minnesota. Amtrak services can also be seen on occasion and Perham is conveniently located between the Amtrak depots at Detroit Lakes and Staples. The vast majority of rail traffic running through is freight, hosted by a wide variety of railroad companies including Ferromex, Canadian National, CSX, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and more.
The railroad effectively cuts the city in half, running parallel to Main Street and between the numerous lakes that surround the area. The city of Perham, located in Otter Tail County and north of Otter Tail Lake, very much started as a result of the railroad and was even named after the first Northern Pacific Railway president - Josia Perham - in the early 1870s. His efforts were eventually celebrated in a local newspaper article.īNSF 6872 & 5114 head a train passing through Perham, MN in July 2018.
Though not necessarily a railfan himself at the time, Rich quickly realised the popularity of the trains and locomotives that rolled through Perham and, with a team of well-informed moderators, eventually set up the live stream that broadcasts Perham to the world.
Rich Luth, a Perham local started to stream action through the city as a result of requests for ATCS monitoring which reports on rail movements in the USA. If the above embedded feed does not show, please contact us via the We Are Railfans submission form so that we can amend the URL). (Occasionally the feed and URL get reset.
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