Live Webcams in Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs, on the Iowa bank of the Missouri opposite Omaha, is a town the railroad built, and the live webcams in Council Bluffs look at a place where that is still true: the streets of a river town with freight moving through its corridor around the clock, in the city Lincoln chose as mile zero of the first transcontinental line. Council Bluffs keeps Central Time, UTC−6 and UTC−5 in summer, so a European evening is a Midwestern afternoon and the long summer dusk falls around a British bedtime. The choice is commemorated by a concrete golden spike some 56 feet tall, raised in 1939, and the Union Pacific still keeps its museum here. May to October is the season; the summer evenings, when the light lasts, are the pick of the year.