Perhaps the rarest leader added to Auto Train in the digital age is this leaser, which was acquired in Rocky Mount. If you note, it has both CITX & GCFX markings showing thru.
Very rarely does an Amtrak "heritage" unit lead the Auto Train, you'd sooner catch a CSX motor. This was the second time #184 led, with the previous run being the same date a year prior... (more)
Despite widespread service issues plaguing Amtrak in Florida for the last year or so, it's been a while since the Auto Train has required an assist home. Such is the case today.
Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches a cut of autoracks at Amtrak’s Sanford Auto Train Station. Southbound Auto Train number 52 arrived thirty minutes earlier, and several Amtrak Dash 8-32BWHs are ... (more)
Auto Train is yarding in Sanford while the yard job pulls the loaded racks in off the main, passing some "stand by" equipment. Lots of operational issues have made this seemingly necess... (more)
Conrad Yelvington's Sanford ops can either be serviced by CSXT or they can do it themselves, in terms of swapping empties for loads as this particular tangent is still CSXT, not CFRC, so they only... (more)
Several of the former "Pepsi Cans" are onhand this morning, plus a delivery from SunRail for maintenance.
"Stay Young, Have Fun, Drink Pepsi" Amtrak 160, the newest addition to the 50th Anniversary Heritage fleet, rolls across the Lake Monroe drawbridge on the point of train P091-15. The ... (more)
A Sunrail service crosses the St Johns River.
AMTK 160 leads P91 past the site of the former Amtrak Sanford Passenger Station, just south of the Amtrak Auto Train Sanford Station.
Southbound train P97 crossing the St. Johns River.
Sunrail train P315 crosses the St John's River with the Orlando Health car in consist.
A Sunrail Service rumbles across the waters of the St. Johns River.
The Star flashes past the former Amtrak station in Sanford. The stop was closed years ago. Note the new dynamic lines which are being applied to grade crossings.
Not only was it smoking like an Alco, it was sounding like one, too.