A southbound Amtrak train comes to a stop in DeLand, Fla., with passengers making a late winter escape from the northeast.

Amtrak's Phase 1 celebrity locomotive arrives at Deland on a warm New Years Eve. Note the shorts worn by some of Amtrak's patron waiting on the platform. Only in Florida. Thank You to those who ga... (more)

The Silver Meteor arrives at Deland

The caboose of the Northbound Auto Train from picture 260026, rear end crew picking up orders at the Deland, FL depot on the SCL. Order boards, order hooks, cabooses, all gone! Note apparent wind ... (more)

On the way back from Daytona Beach, caught Northbound Auto Train picking up orders at the Deland, FL depot on the SCL. Deland is just North of the Auto Train's starting point, Sanford, and home of... (more)

A RARE CSX local on the Deland Branch in the afternoon at least in 2006. Here the local winds it's way near the Amtrak Station. The GP40-2 is #6119 on the rear.

It was rare to catch something on the Deland Branch on an early evening in 2006. Now these days, A776 runs up here from Sanford...on certain evenings.

Local A766 (Sanford Switcher) wanders up the Deland Branch back to the mainline. A motorist who was stopped was amazed that trains still rolled on this line.

Northbound Taft to Jacksonville Autoracks rumbles across Old NY Ave in Deland. This train no longer runs along the A line.

Southbound Silver Service

I chased the Deland Turn back up the branch (very friendly crew) and met the Silver Meteor arriving at the station, back in the days when the F40 was king. Who would have thought...

CSX in the post merger years yielded all sorts of power and the lucky find was this GP30 with a friendly crew on the Deland Branch. The branch is still in use today.

Coming out of the Deland siding after a meet with P001

Slowin to a stop a couple of minutes late with the WB Sunset Ltd.