A rock train snakes through downtown Orlando, something that now will be very rare in daylight. Today a Sunrail station stands at that spot. Freights, what is left, mainly run at night.

Florida Central's Second Orlando leads a short train into the massive Silver Star industrial complex in western Orlando. This is a spur that is about 2 miles long that leads into this massive comp... (more)

Florida Central's Second Orlando stops traffic as they depart Modello Yard for the Silver Star Industrial Park in west Orlando.

Amtrak's annual Safety Patrol Special bound for West Palm Beach. A passer by remarked that this was an unusually long Amtrak train. This scene will change dramatically after Sunrail gets started.

Departing from Magic Kingdom main entrance to the parking area. This futuristic design seems to be without changes since my last visit 35 years ago, and it is still the largest monorail system ope... (more)

Amtrak's Phase 1 Heritage locomotive has just departed the Orlando Amtrak station and whistles southward through industrial neighborhoods south of Kaley Yard bound for Tampa and Miami. Thank You t... (more)

Amtrak's Phase 1 celebrity locomotive arrives at Orlando as Maryann and the crew exchange waves on a warm New Years Eve. Maryann sporting her engineers hat continues her childhood pastime of watch... (more)

CSXTs 9006/8823 arrive at Taft Yard with a block train of auto racks,some of the cars will be shunted into the yard before the train goes forward to Tampa .

The Silver Star seen from the Target Parking Garage races southward as the local can just be seen working Kaley yard. This scene has changed, now dual tracks for Sunrail are here.

Circus Extra arrives at Kaley Yard with the home arrival of the the RBBX equipment. Now the train will be broken up, part will go to Florida Central and the other part to CSX for unloading in the ... (more)

Circus Extra in Orlando. After arriving at Kaley Yard the train is split up one section (equipment and animals) will go to Florida Central and the other part, passenger cars will go to Taft for un... (more)

Conrad Yelvington SW9 makes an appearance at Kaley Yard just as the Circus Extra pulled out of the way.

Atlantic Coast Line 0-6-0 Class E-4 138 was built in 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. She had 51" drivers, boiler pressure of 180 lbs, and could produce a respectable 26,510 lbs of tractive e... (more)

CSXT P920 the circus blue unit train in the distance creeps across Gore Street crossing which needed to be flagged while "Z" train CSXT Z915 guest Florida Central starts advancing forward into Kal... (more)

CSX Q455 bound for Taft overtakes CSX P920 a circus extra that had just arrived at Orlando. The circus train would drop off it's flat cars for Florida Central to take to storage before the passeng... (more)