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AT 5:06 A.M. ON THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014, SunRail’s first scheduled passenger train left Sanford, Fla., for Sand Lake Road in Southern Orlando, operating on a 31.5 mile, mostly double-tracked line that features ten newly built stations and two shared rebuilt Amtrak stations at Winter Park and Orlan- do. Some of the new station parking lots were mostly full before the first train ar- rived on its inaugural journey, attesting to the instant popularity of the new service. An added attraction was that for the first 12 days of weekday service, transportation was free, which brought out diverse crowds, many of whom were riding a train for the very first time. As it turned out, the trains were packed all day and evening, accommo- dating approximately 10,000 riders and leaving many commuters and sightseers waiting up to two hours to get home or back to their starting point, or just to get on a train. The SunRail line starts in DeBary, which
is north of Orlando, Sanford, and Interstate 4. Between DeBary and the second station, Sanford, SunRail has its new yard where all trains are parked. The line continues south on the east side of Interstate 4 stopping at Lake Mary, Longwood, Altamonte Springs,
SunRail —Florida’s Newest Railroad
Maitland, and Winter Park. After Winter Park, SunRail enters Orlando stopping at Florida Hospital Village, LYNX (bus) Cen- tral Station, Church Street, Orlando Health/Amtrak, and finally at Sand Lake Road which connects east to the Orlando Airport and west to International Drive. SunRail shares its line with Amtrak’s Auto Train to a point just beyond its Sanford sta- tion, and over its total length with four other (two each way) Amtrak Florida daily trains. The line shrinks to a single track for a short distance as it twists and turns thru Mait- land, crossing some of the total of 96 grade crossings on the line. Almost 100 grade crossings in 31.5 miles means a lot of horn blowing, cautious speeds, and sharp atten- tion from SunRail’s engineers. A trip from one end to the other end is
carded to take one hour and three minutes. Trains run every half hour from 5:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. and from 3:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. It takes five sets of trains to maintain this schedule, with one set running between the peak hours and offering approximately two-hour headway mid-day service. Train sets on the opening day consisted of a rebuilt Geep pushing or pulling a two car set of Bombardier multi-level cars. This limited
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