Delta Route Road Action

The 1927 Columbus & Greenville passenger timetable indicates no less than 8 daily passenger trains in service on the Delta Route. Trains 11 and 12 — the daily Deltans, and the only trains to carry names — were timed to depart from and arrive in Columbus in the early afternoon, in coordination with the Southern Railway's daily service between Columbus and Birmingham, Alabama. Usually powered by one of the road's handsome little Ten-wheelers, the Deltans remained in daily service across Mississippi until 1948. The '27 timetable also lists four other passengers trains, two of which were operated with gas-electric motorcars. Trains 6/7 and 9/10 ran the length of the line between the namesake towns, while Trains 5/8 operated between Winona and Greenville.

In addition to extras and switching jobs along the line, the four standard scheduled daily fright movements on the Delta Route were Trains 15/16 and 51/52. For many years powered by the road's sturdy Mikados, in the diesel era, at least up to the ICG purchase, road jobs were led by Baldwins or a lone SD28. After ICG control, Geep 7s and later CF7s took care of freight hauling.