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AT 4008, 4007 & 4009 |
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On January 19, 1973, Dad shot Auto-Train U36Bs 4008, 4007 & 4009 leading southbound Louisville & Nashville train #867 through Etowah, Tennessee. The Auto-Train engines were built to Seaboard Coast Line specifications and had a toggle switch in the cab for "freight" and "passenger" - with the idea being that if Auto-Train folded within a year or two the engines could be sold to SCL for freight use. Auto-Train actually operated for 10 years on two routes - the original and primary route was from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL and a second route from Louisville, KY to Sanford. When Dad shot this one in 1973 the engines were making test runs from Louisville to Florida for Auto-Train to determine which route to actually use. They would eventually settle on a route that took the train through Nashville along the same route as Amtraks Floridian - and in fact the Amtrak and Auto-Train trains would sometimes be combined into one. On one of the test runs these units ran on the K&A route of the L&N, Dad got to ride home in the cab, to Etowah from Morley, TN. |
| Photo Date: |
1/19/1973 Upload Date: 5/27/2016 4:24:18 PM |
| Location: |
Etowah, TN |
| Author: |
Robert Thomson |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
AT 4008(U36B) AT 4007(U36B) AT 4009(U36B) |
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463 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Autotrain 4008 |
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| Photo Date: |
6/1/1977 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 10:16:26 AM |
| Location: |
Richmond (Amtrak), VA |
| Author: |
Dick Leonhardt |
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| Locomotives: |
AT 4008(U36B) |
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558 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
auto-train 4008 |
| Description: |
auto-train terminal Lorton, VA |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1978 Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:26:53 AM |
| Location: |
Lorton, VA |
| Author: |
Jim Appleman |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AT 4008(U36B) |
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253 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AT 4008 |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/1980 Upload Date: 9/28/2009 7:51:07 AM |
| Location: |
Sanford, FL |
| Author: |
Stephie Kolata |
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| Locomotives: |
AT 4008(U36B) |
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494 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Auto Train 4008 |
| Description: |
AT 4008 sits in the dead line at Oelwein, Iowa during the late 1980s. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1985 Upload Date: 10/7/2013 3:36:03 PM |
| Location: |
Oelwein, IA |
| Author: |
Guy Peterson |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
AT 4008(U36B) |
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564 Comments: 2 |
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