Auto Train
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Auto Train is an 855-mile scheduled daily train service for passengers and their automobiles operated by Amtrak between Lorton, Virginia, and Sanford, Florida. Auto Train is the only motorail service
The Auto Train in Guinea, Virginia in March 2024
The Auto-Train at Lorton, Virginia, in 1973
Platform at Lorton station. Superliners are lined up at the left, with autoracks visible to the right.
Autoracks lined up at their loading ramps at the Lorton station. The ramps are not visible in this photo.
Auto-Train Corporation
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Auto-Train Corporation, stylized auto-train, was a privately owned passenger railroad that operated from 1971 to 1981. Its trains included autorack cars, enabling passengers to bring their own vehicle
Auto Train
…change of the engineers and conductors. Amtrak's Auto Train is the successor to an earlier, similarly named service operated by the privately owned Auto-Train Corporation in the 1970s. The original Auto-Train operated on Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac tracks. It was operated by…
Auto-Train 707, a "Maxi-Dome" coach, in 1978
Auto-Train 125, an autorack, in 1978