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Nostalgia & History > Anybody remember the original Auto Train?Date: 10/14/12 19:11 Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: LFM159 Here's The Louisville section at Brooks, Ky. just minutes after departure.
 Date: 10/14/12 20:09 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: IC_2024 Awesome shot! Rode it w/ my dad and were held behind an L&N freight derailment- over a day late! Got an apology letter from Eugene Garfield, president of Auto-train, too. L&N was a cool road, but they had crappy track in the 70's.
Posted from iPhone Date: 10/14/12 23:37 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: ctillnc > crappy track in the 70's.
At the time, L&N employees complained bitterly that overlord SCL was draining the L&N of operating cash. Things leveled out after SBD was created. Date: 10/15/12 05:39 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: mopac1978 Shots of the Louisville section are rare, as this operation only lasted a couple of years. Shots with just Auto-Train equipment alone are even more rare, as after just a short time the decision was made to combine the Louisville section with Amtrak's Floridian which ran the same route. In the summer of 1977 I rode from Chicago to Jacksonville on the Floridian, and after our Amtrak stop at Louisville we went a few miles south to the Auto-Train terminal and doubled up with the Auto-Train equipment, to continue on as one long train dubbed "Flauto-Train" by railfans at the time.
Date: 10/15/12 07:29 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: LX15840 We rode the AT south from Louisville in April '77. The power was 2 AT U-boats and an Amtrak E8 B unit! The track was rough until we were south of Montgomery, then was smoother but 60mph dark territory until Waycross. There were very few AT passengers on the train, so I predicted that this would be the only time we would ride this train. It also took 24 hours, whereas you could drive it in 15 hours.
Date: 10/15/12 07:36 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: bluesboyst is Brooks close to the L&N Golf Course? I saw it back in 74 when at the golf course.....
Steve Date: 10/15/12 08:43 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: ctillnc Ironically, by 1979 when the Auto-Train experiment had ended and the Floridian was operating regularly with an F40/E8 combo, it kept very good time on the L&N.
Montgomery-Waycross was (and still is) 300 miles of continuous dark territory. It was no faster than 59 mph but let's not quibble about the extra 1. Date: 10/15/12 13:07 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: wmry202 rode it in 1972, one week after hurricane agnes hit. ( lorton to sanford ) 2 hour delay in florence s.c. due to flooded track. all i remember is a mixed bag of coaches and sleepers. fun trip
Date: 10/15/12 15:20 Re: Anybody remember the original Auto Train? Author: LFM159 bluesboyst Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > is Brooks close to the L&N Golf Course? I saw it > back in 74 when at the golf course..... > > Steve About 1 mile north. |