Auto Train in Louisville? Yes, they operated there for a short time. If it had started in Chicago it might have made sense.

In Louisville yet. That was short-lived operation. Photo by R J Roll. From my collection.

A private corporation operated the Auto Train 1971-1981. One of the carrier's brightly colored locomotives idles prior to departure from Lorton, VA.

Auto Train Alco S-1 625 switcher at Lorton, Virginia on March 19, 1978.

Auto Train power Lorton VA facility

Northbound Auto Train on SCL passing through Folkston

Auto Train loading at Auto Train terminal Lorton

Units laying over. This were pretty but when the company went bankrupt, nobody wanted them.

Necessity and marketing are the mothers of some really fuggly equipment. This thing started as a tender and somehow acquired a steam generator or two, and diaphram. I hope someone at least saved... (more)

Southbound Auto-Train.

Southbound Auto Train AT-3 was crossing Neabsco Creek at Neabsco, VA with two U36Bs on May 21, 1978.

I always wondered what it felt like, after a wonderful vacation in Florida, to wake up, look out the window, and see weather like this. Reality check. Northbound AT-4 was passing by the old gene... (more)

It didn't take long for Auto Train's fleet of U36Bs to look tired. White is simply not an ideal color for a locomotive pilot. Southbound No. 3 was departing Auto Train's northern terminus at Lor... (more)

Auto-Train U36Bs 4010 and 4011 sparkle in the sun at the A-T facility located south of Louisville, KY. This was before derailments reduced the available equipment and it was combined with Amtrak'... (more)