Auto-Train owned four Baldwin switchers for use at their terminals in Lorton VA and Sanford FL. Three were VO-1000s, but this one, number 621, was their only S-12. Assigned to their northern terminal in Lorton, locomotive 612, named "Gene" (after Eugene K. Garfield, the founder of Auto-Train), was built by BLW in May 1952 as Erie Railroad 621, later becoming Erie Lackawanna 621 as a result of that merger. Auto-Train operated from December 6, 1971 to May 1, 1981.
(Lorton, Virginia – September 1975) Douglas G. Walker photograph, Craig Walker collection
