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AT 4008, 4009 & 4007

            Reproduced 35mm Slide
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Savoy, KY in March 1973

Three Auto-Train U-boats lead southbound Louisville & Nashville train #867 through Savoy, KY in March 1973.  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 deterimine which route to actually use.  They would eventually settle on a route that took the train through Nashville along the same route as Amtrak's 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 to Etowah from Morley, TN.

Taken in: United States / Kentucky / Savoy (show map)

Taken on: August 30, 2007

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