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Owner: Auto Train
Model:GE U36BBuilt As:AUCX 4007 (U36B)
Serial Number:38746Order No:1484
Frame Number:Built:12/1972
Other locos with this serial:  AT 4007(U36B)
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AT 4008, 4007 & 4009
Title:  AT 4008, 4007 & 4009
Description:  On January 19, 1973, Dad shot Auto-Train U36Bs 4008, 4007 & 4009 leading southbound Louisville & Nashville train #867 through Etowah, Tennessee. 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 determine which route to actually use. They would eventually settle on a route that took the train through Nashville along the same route as Amtraks 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 in the cab, to Etowah from Morley, TN.
Photo Date:  1/19/1973  Upload Date: 5/27/2016 4:24:18 PM
Location:  Etowah, TN
Author:  Robert Thomson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AT 4008(U36B) AT 4007(U36B) AT 4009(U36B)
Views:  463   Comments: 2
AT 4007
Title:  AT 4007
Description:  Picture was taken by Harv Khan(Deceased) I am posting so everyone can enjoy his excellent work
Photo Date:  12/30/1975  Upload Date: 8/22/2008 10:39:19 PM
Location:  Lorton, VA
Author:  Crow T. Robot
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Locomotives:  AT 4007(U36B)
Views:  595   Comments: 0
AT 4007
Title:  AT 4007
Description:  Location unknown
Photo Date:  4/19/1976  Upload Date: 6/16/2018 8:20:37 AM
Location:  Lorton, VA
Author:  David T Callahan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AT 4007(U36B)
Views:  170   Comments: 1
Autotrain shortly after departure crossing river into Woodbridge
Title:  Autotrain shortly after departure crossing river into Woodbridge
Description:  Date Unknown
Photo Date:  10/31/1976  Upload Date: 4/20/2012 10:16:54 AM
Location:  Lorton, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AT 4006(U36B) AT 4007(U36B)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
AT 4007
Title:  AT 4007
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/1980  Upload Date: 9/28/2009 7:50:40 AM
Location:  Sanford, FL
Author:  Stephie Kolata
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Locomotives:  AT 4007(U36B)
Views:  606   Comments: 1


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