Auto Train Amtrak - History: Auto-Train Corporation an innovative rail service

The predecessor to Amtrak's Auto Train was the Auto-Train of the Auto-Train Corporation, a public stock corporation founded in 1971 by Eugene K. Garfield. The company used its own locomotives, passenger railcars, autoracks, and cabooses, and used the tracks of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac (RF&P) and Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) railroads from Lorton, Virginia to Sanford, Florida. ...

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First Great Western in the United Kingdom operates the Motorail service between London Paddington and Penzance. In Germany, DB AutoZug (website) has services from sixteen stations to cities in France, Italy, Austria, and Croatia. These are very popular, with 200,000 automobiles transported yearly and half a million passengers. In 2005, DB AutoZug celebrated 75 years of automobile-and-person-carrying trains. In France, the SNCF's Auto/train (English: Auto-Train) service (website)See also:

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Amtrak services are federally subsidized, and are operated by an corporation that, while technically for-profit, in some ways operates like a government transportation agency. There is a certain amount of debate in the United States over whether Amtrak's services could and/or should be contracted out to private companies through a competitive bidding process, or even completely privatized. Auto Train is often cited as one of the most likely candidates for such changes, partly on the grounds that its predecessor the Auto-Train r ...

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A North American predecessor to the original Auto-Train was a service run by the Canadian National Railway (CN) that allowed passengers to bring their automobiles along on selected passenger trains; this service proved unsuccessful. As discussed above, the original Auto-Train reported profits on the Virginia-Florida route in its early years, but ultimately failed financially. Amtrak's Auto Train has been relatively economically successful due to the following factors: A substantial number of passengers are w ...

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After a period of 22 months without service, the service was revived by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, the corporation that operates most intercity passenger trains in the United States. Amtrak acquired the terminals in Lorton and Sanford and some of the Auto-Train rolling stock. On October 30, 1983, it introduced its slightly renamed Auto Train ser ...

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