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All Aboard Episode 018: Auto Train Pt. 1-A Shining Light in a Dark Time


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Continuing our discussion of intermodal transportation, we discuss the auto-train, which was a revolutionary effort in the 1970s to bring passengers back to the rails. Phil talks a little about why intermodal transportation is needed, how an auto train concept operated in Canada and then the original of the original A-T itself.

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Episode Links:

1. Episode 017: Intermodal Does NOT Mean Sex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sx4YVHrU9Q


2. Amtrak News, September 15, 1976

https://rb.gy/e22im6


3. Trackside Treasure, Auto With You Survey

https://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2021/09/postscript-cn-auto-with-you-survey.html


4. Trackside Treasure, CN's Double-Deck Auto Transporters

https://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2011/10/cns-double-deck-auto-transporters.html

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