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auto-train A bi-level auto rack car. Ex CN 730027. Eventually modified to include a crew compartment with a cupola -- effectively creating a caboose -- for the new Sanford-Louisville run. Image: Stan Jackowski |
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Auto-Carrier/Caboose #3, photographed March 1, 1973. Image: Don Jaworski |
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A few of these hybrids were produced and #3 eventually ended up at the Fillmore & Western Railway north of Los Angeles, lettered/numbered as MLDX 2957. In 1993 it turned up in the background of a shot from the music video for the Aerosmith song "Cryin'" featuring Alicia Silverstone -- a good catch by Nick at the auto-train Yahoo Group. |
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Former Auto-Train Auto-Carrier/Caboose #3, photographed in 2011 at the Fillmore & Western Railway. The Fillmore & Western is a very active "movie railroad" and the "Imperial and Coachella" lettering is probably for a production of some kind. If anyone knows the story, please email. Image: Dick Petrini |
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Looking in the end door. Image: Dick Petrini |
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Purple paint and the number 3 give notice of its Auto-Train heritage. Image: Dick Petrini |
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At some point the car was letter "Lionel", as in the maker of electric toy trains. If anyone knows the story behind that and how the car passed from Auto-Train to the Fillmore & Western, please email. Image: Dick Petrini |
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Now lettered MLDX 2957. If anyone can translate that designation, please email. Image: Dick Petrini |
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The cupola added to the bi-level auto-rack by Auto-Train. Image: Dick Petrini
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