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auto-train
Locomotive
4002

Road-switcher locomotive #4002 was a U36B built by GE in November 1971 (builder's number 38033) to specifications of the SCL, auto-train's major "host" railroad.

Image: Marty Bernard March 15, 1972

Auto-Train Corporation GE U36B 4002

 
 

SCL's specifications included Blomberg trucks, which would not otherwise have been fitted.

Image: Mary Jayne and John Z. Rowe. February, 1978

Auto-Train Corporation GE U36B 4002  
 

The locomotive was geared for passenger service rather than switching.

Image: Mary Jayne and John Z. Rowe. February, 1978

Auto-Train Corporation GE U36B 4002  
 

These were hardworking locomotives, and it shows.

Image: Mary Jayne and John Z. Rowe. February, 1978

Auto-Train Corporation GE U-36B 4002  
 

Like the other auto-train locomotives, 4002 was eventually scrapped. After its time on the auto-train, the locomotive went into storage at Oelwein, Iowa where it sat awating a buyer that never came. The locomotive was cut up on-site in 1984-85.

Image: Mary Jayne and John Z. Rowe. February, 1978

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