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4008

Locomotive #4008 was part of auto-train's second batch of road locomotives -- a U36B built by GE in December 1972 (builder's number 38747) to specifications of the SCL.

Image: Stan Jackowski

Auto-Train Corporation GE U36B 4008

 
 

Locomotive 4008, photographed March 9, 1977.

Image: Don Jaworski

 
 

4008 leads a string of U36Bs at Lorton.

At one point the locomotive was damaged in a grade crossing accident.

Like the other auto-train locomotives, 4008 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: Dave Balton

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