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This article is a collaborative effort of Vaoverland and Slambo. each of us has been working daily and/or nightly on railroad-related articles. This one should have a broad appeal to include families and younger Wikipedia readers and presents an interesting opportunity to learn more about trains, including several types of locomotives, passenger cars, auto carrier freight cars (called autoracks in trade terminology) and even the old favorite, the caboose. It is also about a new innovative business idea, making profits, growing too much, having bad luck, and bankruptcy and failure. Resurrection of failed private railroad passenger service is what Amtrak is all about, and this is an example. There is also a mention of the debate underway about privatization of such services. All photos are credited and used with permission, and we have enhanced some of the subject linked, such as autorack, and are working on the few which still lack an article. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. All aboard? Vaoverland 10:05, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
In what way is it unique? Several countries have (or, in the case of Britain's Motorail, used to have) a service for transporting cars along with passengers. Loganberry 13:19, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Auto-trains in Europe
There are two car carrier train companies in Europe that I know of.
In Germany, Die Bahn Autozug [2] have services from 16 national stations to cities in France, Italy, Austria and Croatia. These are very popular. 200 000 cars transported yearly, half a million passengers. They are currently celebrating the 75 years of car- and person-carrying trains.
In Finland, VR [3] has a popular car-carrying service on their night-trains from the south to the north and vice versa. They have recently bought 15 new carriers for €8 million, and transports 35000 cars a year.
.... and some more:
Austria [4] has regular daytime trains (EC/IC) or night trains (EN) with automobile transport cars (DDm).
Belgium/Netherlands have "Euro Express Treincharter" [5] and "The Train Company", with semi-regular international tourist trains (including a lot of the former NMBS/SNCB and NS night rolling stock).
That list is by far not exhaustive. See also Motorail trains in Europe.
What about the chunnel car shuttles? Patcat88 14:27, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone actually working on getting those removed? They have been there for 7 months now. The two sections in question are certainly unreferenced and infested with weasel words. If no one objects to this I frankly suggest that they be deleted from the article until someone is actually able to source the information in them. Dispute tags are not meant to stay there forever. They are meant as an encouragment to improve the article/section. If that doen't happen then it needs to be considered if it should be removed. MartinDK 15:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Was the name of the original service all in lower-case, or ws that just a stlylized spelling applied to the rolling stock? 4.243.206.82 15:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
70 miles per hour (113 km/h) is an odd speed. This is not the overall average and it's a little low for peak speed which over this length of track I would assume to be 79 or even 90 with these locomotives. B137 ( talk) 02:43, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
The "Amtrak" section contains the following statement: "...6 sleepers (including a deluxe sleeper)...". This needs further explanation, as all of the AutoTrain sleepers are alike and have Deluxe Bedrooms on the upper level, along with roomettes and Family and Disabled Bedrooms (the latter on the lower level). There is no one Sleeper separately designated or marketed by Amtrak on this train as "Deluxe". JGHowes talk 01:17, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
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