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Lorton station is a railroad terminal in Lorton, Virginia. It is the northern terminal for Amtrak 's Auto Train, which operates between this station and Sanford station in Florida. When Auto-Train was originally established in Lorton in 1971, the station house was still under construction. Until it was completed sometime between 1972 and 1975 ...
Auto Train is an 855-mile (1,376 km) scheduled daily train service for passengers and their automobiles operated by Amtrak between Lorton, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.), and Sanford, Florida (near Orlando). Auto Train is the only motorail service in the United States. [4]
U.S. Route 1 (Richmond Highway) and Interstate 95 pass through Lorton, leading northeast 15 miles (24 km) to Alexandria and 19 miles (31 km) to Washington, D.C., and south 34 miles (55 km) to Fredericksburg. The Amtrak Auto Train to and from Florida has Lorton as its northern terminal.
Woodbridge. toward Spotsylvania. Fredericksburg Line. Franconia–Springfield. toward Washington, D.C. Location. Lorton station is a railroad station in Lorton, Virginia, served by the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) Fredericksburg Line. The station is one mile north of Amtrak 's Lorton station, the northern terminus of the Auto Train.
Auto-Train Corporation. Auto-Train ex-Santa Fe "Big Dome" dome cars at Lorton, Virginia in 1973. Auto-Train Corporation (reporting mark AUCX), stylized auto-train, was a privately owned passenger railroad that operated from 1971 to 1981. Its trains included autorack cars, enabling passengers to bring their own vehicles on their journey.
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Amtrak Virginia is the collective name for Virginia 's state-supported Amtrak train service, all of which falls under the Northeast Regional brand. Amtrak Virginia trains run between Washington, D.C., and one of four southern termini: Richmond, Newport News, Norfolk, or Roanoke.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (reporting mark RFP) was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. The track is now the RF&P Subdivision of the CSX Transportation system; the original corporation is no longer a railroad company. The RF&P was a bridge line, with a slogan of "Linking North & South," on a ...
Sanford station is a railroad terminal in Sanford, Florida. It is the southern terminus for Amtrak 's Auto Train, which runs between this station and Lorton, Virginia. Amtrak reported in its fiscal years 2021 and 2022 reports that the station is Amtrak's busiest station in Florida. It reported station ridership of 269,381 according to the 2022 ...