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Originally Posted by andy3213
I took the auto train earlier this year with my wife's Jeep Grand Cherokee. The reality is that they load/unload 300 cars in about 90 minutes. The ramps are about 50 yards from the terminal and you can stand there and watch them move your car if you want.
We took the GC so we could load it with luggage and stuff. Would I take my Camaro if we didn't need the space, yeah sure, why not? But if you're going to obsess about the car the entire time, then maybe it's not for you.
But just compare the risk that your car could get damaged otherwise on the drive; stone chips, flat tires, someone running into the back of it in traffic, etc.
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Yeah, I can appreciate the risk on the road. Just watching the videos, though, the big concern is scratched up paint from all of the foot traffic through the rail cars. And I’m still doing a lot of driving. Including the drive to the train in VA and from the train in Sanford, then the return, it’s a total of about 900 miles / 14 hours of driving. Driving the whole way is 2500 miles / 36 hours.
Definitely a reduction in time and miles with the train. But the delta between the train and a night in a hotel to split the drive is well over $1000.