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Date:         Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:44:50 -0800
Reply-To:     Tom Young <tomyoung1@HOME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Young <tomyoung1@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: shipping an engine
Comments: To: Lawrence Johnson <larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA>
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I sold an engine to a listmember in the Chicago area and found the cheapest way to ship it, by far, was via Amtrak. Not all Amtrak stations can handle freight items so you have to get a little lucky and have Amtrak stations at each end of the trip that *will* accept freight shipments. They even offer delivery/pickup within a certain radius of the station, though that drives the price up, naturally. A palletized air-cooled engine is light enough that two people can handle it, so my wife and I dropped the engine off at our local Amtrak (Oakland) and the listmember picked it up in the Chicago area.

The Amtrak web site has a freight cost estimator so you can test their costs against prices quoted by trucking companies.

From: "Lawrence Johnson" <larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 6:46 AM Subject: shipping an engine

> I vaguely remember a List member mentioning a good and cheap shipping > company for transporting an engine across country. I think it was called > "Yellow" something. Can anyone enlighten me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young tomyoung1@home.com Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


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