Date:         Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:12:51 -0600
Reply-To:     arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM
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From:         Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Bus Transport by Train?
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The only thing I've ever heard of is "Auto-Train".  Amtrak runs this
service from somewhere outside Washington, DC, to just outside Orlando, FL.
Unless you're willing to pack up your bus in a container, I highly doubt
this service is available elsewhere.  A call to one of the freight
railroads - CSX, Norfolk-Southern, Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, Union
Pacific - might get you rate information for container transport.  Perhaps
a call to Amtrak or a visit to one of the many rail-fan sites scattered

around the net might yield better information.  Remember, the only
passenger service in the country, besides commuter rail lines, is provided
by Amtrak.

HTH...

Alan Bosch
& Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)





Brian Doss <Doss88Wkndr@AOL.COM>@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> on 03/22/2001 10:27:41
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I'm a back-road junkie. Long distance highway driving is just not my bag,
baby. I'm brooding on a little plan... you see, I put my bus, and me on a
train here in the East. When I wake up from a radical hangover 3 days
later... bam,  like I'm in Yuma or Denver or someplace else out west. Then
I
go out exploring the desert at my own casual pace, swerving off the road to
catch a glimpse of a burrowing owl, say. Then a couple of weeks later, visa
-
versa. Has anyone ever tried to arrange transport like this? I know some
guys
pay someone to drive out west, then fly out to meet their car, but I just
can't be that trusting, heck, I don't even let my wife drive my bus -
unless
I can't count from 10 backwards...

Brian Doss
'88 Weekender, Queequeg