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Date:         Tue, 19 May 1998 08:45:52 -0400
Reply-To:     thetrans <thetrans@INAME.COM>
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From:         thetrans <thetrans@INAME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Stealth Camping
Comments: To: Blbachman <Blbachman@AOL.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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At 08:34 PM 5/18/98 -0400, Blbachman wrote: >Fun thread, so I'll add my experience. > >Completed an enlistment in the Air Force in 1982 and went to San Diego State >on the GI Bill. > >Naturally, it took forever (until December) to get the thing started up, so >there was no income. My folks lived 90 miles north in Corona CA, so my wife >and kids stayed up there until Christmas. > >I hopped in the '71 camper (homemade in Alaska from a Kombi and necessary >parts from a wrecked Westfalia) each Monday morning at 5:00 AM. Slept in the >car on a side street on Monday and Tuesday night, came home Wednesday night. >Another 5:00 AM departure on Thursday, "camping" Thursday night, and back to >Corona for the weekend. > >What a memory! > >(P.S., also a train nut)

I had a 78 Westy that I always thought looked like an EMD F-7. I actually worked out plans to paint it gray, maroon and yellow with Erie-Lackawanna RR lettering and decals. I keep waiting to see an old bus painted in some sort of RR scheme.

The breadloafs are too boxy to look like most US locomotives (well maybe an Amtrak AEM-7.. but thats of Swedish origin anyway). But they look very much like former Soviet electrics. Maybe a red scheme witha big star on the front??

Bill (lifelong train nut, former brakeman, intermodal manager, and most recently Managing Director-Operations Design, Southern Pacific Railroad [now deceased]).

> >-Blaine >

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right"

Hunter/Garcia


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