[ale] Proposed ALE/Chugalug Outing..

[Jeff Lightner]

I seem to recall that Amtrak had (maybe still does) cross country trains
where you'd ride the train and ship your car to use at destination on
same train.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of BBBB
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:16 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Proposed ALE/Chugalug Outing..

tom wrote:
> I suspect that a rail outing could be arrainged, _if_ somebody were to

> sink a god awful amount of time into the preparation. You can put a 
> passenger car into a freight train...
>
> The advantage would be a potientially interesting ride through
American 
> infrastructure the overwhelming majority of people never see.
>
> The disadvantage would be a slow trip for a probably ridiculous price
and 
> a lot of work.  ...
Wow, probably ridiculously expensive, but you could sure get a lot of 
media attention for the group with something like this!
Tech writers, environmental and travel writers would jump all over this.

Bradley
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