[ale] Proposed ALE/Chugalug Outing..

[Thompson Freeman]

I don't know about cross country, but New York to  
midFlorida should still be around. There may also be one on  
the west coast, but I haven't traveled there.

On 02/17/2009 11:34:22 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> 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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> 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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