From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 09:23:20 PST
rail lines no longer what to have 2 car loads
thay only what full trains with 100 cars or more go coming and going same
places
ken m886
kb9yku
At 10:30 AM 1/12/03 -0600, Jon Shoop wrote:
>I think rail is too expensive.....
>
>I can hire a flat bed here in the midwest for $1.40 a mile..............it
>could very easily haul 2 bren carriers and some.
>
>And the equpment is shipped directly......not on a long about route like a
>typical train would take.
>
>I am talking hours..not days or weeks...
>
>Jon
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>Subject: [MV] moving armor by rail today
>
>
> > Hi list,
> > In order to attend some ww2 events farther away from the Philadelphia
>area, I need to look as trasporting several tracked or armoured vehicles at
>one time.
> >
> > Has anyone had any recent experiance with contacting a modern train line
>and trying to get a tank shipped?
> >
> > My WW2 unit will be tryin to move 2 bren carriers and three armoured cars.
> >
> > What office of a train company do I start with? is there a freight broker
>who sets all that up? What did it cost you and when? (what year?)
> >
> > DO they povide the tie down chains or do you? What about other dunnage?
> >
> >
> > Please respond to renactr2@aol.com
> > Cheers,
> > Jim Burrill
> >
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