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Re: Max's Motorhome
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Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:53:49 GMT
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Tom McDonald wrote:
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> In lugnet.announce, Barbara Sproat writes:
> > Max is like my Dad... if there's something he wants and it isn't on the • market,
> > then he'll build it himself. This is one example of Max's latest work. He
> > call's it the "Locomoto". It started as an old train that he bought from his
> > neighbor. Then with a little knowledge in the latest technology and hard work,
> > he was finally finished.
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> > BTW: This was really fun to create!!
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> Wow! Hey that does look like it was fun! I almost like the idea of a *real*
> private railcar. (Wouldn't that cause headaches IRL :)
Not really. There are well over 100 privately owned railcars extant in
the US. There is a club of "private varnish"(1) owners and there usually
are a number of them that show up at national NMRA conventions, and they
have their own club with an annual convention, 25 cars came last year.
There are all sorts, people have coaches, sleepers, observations, domes,
office cars. Some are mostly as when they were in service, and some have
been converted into ultra plush rolling mansions (an 80 foot car is WAY
bigger than the biggest motor home).
I know of a man in Cincinnati who has 4 cars.
Pass a certain set of standards and you can have your private car tacked
on the end of Amtrak trains for so much a mile. So it's fairly common
procedure. There are lesser numbers of privately owned locomotoves...
most of those are owned by preservation societies rather than
individuals.
I've seen varnish advertised for as little as 20K and as much as 2M.
There's usually one or two for sale in the back pages of TRAINS
magazine.
Lots of info out there:
http://ink.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=private+varnish&hc=0&hs=0
gives:
http://trainweb.com/privatevarnish/
http://members.xoom.com/tomgville/
http://www.aaprco.com/
the last has good info on what owning your own car is like.
Wanna buy one?
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/Outlet/2807/ (also has other good
info on the PV experience)
> BTW, FWIW, the last half dozen pics didn't load for me.
they would have if you gave it, oh, say, 1/2 hour or so...
1 - varnish is old railroad slang for fancyschmantzy cars. In the olden
days cars were made of wood and the luxurious ones had lots of varnish
on their trim (instead of paint which was easier to maintain).
--
Larry Pieniazek - lpieniazek@mercator.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
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| Cool! Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38AA032D.F359D4B5@v...er.net>... (...) The last batch didn't load for me either. Some browsers time out on the pictures (I've had this happen with both Netscape 3.01 and IE 4). Thankfully IE allows you to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| In the interest of brevity, this message has been subjected to various snippage (...) Sweet... (...) Yeah, that's actually what I meant by the above.. using the same tracks to pull whole private trains and public.. scheduling conflicts causing (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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