I sold an engine to a listmember in the Chicago area and found the cheapest
way to ship it, by far, was via Amtrak.  Not all Amtrak stations can handle
freight items so you have to get a little lucky and have Amtrak stations at
each end of the trip that *will* accept freight shipments.  They even offer
delivery/pickup within a certain radius of the station, though that drives
the price up, naturally.  A palletized air-cooled engine is light enough
that two people can handle it, so my wife and I dropped the engine off at
our local Amtrak (Oakland) and the listmember picked it up in the Chicago
area.

The Amtrak web site has a freight cost estimator so you can test their costs
against prices quoted by trucking companies.

From: "Lawrence Johnson" <larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 6:46 AM
Subject: shipping an engine

> I vaguely remember a List member mentioning a good and cheap shipping
> company for transporting an engine across country. I think it was called
> "Yellow" something. Can anyone enlighten me.
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