On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:45 PM , Don Hanson wrote:

>   Or how bout doing it like some European countries?  Drive your rig
> up onto
> an auto carrying train and go cross country with your vehicle onboard.
> We
> have a rail system, we just refuse to use it much or take the time to
> bring
> it into modern times.
>
>   All these huge motorhomes that head south during the winter...They
> could
> drive onto flatbed cars and save oceans of fuel.  Mom and Pop could
> sit
> inside and play Canasta all the way to Quartzite..Then drive off and
> head
> over to the RV park burning only a couple of dozen gallons of fuel ...

That is (or was at least) available on the east coast (via an Amtrak
from Boston to Miami).  If it still exists, it is the only one in the
country.  Whether it took large vehicles or not, I don't know.

Dave Mc