At 08:34 PM 5/18/98 -0400, Blbachman wrote:
>Fun thread, so I'll add my experience.
>
>Completed an enlistment in the Air Force in 1982 and went to San Diego State
>on the GI Bill.
>
>Naturally, it took forever (until December) to get the thing started up, so
>there was no income.  My folks lived 90 miles north in Corona CA, so my wife
>and kids stayed up there until Christmas.
>
>I hopped in the '71 camper (homemade in Alaska from a Kombi and necessary
>parts from a wrecked Westfalia) each Monday morning at 5:00 AM.  Slept in the
>car on a side street on Monday and Tuesday night, came home Wednesday night.
>Another 5:00 AM departure on Thursday, "camping" Thursday night, and back to
>Corona for the weekend.
>
>What a memory!
>
>(P.S., also a train nut)

I had a 78 Westy that I always thought looked like an EMD F-7. I actually
worked out plans to paint it gray, maroon and yellow with Erie-Lackawanna
RR lettering and decals. I keep waiting to see an old bus painted in some
sort of RR scheme.

The breadloafs are too boxy to look like most US locomotives (well maybe an
Amtrak AEM-7.. but thats of Swedish origin anyway). But they look very much
like former Soviet electrics. Maybe a red scheme witha big star on the front??

Bill (lifelong train nut, former brakeman, intermodal manager, and most
recently Managing Director-Operations Design, Southern Pacific Railroad
[now deceased]).

>
>-Blaine
>

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
look at it right"

Hunter/Garcia