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Re: Moving costs
Author: Alfred Doten
Date: 09-02-2009 - 09:18
J Mann Wrote:
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> Have you guys factored in the moving costs?
> Hopefully you have a member who can move these for
> you. It is a long haul from Portola to Eureka.
> It cost the PLA roughly $8,000.00 per car to move
> our 3 subs from CSRM to the NCRY. That was mostly
> freeway miles with few restrictions over a route
> that you can drive in about 2 hours (make it about
> 3 for a truck). Don't forget crane charges at
> each end too. These cars cannot be handled on a
> roll-on roll-off trailer (like a caboose can) so
> you will have to use a crane company or house
> mover to load them. One thing the PLA has learned
> through the years has been that purchase price is
> not the only cost to look at when acquiring
> something. Transportion costs can be huge
> (especially when rail moves are unavailable).
> Many things have been offered to us for "free" but
> we declined due to the high cost of
> transportation.
>
> Another note on trucking. The steps on one end of
> the cars will have to be removed. It is better to
> burn out the rivets ahead of time yourself than to
> let the moving company burn the steps off the day
> of the move. Reassembly time is much quicker and
> it looks a whole lot better.
J. Mann has some good points here. NCRA has three Daylight coaches rotting away on the mainline south of Scotia. THA also has an SP heavy weight stored outside at the former Arcata Redwood Mill. With all the steam power finally under cover at Samoa, all the locomotive moves of late, the Strasburg restoration of PL #37, where are they getting the resources to do this stuff in Humboldt County? Outside storage for any of these cars on the Samoa Peninsula is not good, but I guess the original GGRM site wasn't much better. The V&T Commission has been under pressure to get rid of these coaches for some time. One can only wish the coaches and THA the best of luck with their plans and dealing with the Harbor District to get a permanent museum site so all this stuff can be saved and restored.
ARD
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> Have you guys factored in the moving costs?
> Hopefully you have a member who can move these for
> you. It is a long haul from Portola to Eureka.
> It cost the PLA roughly $8,000.00 per car to move
> our 3 subs from CSRM to the NCRY. That was mostly
> freeway miles with few restrictions over a route
> that you can drive in about 2 hours (make it about
> 3 for a truck). Don't forget crane charges at
> each end too. These cars cannot be handled on a
> roll-on roll-off trailer (like a caboose can) so
> you will have to use a crane company or house
> mover to load them. One thing the PLA has learned
> through the years has been that purchase price is
> not the only cost to look at when acquiring
> something. Transportion costs can be huge
> (especially when rail moves are unavailable).
> Many things have been offered to us for "free" but
> we declined due to the high cost of
> transportation.
>
> Another note on trucking. The steps on one end of
> the cars will have to be removed. It is better to
> burn out the rivets ahead of time yourself than to
> let the moving company burn the steps off the day
> of the move. Reassembly time is much quicker and
> it looks a whole lot better.
J. Mann has some good points here. NCRA has three Daylight coaches rotting away on the mainline south of Scotia. THA also has an SP heavy weight stored outside at the former Arcata Redwood Mill. With all the steam power finally under cover at Samoa, all the locomotive moves of late, the Strasburg restoration of PL #37, where are they getting the resources to do this stuff in Humboldt County? Outside storage for any of these cars on the Samoa Peninsula is not good, but I guess the original GGRM site wasn't much better. The V&T Commission has been under pressure to get rid of these coaches for some time. One can only wish the coaches and THA the best of luck with their plans and dealing with the Harbor District to get a permanent museum site so all this stuff can be saved and restored.
ARD
