In article <l7uVj.131236$Cj7.107513@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Brian Smith"
<dcg_brian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> I can it being easy to get the tram from Australia to England because a
****p
> is much bigger than a tram. Once in England I imagine they ****pped by
train
> to as close to his land as possible and from there probably had to take
it
> apart and ****p it by truck and then reassemble it.
I've read the Tale of the Tram somewhere though I can't remember whether
it was in "Flower Fantasies" or one of the "Architectural Digest"
articles. I believe it was trucked in intact (once off the ****p,
obviously), and the real problem was getting it into Woodside--it was too
big to fit through the gates and had to be lifted over by crane, an
eventually that apparently hadn't been foreseen.
>
> The number 520 is more than likely for inventory purposes. Depending on
the
> size of the tram I could see it costing more than $1 million even back
in
> 1983.
Way less. It's less than GBP40,000 now to send a railroad car from
California to the UK.
http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/news319.htm
I've seen this car--interesting, but out of place. It can't possibly be in
shape to be put on rails so would have to be ****pped out of L.A. It's not
very big, as rail cars go; probably longer than a tram car but not as
wide.
> And would a tram make a could office without doing a ton of
> renovations?
>
What has Elton ever bought that hasn't been majorly renovated? :-)
Oddly enough, there are railroad car collectors all over...well, North
America, at least. I know several people who have had railroad engines or
cars hauled many miles over roads and placed on their properties.
Sometimes they restore them, but mostly they just let them sit. I don't
really understand it, but it's a harmless enough hobby.
Karen
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