Airstream
has earned a reputation for building travel trailers long on luxury and
style, but few know that the company occasionally constructed
utilitarian variants for industrial customers. In 1962, Airstream was
asked to build 10 trailers, each 40 feet in length, to serve as housing
for Western Pacific Railroad foremen and as a galley for railroad crew.
Last weekend, one of these 1962 Western Pacific Airstream trailers, now
restored to a far more luxurious standard, sold in Denver for $200,000,
cracking into the sale's top-10.
This trailer is vintage on the outside, but modern on the inside.
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