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Vintage Airstream That Once Rode the Rails Sells for $200,000 in Denver

Posted July 06, 2015 11:00 AM by dstrohl
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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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07/06/2015 5:12 PM

I cant even afford the single wheel model. Airstream, the travel trailer of Thurston and Lovey Howell.

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07/07/2015 2:17 AM

USD200k.....I can't see the value. The fitout looks rough.

Obviously the new owner made an impulse purchase.

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