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| 135284 | 4461 | Stoker V machine - Fowler or Anderson? | 64 | Bruce Fowler | Aug 7, 2018 | 2018-08-07T13:02:01-0400 | View attachment Shawn's Green Meanie Comp Band.jpg ekim said: Bruce does Amtrak. The cheapest way to ship. Call Amtrak Santa barbera and get a quote to your zip. Click to expand... Although the post is from 2015, I just joined Jamboards, and I am updating some of the information on this thread. I used to ship quite a few sailboards (and some surfboards) using Amtrak when I was heavily involved in windsurfing production. I sent boards to the Bay area, Portland & Seattle stations due to their close proximity to the Columbia River Gorge, an epicenter & hotbed of windsurfing. I called Amtrak yesterday and spoke to their shipping department. They said they ship surfboards and they are not required to be in a shipping carton if they have a good travel bag or are carefully packed. I'm out of SBA (Santa Barbara) so I asked for a few quotes. For a surfboard with a total length packed of ten feet it's $105 to the East Coast.. They can be insured at $1 per $100 up to $2K. This price is probably similar from any West Coast station to the east, not just SB. Delivery takes 4 to 8 days. Phone number required as they call the customer when it arrives. To Oakland the cost is $65 Portland & Seattleis $85. Seattle is the furthest north for my west coast Canada orders. For my deliveries to Southern California, it was interesting to note that I was told that they do not ship surfboards over 7 ft. south of Los Angeles! Why that is, they didn't say, but it is probably due to heavy passenger traffic to those areas. $65 from SB to Santa Ana, Oceanside or San Diego for 7 dt. Max. Texas $85. I asked if it is still $105 if i put two or more surfboards in one box, and the woman answering me said they are supposed to check the contents to make sure they are adequately packed before putting on the train, but that doesn't always happen, but if they found two or more inside the carton it would be $105 each. She said that they know surfboards well, and that they are light and are placed as top loads from destination to destination. They are handled similar to baggage and when they are being transferred, they are taken into a baggage room then placed on the next train, same day if possible, and so on. The recipient of the shipment is called when the surfboard arrives to the closest or desired station. You have 2 days to pick it up before they begin charging storage, it is $10 per day. ( NOTE : the storage rate was edited/corrected on 9/09/18). Curiously enough the 2 I sent this week were NOT $105 from SBA - both ended up $85 b4 insurance. I hope this helps anyone traveling east or west with a longboard or if you are trying to get one across country for a reasonable price. I ship quite a bit and this is better than any quotes I have gotten. Fed Ex has a length limit that nixes longboards, and their 'girth" requirement is "length + 2x Width + 2x Height cannot exceed 165". If it doesn, it turns into "Freight" and the price quadruples becoming completely astronomical. Now that you've lived thru all that, here's pix of my test pilot Shawn Tracht from Central CA riding his new 9'0" BF Team Model. Yes, I do make surfboards o View attachment STNOSELOVE.jpg ther than Plain Jane aka V Machines. View attachment TeamMODELPaddler.jpg View attachment ShawnCutbackLongboard.jpg View attachment ShawnGreenMeanieWithStockers.jpg View attachment Shawn'sNewTeamModel.jpg View attachment Shawn'sGreenMeanieTeamModel.jpg View attachment ShawnGreenMeanieNoseLogo.jpg |