[Philmont] stoves and AMTRAK

You might try to get a second opinion from Amtrak.

I called Amtrak on this subject in mid June of this year. Our troop was traveling from California to Raton by Amtrak, leaving on about June 20th. We were planning to take empty stoves and fuel bottles. I asked the Amtrak agent on their 800 number about taking the stoves and fuel bottles. She put me on hold for a long time, and finally came back to say it was OK to take empty stoves and fuel bottles. She said that Amtrak had a special exception for Boy Scouts making it possible to carry empty stoves and fuel bottles on the train.

Give it a try

Don Hall
T447 Fremont

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Kim Pigorsch
Philmont '99, '03, '07 (724-T)
Troop 681 Outdoor Chairmun (sic)

www.troop681.com - troop website
www.sdicbsa.org - Council Website

San Diego, CA

  
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 From: achpamsin@hughes.net
To: Philmont@troop47.com
Subject: [Philmont] stoves and AMTRAK
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:00:19 -0400

     Just a story that happened to us about mailing stoves. On our last Autumn Adventure in 2003, I sent the stoves via UPS to the ranch a little over two weeks before our trek. I sweated when it took 10 days till they finally made it there from Ohio. One guy's wife travelled out with us and stayed with a sister in Pueblo, CO while we were on the trail. On the return trip we gave her (the sister) the box of stoves to ship home. I gave them to her on Saturday. Much to my surprise they were on my porch on Monday. I know that she sent them USPS. A couple of days later one of the crew called and told me he had inadvertently left a full Powermax cannister in his pack and it flew home with us. No one caught either of those mistakes. If we had tried to intentionally "smuggle" them out there or back home, we would have probably either been caught and been in jail, lost the stoves or both. Go figure. Moral of the story. Don't tempt fate. Mail them out in plenty of time.
  
 Ken Flanagan
 Philtreks X 10
 AA X 2

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