Train shipping ( was Re: VT fixums )

I have a second hand story. Bill (I think) Scripps who was well known (and may still be) at the TRW swap meet was telling of his experience of having no transportatation one time, and needing to go to an auction of Rocketdyne stuff. He purchased two Atlas rocket verniers, and still had not ride, and had to figure out what to do, as the purchases had to be off property that day (a saturday). He took them out of their shipping containers and proceeded to go back from the north end of the San Fernando valley to I think Santa Monica. He had one on the floor, and one in his lap. As he was riding the driver was giving him the eye, and he figured he'd get booted or arrested before arriving home. After the bus emptied out, the driver came back to him and told him he had been on the design team for those engines before being laid off by Rocketdyne. I'd really like to see his stash, he had some really rare hardware of similar nature.