On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:45:35 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Has anybody had any experience with rail shipping a glider in trailer? I'm looking at pre-owned gliders and after flying out to inspect the glider and purchasing, having to fly back to the west coast, load up the pickup and drive to New York sure would take the joy out of a glider purchase. I'm just tossing this out, nothing on the radar yet

There are people who do this sort of thing. Drive gliders across the country I mean, not humping. Well there are people that do that too..

I bought my glider in South Carolina, it was driven to Minden, NV in about 3 days. No damage, just needed the trailer washed. It was paid for by the seller, I think it cost him maybe $3K all in (this was a few years ago). Ask some contest pilots, they have names of people who do this reliably.