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Balboa Olive Embalmers to Run Rail Car to Catalina
Balboa Island Punting and Skulling Society plans a Catalina Island cruise by rail car after a railroad backed out. Vip Partch and 18 members once hauled a yacht across land to Las Vegas, showing their publicized safety of ocean travel by rail. The 1954 overland cruise set a precedent for this offbeat voyage.
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Dent—Pa E All Balboa ‘Olive
Catalina
Balboa Island
Catalina Island
Virgil Partch
Vip
Las Vegas
Bsp&s
Kanse City
Las Végas
Ciety