Finally a video that celebrates us foamers. Yes I confess I drool at the sight of CSX and Norfolk Southern!! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYMObCnbOfE&feature=g-all-lik
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The only former I want to see is a head on top of a recently poured beer.
Not another thread about the F-word ! 
Funny! Thanks for posting this. I will admit to becoming a bit enthusiastic a couple of times with an awesome train approaching.
More YouTube diesel crap!
Hot, I love steam engines but I think your just upset because one of those diesels could win a tug of war contest pulling the 844 and 3985 backwards all day. Embrace the diesels they are today as steam is yesterday.
Originally Posted by david1:
Hot, I love steam engines but I think your just upset because one of those diesels could win a tug of war contest pulling the 844 and 3985 backwards all day. Embrace the diesels they are today as steam is yesterday.
Actually, it would have to be a push-of-war. That's the way they did it in the "old days."
Rusty
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
Originally Posted by david1:
Actually, it would have to be a push-of-war. That's the way they did it in the "old days."
Rusty
Rusty,
Yes you are correct, must have been a senior moment,
Dave
Too funny!
I can admit to being a foamer, started way back as a kid when with my Dad playing semipro baseball at Vigus, MO, on Sunday afternoons, the Rock Island train came along the 3rd base line.
Who knew, the sights I've seen across America and foriegn soil, (thanks to the Missouri Air National Guard). And 38+ years and counting on the railroad,MoPac, now UP. It was great being a hostler at the Ewing Ave diesel shop, I could spot locomotives for roster shots. Even worked to get foriegn power on the point of some of the trains, the best being a grey & yellow Clinchfield SD40 on the point of 3 UP SD's on a Labadie coal train set, later that set showed up on the point of a iron ore train out of southern Missouri.
I don't do much railfanning now, gas is a big expense, and no tme, but I still grab a few images in the St. Louis area.
I was just looking thru some slides, at the away from home terminal yesterday, brings back a lot of memories, railroads gone and new railroads replacing some.
As the top paragrah states, the Rock Island is no more, a shortline has replaced the Rock on about 50 miles of it's St. Louis-KC line, and the ball field at Vigus is no more!
Dan
That is very creative and well done. As someone who's spent a significant portion of his life in pursuit of this stuff, I laughed my rear end off.
Funny video.
I don't foam at the mouth, but when I hear a diesel horn or steam whistle, I get the urge to migrate in response to the "Call of the Wild."
Got "fence flies" around Union Station in Durand.
RABIES?? 
...keep the rails polished...
Originally Posted by Charly:
Got "fence flies" around Union Station in Durand.
I like that term. I also resemble it. 
Very funny!
The really funny thing about this whole discussion is, how the term "Foamer" REALLY began.
It all started in the eastern U.S. during the late 1960s, by a fellow named Davie Levine, who came up with the acronym:
F = Far
O = OUT
M = Mentally
I = Incompetent
T = Train
E = Enthusiast
The therm FOMITE was then spread around the U.S. by the American Freedom Train Crew, during 1975 thru 1977 tour, and was eventually "slurred into" the derogatory term "Foamer".
Spell check didn't catch incorrect funny!
Loved that audio track ... 
Yeah...not really.
The really funning (funny) thing about this whole discussion is, how the term "Foamer" REALLY began.
MUEagle, thanks for posting...this was pretty funny.
Originally Posted by DominicMazoch:
The only former I want to see is a head on top of a recently poured beer.
My favorite beer is by A&W, but I have been known to drink others.
Thats funny....thnx.
Now here's another Youtube Foamer video....
