We needed the switch keys and the torn two-sizes-too-small t-shirt with the ten year old mustard stains to complete the look...
Bob
Don't forget that some of the photographers are carrying $2,000 cameras around neck plus an expensive video camera.
Not unlike guys at train shows who look and smell like they live on the street and whip out a big wad of cash to buy an expensive locomotive.
Bob
CNJ 3676 posted:We needed the switch keys and the torn two-sizes-too-small t-shirt with the ten year old mustard stains to complete the look...
Bob
Bob...that pic says it all.....in the fire service they are called COO-COO buffs,and other titles....that being said all buffs are not crazy...just the few,unfortunately we all get painted with the same brush....joe
You should go to a gun show !
Experience has taught me any leisure pursuit will have its share of oddballs who participate. I see them on railroad outings, fishing trips and at sporting events to name a few.
Bob
CNJ 3676 posted:Experience has taught me any leisure pursuit will have its share of oddballs who participate. I see them on railroad outings, fishing trips and at sporting events to name a few.
Bob
Very true!
I certainly enjoy railfanning. If anything, watching and photographing 1:1 action helps drive my 1:48 passion. Like some have said, it's the few idiots that don't respect the right-of-ways and trespass that cast a dim light on the rest of us. Actually, there's been lots of stories of railroad employees liking some of the railfans hanging around. It helps deter some of the vandalism to their property.
Joe K. - I still like watching fire trucks too! 
Rob
One of the reasons I ended up spending my professional career in logistics is my interest in trains, trucks and ships. Now; I’ve always had to maintain a firewall of sorts between my professional responsibilities and my recreational interest in transportation so, very few people who know me professionally are aware of my recreational interest in “big things that move”.
I’ve been fortunate during my career though; to spend a considerable amount of time in locomotive cabs and on the bridge of ships so, the professional side has also played host to the recreational. 👍
Curt
CNJ 3676 posted:Experience has taught me any leisure pursuit will have its share of oddballs who participate. I see them on railroad outings, fishing trips and at sporting events to name a few.
Bob
Bob...the only thing that's new to me is...I didn't know Comic Book Guy was a rail fan....joe
robmcc posted:I certainly enjoy railfanning. If anything, watching and photographing 1:1 action helps drive my 1:48 passion. Like some have said, it's the few idiots that don't respect the right-of-ways and trespass that cast a dim light on the rest of us. Actually, there's been lots of stories of railroad employees liking some of the railfans hanging around. It helps deter some of the vandalism to their property.
Joe K. - I still like watching fire trucks too!
Rob
Exactly!! I keep CSX and NS toll free numbers (I got them off crossing signage) in case I spot something 'amiss' while I'm rail fanning... As with most things, a few idiots ruin things for the rest of us.. A friend of mine, now deceased, was an investigator for a major southeastern RR.. I found it hard to believe some of the stuff he told me that people do on/around railroad property.. Another friend, a retired CSX engineer, told me about some of the crazy/stupid stuff he'd seen while running freight trains....
robmcc posted:I certainly enjoy railfanning. If anything, watching and photographing 1:1 action helps drive my 1:48 passion. Like some have said, it's the few idiots that don't respect the right-of-ways and trespass that cast a dim light on the rest of us. Actually, there's been lots of stories of railroad employees liking some of the railfans hanging around. It helps deter some of the vandalism to their property.
Joe K. - I still like watching fire trucks too!
Rob
Thus my tagline.
The view from the other side....
CNJ 3676 posted:Experience has taught me any leisure pursuit will have its share of oddballs who participate. I see them on railroad outings, fishing trips and at sporting events to name a few.
Bob
Maybe even on O-gauge model railroad forums? 
Ooops!!! Did I type that out loud? 
juniata guy posted:One of the reasons I ended up spending my professional career in logistics is my interest in trains, trucks and ships. Now; I’ve always had to maintain a firewall of sorts between my professional responsibilities and my recreational interest in transportation so, very few people who know me professionally are aware of my recreational interest in “big things that move”.
I’ve been fortunate during my career though; to spend a considerable amount of time in locomotive cabs and on the bridge of ships so, the professional side has also played host to the recreational. 👍
Curt
Same here.
Maybe this will help, although I am not sure which side of the cab window it should be used.
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PRRMP54 posted:Maybe this will help, although I am not sure which side of the cab window it should be used.
Keep a can or two handy on BOTH sides of the cab!
Odorless kerosene acts as a foam suppressant. Just spray!
A old Santa Fe engineer told the club members a story about running a steam engine and seen a teenage boy about to throw a rock at him the cab of the steam engine, he open the boiler clean out valve and the teenage boy was last seen tumbling head over heels backwards. No calls to the railroad and also no more boys with rocks in that area.
CNJ 3676 posted:Not unlike guys at train shows who look and smell like they live on the street and whip out a big wad of cash to buy an expensive locomotive.
Bob
Or the opposite, the guy is wearing $3000 worth of clothes and haggles over a dollar on a $3.00 item.
