As the title says, I was wondering what everybody's favorite part of railroads are. I know some people might like the railroads themselves, or going out to actually watch trains. Personally, my favorite part is getting into the nitty-gritty details and inner workings of locomotives, especially steam locomotives. What's your favorite part?
What's your favorite part of railroading/trains?
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sitting at the railroad crossing and watching a massive steam engine hauling a train,just think of the expressions on the faces of railfans if that still happened!
I wish.
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I love basicly every asspect of railroading that doenst involve paper work. I would rather take a job in the cab and a lower pay than at a desk. I love the human aspect. Finding out that even today with all our lawsuits and such, people are still willing to be nice a railfan and show them around a railyard, of even ride in the cab of a switch engine in said yard. Its always nice to see when a steam engine runs. No matter what size. It is realy amazing when a 1940s 4-8-4 comes pounding down the rails in a place that usualy curses at the railroads for their delays and watching those people's coffoe (cant spell) cups break open from the vibration from having their car right at the gate. I like railfanning of it. Going out with my camera on a day with cool effects, sunny, rainy, snowy, foggy, is what I consider a good day. It is cool to see what is new on the railroads, and the reminants of eras past go by in uniformity has it has for the last 30 odd years. When it is to bad to go outside, or nothing is running, there is the other part of railroading. Model. For me? Ho. With more and more advancements, it is easier for someone of my age in the era to get a small glimpse of what it was like in the past. If I dont feel like that, I love to watch old railroad videos. I think of it as what I would be doing if I lived in that era, and I use them to get Ideas of what to shoot and where. Also, to see what an area used to be.
So yea, that is what I got. Call me what you will, I love trains.
I love basicly every asspect of railroading that doenst involve paper work. I would rather take a job in the cab and a lower pay than at a desk. I love the human aspect. Finding out that even today with all our lawsuits and such, people are still willing to be nice a railfan and show them around a railyard, of even ride in the cab of a switch engine in said yard. Its always nice to see when a steam engine runs. No matter what size. It is realy amazing when a 1940s 4-8-4 comes pounding down the rails in a place that usualy curses at the railroads for their delays and watching those people's coffoe (cant spell) cups break open from the vibration from having their car right at the gate. I like railfanning of it. Going out with my camera on a day with cool effects, sunny, rainy, snowy, foggy, is what I consider a good day. It is cool to see what is new on the railroads, and the reminants of eras past go by in uniformity has it has for the last 30 odd years. When it is to bad to go outside, or nothing is running, there is the other part of railroading. Model. For me? Ho. With more and more advancements, it is easier for someone of my age in the era to get a small glimpse of what it was like in the past. If I dont feel like that, I love to watch old railroad videos. I think of it as what I would be doing if I lived in that era, and I use them to get Ideas of what to shoot and where. Also, to see what an area used to be.
So yea, that is what I got. Call me what you will, I love trains.