Any rail fans?

[texaskdog]

Never understood my love for roads or trains, but to me they are somewhat related.  Wondering how many others share a love for trains?  I had a train set when I was 18 and just got a new one for Christmas, and love going to train museums and riding on trains, such as the Durango-Silverton.

[Brian556]

I am one, too.

[Dr Frankenstein]

*raises hand* Hello from the country that has an EMD F40 on their newest issue of $10 notes.

[Molandfreak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycRAGsVM-Pk

I guess you could say I'm a rail fan now 

[NE2]

Fan of the infrastructure, not the vehicles. Just like roads.

[andrewkbrown]

I like long stretches of road that parallel railroad tracks, along with railroad crossings; old crossings, abandoned crossings, unusual crossings.

And I can never go over a crossing without slowing down and taking a quick glance to the left and right just to see if the bright, cycloptic headlight of an approaching train can be seen in the distance. 

[Duke87]

The mass transit section of this forum isn't there for nothing.

I have a pseudo-competition with my sister to see how many different cities each of us can ride the subway (or light rail) in. Currently we're tied at 13 each.

Of course, I have four cities (New York, Toronto, Montreal, Detroit) completely clinched, whereas she can't say that about any.

[NE2]

The mass transit section of this forum isn't there for nothing.

It's there so CP can post news articles.

[US81]

I like long stretches of road that parallel railroad tracks, along with railroad crossings; old crossings, abandoned crossings, unusual crossings.

And I can never go over a crossing without slowing down and taking a quick glance to the left and right just to see if the bright, cycloptic headlight of an approaching train can be seen in the distance.

Seconded.

I rode Amtrak for the first time several months ago. Thought it would be an amusing, but brought plenty of reading material. Never even took a book out of my duffle.  I had not expected to find so much road-geek fun - evidence of old alignments invisible from the newer road, and the old / abandoned / unusual road crossings. Water crossings were a great opportunity to see old or abandoned bridges or the remnants of bridges.

[Dr Frankenstein]

True words, US81. I took the Adirondack a year ago and I basically sat down in the Café car and looked out of the window for almost the entire duration of the 10-hour trip.

In fact, I've been wanting to go to a roadgeek meet by train. I almost did it for Richmond last year, but I had roads to clinch.

It's a shame that so many people take the bus instead of the train.

[Rick Powell]

I worked on the original construction of an interstate highway, as well as a rail transit extension, by the time I was 21.  My dad was a railroader who turned into a highway guy; his side of the family has railroad roots going back to the 1800's.  My great grandfather (Bill Hadaway) and John Luther "Casey" Jones were co-workers and friends in the same BLE Lodge of the Illinois Central RR in Jackson, TN, and died in separate train wrecks just a few years apart in the early 1900's.       

[ghYHZ]

*raises hand* Hello from the country that has an EMD F40 on their newest issue of $10 notes.

Me too!.......and here's that new $10 Bill:





And have you seen the new Canadian Passports:

http://www.ppt.gc.ca/eppt/photos.aspx?lang=eng#sp4

Page 10 > 11: Driving the Last Spike on the CPR
Page 14 > 15: A Prairie Grain Train
Page 24 > 25: The CPR's Chateau Frontenac Hotel

[NE2]

This should not have been moved to mass transit.

[DaBigE]

This should not have been moved to mass transit.

Agreed. I'm a rail fan too, but like most I know, I'm a freight rail fan.

[spmkam]

I am huge fan of commuter rail and subway systems

[Alps]

This should not have been moved to mass transit.

Agreed. Not only because rail fans are often freight rail fans, but because this is about the people, not the transportation.

[thenetwork]

This should not have been moved to mass transit.

Agreed. Not only because rail fans are often freight rail fans, but because this is about the people, not the transportation.

And that discussions about (mostly freight) railroad crossings & bridges get to stay in the general road forums.

[stormwatch7721]

I'm interested in the rail signal system in which tells a train to stop or slow down.

[DaBigE]

This should not have been moved to mass transit.

Agreed. Not only because rail fans are often freight rail fans, but because this is about the people, not the transportation.

And that discussions about (mostly freight) railroad crossings & bridges get to stay in the general road forums.

Maybe it's time for a Rail discussion board, with childs consisting of passenger, freight, and infrastructure (signal systems, crossings, bridges, etc.). Or would that be getting too far off of the road theme of the overall site?

[ghYHZ]

This should not have been moved to mass transit.

Agreed. Not only because rail fans are often freight rail fans, but because this is about the people, not the transportation.

And that discussions about (mostly freight) railroad crossings & bridges get to stay in the general road forums.

Maybe it's time for a Rail discussion board, with childs consisting of passenger, freight, and infrastructure (signal systems, crossings, bridges, etc.). Or would that be getting too far off of the road theme of the overall site?

Why not an "All Transportation"  thread?......Sure there's Airliners.net and Railroad.net out there but it would be nice to keep it in our own community.

(One of my interests is Ferries and they're semi road related)

[texaskdog]

It's funny, I'm on an alternate reality board and I rarely use it because no one knows how to group anything, and I'm always glad our site here does.