When reading this editorial in the January issue, several items struck a chord with me, and I was just wondering if the same could be said for some of the rest of you? Some hit the nail pretty squarely on the head,while others seemed to veer a bit. A synopsis follows for reference: (my thoughts in green immediately after each bullet)
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Get off your rear ends- get out and experience the hobby first hand (excellent advice! sitting and reading second hand accounts only goes so far, and very little can compare to real world exposure)
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Be better informed-get a scanner & some timetables (excellent advice once again!! it ALWAYS pays to be more informed as opposed to less, and following the tips he offers here provide the best guideline to what this hobby offers)
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Shut up,-no one cares about your personal opinions ( well, I’d sure like to thank Fred for sharing his opinion here, obviously there are some very real perils when one chooses to talk in terms of absolutes)
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Leave your camera at home, -our interests in the hobby should be deeper than our slide collection (here’s one that I’ll bet left some of you feeling betrayed? But he touches on an area that I have often wondered about. You go to these online RR picture galleries, and see that the same guy has been going to the same spot, and taking the same pictures, FOR DECADES!! with very little, if anything, different from picture to picture except perhaps the numbers on the Locomotive numberboards, and the size of the trees in the background. Makes you wonder sometimes how the first 10 SD40-2’s&n