http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RhYXNwvcl6A
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I have met the person filming this video at West Chicago, he suffers from autism. Please keep this in mind when commenting on his actions from the video.
Kinda cool that a locomotive can make someone that happy.
I can just about remember when I too saw them as artifacts instead viewing them as tools.
Apparently he’s been to New York too. Yahoo! has picked up on him… an internet sensation is born.
Excited Train Guy in Yahoo article.
Direct link to Excited Train Guy at Saratoga and North Creek Rwy
June 2009 UP ran an Operation Lifesaver Train here in Western Colorado with UP 1989
That is a really nice Paint Job !
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Note my Avatar Pic …
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Steve
In this day and age, and given the shape the world we live in is in…I am happy to see somebody (ANYBODY!!!) get excited and find pleasure in something as harmless as UP1989. If only more people in our world would find pleasure and happiness in life’s simple things.
Why aren’t the gates down and the warning lights flashing?
The gates are not down because that set of crossing gates are for a cross track. Look at the video at 4:12 and you will see the diamond of the crossing track.
Steve
I think that young mans youthful enthusiasm and high-spiritedness is wonderful! A few more years of living and I’m SURE he’ll realize you save that over-the-top reaction for STEAM runbys!
That excited guy at the S&NC is their general manager, doing a parody of the first video. Look at all the advertising he’s getting. Free. Even news programs have picked it up.
Not to mention the fact that we of the railfan community are now more than ever to be regarded by the general public as a bunch of loonies.
…That really is a nice attractive paint job…{design}. And nice photographs of it.
Mclaren cars LTD of England built 106 really fast cars in the early to mid 90s called the “Mclaren F1”. I have been a huge fan of the car. I guess they now sell used for between 3 and 5 million each. About 4 years ago I heard of one being owned by an unspecified person in the Twin Cities west metro area. I could imagine I might pee my pants if I ever do see on in person, though nothing in my adult life has so far caused me to have such an embarrassing event.
I’m told that one of the characteristics of people with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism…something with which I was also diagnosed) is an affinity for trains and other such big stuff. When I was about this guy’s age and treated to something I hadn’t really seen that much of before, I had a similar reaction, though slightly more reserved. Although he sounds 'way over the top to me, I can identify…
Even now, after decades of adjusting to the outside world, I’m capable of doing and saying things that don’t fit in with accepted norms. I think I’ve done a good job, though, of making a potentially debilitating disease work in my favor, though. Fortunately, autism and related disorders are spectrum disorders, affecting different people to different degrees. Not everyone is as lucky as I’ve been to have only a mild manifestation of it.
I haven’t taken the test but my doctor thinks that I too have a little bit of aspergers syndrome. I have read about it and I have a lot of its traits. My doctor also mentioned that about half of the mechanical engineers that you test would show up with it too. I wouldn’t call it a disease. I just think it is part of society and the great creator wanted there to be engineers in this world, so he created “us”. I myself have the mind of a mechanical engineer. What I hate about it is being so socially ackward, perpetually singe and getting a date a rare occaison at age 45. In school I was often asked out but wasn’t allowed by my extremely strict mother and the extremely strict church we went to at that time.
I pity normal people.
It must suck. I mean, a normal person wouldn’t think of stuff like this:
[#offtopic] Maybe??
Folks, forgive me as I stray out into the rough for a lost ball, or two.****[:^)]
Asperger’s Syndrome?