I was talking to some of my friends last night and they were telling me about being on a train and going underneath a bridge only to see some people off to the side (guess what was going on).
I can’t say I have seen this before but it probably does happen particularly after dark.
Has anybody had the same experience. Maybe they should put censors on with the train crews.
nothing quite that…startling…however on a passenger trip many years ago…several rafters on the Colorado river graciously “mooned” the CZ as it went by.
After they decided to show off their skills like that, they were so busy keeping the train in “sight” that their didn’t see the rough water; raft hit a rock or something and flipped over. Truly catching them with their “pants down.” It certainly taught them to mess with Amtrak.
Well, I thought this topic might be more interesting than it is…
What, exactly, would the “censors” do? Hahaha.
I’m glad this never happened to me because a couple of times I have taken my younger cousin on the train. Sometimes going underneath some of the bridges particularly in Hamilton, he has asked me why there is a matress there and I just have to blush and change the subject.
I’ve snuck up on couples with freight locomotives. Got quite an eyeful a few times too.
Naturally I stopped !!!
Randy
Well…I can remember some trips, on no. 40 riding to NYC, in the '70s that could have been so rated. I’ve seen that a number of times over the years. Including stopping at a station where the engine pulls way up towards a parking lot, late at night, with a 6 car consist while only using the rear car. There they are, right where ya spotted the train.
There’s an old story told to me by a senior South Shore Line engineman many years ago. The South Shore Line coach yard and terminal, until just a few years ago, was in the open, slightly lower than, and adjacent to, Grant Park, in Chicago. In the era of WWII, in typical interurban fashion, the headlights were detachable from the front of the cars because they were multiple units. Grant Park had some huge ventilators that were very close to the edge that bordered the park. This afforded a bit of privacy from the park and Michigan Avenue. A lot of men would be in town on liberty from Great Lakes and it seems they would take their new-found friends to Grant Park. Since they would be going off to war soon, they would need this privacy to make their farewell statements. After 8pm all would be dark in these little corners with nothing but very dim lights coming from the South Shore Line’s platforms. Clever carmen in need of entertainment would perform a dirty stunt. They would take a motor car and trailer, with the trailer on the north end. Turn all the lights out on the train and slowly, and quietly move the cars to the throat of the terminal with out the air hoses made. They would give the trailer a little kick so it would roll in silence back towards the terminal. One carman would remove the headlight from the train door and hold it in the optimum position. At the appropriate moment the other carmen would flip the headlight switch on in the cab and they would have a searchlight. As the lucky couples would jump up and scramble for their clothing the carmen would sing “Moon Over Miami” at the top of their lungs.
Gee…I miss railroading.
Mi
Free porn? Is this some kind of new benefit package that management is offering in the contracts?[:D][:D]
There is a bar in Orange County where the patrons moon the passengers in the passing Surfliners. I don’t know how often this happens.
What a gentleman!!!
Don’t want to spoil the surprise, but check out the November Trains. The article will remind you of the title on a famous Ansel Adams photo.
Mitch-
Way back in the spring of 1958, I was 18, finishing my first year at IIT, had a conection and got on the IC’s suburban service as a trainman. Your SS stories have started to remind me of some of the stories I heard. Since this is a family forum, I’ll just to have to leave most of them fade back in my memory. Don’t want Ed Blysard on MY case.
Jay
i remember reading in TRAINS a long time ago about a similar instance. A couple of teenage lovers [:X] were doin it in a car under an overpass right next to the tracks. When the train approached the car, the engineer gave a little toot of the whistle [:O] and the couple sure peeled on out of their!
I have heard that some of the crews and track inspectors shout out to them to get a room.
So Randy, how does one sneak up on a couple with a freight locomotive? [:)]
Coming home on Amtrak once, I was sitting in the cafe car talking to the the conductor who was doing paperwork as we rode along Lake Champlain. Riding near the water north of Port Henry, I believe, I spotted two girls waist deep in the water with their hands on their swimsuit tops, watching the train. “I wonder…” was all I said and as the conductor looked up and followed my gaze towards the lake, one of the two girls flashed the passing train. The conductor, smiled, said “I do love my job,” and went back to the papers on the table.
Not an X rated train, but it still makes me smile.
Wayne
I’ve had trains sneak up on me plenty of times, ( kept my clothes on ) . Trains can be very quiet, that how many people lose their lives.
Randy
I’ve seen that story on tv about the bar in orange county where once a year everybody goes out front, faces away from the tracks just before the train comes and pulls down their pants.
thier are a few places i know along the right of ways that are known parking spots… i carry a nice high powered flashlight with me on my runs…so at night i can get a looksee inside any cars that might be haveing some fun going on… also… in the summer along the rivers…its not unuseal to get flashed from some women on boats…
god bless america!!!
csx engineer
This may not technically qualify as X, but is in line with many of the posts so far: One of the more popular and famous nude beaches in Southern California is clearly visible from trains on the adjacent coast route…
I think it near San Luis Obispo…I have just heard about it though.
Months ago one of the forums members emailed me a pic of a group of people mooning the Amtrak train as it passed. I deleted the pic therefore I will not be posting it. [;)] [8D]
What about ON the trains. I rode the SW Chief a year ago and it was like a meat market. A car attendant says this is common. They actually put someone off.