(I am too poor to pay attention, so you will have to help me!)
Do trains like Amtrak have a special whistle for depots?
Do people own their own caboose and have it transported by the railroads?
And…without getting too graphic, can you tell me what you do while you watch trains - besides take pictures.
(Have an older, but not much any more, gentleman that watches all the time at the same place we do - he seems to keep a log or notes of what goes by. Why?)
Mookie
Yo, Mook!
Ha! I’m the first one to read this!
I’m good at paying attention, but right now I’m too lazy to write, so I’ll just say hi Mookie and hi everyone on the forum, just keep on posting, you’re all very interesting and fun, especially when no one gets angry.
And thanks Mook for sharing your week-end tainwatching with us - I’m sure everybody would be even happier if you gave us more details.
BEST regards,
Oliver
explain to matt what the diffrent cars are and have a swig of pop and eat some doritos or other chips.
the guy might be logging the train # or what kind of train to make a homemade timetable. there still is a hot intermodal out of Chicago that comes through Defiance about 11 am
stay safe
Joe
(I am too poor to pay attention, so you will have to help me!)
Yo!? Oh, come on!
Do trains like Amtrak have a special whistle for depots?
Not that I’ve ever heard. They use the standard signals.
Do people own their own caboose and have it transported by the railroads?
Passenger cars, yes, but I’ve never heard of a caboose being transported with passengers on a main line run if that is what you meant. Do people buy a caboose and have it transported for them by a railroad? Sometimes, if the trucks/wheels meet current standards, otherwise it would have to be on a flatcar.
And…without getting too graphic, can you tell me what you do while you watch trains - besides take pictures.
Wait and listen to the scanner for the next train.
(Have an older, but not much any more, gentleman that watches all the time at the same place we do - he seems to keep a log or notes of what goes by. Why?)
Why not? Aren’t you interested in the type of locomotives, their numbers and the various cars in the consist? He can probably tell you with authority about the changes in railroads over the years that he has been watching. Why don’t you ask him what he is recording. I record locos and special equipment, when, and where. Don’t you?
Mookie-
While waiting for trains, I like to read, meditate, or nap. I keep the scanner on to alert me when a train is approaching. I also keep the windows open a bit so I can hear the train whistles.
I like spots that are on lonely country roads that have great views of the tracks, where I can park about 200 yards away, so I can get more scenery into my photos.
Well, Kiddo, I’m a bit of a freight-car historian. So I’m usually kept busy for the entire time a train’s going by, making notes on lessees and commodities transported in private cars (nothing sinister…it’s all out in the open!), former owners (and sometimes the former numbers, when I’m lucky) of various cars, and roster-type information (builder, date, capacity, description) on new equipment.
This explains why I’m willing to bike the six miles or so to Elmhurst (where the trains move more slowly) than just go the six blocks or so to the nearest crossing.
I have seen a porn video shot at my favorite train watching location…I had the police in their faster than an Acela doing 150.5 MPH
Talk about paying attenTION. [:D] [:D] [:D]
I think I saw that one…It was called “The Night Train to Paris …Hilton”[}:)][;)]
Me too. Locomotive sex is…well, interesting. Remember, all crews are not male…lol…
LC
Mook-
No
No, Private Varnish (passenger cars) are out there, but no railroad I know of allows cabooses, only exception is military moves and some high/wide shipments that need watching.
I run trains while watching and watch trains while running…
LC
Let me see if I’ve got this all figured out now:
Guys waving at trains go to jail. [:(]
Girls flashing trains… get an extra long toot from the engineer? [:0]
(I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised [;)])
Brrr - good thing the Mookie wears a big fur coat - it just got a lot chillier in here! [B)] Thank you for your input.
I don’t take pictures, don’t write down anything except questions that I want answers to, and maybe read the newspaper or a catalogue - but not much, since where I watch there is a steady stream of traffic. Don’t need a scanner - there is always something coming or going! Brother Carl keeps records, which was where I got the idea in the first place that some of the watchers do record whatever they find interest
And as for the rest of you - well, lunch today was more fun than yesterday’s!
Mookie
I read while waiting for the next train and I write in a notebook what I"ve taken a picture of to put the slides in some form of order later.During visits to some busier places,(like Joliet Union Station in Sept. 2003),I’ve shot up to four 36-exposure rolls of K64 film.A notebook is almost a neccessity to keep track of what came by.Good luck & stay safe.
Actually Mook he’s the psycholgist from your HMO. Your strange behavior at work… giggling to yourself, groaning and talking to the computer screen has finally been noticed by your employer. He’s there taking notes on you.[;)]
As far as private cabooses go, you can buy one online. Chack out:
www.cabooses4sale.com
www.railmerchants.net
www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com
I actually could have got a real caboose on ebay for $10 once, but it really wouldn’t have been so cheap if you count the shipping.
I know this isn’t quite what you were think of, Mookie, but I know the Algoma Central will charter a special caboose for people and drop it off on a siding in the wilderness for a week so they can go camping there.
[8D]Heres Another WWW.Im Selling UP For 2.5 Million & CN For 1.5 million
To The Same guy.Com Its His Fault If He Buys Them I Gave Him The Golden Gate Bridge Free (Brooklyn Bridge Has Had To Many Owners).
[}:)] AC/DC Rulz [}:)]
I know of a man who lives near here who restored an ex-ICG caboose for someone, and he had it transported to somewhere south of Shreveport, LA so it could be moved to the banks of Toledo Bend Reservoir as a camp. But, as everyone else has stated, the caboose left Ruston, LA with noone aboard.
dharhmon[?]
porn videos[?]
Darn! Tell me where they were,
I’ll go visit
locomutt[8D]