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It seems like there's a couple things going on here. Some people are mad at the guy for tagging. Some think he's stupid for being on the tracks. We've had people on this forum admit to something similar to tagging as well as being on the tracks. Last night I was checking out railimages.com. Guess what I saw - pictures people took while on the tracks. (read my personal experience above, and you'll see why this horrifies me, just looking at the photos makes me kringe). This tagger did something generally considered mean and disrespectful, as well as something generally considered stupid. I think the two are combining to make it seem excusable make his death seem deserved or something to some people. I can understand that happening. I'd just like to urge everyone to reconsider - no harm, no foul. I know good people who've done both (disrespectful as well as stupid things). If I was standing face to face with anyone on this forum, I doubt you'd wish me dead because I made a stupid decision involving train tracks. If you've never done anything stupid, I'd be quite impressed. Similarly, I wouldn't call our fellow modeler who told his vandalism/arrest story above a loser for having done something stupid involving a rock and a window when he was a kid. Instead, I'd admire him for telling the story of how he learned from the mistake. Put the two of us together, and you have the dead guy. I mean this with all due respect to the other model railroader (not to mention I totally dig your modelling, and have many of the same modeling interests!!!). I'm glad I'm not dead. I also know I'm no better than the dead guy. I feel like an idiot sitting in an office at work with professionals telling my train encounter story - they normally look at me in disbelief, because I'm such a logical person. But I can also see them realizing how dangerous trains are, and I can tell they're realizing it for the first time. But I only tell the story because I know since I made such a poor decision, other intelligent people could do the same. We're all train geeks on this forum. We think we're so cool because we know so much about trains. Not everyone does, and I don't think we should laugh at them for dying because of that. P.S. here's one from memory - a picture in MR of the old student fare guy sitting on the railroad tracks with his HO engines. (Rick, if you're out there reading this, PLEASE don't consider this a jab, just an example of how the tracks often don't seem as dangerous as they are). I know I've gone on for too long here, but my first grade teacher's son was killed walking on the tracks. I felt like I disrespected her after my incident on the tracks. (I'm here hoping I've convinced others to stay off the tracks). OK - now I'm going on way too long - just today, a truck in front of me pulled onto the tracks at a red light, where he was actually trapped by other cars, and didn't even think twice about it. I was frankly terrified. I'm glad they're not dead. Everyone makes mistakes. Today none of my mistakes killed me. Hopefully tomorrow will go as well. I wi***he same for all of you. I've enjoyed this discussion. Now should my upcoming layout be DC or DCC?
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