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My hometown was not far from where our young railfan lives, and after the demise of the New Haven railroad I didn't have anyplace to hang out and watch trains.  The local NH employees all disappeared.  So did the sidings and the interlocking tower....But what I did do was become a member of a museum.  (I was an Associate Member of the Branford Electric Railway Association at age 13.) There were a lot of railroad employees that hung around there (and appreciated the fact that a 13 year old could hit places with a handful of grease they couldn't hit.) I'm 51 now, and the gas prices are pretty rough on me, too.  But I do still belong to a few museums, and the railroad employees are still there.  The people are what make the railroad run- and I have made a few connections with folks through museums that enable me to make productive railfan trips with camera in hand.When they are on the job, the guys I know are very concerned about safety issues, and they should be.  Once they believe that I understand about things like trespassing, job rules, and things like that, they have been pretty good about letting me nose around.  I'm never going to do anything to endanger their jobs, or my sorry hide.  But I got my start on railfanning by becoming a museum member.My folks were not real railfans, either, but they were a lot more amenable to my spending a Saturday at the trolley museum than hanging around the Shoreline division of the NHRR.  (Actually, my mother was less enthused about my new hobby after a day of greasing trolley trucks... she had to wash the clothes!).That's just a suggestion for you.  A museum might not be cutting edge technology, but you at least get a chance for hands on working with 1:1 scale stuff.Erik
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