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wabash1, First of all I didn't just "show up" as you put it at the train yard. I was invited to come there on that particular day by the employee who works there who completely knew the risks of letting me come to the yard. This event was not planned around the "trainmaster" (he called him his boss*, so that's why I decided to refer to him as the boss and used it more as a figure of speech, but since you are the expert and want to be technical about it...) not being there on that particular day. I only learned once I had arrived there that the boss' wife had passed away earlier that week and he hadn't been there for the past few days. The employee said that he might possibly show up later that day. I questioned him about his boss coming and if the both of us wouldn't get in trouble for my being there, but he wasn't concerned about it. The man was still nice enough to walk me out and let me take a look at the engines idling in the yard. He climbed the steps up onto the front of a Dash 9 while I stood below watching what he was doing when he said, "what are you waiting for, come on up here." I was taken aback by not only getting into the yard to start with, but being allowed into the cab. I was even more surprised after that when he even let me take control and getting to run the locomotive back a few yards and then back forward. I also don't sit around and ponder why railroad employees won't let people onto railroad property or into the cabs. I understand why most don't let you do it is because of the risk involved, not only to everyone's safety, but for the risk of losing them losing their job. I've never just shown up at a yard and demanded to be let onto private property to look at the trains or asked for a cab ride while I was there. I would have never even been there on that day if the employee hadn't asked me to come so he could show me around. I questioned him about me being there after seeing all of the "No Trespassing" signs (before there was even mention of his boss) as I came in and if it would be okay, but he said not to worry about it and that it would be alright for me to be there. This was before I had even crossed a single track. So, before you start preaching to me about railroad operations and regulations get the facts straight about what happened. I only wish you had been there wabash1 to tell me that I might have lost him his job since I was forcing him to allow me to stay on the property and for me to get in the cab, and since he had absolutely nothing to do with it at all. And by all means, don't let me onto your engine; I'm sure I would lose you your job somehow, and we can't have that now, can we? *boss - [ bawss, boss ] noun (plural boss·es) 1. somebody in charge: somebody who is in charge of others, especially in a work environment
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