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I guess this is the right plave to vent steam about the un-american article. Well, I have been shooting trains onthe Wast Coast since Oct 1974 (It was an Amtrak train 14 in Oxnard). I have been shooting them ever since. Got published in the local camera club too. My feelings about restricting photographs of trains is totally un-American and really stupid. I was in Cajon Pass near Hwy 138 when a SF past by pulling a mixed consist. My friend and I were watching from the road when we spotted smoke from the brush. This was about 8:30 pm and quite dark. I told my friend to wait and see if he can get some attention while I investegated the smoke. Sure enough, the traction motor blowers blew out some hot carbon and started a fire. I was there just in time to put out the fire totally. I carry a shovel just for this reason. I got back to the road where there were two SF cinder dicks asking what was I doing on their property. I said that I was putting out a fire that their train caused. They did not seem to be too apprecicative for the service a railfan gave them. THis was not the only time this has occurred either. In the summer where the brush is tinder dry, we helped the Forestry Service put out another fire that we found. We had a jump on it to a point that the Forestry Dept needed to just mop up what was left. They were gratefull for our help. Again this was on National Forest public property. THis message is not to pat us on the back, but to show that railfains can and do provide a service beyond photographing trains. Just as the other posts read, if a terrorist wanted to destroy anything, this country would be hard pressed to stop a determined terrorist. We must keep ever vigilant and we, as railfans, can perform this service without being forced to restrict out movements. I know there are railfans who take advantage of this but, by and large, the vast majority are good law-abiding citizens who love our country, but if this type of restrictions continue and the harrassment prevails than we are no better than the USSR and other countries that restrict their citizens by force. I will continue to photograph trains because it is my right to do so! <br />Bill Krause railfan-alcofan
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