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I've been a RRer for 32 years, an Engineer for 26, and a Railfan for all my life (50 years). <br />I've been called all the above names but teh only one I have any distaste for is "BUFF" (or train Buff or Railroad Buff". I would like to say that the railroad employees who chose to BUFF-BASH are the ones that are really insecure about themselves in their jobs, and don't know enough about their industry to understand why it may hold some fascination to others. A generation ago, there were planty of railroaders who were NOT fans, but understood that there WERE admirers of their industry around, and many of them went out of their way to accomodate us. HECK, I know of a "foamer" who would set up a sign in advance of his photo location reading: "PHOTOGRAPHER-ONE MILE AHEAD". Many a steam locomotive engineer would see this sign and arrange to make extra smoke, thus creating a more dramatic photo! <br />The crop of people that RRs are hiring nowadays is just a new low in human TRASH. Human Rescource departments seem to go out of their way to hire people who do NOT have the railroad in their blood. Sadly, morale on the railroad suffers for it and is now down in the crapper. <br />This may or may not alighn with your thoughts, but I think it hurts like hell to see our wonderfull industry handed over to the current generation of clueless crapheads while all the good and dedicated men are all pretty much gone.
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