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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Kathi Kube Jen et al, I have to agree; I don't know of any teenage female railfans. In fact, unless someone's been holding out on me, all my adult female friends who are railfans#8212;including myself#8212;found their passion for trains after taking a job that had something to do with railroading. But I contend that the exposure to railroading just awakened an interest that already was there. My teen daughters have little interest in trains, but one is interested in photography and the other has been known to stand beside me in a local restaurant's parking lot feeling the whoosh of air as a loaded CPR train heads toward Milwaukee. Maybe this is a latent tendency toward being a railfan later. Maybe not. Either way, teen girls aren't likely to just appear trackside. But if she likes a guy and he introduces her to railfanning, she might end up liking it herself. What about you older guys who are married or dating someone? Does your "significant other" share your passion? Understand it? Or just tolerate it? Kathi [/quote] I myself have yet to meet a girl my age who has even a passive interest in trains. I do agree that by gradually introducing your girlfriend to trains she could learn to like it. Speaking of such, here's a little story. A couple of years ago in school we were in groups doing some sort of a project that involved cutting pictures out of magazines. Someone in my group handed me one of those stupid teen girls' magazines because there was a picture of a train on one page. It turned out that there was a full-page article written by a teenage girl complaining about how she has to suffer because (get this) her father's a railfan! I very quickly skimmed the article. She mentioned that her father listens to albums like "Sounds of Steam" (what's wrong wit that?) and that whenever her family goes on a trip they plan out the route so that they drive by lots of railroads. Another thing mentioned was that they take Amtrak everywhere and that she's the only one in her class who has never been on a plane. To me that just says that her father has some class and knows how to travel in style. It's one thing to not have an interest in trains, but to rant and rave for a whole page about how there's something wrong with being a railfan? So what it he's a railfan? Is there something so bad about that? What if instead was a drunk, a drug addict, in prison or even dead? To me her father sounds like a great guy and not the geeky moron the article made him out to be. I feel sorry for the poor guy having to live with his daughter. As for the girl, well she definetly does not sound like anyone I would want to be my girlfriend.
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