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As an x railraoder of many years ago who worked as a switchman, brakeman, freight conductor and then up into engine services in the title of assistant engine men (engineer in training) all I have to say to "edblysard" and "zardos" is thank you, being that you speak for all who have worked in the railroad environment. I left and went back to school after almost six years of putting up with the elements. The bottom line is that most rail fans or others for that matter have no concept of what it is like to handle two, three, four or more locomotives with horsepower in the thosands and train weights that are beyond their grasp, let along the long hours of service and moving at slow speeds which all add to fatigue. Railroads today are a disaster waiting to happen, with all of the industrial automation that is out there railroads appear to be the slowest to react or utilize it. This will contiue to be the norm as long as taxpayer money pays for highway maintenance and railroads play on an uneven field.
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