Is anyone embarrased about our hobby?

[Anonymous]

I dont belive that we are embarrsed about our hobby i belive some of our fellow railfans give us a bad image. As a member of the railriad industry i know of many men who are into trains and love their jobs and their not embarresed but when there is work to be done you are a railroader first. The guys that dont pay attention and are always looking for something cool make everyone nervous because they are not focused on the task at hand and that can be dangerous as for the Non Railroad employed railfans most have class they keep their distance and stay safe and really go unnoticed by us train crews. What bugs us is when people are in a unsafe position. No one wants to see anyone get hurt and when cars are pulled right up to the mainline or someone is walking around a interlocking or driving on company roads in a working hump yard. It gives us a bad name. My point is if we stay back and have some class about it noone will notice noone will call the special agent and the non-railfan railroaders will give us more respect intsead of closing the window and calling the agent.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

QUOTE: Vic: ...At least I'm not obscesed with sports ..... or getting rabid foaming at the mouth when my team wins.....

Ooops, you saw me last October????? That's okay, being a Red Sox fan I only get to foam every 86 years. [swg]

Usually it's more embarrasing to admit that I'm a citizen of Red Sox Nation than it is to say that I'm a railfan/model railroader! [(-D]


Regards

Ed

I think we can grant Sox fans an amnesty for that year.....I was thinking more of the rabid foamer Lakers and Raiders fans out here on the West Coast, you know your dealing with a nutcase when they have 105 purple Lakers flags stuck onto thier car or a giant billboard size rear window logo decal on the back of their truck.[:o)]

[egmurphy]

QUOTE: Vic: ...At least I'm not obscesed with sports ..... or getting rabid foaming at the mouth when my team wins.....

Ooops, you saw me last October????? That's okay, being a Red Sox fan I only get to foam every 86 years. [swg]

Usually it's more embarrasing to admit that I'm a citizen of Red Sox Nation than it is to say that I'm a railfan/model railroader! [(-D]


Regards

Ed

[zardoz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by toyomantrains
Hey zardov- does the Infinite Improbability Drive ship have headlights? And if so- can you see the light when you turn them on??
Or do they turn into whales or maybe flowerpots [:D]

That's one of the "bugs" they're working on.

Plus they cannot figure out how to pay the crews. The wages (for some strange reason) are based on the mileage/hourly systems used on some railroads on Earth. But when the ship travels simultaneously through every point in the universe, it's impossible (or at least very improbable) to be able to figure travelled distance/time.

Of course, we all know time is an illusion (lunchtime doubly so).

[selector]

Have you ever told someone that you are into trains, or model trains, or 'toy' trains, and for the briefest instant their face lights up? You've seen it, haven't you! They cover it up quickly, though, and feign disdain, or adopt a slightly condescending demeanor for the benefit of others who might be looking on.

Cowards, every one.

Nope, I don't feel the slightest bit embarrassed about my hobby. If, after I've listened to another person talk at length about himself, and about how great his boat is, or how much he has made on the market, or how well her child is doing in school, or...you get it..., and they quickly move off when I begin to tell them that I enjoy building model train layouts, then **** 'em.

[Anonymous]

Go Gabe GO!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Nope! And no one has hassled me face to face, either. But those people fall into two groups - either they are interested in any information I can give them, or they look at me like I am talking about spaceships!

So....what's wrong with spaceships? I use one each time I have to return to my home planet to give a progress report on the downfall of humanity. The ships have the newer tri-warp power generators, enabling it to cross over into the fifth dimension for quicker travel. I can get home in just under 30 kelgars (about 8 earth-days). Not too bad for a mere reporter! The leaders of our planet get to use the new quad-warp drives; this enables them to jump to the sixth dimension. They can really get around.

We are working on developing the Infinite Probability Drive; however, it is unlikely we will succeed. Too many weird thing happen during tests.

By the way, what you are thinking of me right now is sort of how my wife thinks of me when I tell her I am going out to "chase" trains. She just rolls her eyes, and accepts it, realizing I could have far more expensive, dangerous, or harmful hobbies.

Hey zardov- does the Infinite Improbability Drive ship have headlights? And if so- can you see the light when you turn them on??
Or do they turn into whales or maybe flowerpots [:D]

[UPTRAIN]

That happened to me once in Galesburg, IL...I wore a UP shirt! LOL j/k [;)]

[Bob-Fryml]

Originally posted by vsmith

At least I'm not obscesed with sports statistic's, player worship, or getting rabid foaming at the mouth when my team wins or loses, or throwing beer/seat/knive at another fan at a game who just happens to be wearing the other teams jersey.

Amen, brother. These brain dead, "ignorant, f@#k%&g morons" (a perjorative I learned decades ago from a railroad officer) who obsess about home teams, sports stats, and worship the crybabies who play their games need a life! The only worthwhile aspects of professional sports today are the scantily clad cheerleaders and sportswriter Frank DeFord's caustic, cryptic, vituperative, and sarcastic comments about organized athletics broadcast every Wednesday morning on National Public Radio.

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