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I think some railfans think it's all pretty good as they are usually trackside when it's nice and sunny and they are tucked up in there beds at night. I've made a lot of friends who are railroaders, dispatchers, engineers & brakemen. I would say that the dispatchers have got the cushiest job sitting in a room(apologies to any dispatchers reading this) I've been for cab rides many times and most of them have been great but a few haven't been, sitting in a cab for 2 hours waiting for an opposing train to make it up the grade in the rain, a ten hour run from three in the afternoon to 1am(though that one was fun too!) and having the overhead power go off and having to wait in a quickly chilling cab for it to come back on. I watched brakeman from the comfort(?) of a wooden seat on the depot platform while they switch cars in the pouring rain with a high wind blowing trying to keep their switch list dry. My father worked for the railway before he got the letter and I remember either listening to him coming home or leaving to go to work when it was pouring with rain or in the middle of winter when the tempeture would be below zero being thankful that I was in bed and not out there. I think why railroads don't like to employ railfans is the majority probably think that it is a cushy job sitting down all day working a few levers back and forth(if you're an engineer). I have not been employed by the railroad but through my friends and my father I know it's all not fun and games. Adrian New Zealand
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