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Ed, you are one of the most sensible posters here, so all I'm gonna do is elaborate on my own experiances. I respect RR property to the point where I wouldn't vandalize it, any more than I would want them to vandalize mine. Even going back to the days of open auto racks, there was just something very wrong with the thrills kids got trying to bust out windows etc with rocks, and I may have participated once or twice, till the "wrongness" overtook the thrill, and the prospect of shooting out signal lights just looked so wrong to begin with, it never held much any appeal. I attribute this to having a father who was never to busy to take whatever time necessary to explain right from wrong, no cupped hands nor hickory switches were necessary, he just explained facts in such a way you could put your feet into the shoes of the wouldbe victims. He died when I was only 7, but his lessons have lasted a lifetime. And I think it may be a great deal to do with the way I come across when confronted, I don't have a "you guys" mentality When I have confronted RR authority, I just simply explain my business eg "walking up to the county line road lookin at trains" and since I'm a good 20' off the rail, that's usually good enough to get waived on. I come across as sincere, which is probably no small part of my success. And the one thime I was harshly escorted to public lands, it was explained to me the RR had experianced a lot of theft from boxcars, which I had no involvement in but could understand where the RR was coming from. And I think the cop pretty much figured out I was a "nice guy" while we walked to the property line, hence no ride downtown. make any sense?
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