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>>Sorry to hear you lost your dad so young, it make things hard.<< Yeah, it was a shame. In many ways it was probably easier on me at age 7, than it would have been at age 12+. At 7 yrs old you really don't understand life's thornier realities. I just had him up on a pedestal by that time, none of the traditional father/son squabbles over forging me into the kinda young man he always wish he coulda turned out to be,..etc,.. never happened.. He was in all aspects a total hero figure in my eye, and most friends I've talked it through with are quick to point out that much of that would likely have changed once it became more important to him to make me the kinda son he could be proud of,...etc....probably some truth to that. But, on the "Trespassing entrapment" debate,.....I have to wonder what all Previous history would have to be a part of it all, to get a rational person to be of a mind to see Railroads as having time, interest, and/or motivation to actually play such mind games in the first place. More likely, the railroadshave better things to focus resources on than merely endulging the fantasy's of the "Richard Kimble wannabe's" all across this land with a game of cat and mouse? I may not be the best example, since my railway trampin' spells tend to go in spurts, ..6-8 years can go by without me even feeling the "itch",...then , for no good reason I'll get the bug, spend all my spare time in a week hiking through some obscure industrial district, see the new paint schemes, marvel at some ancient fallen flag boxcar still in original paint, and evidently, still in revenue service, and simply muse over how the way rails on active sidings are shiny, while those on dormant sidings have the tell tale powder rust coat,..etc and then I'm good for another good 7 years... Hard to imagine the railroads even knowing I'm there, let alone "laying in wait" for me. Course,...I do tend to get a might cautious whenever I see some stranger at work taking pictures, with no explanation....first thought is always "someones lawyer is getting ready to sue us, this must be another "slip and fall" litigation in the making" Forcing even me to become impatient, if not anti social,... substituting a hostile, "What do you think you're doing with that camera? BEAT IT or I'm calling a cop!!" for the more normal "you must be lost,..huh?" when finding folks where they don't belong,..in my place of work... By the same token,...if I were to look out my back window at home and see some stranger walking through my back yard, who minded his own business, had a destination, and kept headed towards it,...I can't see much use in assuring that a confrontation festers up,... But, if the same guy is waltzing through 2-3 times a week and I notice that my reddest and plumpest ripe tomatoes are disappearing out of my garden before I can get to 'em,....yeah,...*that* guy is likely to start feeling "entrapped" in short order...(what kinda sicko hides out in his house all day watching innocent people who are lost suddenly confuse some garden for their own pantry,..anyway, just to "entrap" them? =-) And I suspect some thing similar must be at work behind the scenes in order for someone to feel too "targeted" by railroad trolls hiding under bridges. Any Rail Law I have ever run into, has been mostly delighted with my polite agreement to leave as requested, at once,..and to not return,, etc. And simply escorted me 'out of harms way" in doing their jobs. Of course, I guess it does take some smarts to realize you need to not return to such area's, for quite some time,..lest you MAY end up feeling the wrath,....but that's HARDLY entrapment,..now is it? Bottom line,..if it "feels" like entrapment to the foamer,.. there is most likely more to the story than they are letting on,...perhaps a GREAT deal more..
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