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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by overall Some advice to all of you; Master photography and take pictures when oppurtunities arise. The railroad world is changing all the time . What is common place today may be gone tomorrow. Be careful when railfanning in bad neighborhoods. Be aware of your surroundings and of who is there besides you. If something doesn't feel right,leave,right then,period. Overall [/quote] This is super good advice. When I was a teen my mother worked for Frisco. I never thought twice about Frisco not being around a long, long, time. It had a long history and I thought it WAS the railroad. Then one day it is gone--taken over by puck green. I never took pictures of the things that were common to me--our local side track where the passenger trains stopped, the semaphore signals, our "outhouse" depot shack, the engines, or the people. Now I wish I had taken pics of these things but can't, they just arn't there anymore. So go and take pictures now while you can, then you will have them even if they disappear. I had a friend who came down and visited me from up north. He was a teen at the time. We actually meet while he rode one of the steam excursions I volunteered on. He had a girlfriend in Texas so he would stop here on the way down to see her. One time on his way back he went to Memphis, Tennessee and railfanned there. It was late night / early morning while he was there. He told me later he had done this and I thought he was crazy. At night, by himself, a teen, and in a strange area. Thank God nothing happened to him. That bumb is a rr engineer now. But we have both moved and I have lost touch with him. Take all the pictures you want. But please be safe about it. (I want to see all the pics you take so email them to me. PLEASE) [:D]
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