Chicago Tribune on Railfanning

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ironhorseman

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From: Memory Lane, on the sunny side of the street.
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Posted by ironhorseman on Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:24 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

Good morning, just thought you all might want to know that the Chicago Tribune newspaper will be having a feature article in the Transportation section of this Sundays paper on Railfannaing..the who, where, why, etc. I know I am looking forward to reading why I am such a railfan (along with all of you). Hope you can read it with me. Jim

Wait ... Wait ... Wait ...

They're gonna tell us WHY we, us, the railfan, like trains? [%-)]

Does the Tribune put their articles online? If so, could you make that link available when and if it does become available?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I reject the idea of someone else telling me why I like something.

I've been working on a list of reasons of why I like trains because recently I've been having non-train fans asking me why or what is so facintating about trains. I really don't have an answer for them. I figure my answer goes back to early childhood days. But that's only part of it. That only explains how I go interested. The reasons why I'm still interested in trains today and continue to be are different than from in the beginning, and still the same, in a way.

I guess I'll have to hurry and get my thoughts organized and post them here before Sunday so as to show the Tribune article was not an influence on reasoning.

But my prediction: newspapers are very good at misquoting people and if the Tribune is like any other newspaper they'll only confuse or mislead non-railfans as to the real reasons why us railfans are really railfans. However, on the contrary, the Tribune did have the good sence to put Trains Magazine on the list of best 50 magazines. [:)]

I guess we'll see...

yad sdrawkcab s'ti

techguy57

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August 2003
From: NW Chicago
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Posted by techguy57 on Thursday, January 8, 2004 10:51 AM

Just as long as we aren't in the police reports either.[:p] I guess I'll have to buy a paper on Sunday.

Mike

techguy "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you suck forever." - Anonymous

zardoz

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January 2003
From: Kenosha, WI
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Posted by zardoz on Thursday, January 8, 2004 10:18 AM

Be thankful we didn't make the comics page! [:D]

CShaveRR

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From: Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, January 8, 2004 10:07 AM

Oh, darn! I was hoping we'd make the high-society page of the Magazine.

Carl

Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)

CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)

eolafan

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December 2001
From: Aurora, IL
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Chicago Tribune on Railfanning

Posted by eolafan on Thursday, January 8, 2004 8:20 AM

Good morning, just thought you all might want to know that the Chicago Tribune newspaper will be having a feature article in the Transportation section of this Sundays paper on Railfannaing..the who, where, why, etc. I know I am looking forward to reading why I am such a railfan (along with all of you). Hope you can read it with me. Jim

Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)