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X rated passenger trains?!?
Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:15 PM
I was talking to some of my friends last night and they were telling me about being on a train and going underneath a bridge only to see some people off to the side (guess what was going on).

I can't say I have seen this before but it probably does happen particularly after dark.

Has anybody had the same experience. Maybe they should put censors on with the train crews.
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Posted by railman on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:21 PM
nothing quite that...startling...however on a passenger trip many years ago...several rafters on the Colorado river graciously "mooned" the CZ as it went by.

After they decided to show off their skills like that, they were so busy keeping the train in "sight" that their didn't see the rough water; raft hit a rock or something and flipped over. Truly catching them with their "pants down." It certainly taught them to mess with Amtrak.
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Posted by Nora on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:56 PM
Well, I thought this topic might be more interesting than it is...

What, exactly, would the "censors" do? Hahaha.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:02 PM
I'm glad this never happened to me because a couple of times I have taken my younger cousin on the train. Sometimes going underneath some of the bridges particularly in Hamilton, he has asked me why there is a matress there and I just have to blush and change the subject.
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Posted by Randy Stahl on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:08 PM
I've snuck up on couples with freight locomotives. Got quite an eyeful a few times too.
Naturally I stopped !!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:21 PM
Well...I can remember some trips, on no. 40 riding to NYC, in the '70s that could have been so rated. I've seen that a number of times over the years. Including stopping at a station where the engine pulls way up towards a parking lot, late at night, with a 6 car consist while only using the rear car. There they are, right where ya spotted the train.

There's an old story told to me by a senior South Shore Line engineman many years ago. The South Shore Line coach yard and terminal, until just a few years ago, was in the open, slightly lower than, and adjacent to, Grant Park, in Chicago. In the era of WWII, in typical interurban fashion, the headlights were detachable from the front of the cars because they were multiple units. Grant Park had some huge ventilators that were very close to the edge that bordered the park. This afforded a bit of privacy from the park and Michigan Avenue. A lot of men would be in town on liberty from Great Lakes and it seems they would take their new-found friends to Grant Park. Since they would be going off to war soon, they would need this privacy to make their farewell statements. After 8pm all would be dark in these little corners with nothing but very dim lights coming from the South Shore Line's platforms. Clever carmen in need of entertainment would perform a dirty stunt. They would take a motor car and trailer, with the trailer on the north end. Turn all the lights out on the train and slowly, and quietly move the cars to the throat of the terminal with out the air hoses made. They would give the trailer a little kick so it would roll in silence back towards the terminal. One carman would remove the headlight from the train door and hold it in the optimum position. At the appropriate moment the other carmen would flip the headlight switch on in the cab and they would have a searchlight. As the lucky couples would jump up and scramble for their clothing the carmen would sing "Moon Over Miami" at the top of their lungs.

Gee...I miss railroading.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:23 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

I've snuck up on couples with freight locomotives. Got quite an eyeful a few times too.
Naturally I stopped !!!!
Randy


Free porn? Is this some kind of new benefit package that management is offering in the contracts?[:D][:D]
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Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:29 PM
There is a bar in Orange County where the patrons moon the passengers in the passing Surfliners. I don't know how often this happens.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:32 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

I've snuck up on couples with freight locomotives. Got quite an eyeful a few times too.
Naturally I stopped !!!!
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Posted by jeaton on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:44 PM
Don't want to spoil the surprise, but check out the November Trains. The article will remind you of the title on a famous Ansel Adams photo.

Mitch-

Way back in the spring of 1958, I was 18, finishing my first year at IIT, had a conection and got on the IC's suburban service as a trainman. Your SS stories have started to remind me of some of the stories I heard. Since this is a family forum, I'll just to have to leave most of them fade back in my memory. Don't want Ed Blysard on MY case.

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Posted by Jordan6 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:07 PM
QUOTE: Junctionfan Posted: Today, 17:15:05
I was talking to some of my friends last night and they were telling me about being on a train and going underneath a bridge only to see some people off to the side (guess what was going on).

I can't say I have seen this before but it probably does happen particularly after dark.

Has anybody had the same experience. Maybe they should put censors on with the train crews.


i remember reading in TRAINS a long time ago about a similar instance. A couple of teenage lovers [:X] were doin it in a car under an overpass right next to the tracks. When the train approached the car, the engineer gave a little toot of the whistle [:O] and the couple sure peeled on out of their!
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Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:11 PM
I have heard that some of the crews and track inspectors shout out to them to get a room.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:29 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

I've snuck up on couples with freight locomotives. Got quite an eyeful a few times too.
Naturally I stopped !!!!
Randy

So Randy, how does one sneak up on a couple with a freight locomotive? [:)]

Coming home on Amtrak once, I was sitting in the cafe car talking to the the conductor who was doing paperwork as we rode along Lake Champlain. Riding near the water north of Port Henry, I believe, I spotted two girls waist deep in the water with their hands on their swimsuit tops, watching the train. "I wonder..." was all I said and as the conductor looked up and followed my gaze towards the lake, one of the two girls flashed the passing train. The conductor, smiled, said "I do love my job," and went back to the papers on the table.

Not an X rated train, but it still makes me smile.

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:20 PM
I've had trains sneak up on me plenty of times, ( kept my clothes on ) . Trains can be very quiet, that how many people lose their lives.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:56 PM
I've seen that story on tv about the bar in orange county where once a year everybody goes out front, faces away from the tracks just before the train comes and pulls down their pants.
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Posted by csxengineer98 on Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:12 AM
thier are a few places i know along the right of ways that are known parking spots... i carry a nice high powered flashlight with me on my runs..so at night i can get a looksee inside any cars that might be haveing some fun going on...... also.. in the summer along the rivers..its not unuseal to get flashed from some women on boats...
god bless america!!!
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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:04 AM
This may not technically qualify as X, but is in line with many of the posts so far: One of the more popular and famous nude beaches in Southern California is clearly visible from trains on the adjacent coast route...
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Posted by broncoman on Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:44 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod

This may not technically qualify as X, but is in line with many of the posts so far: One of the more popular and famous nude beaches in Southern California is clearly visible from trains on the adjacent coast route...


I think it near San Luis Obispo....I have just heard about it though.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:58 AM
Months ago one of the forums members emailed me a pic of a group of people mooning the Amtrak train as it passed. I deleted the pic therefore I will not be posting it. [;)] [8D]

<Sorry if that disappoints anyone.>
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:21 PM
What about ON the trains. I rode the SW Chief a year ago and it was like a meat market. A car attendant says this is common. They actually put someone off.
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Posted by gabe on Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:25 PM
We should ignore this post; it will only cause us to lose our train of thought.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mffisher

What about ON the trains. I rode the SW Chief a year ago and it was like a meat market. A car attendant says this is common. They actually put someone off.




And we're worried about Amtrak market share on another thread.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:57 PM
Sounds like too much sharing.
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Posted by passengerfan on Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:02 PM
who says you have to fly to join the Mile High Club. Their are a couple of Amtrak routes and Via routes that can easily qualify for the mile high club.
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Posted by RudyRockvilleMD on Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:35 PM
artmark and gabe: You guys should be ashamed of yourselves for those puns. I admit I couldn't do any better. Perhaps they could be transferred to the humor topic?

My contribution: We took the Royal Hudson train trip back from Squami***o North Vancouver in 1988. The dutch doors on the coaches were open so i took advantage to take movies* and photograph the Hudson from one of the vestibules. The train runs along Howe Sound, and there were a bunch of rafters out on the water. After I finished the serious business somebody noticed the people on the rafts were mooning the train. I got movies of that also.

* Yes I said movies, Super 8 sound movies at that. Camcorders were not as common in those days, they were very expensive, and not that good. Movie film back then was still easy to find.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 24, 2004 7:23 PM
Mooning is common on railroads. Here's a different take. In 1973 I held Amtrak 9 and 8 as flagmen from Chicago to Milwaukee and back. Three times a week number 9 ran through to the coast and had sleepers. Two young ladies occupied a bedroom in the lsat sleeper. We changde crews in Milwaukee and I stood on the platform blabbing with the Stationmaster and the Trainmaster. The train started to move out and as the sleeper clanked by a window shade rose and the 2 girls "boobed" the crowd on the platform. Freight crews aere delighted. Passenger guys were thrilled. The stationmaster passed coffee through his nose. But the trainmaster became outraged and demanded the train be stopped and the girls scolded. The stationmaster calmed him down and asked,"What would you say the cause of delay was in your report? What I miss most about railroading was the entertainment.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Friday, September 24, 2004 8:17 PM
I wonder how much money it would make if Playboy and Trains did a joint magazine?
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 24, 2004 9:23 PM
OHOHOHOHOHOOHHOHO NICE!!!

here Goes, Children shut your eyes, or ask your parents the words you don't understand-

As you know, I am involved in passenger trains- now we have the 12am crap train, and the crews rotate- because that train sucks- everyone is Drunk, throwing up, one time- this guy stumbled into the first car (control cab, where the engineer can operate the train from amongst the passengers) this guy with 40 Jack D ine one hand, a michetti in the other was stumbling towards us wondering why we'ed missed his stop, he could barely walk- and could have presented a serious danger

So from that night on, we were given an extra car, and had permission to lock the one we were in..

So one nihgt... avert your eyes

So one night... two women are occuping the second car, no one is in ours... and they are both carrying Lasenza bags- (thats an underware store) so they were talking for a bit, then they started going through each others bags-

It was at that point we turned off all the lights in our car- jsut the odd emergency ones were on. And there car could suddenly be seen clearly from ours, like wathcing a movie-

So slowly both of them started getting undressed- trying opn there new underware- drunk as hell- it's a shame stations are 0.6-2 miles apart, because you have to keep wathcing... but we all saw...uhh...plenty... Getting undressed and drressed more times then you can shake a stick at, plus the falling over and getting up and giggling-

Look I still hate the 12AM train, because it 's not often that happens, your more likely to wear the contents of someones meal, or get a knife lodged in your back..

but it was worth it that night saw plenty of... uhhh... Canada's native animal.

thats all... no law suits please.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 24, 2004 9:27 PM
Just so i can clear myself- People ask, well why didn't you try to stop it?

because for a simple reason: I don't like court.. at all... thats were cases like this lead i can see myself being there too...

Judge: now where do you say the conductor touched you?
Girl: here.

Thats pretty much it, i'm screwed. best to keep a distance and not interfeer, that way.. I can't be implimented even if i was 48 inches away just talking- drunk women may decide to fabricate a story and have my job revoked.. thats why these things are best left untouched...

NO bad way... to end...

best left alone/

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