I like to walk the Track with my cosin and collect parts and, maybe, I might start selling them, you'd be suprized about what falls of Trains, not to metion the fun stuff ya' find that is pretty cool, besides Train parts ( Brakes, Tail lights,spikes,ect.) but its fun to take a metal pole or stick ( I find 1 every time) and toss a paint can in the air and hit it with the stick and watch it shoot off spraying paint from a small hole made by the pole, or if you find a bottle, practice breaking the bottom only like in bar fights, its alot harder that you think, the first few trys the whole bottle brakes, any way, I have lots of parts, think I should sell them?
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by Tessie (Member # 1419) on :
I think you would be better off taking the paint cans and bottles to a recycling plant. Better for the environment and possibly saving somebody from getting paint sprayed in their eyes or being cut by broken glass.
Posted by Robert L (Member # 3144) on :
I would suggest you rethink this type of activity. Besides the obvious problems you may encounter walking along someone else' private property and collecting property that is not yours to collect without permission, there is the very real consideration of your health, safety and security being at risk. Check out the railroad web sites or Operation Lifesaver and you might be enlightened about this dangerous activity. It might be best to just watch trains from a safe, public, distance and enjoy their passing. Even that, these days after 9/11, has enough risks and misunderstandings to keep even the innocent busy.
Posted by MPALMER (Member # 125) on :
You might also run into some thugs or other sleazy types that hang out in some sections. Watch where you walk!
Posted by chubbes (Member # 3250) on :
well when i do travel the tracks i carry a knife and people say that they should watch out around the tracks but we all are foamers and if we are by the tracks i think any of us are being watchful i mean come on something that is that big and makes that much noise, and light, and has an obviouse path i dont think can just jump from behind a bush.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
Obviously you are not very enlightened in this world then. Trains can and do creep up on people. Otherwise there'd be far fewer fatalities per year of people walking the tracks. Trains are often coming faster than people realise, it's all to do with the perspective. Again, if people judged it correctly, there'd be far fewer grade crossing accidents.
Think also from an engineer's point of view. He has a long heavy train which he cannot stop and some idjit is walking with his back to the train, head into the wind (so he cannot hear it approaching behind). When he does eventually stop all that is left of you is dozens of pieces. He has to live with that memory for a lifetime.
Geoff M.
Posted by Big Merl (Member # 3251) on :
In my experience, the best spot to train watch is from a bridge going over a main line. You can't get hit by a train if you are above it and behind a railing.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
I check behind me all the time, and have recently found a new, Unused, Airhose, still had the Caps on it, wasnt evan dirty, and I sold it for 200$
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by UncleBuck44 (Member # 2049) on :
quote:Originally posted by JONATHON: I check behind me all the time, and have recently found a new, Unused, Airhose, still had the Caps on it, wasnt evan dirty, and I sold it for 200$
May I ask to whom?
Posted by boyishcolt (Member # 3001) on :
well since you have sold some stolen property do you think you could afford some spelling lessons? or maybe it's just another tall tale?
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Sorry to report, but railfan fatalities do occur.
During 2001, there was just such a fatality occurring near Gurnee, IL on the MILW/CP. A Southbound Amtrak Hiawatha 'took out" a railfan looking Southward. Apparently, setting up for an intended Northbound photo shoot was of greater concern than "watching the backside'.
The Good Lord did not give us I-MAX vision; only Cinemascope.
[This message has been edited by Gilbert B Norman (edited 08-04-2004).]