LordTauk
05-25-2002, 06:53 PM
Okay, this is a railfanning story so it's a little long
About an hour ago I decided to go up to the philly sub since I haven't heard a train go by in a while, well I waited along side of the track bed just minding my own business when these two kids were walking down the tracks, inbetween each rail - nothing unusual I thought, happens all the time.
Anyway, about 5 minutes later they started throwing some rocks at a persons house or backyard along side the track - couldn't tell, well I started to think these two were going to get a lecture by the local police if someone should call them and they'd find these two clones goofing off on the philly sub throwing rocks... so I ignored it and about 5 minutes later I saw a 3 bright lights emmerge from the distance over a small hill, now this is where I started getting a little worried, and these two clowns so this light as well... of course, now they have to mess with a train as it rolls by.
This mixed freight with trash containers heading southbound towards Baltimore was going about 30-35 MPH, so it's going to take it a minute or so to get to my location, I decided to space myself out from these two clowns so the train crew didn't think bad of me, so I walked towards them I said Hey but they didnt say anything back - and I walked some more... about half a mile the train was closing in, the grade crossing bells could be heard where I was standing and they could hear it too, I was about 300 feet from them and I was watching them through my binoculars up on the tracks grabbing rocks from the trackbed and placing it on the rails.. that's real smart right? I just spaced myself apart so that I was sure not to get hit by any rock fragments.
Well, the conductor waved to me and I noticed I've seen him quite a few times before, he probably noticed the same since he took the time to open the window and wave and actually nod to you - when he went by and shut the window in his CW6000AC, but 300 feet ahead he had to reopen the window to look what made a giant dust cloud coming from the lead trucks as it ran over all those rocks Im sure him and the engineer heard some noises too ... He must have yelled too because I saw his upper body out of the window pointing at the two idiots laughing... after examination I knew the area where the cloud of dust was from the lead trucks and I there were big scratches that stretched about 10-15 feet all over the rails.
you know, this makes me disappointed because it really does ruin it for me, Im sure you all have had similar experiences or know of some - I guess I can't complain too much since incidents like this wont stop
About an hour ago I decided to go up to the philly sub since I haven't heard a train go by in a while, well I waited along side of the track bed just minding my own business when these two kids were walking down the tracks, inbetween each rail - nothing unusual I thought, happens all the time.
Anyway, about 5 minutes later they started throwing some rocks at a persons house or backyard along side the track - couldn't tell, well I started to think these two were going to get a lecture by the local police if someone should call them and they'd find these two clones goofing off on the philly sub throwing rocks... so I ignored it and about 5 minutes later I saw a 3 bright lights emmerge from the distance over a small hill, now this is where I started getting a little worried, and these two clowns so this light as well... of course, now they have to mess with a train as it rolls by.
This mixed freight with trash containers heading southbound towards Baltimore was going about 30-35 MPH, so it's going to take it a minute or so to get to my location, I decided to space myself out from these two clowns so the train crew didn't think bad of me, so I walked towards them I said Hey but they didnt say anything back - and I walked some more... about half a mile the train was closing in, the grade crossing bells could be heard where I was standing and they could hear it too, I was about 300 feet from them and I was watching them through my binoculars up on the tracks grabbing rocks from the trackbed and placing it on the rails.. that's real smart right? I just spaced myself apart so that I was sure not to get hit by any rock fragments.
Well, the conductor waved to me and I noticed I've seen him quite a few times before, he probably noticed the same since he took the time to open the window and wave and actually nod to you - when he went by and shut the window in his CW6000AC, but 300 feet ahead he had to reopen the window to look what made a giant dust cloud coming from the lead trucks as it ran over all those rocks Im sure him and the engineer heard some noises too ... He must have yelled too because I saw his upper body out of the window pointing at the two idiots laughing... after examination I knew the area where the cloud of dust was from the lead trucks and I there were big scratches that stretched about 10-15 feet all over the rails.
you know, this makes me disappointed because it really does ruin it for me, Im sure you all have had similar experiences or know of some - I guess I can't complain too much since incidents like this wont stop