Mellow Mike Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Ever notice that wearing a camera near the tracks
> seems to attract all sorts of security or RR
> Police...? But you see random non-railfans
> blatantly walk the tracks, or even cross bridges
> on foot, and get away unharrassed. Luck has a lot
> to do with it, I'm sure. But it's not fair. Not to
> mention the safety aspect. We don't do silly
> things like these people do... right...?
>
> [www.mellowmike.com]
>
> While I'm out taking train photos, I occasionally
> come across people doing dumb things. I dug out
> those pics and put them in the one blog entry
> above.
>
> MM
Not related to your post, but...
I was parked at my favorite rail watching spot years ago; I was sitting, in my car, on some crushed stone, reading a local newspaper and watching the passing trains. A vehicle drove up next to me and the driver asked if I worked for the railroad. No, I said, just reading the paper and watching the trains. He didn't say much beyond the fact that he owned the property that I was sitting on; fair enough, I was next to a feed mill/equipment dealer. He didn't tell me to move, but I assumed he had issues with the railroad using his property for access to the tracks.