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Re: Railfanning and Railmapping
Author: Tom McCann
Date: 10-30-2008 - 13:45

I'm all for using technology to railfan. Those of you who live elsewhere in the country and cannot easily get to a particular location are right, sites such as Google Earth can make our hobby much more enjoyable.

I'm originally from the Philadelphia, Pa. area, but now live outside Portland, Ore. I can visit the Brooklyn Roundhouse or the Vancouver, Wash. Amtrak depot any time, but I can't simply board a plane to Philly and camp out by the Northeast Corridor or the Strasburg Railroad, as much I might want to. Using Google Earth to spot Acelas along the NEC or listening to scans on the Railroad Radio website greatly improve my railfanning experience.

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  Rail fanning via Google earth P.Kepler 10-26-2008 - 12:58
  Re: Rail fanning via Google earth Daniel3197 10-26-2008 - 16:22
  Re: Rail fanning via Google earth DzNtz 10-26-2008 - 21:31
  Re: Rail fanning via Google earth almo 10-28-2008 - 23:11
  Re: Rail fanning via Google earth Capdiamont 10-26-2008 - 17:37
  Brooklyn Yard Roundhouse coordinates Goldminer 10-26-2008 - 21:03
  Re: Rail fanning via Google earth Samnberry 10-26-2008 - 22:22
  Re: Rail fanning via Google earth P.Kepler 10-26-2008 - 22:36
  Re: Rail fanning via MicroSoft Virtual Earth Bill C 10-27-2008 - 10:35
  Re: Rail fanning via MicroSoft Virtual Earth Tom McCann 10-30-2008 - 13:34
  Brooklyn Roundhouse Locomotive pics Goldminer 10-27-2008 - 10:43
  Re: Brooklyn Roundhouse Locomotive pics chucho 10-27-2008 - 15:39
  Google Earth image update info Goldminer 10-27-2008 - 20:54
  Re: Google Earth image update info chucho 10-28-2008 - 07:51
  Chucho - Railfanning exists in many forms Goldminer 10-28-2008 - 11:21
  Re: Chucho - Railfanning exists in many forms chucho 10-28-2008 - 17:46
  Re: Chucho - Railfanning exists in many forms P.Kepler 10-29-2008 - 23:30
  Re: Google Earth image update info Bill C 10-28-2008 - 12:38
  Re: Brooklyn Roundhouse Locomotive pics P.Kepler 10-27-2008 - 22:36
  Re: Brooklyn Roundhouse Locomotive pics Jim Fitzgerald 10-28-2008 - 13:28
  Re: F40PHR231 Official Website Daniel3197 10-28-2008 - 14:52
  Re: F40PHR231 Official Website Jim Fitzgerald 10-29-2008 - 15:01
  Re: F40PHR231 Official Website Smokebox 10-29-2008 - 16:36
  Railfanning and Railmapping Bruce Kelly 10-30-2008 - 07:56
  Re: Railfanning and Railmapping Tom McCann 10-30-2008 - 13:45


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