"courage & conviction of our opinions to use our REAL name, while others choose to hide behind an alias." What a load of BS! I am gettin sick and tired of all those on this board who get all high and mighty because they post under their "real" name. I say - PROVE IT! I don't know you from Adam, so the name George Andrews is as meaningless as Daffy Duck. Additionally, as I have explained in many other posts, posting real names often comes with risks when the person posting information happens to work for the very railroad we might be talking about. That railroad generally would not take kindly to them posting information about their employer. So if we constantly berate people for not using their "real" name, we will lose a valuable source of information simply because we were too dumb to recognize the need for anonymity. And if you think they (the railroads) aren't paying attention, look at the news and you will find instances where employers are firing people for what they post on social networking sites (such as this one). So all those who constantly think you are better because you posted under your "real" name, get over yourself.

(Sorry for the rant, this sort of crap really bugs me)