I am 6 and 9 cause I sometimes railfan in the harsh snow or rain. I am sometimes 4 as well cause of certain things including not getting my monthly dose of railfanning
I'm the kind of person who slows down a little bit when I see a rail crossing in the distance in the hopes that the gates will go down and I'll have a reason to stop and watch from a front row seat.
I've been a 2 all my life. I would beg my parents to choose the train over the car or bus for the same destination. I still like to get to the station well before my departure and watch anything passing through, whether freight or passenger. Recently I was telling my dad that I'm still a train enthusiast after all these decades, and was happy to learn that he's very much interested in trains too. And some of his favorite travel memories include the beautiful train routes across Western and Central Europe. The rest of my family respects my interest, but they don't really 'get' it. I'd be a '9' if only I could meet a friend who's patient enough to join in the wait. It's more fun to share in the excitement.
I’m an adult now and have been for a while but there’s something about giving the engineer a big arm pump and getting the air horn that still makes me smile
Let me describe myself... 1: The angle I set up almost every time I railfan. 5: I like to check any wayside signals nearby for any indication for oncoming trains. 6: I always like to prefect the angle I’m shooting to make a great outcome. 7: I sometimes rush a lot to get crossing activations and trains in time, lol. 8: Sometimes, I like to choose locations where it makes for a cool and creative shot. 9: Most of the time just like to be dedicated on getting any train or crossing no matter if it is boring or interesting. 10: I may easily sprint to my camera once I see something coming so I can start recording at the right time. 11: Technically, I’m something else but it’s related to 11, I sometimes call myself a “silent foamer” since I often get pretty excited for a cool unit or something, though I of course do not speak out anything about it no matter what, lol. Great video, as always!
I'm all of them except 9 and 3, and hope to become 9 when I'm older! (Well that sounded weird!) Also, I think every railfan is basically a foamer, but silent! Update: I've learned some things about the railfan community, and let me just say, that no matter what type of railfan you are, you're still loved! Okay? As everyone in the railfan community is now fighting over things like this, and someone needs to put a sop to it! But I can't do it alone, so who's with me?!
@@TheCentralTexasRailfan hah! Yeah some of us are. Thing is the difference between a railfan and foamer is that foamers tend to be rude and cuss up a storm, stand on the tracks as a train is coming and are just all around retards. But railfans are like foamers minus everything except liking trains.
A unique railfan was Ralph Ketner, the founder of Foodtown (renamed Food Lion). The legend was he could stand there watching the train go by and add up the car numbers and give a total once the end of the train went by.
I am the rush and the signal checker. I always go into rush mode when i hear a trains horn in the distance. Also i get excited when i see a green signal!!
I used to spend a lot of time watching the La Plata Missouri stream on RU-vid. Eventually I realized that most of the people were watching trains, while I was watching a railroad. While they were counting the number of cars, judging horns and hoping for a "meet", I was looking at the mixture of the cars on the manifest trains and whose names were on the side of the containers on the intermodal trains. As the virus problem was happening, I would make observations about how this was going to change the mix of railroad traffic and the type of imports that were going to come in through Los Angeles and Long Beach. A typical response was that it was against the rules to talk about politics 😆. Railroads and politics and the labor disputes are inseparable. Many of the railroads that exist today are a direct result of the fact that Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer who was working for the Illinois Central Railroad as a lobbyist.
A possible addition could be the horn identifier and judger who likes to critique horns and point out defective equipment or horns that are inconsistent with the locomotive
I am definitely the crossing fan, ATCS and signal checker, the perfect angle, the in a rush, the creative shot, and the sprinter, but also you gotta add the crazy chaser where you chase trains 100+ miles!
As a railroader, and i have been railfanned a few times and one of the trains i had is on RU-vid but i have seen 9 a whole lot!! Especially here in Chicago with the weather we get here.
I'm literally almost entirely 2, considering the fact that I pretty much only film Commuter Trains. I also have a pretty good amount of 6 and 9 in me as well. I occasionally take risks to get good shots. Let's face it. We all have at least a tiny bit of 11 in us. Unfortunately, I seem to have a bit more of it than the average person, even if I'm feeling calm. I try to only let it out when the train I'm filming is parked and not moving, though. But it's tough.
And then there’s the Bashers. Oh the bashers. Being on a train full of bashers behind a 37 or a 55 is a surreal experience. Flailing. Screaming. MY LORDZZZZ and HELLLFIRE aplenty.
You forgot chasing trains in a car with your foamer friends, camera lenses hanging out the window and succeeding not getting a speeding ticket in order to "get the shot".
#1, Why wouldnt you?, #2 hell no, #3 nope, #4 sometimes, #5 HELL YES, #6 YOU KNOW IT, #7 all the time, #8 sometimes also, #9 idc about the conditions, a shot is a shot, #10 every day when i hear a really faint horn, #11 not suprising, i live next to the Austin Western Railroad and i see different types of engines all the time Edit: spelling error
My favorites when i worked for the railroad were the ones who would dress in full PPE...hard hat and all and stand there with their 6 cameras filming the trains.
I'm definitely a #3 because how else am I supposed to figure out if there's anything out there lol. Sometimes a #5 when I'm getting anxious, and DEFINITELY a #6 lol.
I’m the signal watcher, the in a rush, (when I’m going out to Railfan) the dedicated, and the sprinter well I think the sprinter ties into being in a rush kinda.
i literally stood outside in the rain in between two mainline tracks with binoculars to see if there was a train coming. talk about dedication (we found no trains sadly but we're going again today)
I'm 0:31, 0:51 ,0:59 and 1:48 Combined except I don't film the signals and ATCS, I only want the best camera angle! And I guess I'm dedicated as I railfan in blizzards! Good video.
