Fw: [ObservationCar] Re: What my wife thinks of my hobby

[okt@j...]

This pretty well hits it on the head.
Terry



Greetings!

When I arrived home this evening, I saw a printout of an E-mail 
message
> my wife had sent to one of her cousins. Our Christmas letter 
had mentioned my interest in trains, and he had asked for more 
details. 
> Here is her reply:

> Rob has a fascination for trains. He also loves photography. 
He works with computers professionally and ( to my 
non-technological mind) is mildly obsessed with cyber-gadgetry. He has
found a way 
to combine all three of these by taking pictures of trains and scanning 
them into our computer to go onto his (and other people's) train 
photography websites. There, the pix are the subject of long,
intricate
> discussions on the finer points of composition, angle, rust
> enhancement, and railroading in general. 
To aid him in these endeavers, he has a railroad dispatch 
scanner. He leaves for work early and listens to find out if any trains
are in 
the vicinity. If any are approaching, he drives to whatever crossing,
> culvert, trestle, or other god-forsaken contrivance he can get to, 
and finds a spot where he can lie in wait for the oncoming train. 
The rugggeder, the better. A good shot might include sunrise over 
an ice-bound landscape ( notice how those intricate frost patterns 
bring out the splintering of the tie rods!) , the train emerging from
the
> tunnel - (at an angle you just can't get unless you are 
submerged in the northwestern channel of the creek) and the mournful 
water-briars drooping across the foreground (that's how you can tell
there 
are gale-force winds blowing as the photo is snapped). 
> Sorry. Got carried away.

Seems pretty accurate!

Rob




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