If it isn't steam and there is no caboose, what's to watch?
Colorado hirailer,
Lets not discourage others with comments like that. Trains are trains. The same powerful engine comes in many different forms. Thats like saying if its not a Model T then I'm not driving one. I guess you'd be doing a lot of walking then.
I've taken the wife kids and now grandchild to rail fan, and you never know whats coming down the track. Sure, most of the time its the usual double stack or the coal drag, but that makes the others that much more special. We've had Farm tractors, military tanks and vehicles, trash drags, windmill's(disassembled on many cars), John Deere passenger train, reefer drags, lumber, logs, steel rolls, scrap, cars, boats, Amtrack passenger runs,even saw the Nickel Plate Berkshire being loaded with in our local years off the interstate, they also had some restored classic pullman passenger cars (Norfolk Western)there for a promotional run a couple of years ago. We enjoy all trains, steam or diesel, box car or coal hopper. The sense of size and power continues to capture young and old alike, then, just as it does now.
If trains around your are not diversified , may I suggest you check out some rail fan videos on youtube that other fans have posted. Maybe that will rekindle some of those childhood memories and maybe even begin a new area of appreciation for the more modern kings of the rails.
Enjoy this wonderful hobby!
