Train watching

I enjoy watching them. I sit at three locations along the Norfolk Southern main line.

1. Gray Station crossing. (Westmoreland County)

2. Torrance, Pa. (Westmoreland County)

3. C Pack the location of the old JD tower. (Indiana County)

All three locations are about 20 miles or less from Homer City, Pa.

Yes. 

Yes for me also.

Yes.Its a daily ritual ,I'm retired grab my dogs and a cup of coffee and we're off to watch trains.I live in northwest Indiana a train watchers paradise

MR-150,

I enjoy watching trains on the internet. One of locations that has a lot of traffic is a crossing located at Chesterton, Indiana. The location is right by Riley's Railhouse.

My 5 year old son and I watch trains for a couple hours a week. We sit at the train station in Meridian, MS. We see traffic from UP, KCS, Norfolk Southern and the Amtrak Crescent. It is a good time.

Not much here on Long Island and after 30+ years of commuting I'd rather not spend my day watching the LIRR. Now a few years back I was in Las Vegas and stayed just off the strip at the Rio and right adjacent to the hotel was one heck of a freight line with a ton of UP activity, and when the conference got boring or the dice got cold it was out the back door for some rail fanning.

heck yes, who doesnt?-jim

not as much as I used to. I always like seeing the different road names, seeing the new autos. Now the road names are all gone, new cookie cutter cars are covered.

Yes I do!

I used to love it, when I was a kid on the PRR mainline.  Long, long mixed freights roaring past every ten minutes -- or less -- with a jaunty caboose at the rear.

 

I'll still pause to watch a train if I happen to be there when one (infrequently) passes through my old home town.  But nothing NS has is even remotely as interesting.

 

Wow,  you guys and gals have a lot more time on your hands than I, and I am retired.  Three to four hours?  Suppose it's a matter of priorities.  Maybe someday ...

I also enjoy train watching on the internet with my G'son especially from the Folkston,
GA Funnelcam.

Jack

 

     What are your favorites in the Chicago area?

 

Ray

All the time, going tomorrow. I did a lot of video in the past but mostly stills now. Do a lot around the Conway yard area and Beaver Co. because of the two mainlines. Love the Pa. mountain area- South Fork to Gallitzin  but the price of gas crimped that.

Nothing close to where we live. Other than the Amtrak Northeaster (about an hour away), no other regular service passenger trains in Maine. We have to be happy with our models. 

I love watching the trains. I try to go out whenever I get the chance to.

I only go between Sandwich & Somonauk Illinois. Now I should find a new train shooting spot. Because it seems to be getting old with what seems to be the same old spots. As I am typing this I can hear one running by now.

I like watching them and sometimes I sit on the roof of my car with an ice cream come and watch the passing trains. It is so relaxing

I try to get a train a day at least, on my way home from work. Ive been that way since I was a kid. Trains have always been appealing, an as a kid a bit mysterious to me. Where was it coming from? And where was it going? Who are the men that always give you a wave behind the controls and where do they live? All the different makes, models, paint schemes, road names, and logos on the different locos and rolling stock. Whats in those boxcars? Even the hobo monikers streaked on the sides left me in wonder. "Itchy foot stetson" "coal train" "faded glory" who are these characters with these funny names? All that goes through my head when I see a train go by. Even now knowing where they are coming from and going it still gives me the same feeling of wow every time.