Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 2004/03

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Trainspotter - just a smidge off topic guys!!!
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:03:36 -0500

Matthew Lloyd wrote:

> A trainspotter spots trains - in other words it is a person who watches
> trains go by and collects the numbers of the locomotive. Normally
> schoolboys, but can be adults - by which time it becomes a little scary!
>
> Not to be confused with someone who has an adult interest in railways -
> which is of course perfectly respectable.

How cool! I finally have a name for what I was 50+ years ago. I mean a
name besides "little putz." I lived a block from what is now Amtrak but
was then the New York, New Haven and Hartford line that ran from
Pennsylvania Station, across Hell Gate bridge, and up to Boston. I used
to love to go up there and watch the trains going by. I think I even
got to know the schedules. I don't know about British railways, but
America's have fallen on bad times and basically stink.

Ken