BeetNIK Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 first and foremost i would like to apologise if this question has already been brought up. I am not experienced in any way with freights. But when i get older, and start to settle down, I want to live in a community with plenty of trains to paint. prefferebly a place with a smaller population. I just want to go to work, be a train junkie, and take care of my kids. I have only painted a few freights, and i often re-read the stickies here to keep myself up on my train etiquette. So, Im just wondering, how would i find a place like this? Possibly use maps or something? where would i find statisitics on train movement? sorry if this is redundent. thanks, beetso... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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otto dix Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 i have found such places...towns where everyone knows your name...there is a diner, and a church, and a bar, and a river. there are nice street posts and benches, beautiful local women, and railroad tracks headed every direction outta town. i'll just never make it there...or by the time i did, it'll be a parking lot or a walmart or something stupid. good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xwibxonex Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Originally posted by my sweetheart, the drunk i have found such places...towns where everyone knows your name...there is a diner, and a church, and a bar, and a river. there are nice street posts and benches, beautiful local women, and railroad tracks headed every direction outta town. i'll just never make it there...or by the time i did, it'll be a parking lot or a walmart or something stupid. good luck. you'll make it to town someday, it's great place, oh beleive me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PHYNE Posted June 24, 2003 Share Posted June 24, 2003 Originally posted by BeetNIK first and foremost i would like to apologise if this question has already been brought up. I am not experienced in any way with freights. But when i get older, and start to settle down, I want to live in a community with plenty of trains to paint. prefferebly a place with a smaller population. I just want to go to work, be a train junkie, and take care of my kids. I have only painted a few freights, and i often re-read the stickies here to keep myself up on my train etiquette. So, Im just wondering, how would i find a place like this? Possibly use maps or something? where would i find statisitics on train movement? sorry if this is redundent. thanks, beetso... you aint got no trains up there??:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeetNIK Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 traffic really sucks in michigan, at least in my area, once i move around ill figure some things out im sure, but there s nothing in this city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krowteN Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 your probably what 21, at most. wait until you get older and are in the position to do that. if you find that place now and wait 40 years to "settle down" that place could be a metropolis by then. strip malls, traffic, black people, the whole 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizo Posted July 2, 2003 Share Posted July 2, 2003 http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/bailey/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 TRAINS Magazine Subscribe to TRAINS. Every month, they feature a great map of some important area of railroading. This month it was Chicago--and man, is it ever detailed. Chicago is a major rail hub, maybe even the most important railroad city in the United States. However, there are many, many important junctions and rail hubs. The more you know about your area, the more you'll realize where the serious rail hubs are in your part of the country. If you can find one, join a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Those old guys know more shit about the railroads than God. Keep yo' yap shut about painting trains, though. Railfans often don't like graffitti, and they might rat you out. They drop a dime on trainhoppers all the time, via cell phone. Some people are just tight-assed dicks and some aren't. Railfans tend to be sort of obsessive-compulsive about rules, timetables, schedules, etc. (And coming from an OCD mo'fo' like me, that's quite an indictment.) They look upon train graff akin to vandalism of a church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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