06-10-2009, 05:38 PM
... actually, one of my favourite railfan memories comes from Fostoria.
I'd just taken my friend Pat down there for his first US railfanning trip... we pulled up across from the -ahem- landmark to catch a Chessie freight. He'd never seen a live, breathing GP30 before, so he immediatley leapt out in the rain to snap a pic. What should come over the radio but "F-tower, you'd better call the psychiatrics, there's some nut out here takin' pictures in the rain!"
Pat couldn't figure out why I was busting a gut laughing when he got back in the car....
I'd just taken my friend Pat down there for his first US railfanning trip... we pulled up across from the -ahem- landmark to catch a Chessie freight. He'd never seen a live, breathing GP30 before, so he immediatley leapt out in the rain to snap a pic. What should come over the radio but "F-tower, you'd better call the psychiatrics, there's some nut out here takin' pictures in the rain!"
Pat couldn't figure out why I was busting a gut laughing when he got back in the car....