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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Sep 13 23:47:25 2014, in response to Re: RFW Demise, So How is Best Way to RF Without One?, posted by The ORION Kid on Sat Sep 13 21:05:18 2014. I'm sixty four, and me and a lot of other people who became rail fans(whether on this board or not) were very lucky to have the front end of the train designed with a storm door window we could look out of. We began looking out the front window decades ago, seeing the signals, tracks, lights and infrastructure, and we were all simply fascinated, and became passionate about learning everything we could about the transit system. A number of railfans even went to work for the TA (yeah, I know acronyms have changed, but this is short-hand). So, that's why people are disheartened, becuase you can't see out the front window anymore. More to life and railfanning than the RFW? Well, because of the RFW, in the last few years of it being available (redbirds, R40's, etc.) I was able to view the signals and realize that there were various distances between each block (spaced far apart, evenly, or close together) depending on the potential traffic load. Was able to figure out some interesting things about the signal configuration in the IND dogleg in Queens for example. I'm sure other railfans have discovered other things about the subway's construction and signalling due to the RFW as well. As far as "foamer kids" fighting for the front window, if that's all you've ever viewed, then you don't realize what the front window meant to railfans from 1908 (deckroofers, first to have'em) onwards. Looking out the subway's front window, has also figured in the plot of movies, short stories and novels. And kid's'll be kids, yeah acting "out of hand" sometimes..... My feeling is, for the most part, I've looked out the front window mostly all over, so let someone younger have a gander for his/her first time. Actually one reason I asked this question, to begin the thread, is that there are no RFW's in the London Underground, and yet they have managed to have an active subway railfan community over there, so I wondered if /or how it could be approached over here. |
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