>We got a really neat picture of it as it went over the Fox River bridge
I was stuck at Harper College registering for classes that day!  What a 
bummer.
>BTW, I see you in the Railfans echo.  This message is probably more
>appropriate there.  Where do you live now, Dan?
In the Carolinas.  It's pretty down here, but oddly I miss the cornfields 
sometimes.  There's something quite splendid about the prairie; my wife 
couldn't believe how flat everything is in Illinois!
>I know Police Call comes out yearly, but do they catch all the changes
>that may have occured and check to make sure that the others are still
>the same?  Seems unlikely..
It's been my experience that the public frequency guides are rather poor for 
railroading.  I have one published by Bearcat some years ago and it lists the 
Burlington Northern railroad, but they their closest line is over 400 miles 
away from here!  There's an Internet site area devoted exclusively to rail 
frequencies.  If you're on the 'net, I'll find the address for you and you'll 
be a few keystrokes away from anything you might need.
Rail scanning can be somewhat confusing to a casual listener because of all 
the industry slang.  I always liked the C.& N.W. name for commuter trains -- 
"scoots".  On the Burlington they call them "dinkys".  Getting "stabbed" is 
having a train halted by a red signal and "in the hole" is in a siding. 
There's "spots", "cuts" and "blocks" too!  My wife has gotton good with the 
video camera by watching professional videos and borowing techniques.  Try it 
-- you'll have fun and ten years from now you and your husband will say 
"Cool!" when you look at your shots of things long gone.
Dan
Remembers C.& N.W. radio ads singing the Northwestern U. fight song!
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