Roger Cravens writes in a message to All
 RC> I'm having a bit of a problem trying to understand the facination 
 RC> with listening to railroad frequencies. I've plugged in the 
 RC> standard bunch of freqs, including those in the 400MHz area 
 RC> and listened to the various railroads in and around Atlanta. 
 RC> 
 RC> From my personal perspective (and not ment to flame anyone) 
 RC> but the transmissions I heard after a week absolutely bored 
 RC> me to tears.
Roger, all I can say is that you have to be a railfan or model railroader - 
or both - in order to get your kicks that way.  What we () are 
interested in is the whole procedure of the thing - moving hundreds of tons 
of machine and product form point "A" to point "B" safely and on schedule.  
It gives us a chance to get to know what to watch for in real life - when is 
the darned thing going to clear the yard and head out where we can see it - 
or how to operate our models.
  
It just isn't for everyone, but then again neither is listening to digitally 
encrypted fed frequencies!  
 
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