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Date: 03-15-97 (06:06)
Subj: RE: Railroad Freqs
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MSGID: 1:282/24 ED4B5193
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PID: CP 2.3.2 #0076
  -@>Roger Cravens writes in a message to All
SC-@> 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.
SC-@>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.
SC-@>It just isn't for everyone, but then again neither is listening
  -@>to digitally encrypted fed frequencies!  
Thanks ever so much, Scott, for setting me straight on this.  I honestly
didn't mean to send disparaging remarks to anyone.  I listening to the
Fed isn't for everyone, I assumed there must be something listing to
rails I just simply wasn't privy to...now I know.
I do listen to MARTA (Atlanta's Rapid Transit System) from time to time
and that can get interesting.  The police are constantly arresting all
sorts of strange people doing even stranger things on the trains.
Oh well - guess listing to trains is something that I need to grow into
to better understand and appreciate.
Warm Regards -
Roger "Fed Hunter" Cravens
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