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Date: 03-16-97 (21:12)
Subj: Railroad Freqs
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FG-@> RC> I'm obviously missing something here - I would very much appreciate
  -@> RC> those in this conference that listen to railroads to enlighten me 
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  -@> RC> terms of what you listen for and what you get out of it.
FG-@>   I would guess that many railroad comm listeners are railroad buffs in
  -@>general, and scanning merely enhances this hobby. *They* will understand 
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  -@>of what they hear, even if it didn't excite you.
FG-@>   As a child, my parents occasionally drove me to an area near the 
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  -@>airport, and we'd merely watch the planes gome and go for awhile. (I was 
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  -@>aerospace buff even then.) It would've been even more interesting if we
  -@>could've monitored aircraft while watchingn too. (I was also into model
  -@>railroading for a time, so I can relate to that interest as well.)
FG-@>   This tends to differ from file/police/ambulance comms which can be
  -@>fascinating, even if you've no specific interest in those 
ofessions....
FG-@>   Again, that's my best guess.
FG-@>   Frank
Thanks Frank.  What I may do is drive over to the mail rail lines here
in Atlanta (where ever that is?) and maybe seeing what happens would
help.
Again, thank you and to everone who wrote to explain things in further
detail and didn't take me to task for being so ignorant on this subject.
Ya lives and ya learns!
Roger "Fed Hunter" Cravens
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