Mr. Del Grosso wrote:

" Too many people get out of whack on trivia like a new loc
omotive paint job. All strictly visual. Why do we love the UP and hate the 
BNSF, 
or visa versa? Its just like loving one sports team over another - for no darn
re
ason at all, just to take sides. In the end, who really cares?

One guy said it right - it was Dale Sanders in one of his CTC Board editorials 
- 
"we all take the hobby too seriously when it should be source of fun and
recreati
on." There are too many railfan rivet counters "and "special interest groups"
out
 there."

-- Good points.  I was once at a Model RR Club meeting in San Francisco, in
which two guys got in a fistfight over coupler height!  Talk about taking things
too seriously.

EB
-> Web Site: http://home.att.net/~acphotog/sporrs/sporrs.htm
-> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects

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