Re: How can chasers be of more benefit to the railroad?
| September 06, 2018 03:12PM |
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You'd be surprised. I know a guy who had a huge pickup and one quad. If you saw him zipping around in either, you'd assume he has money.
Everything he's ever had went into those. He lives in a dilapidated travel trailer on a sliver of land he rents weekly. That's all he has and he's 'not all there' so getting a better job really isn't an option for him.
Nine hundred bucks is a chunk of change, and I don't know why so many don't see that. The ones who declare it as nothing are the ones for which money is no object for a specific subject. We're all like that for one of two subjects that are individually important to us, but we can't assume it's equally the same for everyone else.
trainrider47 Wrote:
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> Guys that can afford to trailer a $10K - $15K ATV
> and then use it to chase the train, or drive their
> $35,000 4X4 pickup truck into the back country can
> darn well afford $895 for a two day charter.
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-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
Everything he's ever had went into those. He lives in a dilapidated travel trailer on a sliver of land he rents weekly. That's all he has and he's 'not all there' so getting a better job really isn't an option for him.
Nine hundred bucks is a chunk of change, and I don't know why so many don't see that. The ones who declare it as nothing are the ones for which money is no object for a specific subject. We're all like that for one of two subjects that are individually important to us, but we can't assume it's equally the same for everyone else.
trainrider47 Wrote:
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>
>
> Guys that can afford to trailer a $10K - $15K ATV
> and then use it to chase the train, or drive their
> $35,000 4X4 pickup truck into the back country can
> darn well afford $895 for a two day charter.
>
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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