Will Gant Wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure I should feel insulted here.....
I wasn't trying to insult you, Will.
just merely reflecting on your background, which is born out in your comments on here, showing that you are conditioned to that way of thinking, due where you work. You have made that clear in past posts. It isn't right or wrong in my book just a fact of life. It is what it is.
I too am under no illusion that the D&Sng isn't the D&RGW anymore. Never thought of it that way either since I first read about Bradshaw's takeover in 1981 Trains Mag, which prompted me to visit it in 1982, even though I just wasn't fussed about the D&RGW and those 2-8-2's.
You can probably say the same about me, working Diesels and Electrics after Steam was gone, I really dig Electric Traction, probably as much as Earl(and some others) dig Steam. I remember once once when I referred to myself as a Fireman, I was chastised by my Supervisor that it was Locomotive Assistant, Fireman being a thing of the past, and since I only ever saw a working Steamer once, when I was 10 or 11 years old, have no affection for that type of motive power other than liking it. I was asked to sit my Boilers ticket by the Loco Instructor and replied I'd left my shovel at the farm.
I too was conditioned by my employment, I waver between the Railwayman and the Railfan, I find it very, very hard to understand the way some railfans think and act, however liking this stuff and the historical nature being kept alive, therefore I must be a railfan: what a quandary.
However, I do take the finish of restored Museum/Historic Display equipment seriously. And for one, I am appalled at the decline in the standards of others thesedays, the unabashed re-writing of History whether they are Americans or my own Countrymen. If I see the need to pull someone up on their error, I will.
