I was sitting here pondering the infographic
@Zim posted and a few things occurred to me. These will probably be obvious things to the train fans.
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Most Kiwis will probably look at these and dismiss them simply as a nerd doing nerdy things, but in this case I think we may be letting that gloss over how Shaner views this stuff. It's not a hobby for him. It's his job, his future, and his dream, all rolled up into one. He's got three separate pages that are all meant to highlight his photography because like Chris Chan he really believes his fan-made works are equivalent to anything a professional could achieve. Never mind that he's not actually employable, that he steals (I guess because photographers can't trace) most of his best work, or that he's so old now that there's no chance of him ever achieving success. This is all he has and he's going to cling to it.
He has other dreams, too. A woman who loves trains as much as him, for example. This is evidenced by the photoshop of the model on the traintracks. Notice that all of Shaners created women sockpuppets are dark-haired, olive complexioned ladies. That's no coincidence, either.
Someone asked about the airplane avatar earlier. I didn't notice that it was a photo he had taken. Given the similarities between old trains and WWII aircraft I think it's entirely plausible that Shaner would nerd-out over anything with a "big old-style engine" in it. It even raises the potential possibility that there are other hobbies Shaner is pulling this shit with, although at least in the case of aircraft there's no way in hell he's going to be able to get close enough to them to do damage without some kind of clearance. Unlike trains airports are small enough to be entirely surrounded by fences and usually even the smaller ones have active security of some form. However I do think we're missing a lot of background for him. We don't know what tv shows he likes, or his daily routine, he doesn't appear to make home videos from inside his house.
Because of all the massive information holes it's entirely possible that there's more

skeletons in his closet we haven't uncovered yet. I'd even say it's almost a certainty they exist. So far we've focused on digging into train stuff and court records, but unless Shaner never does anything else at all except alternate between watching trains and watching squirrels fuck we're probably not seeing anywhere near the full picture here, even from an internet standpoint.
Also I note that Shaner calls himself "The World's Most Famous Railfan". I can see how that self-appointed title would piss off other railfans. It says a lot about Shaners ego and desire to shine at something no one outside of his hobby gives a shit about.
You talk a lot of shit when you aren't making demands that everyone else stop talking shit.