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OK, here goes again...
Yep, he's real, goes out railfanning with Shaner sometimes, and as far as I can tell, the worked on the 565 together at Steamtown.
You can 100% believe, most railfans are genuinely good people of all ages who just do it for the love of history, the machines, and the joy it all brings to others.
Schuylkill Valley/The_Knight_Rider/Photographer/Joseph J. Conrad/Mark J. Fisher/Tom Jones/Wendy M. Evans/William Keys/Kenneth L. Smith Sr./Thomas T. Johnson Sr./Lisa S. Heller/John Simon/Sadi Quinn/Lawrence Duckers/David Montagna/Leonard Gates/Leonard F. Shaner Jr.,
That about cover all your socks? I know you have more on the RR forums, but I haven't got time enough to find them all.
Now as to your question, I have a 120 foot surveyors tape, which I acquired from Builder's Supply some years ago. You can find them at any hardware type store, Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, Sears, oh right you're banned from several of those... Anyhoo, I tied the tape to the rail itself, taking into account that I used 8.5 inches to go around the rail, and walked up the hill (that's a steep hill Lennay, if you actually made it to the deer stand from the tracks, good job!). I then placed the tape to the base of the deer stand and looked at it. The numbers on a measuring tape here in the U.S. are "inches" and the tape read almost exactly 450 inches. Upon dividing this by 12, the number of inches in a foot, I was able to determine that if you were standing at the deer stand, you were approximately 37.5 feet from the rail. The RR owns 50 feet on either side of each rail.
You were trespassing.
You are a criminal.
In your face.
Since you're a PA guy, is Kaufman real? There's been some debate about this.
Yep, he's real, goes out railfanning with Shaner sometimes, and as far as I can tell, the worked on the 565 together at Steamtown.
I want to believe there are still some railfans who are kind old men who love the history and maybe even feel nostalgia for a time gone by. I want to believe!
You can 100% believe, most railfans are genuinely good people of all ages who just do it for the love of history, the machines, and the joy it all brings to others.
Curt, how did you measure the feet from the rail head?
Schuylkill Valley/The_Knight_Rider/Photographer/Joseph J. Conrad/Mark J. Fisher/Tom Jones/Wendy M. Evans/William Keys/Kenneth L. Smith Sr./Thomas T. Johnson Sr./Lisa S. Heller/John Simon/Sadi Quinn/Lawrence Duckers/David Montagna/Leonard Gates/Leonard F. Shaner Jr.,
That about cover all your socks? I know you have more on the RR forums, but I haven't got time enough to find them all.
Now as to your question, I have a 120 foot surveyors tape, which I acquired from Builder's Supply some years ago. You can find them at any hardware type store, Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, Sears, oh right you're banned from several of those... Anyhoo, I tied the tape to the rail itself, taking into account that I used 8.5 inches to go around the rail, and walked up the hill (that's a steep hill Lennay, if you actually made it to the deer stand from the tracks, good job!). I then placed the tape to the base of the deer stand and looked at it. The numbers on a measuring tape here in the U.S. are "inches" and the tape read almost exactly 450 inches. Upon dividing this by 12, the number of inches in a foot, I was able to determine that if you were standing at the deer stand, you were approximately 37.5 feet from the rail. The RR owns 50 feet on either side of each rail.
You were trespassing.
You are a criminal.
In your face.