Category:Railway Recreation

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Railway Recreation

Railway Preservation

Railway preservation Combination of conservation, museum, recreational activity and tourism.

Vintage passenger cars Preserved passengers cars, often in running order used for charter vintage trains.

  1. New York Central No. 3 (US) Built for Harold Sterling Vanderbilt, the last of the Vanderbilts to run the New York Central. Used by Adlai Stevenson when he ran against Dwight D. Eisenhower 1956.
  2. The Ohio River (US) Observation and lounge car built in 1920s.

Railway Tourism

Orient Express

Land cruise Extended excursion taking several days, stopping at sightseeing points, usually using luxury historic stock, such as the modern version of the Orient Express.

Railway Enthusiasm

Railfan (Train buff) (AmE) (BrE, Railway buff; Railway enthusiast) Person interested in some or all of the varied aspects of railways.

  1. Ferrophiliac Lover of railways and all that pertains to them.
    1. Railway nutter (Puffernutter) (BrE) Slightly pejorative term for a ferrophiliac.
    2. Ferroequinologist (AmE) Jocular, student of the ‘iron horse,’ a railfan.
  2. Foamer (AmE) Railroad slang for a railfan, i.e. one who ‘foams at the mouth’ when he (rarely she) talks about trains, subsequently adopted as a self-description by railfans.
  3. Glazer (AmE) Amtrak slang for avid foamers whose eyes glaze over at the mere thought of a train.
  4. FLM (= Fan living with mother, pronounced ‘flim’) Amtrak slang for beyond even a glazer. This fan has no other interests other than trains.

Rare mileage (AmE, rail enthusiast term) Little used track used by rail fan excursions.

Trainspotting (Train spotting) (BrE) Practice of identifying and writing down the details of passing trains, especially the locomotive number, a hobby found only in Britain.

  1. Trainspotter (BrE) Person who enjoys trainspotting.
    1. Anoraks (BrE) Derogatory term for a trainspotter, in reference to the windbreakers they wear.

Note Term transpotter came to mean a general nerd or loser, the kind of person who wears National Health Service eyeglasses and carries around a sheaf of pens and a soggy sandwich.

  1. ABCs (BrE) Books listing railway numbers, produced by Ian Allan, publisher, from 1940s.
  2. Shed book (BrE) Book listing the depots of locomotives.
  3. Cop (BrE) v To see and record the number of a locomotive.

Bellowing Leaning out of carriage windows and yelling at terrified commuters on platform as trains speeds past.

Flailing Hanging as fas possible out of the old-style train windows as you race through the countryside.

Diesel Bashers Phrase used by diesel enthusiasts to describe their hobby. Sometimes snootily used by the steam enthusiasts about diesel fans.

Kettle Heads How diesel fans describe steam engine enthusiasts.

Hack spot (AuE) Photographic location that has been used many times by many people for railway photography.

  1. Maldon Curve Classic hack spot on the Main South in NSW.
  2. Picton yard Hack spot NSW.
  3. Mittagong Junction Hack spot NSW.
  4. Moss Vale yard Hack spot NSW.
  5. Werai Hack spot NSW.
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