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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 10:35 pm
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birdstrike
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Originally Posted by GoAmtrak
4) Amtrak employees should especially know better. For the past four years, the official Amtrak calendar has featured photos submitted by railfans as part of Amtrak's Picture Our Train Photo Contest. If Amtrak is actively soliciting photos of their trains, it's an even greater embarassment for their employees to be attacking photographers and their rights.
Very good point! If I had remembered that, and hadn't been waiting for my mother to arrive, I would have mentioned it to a supervisor. I might have even tried to get a decent shot of the Empire Builder, but the light was all wrong. Still, a 400mm lens tends to give people pause

The complainng Amtrak employees were gone in a flash. I think that is why our Japanese friend was perplexed. Of what use is a driveby crank?
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