Newly-appointed transportation reporter Andy Riga has a feature story in today’s paper about local trainspotters, complete with an audio slideshow from photographer John Kenney. The picture with the story is of Alex Tipaldos, aka KellerGraham, a transit photo nut and Friend of Fagstein.
Bastard copied my story idea His story complements a short one I did last year about bus fans who rent older transit buses and take pictures of them.
Both groups use the montrain.ca website (disclosure: run by a friend of mine) to organize their activities. The bus group, by the way, is organizing a pair of special bus charters for the first weekend of May.
About the slideshow — great images but the sound was all wonky when I listened to it. Maybe it wasn’t recorded in the right frequency for the slideshow program?
Thanks for the plug!
They’re working on the audio problem. Stay tuned…. After the story was published, I heard about another great local website for trainspotters – http://quebectrain.com/
Andy, as a lifelong railfan myself, let me say that was a terrific story.
And a tip of the hat for the box with the rail links on the web.
Thanks.