Word: railfanning
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...this act of blackest treachery, Beebe has remained the chief spokesman for a rather intriguing group of Americans who are passionately interested in trains. The Age of Steam, his latest effort in the field, is intended as a memorial to the machine largely responsible for the existence of the railfan...
Anyone with this turn of mind was potentially a railfan, but there were negative factors to be considered, such as coal dust allergies and love of quiet. And there were still quite a few people around who just didn't like any machines...
...result the railfan never became a dominant figure on the American sociocultural scene. He usually started as a small child who admired the boisterous noises and heavy clouds of smoke generated by the locomotives of some railroad near home. Then he just never grew up, at least as far as railroads were concerned, which is to say he grew up as a railfan...
Enjoyed TIME'S [Sept. 27] coverage of Earl Warren's special train . . . Reference to the ''engine backing slowly," however, may prompt some of the West's railfan enthusiasts to write you,* since the train was powered over the Sierra not by a backward-operating locomotive but by one of this company's powerful cab-ahead-type locomotives...