User talk:BNOBOB

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Hi. I noticed you just changed ferroequinologist from a redirect to contain material that could be incorporated into Railfan. Several of us who edit railroad articles here (take a look at WikiProject Trains for more about what we're trying to accomplish and at the todolist for tasks that need attention) are working on merging pertinent information into Railfan (see Talk:Railfan). Two questions: 1) do you have references for the origin of the term so other editors can confirm the facts and 2) would you like to merge the information into Railfan or would you like me to do it? slambo 19:12, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

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I'm just getting my sealegs in Wikipedia. Yes, I have no problem in merging anything for Ferroequinologist, railfan, and any similar for the subject train watching and studying. I would also like to see more definitions for train/ railroad hobby terms to be put into Wikipedia. B&O Bob 23:58, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


 * We've got a start in Rail terminology for prototype terms. There are more in the varios Rail transport modelling articles.  slambo 00:47, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for being out of touch for 3 weeks; was off riding trains in Canada, Washington state, etc. As for the origin of the term Ferroequinologist, I asked our club founders and found that although they first used the term in 1979, they tried to come up with it, but called the Atlanta, Georgia library research dept. The clerk (in 1979) informed them that the word they searched for was Ferroequinologist. So, although we were probably the first in this north Georgia, USA area to use it, as a club, it was in limited use before. Our club founders further added that they saw a "T"-shirt with the word on it about 1980 in a Virginia hobby shop. B&O Bob B&O Bob 23:34, 15 August 2005 (UTC)]