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A metrophile is a person whos hobby is the study of metro (subway, underground) systems. A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ...
Metro is: a general term, synonymous with rapid transit, subway or underground, for an urban underground rail public transit system (see list of rapid transit systems); any of several specific public transport systems, including: Bi-State Development Agency in Missouri and Illinois, d/b/a Metro since 2003 Buffalo Metro...
Such people may indulge their hobby by:
- travelling and visiting as many metro systems as they can;
- attempting to find out about and/or visit hidden nooks and crannies of a metro system;
- learning about the technology, architecture, and history of various metro systems;
- collecting material related to metro systems, such as maps, plans, transfers, tickets, and the like, often from many cities around the world;
- publicizing their metro systems (some metrophile websites contain more information about the system than the transit companies' own);
- designing expanded metro networks for various cities;
- discussing their findings with others;
- and, in general, writing, learning, teaching, photographing, and thinking about metros.
Some metrophiles even manage to attract attention, approval, help, and even employment from transit companies.
However, in the Greater New York Area, they are instead known as railfans. Some of them have formed a well-organized lobbying organization. The New York metropolitan area is the largest in the United States (2005 U.S. Census Bureau CSA pop. ...
Railfans practicing their hobby at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. ...
Lobbying is the professional practice of public affairs advocacy, with the goal of influencing a governing body by promoting a point of view. ...
Some also combine this with bus spotter and/or tram spotter to form "transit fan", a person who studies a city's entire urban public transit system. Bus spotting is a pastime in which one seeks to see all buses in a particular fleet or those produced by a particular manufacturer. ...
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One metrophile, an autistic New Yorker named Darius McCollum, impersonated a range of New York City subway personnel for some time; he was so technically proficient at driving trains, helping repair crews, fixing trains, and even dealing with emergencies, that he served unpaid with some distinction (and a certain amount of complicity from actual personnel). This was illegal and he was repeatedly arrested and, despite a plea to have him treated for Asperger's syndrome, was finally imprisoned. Harper's Magazine published an article on him in May 2002. A boy with autism and his mother Autism refers to a spectrum of disorders, and lies somewhere under the umbrella of a greater encompassing spectrum, that of pervasive developmental disorders that involve the functioning of the brain. ...
Darius McCollum (born 1965) is a New York resident with a lengthy arrest record for crimes related to trains and the New York City Subway system. ...
Asperger described his patients as little professors. Aspergers syndrome (AS, or the more common shorthand Aspergers), is characterized as one of the five pervasive developmental disorders, and is commonly referred to as a form of high functioning autism. ...
An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, and the arts. ...
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See also
This article is about the hobby of train spotting, for other uses see Trainspotting. ...
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is a British best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime. ...
King Solomons Carpet (1991) is a novel by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) about the London Underground and the people frequenting it. ...
Railfans practicing their hobby at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. ...
External links - UrbanRail.net
- Straphangers Campaign
- http://www.vicsig.net/ Vicsig - Victorian Signals and Safeworking (Comprehensive resource on Australian Railways)
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