Railfan: Train Geeks, Rejoice!

By Jake Ward Posted 08.31.2007 at 12:38 pm 1 Comment

I've heard of guys who will drive their families hours out of the way to catch a glimpse of a certain train in motion, who gather with others of their kind for a night of beers and train sounds on the stereo, who talk about superconducting tracks the way I talk about a great steak. But I never knew they were an actual market. For the Bobby Bacala in your life, here's Railfan: Taiwan Takatetsu, a PS3 train sim title (and a sequel, by God) which overlays animated cockpit graphics and readouts atop HD video shot from the nose of real trains. Sounds boring to me, but evidently some dudes will shell out fifty bucks for the experience of piloting a Taiwanese bullet from Taipei to Zuoyong Station. —Jacob Ward

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mrnice139

10/19/12 at 12:31 pm

I like Jacob Ward,

I saw the show and I had to laugh because Jacob should realize that everything that he would like to see in the classified world is there to protect our technology. He is never, ever, going to get the information he needs but I like that he tries. I am 69 years old, retired Air Force and retired Lockheed Martin and I saw everything that he wanted to see first hand from 1961 to 1998. A message for Jacob is: Just relax, we need to protect all this technology that we develop, our adversaries steal it every day but we still try to protect it. You should see what is on the drawing board today but if we ever get to develop it, it will amaze you. Lots coming in the future. You stay well and keep writing.

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