A TV show asks about secret lives...
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:09 pm
I'm a member of a railroad forum, and one thing I learned is that some railroad employees can end up spending a lot of time away from home, in hotels and motels at the end of the line.
A TV reality show was looking for candidates for filming on our forum, and one of the question they asked was:
"Do frequent trips allow you to lead a secret life?"
As we've seen, there does seem to be a "railroad gene" among CDers, as many of us have been interested in railroads and model railroads. But whether that's true or not, railroading life does offer a good opportunity for dressing in private at the hotel in Distant City, U.S.A.
A crew member does their eight hours, goes 250 miles from home, and finds themselves in a city where no one knows them at all.
The members of the RR forum had mixed feelings about this post. Some of them felt it was just another "bottom-feeding reality show." With the above question, I might feel that way, too, but the producer came back on and said, no, this was a sincere attempt to depict life on the railroad.
We all know that the show is never going to feature some engineer going out to the local drag show in 'her' finest evening wear. It was amusing to me to know that dressing is going on out there, while the forum members either don't even think of it, or would not want to hear about it. But my 'sisters' on the railroad forum know, too, and sometimes I wonder which ones they are.
A TV reality show was looking for candidates for filming on our forum, and one of the question they asked was:
"Do frequent trips allow you to lead a secret life?"
As we've seen, there does seem to be a "railroad gene" among CDers, as many of us have been interested in railroads and model railroads. But whether that's true or not, railroading life does offer a good opportunity for dressing in private at the hotel in Distant City, U.S.A.
A crew member does their eight hours, goes 250 miles from home, and finds themselves in a city where no one knows them at all.
The members of the RR forum had mixed feelings about this post. Some of them felt it was just another "bottom-feeding reality show." With the above question, I might feel that way, too, but the producer came back on and said, no, this was a sincere attempt to depict life on the railroad.
We all know that the show is never going to feature some engineer going out to the local drag show in 'her' finest evening wear. It was amusing to me to know that dressing is going on out there, while the forum members either don't even think of it, or would not want to hear about it. But my 'sisters' on the railroad forum know, too, and sometimes I wonder which ones they are.
