Freight schedules aren't public information. It's a combination of experience and radios. Some dedicated railfans will buy radio scanners so that they can hear about train movements. Passenger rail is much simpler; just find the schedule.
Most trainwatching is just luck or knowing which lines are busier than others.
Ah, that makes sense and is really cool; I knew people used CB radios to listen in on truckers, I hadn’t considered that it was also possible to do something similar for trains.
I don’t know much about trains, but I’m pretty confident this was freight rail, since there are very very few passenger rails near me—especially out in the country
Freight schedules aren't public information. It's a combination of experience and radios. Some dedicated railfans will buy radio scanners so that they can hear about train movements. Passenger rail is much simpler; just find the schedule.
Most trainwatching is just luck or knowing which lines are busier than others.
Ah, that makes sense and is really cool; I knew people used CB radios to listen in on truckers, I hadn’t considered that it was also possible to do something similar for trains.
I don’t know much about trains, but I’m pretty confident this was freight rail, since there are very very few passenger rails near me—especially out in the country