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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 Railfan s. Some of them have formed a well-organized Lobbying organization.

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.

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 .


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