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You might be a railfan if... ...you read TRAINS magazine while listening to recordings of steam locomotives and riding VIA Rail, all the while thinking about a GG-1, and consider it multi-tasking ...you consider your car a cab-forward ...you have ever described cars in terms of first generation passenger diesels ...you go to the auto show and spend the day telling your friend about Alco, Baldwin, and Lima after dieselization ...you can tell a Dash-9 from an AC-4400CW from half a mile away ...you can tell an F-3 from an F-7 ...you consider steam locomotives to be an orchestra producing music, and resent anyone who links this music to "noise" ...you cry after reading about a railroad abandonned decades ago ...you live in California, but for some reason Acela crews know you on a first name basis ...you dream of "steamization" and "trails-to-rails" [:)] Other things a railfan might do: 1.) Upon becoming rich, restoring to steam locomotives and ammassing a passenger car fleet, to be used for daily commuting. 2.) Becoming the largest shareholder in UP just to get them to stop charging for the use of their logo. 3.) Buying TV airtime, to be used to educate the general public on the technology of balanced slide valves 4.) Becoming chairman of the ICC, and splitting up BNSF into AT&SF, GN, NP, SP&S, CB&Q, SLSF, and have I forgotten anyone [:)]? 5.) Forming the "New MIlwaukee Road" just to give BNSF some competition, albeit with restored F-units and EP-5's
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