Or be like me and sit in history class when my teacher asks a random question out of the blue:
"If an electric train is traveling at 95 mph and has a head wind of 95 mph, which way will the smoke blow?"
And in order these things come to mind:
What kind of electric train? GG1? E-33? Or a one of those massive Milwakuee Road units? Acela?
Why are you going 95? Clearly there must be SOME sort of speed restrictions.
Where was the train? Was it like in Alabama or something, considering a 95 mph wind is hurricane force.
And then, finally, i think out loud "Electric trains don't make smoke!!!"
Now im quite famous, for giving everybody the answer.
You plan to visit the location of your railroad when on your honeymoon...
(Hey, it's probably the only time I'll be in the States)
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
Railfan your favorite prototype railroad so to build the model railroad, now only railfan by taking layout pictures because that prototype railroad doesn't exist any more.
++You have no more room to store those 300 brass locomotives you keep buying.
++You let a CAT in the same room as your layout, and now you rebuild for the 34th time.
++ You attend train shows and come back home with another car full of more "stuff"
1. When you ask your g-friend/wife with an evil grin "wanna visit the hump yard?..."
2. When you call your fridge "the reefer".
3. When you're bored in your office and start lining up stuff on your desk and start making "choo choo" sounds.
4. When your the only grown up that still receives "toys" in Christmas.
You watch a movie about RR crossing safety in Driver's ed, but you only pay attention to the trains and not the cars.I know I did! And it's not like I didn't already know that stuff anyway...
Someone talks about something, and you can relate it to trains.
You are in school and you're bored in English class as your teacher lectures you for 40 minutes on the proper use of commas, and all you can think about is trains.
In Spanish class, you get excited because Chapter 1 is about trains (el tren).
You have to go somewhere, and you ask your parents if you can take the train.
You take the train to school, even though you can take the bus for free (I wish I did, but I can't drive yet, and my mom wouldn't get me to the station in time).
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twhiteWhen the bill at the grocery store comes to $28.84 and the first thing that comes to your mind is an Akane Yellowstone.
When your total comes up to anything that would be a whyte notation (4.84, 4.64 and 4.22 are common where I work), you think if said engine type.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
jjbmish When you name your cat "Chessie" and try to name the dog "Peake"
When you name your cat "Chessie" and try to name the dog "Peake"
BIL has 2 cats--"Chessie" and "CN".
You need to have another cat----name of "Ohio"
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
...you post a thread about knowing when you're a model railroader.
...you reply to it.
-Morgan
When you get chill going down your spine when you hear the rumble of a diesel....oh wait I'm standing outside with no coat on.
When you look at a prototype train car and say, "I bet I can model that"
Will
When your computer screen at school ignores the Faculty e-mails and goes directly to the MR Forum.
When the Drama department at school announces that they're doing "The Mikado" as their Spring musical and you forget all about Gilbert and Sullivan and wonder where they're going to find that full-scale steamer.
When the bill at the grocery store comes to $28.84 and the first thing that comes to your mind is an Akane Yellowstone.
When your favorite student comes into class and tells you, "My brain's off-track today" and all you can think of is that Walther's Pullman with the troublesome wheelset you bought the other day.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
you have more emery boards and tweezers than your wife.
Enjoy
Paul
When you see a building in disrepair and admire the weathering job.
1) When your standing in the "Make your own" jewelry aisle of Hobby Lobby, (with a bunch of young girls) thinking that bronze necklace material would work to chain your logs down to your cars, and those split rings and small studs could work for hardware on your gallows turntable.
2) Your wife knows the difference between ballast and "plain old dirt"
3) You have a knuckle coupler on the bumper of your truck when the ball isn't being used.
4) You have a Milwaukee Road logo besides the 88 Dale JR sticker on the rear windshield.
5) Your GPS has all of the LHS's saved for 25% of the continental USA.(and you have visited them)
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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You want to name your baby daughter, Soo.
You train your dog to come by blowing one of those wooden train whistles.
Your house smells like Lysol from the ground goop recipe.
Rust doesn't bother you.
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
When a "supermodel" is one that is properly weathered and equipped with a Tsunami.
When you decided where to buy coffee based on the kind of stirrers they provide.
When you look down from a high bridge and study the roof details.
When a real steam whistle will rouse you out of a sound sleep.
When "making tracks" has nothing to do with leaving.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
When you get a pet goat, and name it Rocky.
When you go into restaraunts and take a bunch of straws for pipes.
When you wife answers the door, and tell them exactly where you are.
You are on this forum.
When you never wash or re-paint you car because it makes it look more rail-roady.
CSX_road_slugWhen you keep a disposable camera in each of your vehicles' glove compartments, so you'll have it for one of those once-in-a-lifetime proto-photo opportunities.
When you keep a disposable camera in each of your vehicles' glove compartments, so you'll have it for one of those once-in-a-lifetime proto-photo opportunities.
One of my New Year Resolutions last year was to never leave the house without at least my point-and-shoot camera with me...not just to shoot trains, but that was a big reason!
When you get a tour of a friend's new house and all you really want to see is the basement so you can envision what type of layout would fit in it.
Scott
When you prefer to stare at your collection of trains rather then eat or sleep.
You look at a train and know what states it went through.
You go into a hobby shop and you want to buy all the trains in there.
You go into a hobby shop and pass all the other stuff, go straight to the back(or front) of the store skipping all the new stuff and staring at the trains.
You would rather be with other train collectors and look,talk, and test each others trains out instead of throwing a football party.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
When you drive down a county road and think to yourself, now this would make a good scene to model.
When you drive by a building and say, (sometimes out loud) man that would make one heck of a train building.
When your in Walmart and give a kid intimidating look so he walks away from the little cars and trucks that you want for your layout.
When your in a first name basis with the ladies at A.C.Moore & Micheal's craft stores.
Want to hug the mailman when he brings you your latest copy of Model Railroader. ( come on you can admit it)
You want to change into The Hulk when, after telling someone you're a model railroader they respond with "Oh, that's cute! I didn't know you played with trains!"
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
You just aquired several 1:32 scale steam locomotive drawings and say to yourself " I could build one these using supplies from the Home Depot"
Dave
After 55 years in the hobby you still get excited over your newest locomotive or freight car-just like you did with your first purchases.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"