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Posted by cudaken on Friday, September 3, 2010 5:47 AM

 You dream about running a train layout..

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Posted by GTW6401 on Friday, September 3, 2010 1:15 AM

HaroldA

You eat breakfast at Choo-Choo's Diner - (there is such a place where I live).

 

Love choo choos, a favorite spot to watch Michigan Central trains rumble by when I was younger.

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Posted by JakesTrains on Thursday, September 2, 2010 10:32 PM

I went to the post office to pick up package with grain of wheat LEDs. The bridge with NS line is right down the street. All the sudden my almost 3 year old starts screaming TRAIN, TRAIN, jumping all around, hugging me (like it's my fault) and start screaming out all the different cars that the train is pulling.Some old lady asked me if he is OK, well duh, he couldn't be better!

OK it is my fault.. I created a train monster.

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Posted by wholeman on Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:15 PM

Packers#1

 

 rockymidlandrr:

 

Accidently pulled this one last night.

Get home from a long day at school and hop online and talk to another friend about trains, all the while forgetting that your girlfriend asked you to call her several times when you got home.

Dont ask how that one ended up.....

 

 

not sure how I'd pull that one off, I'd probably txt my girlfriend and then she'd tell me to call her.

How about when you spend your idle time in study hall coming up with your operating sequence for the trackplan you have?

or instead of doodling some random drawings you sketch out rough trackplan ideas in class.

I have done the doodling thing in class before.  It's amazing that I passed College Algebra, Statistics, and Calculus.  I guess miracles do happen.Dunce

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, September 2, 2010 7:25 PM

rockymidlandrr

Accidently pulled this one last night.

Get home from a long day at school and hop online and talk to another friend about trains, all the while forgetting that your girlfriend asked you to call her several times when you got home.

Dont ask how that one ended up.....

not sure how I'd pull that one off, I'd probably txt my girlfriend and then she'd tell me to call her.

How about when you spend your idle time in study hall coming up with your operating sequence for the trackplan you have?

or instead of doodling some random drawings you sketch out rough trackplan ideas in class.

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Posted by twhite on Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:42 PM

Your lady friend comes back from Yellowstone and while she's talking on and on about the scenic grandeur of the park, all you can think of is the grandeur of a Missabe Road M-3/4 2-8-8-4. 

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Posted by Geared Steam on Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:03 PM

When you wish "High Greens" to someone, and they know what you're talking about.

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Posted by rockymidlandrr on Thursday, September 2, 2010 4:14 PM

Accidently pulled this one last night.

Get home from a long day at school and hop online and talk to another friend about trains, all the while forgetting that your girlfriend asked you to call her several times when you got home.

Dont ask how that one ended up.....

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Posted by AlpineModeler on Thursday, September 2, 2010 3:47 PM

You're right! The passenger train in Japan was cool too though.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:55 AM

The only part of the movie "Inception" that makes sense is the freight train running down the middle of a Los Angeles street - without tracks.  Adds a new dimension to the term "street running."

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by reklein on Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:34 AM

I don't know if its me or my grandson who has trains on the mind,probably both, as my grandson was heard talking in his sleep saying Grampa,grampa,toot,toot toooooot.Big Smile   AAAts my boy!   BILL

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:32 AM

The big thrill of going to DMV to re-register the pickup is that the office is right next to the UP's LA&SL route.  (Today I got lucky!  Two units and a short ethanol unit northbound.)

The big selling point about the pickup was that the color scheme and the hood hump resemble one end of a GG1.  (I keep threatening to put a PRR keystone on the panel behind the door....)

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Posted by BATMAN on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:26 PM

It didn't matter if Scully and Mulder were in Mississippi, Virginia or Maine. If there was a train involved it always said BCR on it. Now that is either a heck of a branch line or I'm just being picky.Hmm

 

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Posted by wholeman on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 9:03 PM

When you hear a certain train horn, and you can tell if it is a Leslie or a Nathan.

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Posted by tbdanny on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:08 PM

Here's another one:

You know Groundhog Day was filmed on the west coast because the 'driving on the tracks' sequence features a diesel in the Burlington Northern green and white stripes.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 2:16 PM

How about you're more concerned with the trains than the fight in the final fight scene of the movie S.W.A.T.

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Posted by BerkshireSteam on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:15 AM

HaroldA

You eat breakfast at Choo-Choo's Diner - (there is such a place where I live).

Wedon't have a Choo-Choo's but we have a Box Car Billy's.

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Posted by chatanuga on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:08 AM

...when you refer to fog lights on vehicles as ditch lights.

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Posted by Dave-the-Train on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 10:40 AM

When you're bored out of your skull waiting at the Dr's because you didn't bring a RR mag Sleep... you pick up a ladies mag to sullenly flick throughHuh?... and spot a PRR signal way off in the distance beyond some young bikini lady model advertising... who cares!?  LaughThere's a signal in the background and I spotted it!Laugh

Maybe I should see a shrink? Confused

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Posted by Forty Niner on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 10:26 AM

When you look forward to going #2 so you have some quiet time to think about that Model RR project you are working on.........

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Posted by galaxy on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 9:04 AM

...when you have a "knuckle coupler" for a trailer hitch ball substitute.

 

...when you can't wait to get home to see if your new loco has arrived yet.

 

...when you wish your "garden railroad" could be 1:1.

 

...when you dream of steam locos as a personal transport for your very own "private car" to travel in.

 

...when you daydream of the last train you saw going by recently.

 

...when you dream you ARE the owner of your own 1:1 railroad.

 

...when you spend more time on these train forums than you do with your family.

 

...when you think only of vacations that will include a train of some kind.

 

...when March rolls around and you are tired of winter and can't wait for the first tourist train ride to open up.

 

...when you daydream of steam trains while riding the subway.

 

...when you daydream you are DRIVING the subway train!

 

...when you spend spare time watching youtube train videos.

 

...when the only magazines you read in the Dr.s office are the TRAINS and MRR-ing mags you brought with you cuz they don't have such mags at the Dr.s office.

 

...when you live close enough to a tourist train line or train museum that you visit there frequently to "get away from it all".

 

...when you keep that latest train magazines in a magazine rack in your car to read whenever you have free time to kill {such as at the Dr.s office of break from w*rk}

 

-G .

Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

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Posted by Medina1128 on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8:41 AM

Your wife rolls her eyes at you when you tell her what kind of lashup the train in the closing sequence of "In the Heat of the Night" is (the movie, not the tv series).

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7:05 AM

You see a post called "Hey, Charlie..." and immediately think of the poor guy stuck on the MTA.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 6:38 AM

You dream repeatedly of MOW trains in old, closed subway stations at night, like I used to.  I only exorcised these demons by building my own subway.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by HaroldA on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:27 AM

You eat breakfast at Choo-Choo's Diner - (there is such a place where I live).

There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:21 AM

You are watching a thrilling movie with friends, and you tell them, that the loco you have just seen does not fit either the era nor the location Whisper

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Posted by tbdanny on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:41 PM

You're watching the recent Get Smart movie, and the only thing you're worried about during the railyard sequence is what type of EMD loco is about to hit agent 86.

(What is it, anyway?  I don't really know much after the 1950s Smile)

You mention that you've been working on some gondola kits, then wonder why people think you're talking about Venice.

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