You know u are a railroad addict when........

[eeyore9900]

You keep you truck as clean as possible-but hope the freight cars you see are as rusted & graffited as much as possible so you can replicate them! [:D]

[TomDiehl]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Attaboy

...upon coming out of a restaurant and hearing the horn and bell you turn so fast the person behind you runs into you. (It was an SW1500 switching the ISG plant across the street that makes, of all things, rails for railroad track)

Tomdiehl...FEBT?

Yes, Robertsdale and Rockhill work crews. Plus regular contributor to the Restoration Fund.

In the off season, I volunteer at Steamtown NHS, but that's only 45 miles away.

A lot of people talk about this kind of thing. I put my money and sweat where my mouth is. [:D]

[zgardner18]

Convinced the wife that the $200 trainset was for our son, who at the time was only 9 months old, when really it was for me (I wan't kidding, It will go to him when he get a lot older)

I think that I'm guitly of all of those things.

I skipped a lot of classes to go up the hill to watch trains

Made sure that our Las Vegas hotel room was high enough to see the UP tracks. Sat at the window with binoculars any moment that we were in the room. The wife thought I was checking out girls on the strip.

[tomikawaTT]

With a smile and nod to canazar:

When you post a query to help you find hobby shops - on your honeymoon!

Chuck

[CSXFan]

I was a half hour late for school once to take a picture of a Norfolk Southern train. When the train finally came it was just a couple of gp38s running light. [:(!]

Then I walked into class with the camera in my hand! [D)]

[Anonymous]

DAve I think I got more stuff from the Bedford branch than you do [:D]
Switch stand
spikes
shoes
rail
[:D]
y aknow your a railfan when each weekedn you bike into the next town over tyo hope for BODO

[emdgp92]

...your old VW bus has a pantograph on the roof and is painted in Amtrak colors.
...said VW bus has a control stand

[Attaboy]

...upon coming out of a restaurant and hearing the horn and bell you turn so fast the person behind you runs into you. (It was an SW1500 switching the ISG plant across the street that makes, of all things, rails for railroad track)

Tomdiehl...FEBT?

[Anonymous]

...you wake up in the middle of the night to go make sure your new 4-8-8-4 is ok on the layout.

[CNSR4500]

1. You move into your house BECAUSE it is next to the tracks....It's pretty sweet, too, 60 feet from the Dayton District, and a train every 20 minutes or so...

2. You fart and yell, "Ninety pounds on the rear!"

3. Carrying two full baskets of laundry, you stop at the bottom of the stairs and wait for a pusher.

4. You convince your bride-to-be to honeymoon on Holmes County, Ohio, to time the trip with Ohio Central's test runs of 4-8-4 #6325.

5. Your house and car are in the company colors of you favorite RR...on purpose.

6. When you have trouble waking up for work in the morning, you tell your spouse "I'm trying to build steam." or "I'm trying to get my prime mover to turn over."

7. When walking with the kids, when one of them falls out of the wagon, you announce that you've "gone into emergency."

8. Approaching traffic lights, you call the signal.

9. After going through that yellow light (slow approach), you stop at the next light, even though it's not red.

10. When you cross an intersection, you just finish your long-long-short-long whistle.

I actually named one of my cats Chessie. He was a Manx, so since he had no tail, he was "cabooseless". The other cat was named Hobbes.

That's all I have for now.

Adam

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

I have a bunch of railroad spikes. As well as washers, and everything else. I even have a foot long length of railhead.[:D]

Hey Matt Zimmerman, my first words were "Choo Choo."[:D]

I have a dozen or so RR ties in my yard,( I used some of them for a garden border) the thing is though, not too far from my house where the Septa line and the CSX to Morrisville runs theres a section of railhead that was replaced a LONG time ago and the old piece is sitting off the railroad right of way in the woods. Its gotta be about 20' long I've been trying to figure a way to get the piece home so I can have a short section of my very own 1:1 scale trackage.

[TrainFreak409]

I have a bunch of railroad spikes. As well as washers, and everything else. I even have a foot long length of railhead.[:D]

Hey Matt Zimmerman, my first words were "Choo Choo."[:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mustanggt
You know u are a railroad addict when........

......... you keep rusty spikes you find on the local bike trail

Actually I do have one I found along the traintracks during one of my Boy Scout troops hikes from when I was about 12.

[METRO]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jimhubbard

the coffee at the Local Hobby Shop tastes better than the Guiness at the local Irish Pub.

Haha! You know I'm probably one of the many railfans here in Milwaukee waiting for that new Mo's Irish Pub to open on Mayfair and Bluemound. An Irish Pub on the UP line, now there's a combination I'll stand by.

But as for my "you know when" story haha.

When I was growing up, I used to play little league. Our "home field" was at the local high school, which was along the CNW line (now UP of course.) I was a decient first baseman, except when a train was going by. Haha, I bet about 90% of my errors matched up to the CNW timetable.

Once, I missed an easy play that would have ended the game because of a FM switcher that was far more interesting than baseball.

Cheers!
~Metro

[railroadyoshi]

Dave Oliva, at least you get Amtrak.
Keith, at least you get GRS and NS.
I'm stuck here halfway in between you two and all I get is MBTA and a once-a-month 4 car local! ARGH!

[Anonymous]

Haha I keep rusty spikes too i have over 20 of them! lol great times on this forum

[Anonymous]

You lay awake at night with the window up letting the sound of a coal train rumbling through the mountains put you to sleep!!!

Or when you see a green light it means highball to you!![;)]

[mustanggt]

QUOTE: 1.Keeping in mind im 13, When you ride your bike a a couple miles everyday just hoping too see a guilford come rushing by but always dissapointed by the MBTA.

lol, I'm so sick of seeing MBTA trains.....Saw 2 today, .and also the Amtrak downeaster.

You know u are a railroad addict when........

......... you name your cat Chessie
......... you keep rusty spikes you find on the local bike trail
......... you get offended at the phrase "toy train set" referring to your HO and N layouts
......... you think people are stupid for saying "why is that train going backwards?", referring to Push/pull commuter trains.

[dougfearon]

You hear the horns in the distance and wonder if you have enough time to get to the nearest crossing and be first in line when the gates go down.[:D] and you listen closely to find out if the train is getting closer or farther away. Also, you spent your time reading these posts and say to yourself, these are really good ideas.[(-D]

[Anonymous]

1.Keeping in mind im 13, When you ride your bike a a couple miles everyday just hoping too see a guilford come rushing by but always dissapointed by the MBTA.

2. When You Ask Your Mom too take the long way somewhere just too see whats going on in the local yard,

3.When You Get Paid At The End Of Each Month And 5 minutes after you get paid youve already spent it at the hobby shop.

4.When You Beg Your Mom Too Let You Stay Home From School So You Can Go On MRR Forums All Day.

[Anonymous]

When your kids first words are train and loco(my wife loved that). Also when you plan out road trips 200 miles longer than they need to be just so you can follow the tracks(anotherthing my wife just shakes her head at).

[Anonymous]

When you stand outside in 17 degree cold to get pics and vid of a 2-8-4 Berkshire on an excursion. Or, you freeze your***off on a bridge waiting for a train to go under, just to be warmed up by diesel exhaust.[:D]

OR, you keep trying to save up for a video camera but keep spending it on model railroad stuff.

You can identify an AC4400CW from a 9-44CW a half a mile away (just happened the other day, actually[:p])

[1train1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jimhubbard

the coffee at the Local Hobby Shop tastes better than the Guiness at the local Irish Pub.

That MIGHT be pushing it Jim

[Anonymous]

the coffee at the Local Hobby Shop tastes better than the Guiness at the local Irish Pub.

[willy6]

When all of the sudden i go with me wife to visit her mother on weekends because her mother bought a house across the road from the NS mainline.

[1train1]

When you by a house on the odd side of a street - dream about moving to the even side - and then buying the house, so you're guaranteed a view like this everyday
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[bnsfncoal]

...when you ask to park your motorhome in the worst spot at the storage lot just so you can sit on top and take pictures of BNSF's Coon Creek junction.

Don't laugh...heat/ac,refrigerator,tunes and a bathroom!!!!

[MStLfan]

... you are the only one grinning [:D] among 1000 angry [:(!] commuters waiting for the 17.30 intercity train to your hometown (and farther) which due to an accident [:(] is not running because you just realised that you are still young and smart enough [8D][8D] to beat most of those 1000 to the train on a longer alternative route and have a window seat (so you don't have to stand like herring in a barrel [xx(]) and can enjoy [:o)] a route you hardly travel over....
greetings
Marc Immeker

[Medina1128]

.. you hear a train whistle and you're out the door in a shot with your camera in hand... But you hear your wife calling, and it's like the march to the electric chair... the only thing more drawn out is an Oscar acceptance speech.