General Discussion (Model Railroader)

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.

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.

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)

 When you see a building in disrepair and admire the weathering job.

you have more emery boards and tweezers than your wife.

Enjoy

Paul

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

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"

...you post a thread about knowing when you're a model railroader.

...you reply to it.

jjbmish:

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"

twhite:

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 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. 

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).

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 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"