Signs you're a train nut

[Puckdropper]

I'm reposting this (and cleaning the reposted part up) from the "what happened here" thread by limited clear.
Top signs you’re a train nut
1. You’ve purposely moved to a house closest to the railroad tracks.
2. You’ve never complained about the noise of the switching or horn blasts
3. Your train videos out number your movies
4. You have more home movies of trains than of your family
5. All your computer wallpaper, screen savers, and sound effects are train related
6. All your MP3s are train songs
7. If you haven’t already framed all the pictures from your train calendars you still hang them on the wall even though they’re several years old
8. One of the stops on your garden railway picks up the daily mail and newspaper
9. You have a garden railroad
10. Your doorbell is a soundbite of Ralph Wiggum (from the Simpsons) saying: “choo choo choo choo woo woo!”
11. You replaced your car horn for a real train air horn
12. You don’t speed down the highway, you highball it
13. You think your car runs on steam and you make absolutely sure your truck is a diesel
14. You refer to your driveway as the “yard”, the garage as the “shops”
15. Youthink of your trailer or fifth wheel like pulling a passenger car
16. You don’t live in a house, you live in a depot
17. You own a caboose
18. You always travel by train
19. When you travel by train you don’t understand what everyone else is complaining about
20. AMTRAK=FUN!
21. Your email address is the name of a railroad, the name of a train, or the name of famous trainman.
22. Most of your vacation pictures have more trains than family or friends or the feature attraction
23. The trains ARE the reason you went on vacation
24. You have more issues of Trains Magazine than most collectors have comic books
25. If you have 4 stars on the Train forum...and just started going there a few months ago.
26. Your wife will not let you drive because you always pick a route that follows train tracks in the hopes of catching a train.
27. You come to a rail crossing you STOP, LOOK and LISTEN without being told, in the hope of getting caught by a train.
28. Your wife hides the latest TRAINS magazine and will not give it back till you get all your chores done around the house.
29. You get a rush of adreneline when you hear the crossing bells and race to the crossing. (To, not over!!!!)

[Anonymous]

That's really funny[:D][:)]
I need some time to come up with mine.
Meanwhile, i hope someone else has a sense of humor.

[JoeKoh]

1 no
2 yes
3-4 no
5 yes
6 cds
7 make own calendar give copy to csx boys and girls
8-9 dont have one ours is inside
10 matt does that
11no
12 we haul a--
13-21no
22-24 very true
25 working on it
26 we switch places if train is coming
27 always(check the signals down the line too)
28 no
29 oh yeah
60 + train pics(some with pics inside with the bigger ones)
30+train related signs
lots of engines and rolling stock ho scale
and a neighbor who commented"and my wife says I got too many trains!"
the ultimate compliment. reporting from the Joey Ohio rr
stay safe
Joe

[JoeKoh]

oops we forgot the rr bibs(overalls) t-shirts and sweatshirts that we have too.
stay safe
Joe

[dknelson]

Here is a sign: you put up a second Christmas tree each year just to handle all the train and lantern ornaments (and you dig out the old Lionel train to go underneath, even though it scares the cat).
Dave Nelson

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson

Here is a sign: you put up a second Christmas tree each year just to handle all the train and lantern ornaments (and you dig out the old Lionel train to go underneath, even though it scares the cat).
Dave Nelson

[:(!] Mustn't scare the cat!!!!

[zardoz]

Mookie-
For lots of fun with your kitty, get one of those inexpensive laser pointers and shine against a wall or furniture. Just be very careful not to let the light hit their (or your) eyes. But the cats will go crazy chasing the light. The other caution is to be careful the cats do not hurt themselves chasing the light (they get SO worked up!). I've got three cats and two pointers--by the end of playtime, the cats totally flame-out for hours!!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

Mookie-
For lots of fun with your kitty, get one of those inexpensive laser pointers and shine against a wall or furniture. Just be very careful not to let the light hit their (or your) eyes. But the cats will go crazy chasing the light. The other caution is to be careful the cats do not hurt themselves chasing the light (they get SO worked up!). I've got three cats and two pointers--by the end of playtime, the cats totally flame-out for hours!!

Zardoz - let me tell you about the real Mookie - she chases food. She is afraid of heights - has never gotten higher than the bed and then needed a chair to get off the bed. She has a nasty habit of playing "rug" right in the traffic pattern. She is scared to death of just about everything and she has a wire loose somewhere. She doesn't play - never has in the 14 years of her life. She would look out the window and the birds would panic her - they were only trying to get to the birdbath I placed right outside the window for her entertainment. Scared her silly! Has never willingly sat on any lap - and loves to be scratched -lays on the floor, just beyond your fingertip reach!

Also she eats no people food - not even chocolate cake - and for that, I am grateful!

So you think I am a little "interesting" - you should meet the real Mookie - except she would never allow that! [:D]

Mookie's Ma

[Puckdropper]

What's the real mookie look like? Is she black with a white spot on her neck? Kinda sounds like our cat Blacky, wonder if it's something in the breed...

[ironhorseman]

If you've named your car after a train (the Chevy Cannonball) you might be a train nut.

[JoeKoh]

the only good cat (mookie exempted)is the one that used to be on the side of B&O C&O and Wm engines cabooses and rolling stock.[:D]
stay safe
Joe

[brilondon]

Your dream vacation is Chicago.

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by brilondon

Your dream vacation is Chicago.

according to the milepost on Harris rd its only 180 miles away![8D]
too much other family stuff.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Every time you go past an intersection in your car you sound two longs, one short and a long with your car horn.

[Anonymous]

LOL thats funny!!!

i love the sound of RR bells... they turn me on..






i'm kidding!!

[Anonymous]

steam from an electric train? I think not.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dagcbg95

steam from an electric train? I think not.

First of all, welcome to the forums! We wish you many more posts.
Then, about kevin's signature. I think that was a joke (let us hope so)

[RudyRockvilleMD]

I think some of those signs apply to me. Not to brag but I have more home movies (8 mm and Super 8) of trains than the family. Whenever we go on trips i take more slides and more videotape of trains than of the places we visit. I also plan our trips so that I wind up in some place of railfan interest. My wife lets me slip the leash, and go out railfanning for one day of our trip while she does the malls; I disarm her first.

Another sign you are a train nut is you only take slides not pictures.

Does anybody know what SARS really stands for? Severe Acute Railfan Syndrome!!!

[cabforward]

if you think of your car this way..

the parking lights are 'ditch lights'..

your tail lite is a 'fred'..

you don't drop people off, you 'set them out'..

friends don't accept an offer of a lift, they 'flag' you..

in turning around, you always use a 'wye'..

you advise pass. not to talk while the car is in motion..

the driver's seat is the 'cab'..
the back seat is 'coach'..

you buy a car w/right-hand drive to sit on the same side as the engineer..

if helping someone drop off their car @ the mechanic, or if they help you, this is 'm-u control'..

several errands is a 'milk run'..

traveling is a 'long-haul run'..
luggage is 'containerization'..

rescuing someone from a broke-down car on the road is 'extra board'..

driving w/o pass. or cargo is 'lite engines', w/ pass. or loaded trunk is 'heavy'..

single men operate as unregulated, self-serving carriers.. married men operate under the the 'gcor', the general code of relationships.. the gcor is administered by the superintendent/yardmaster, his wife..

home is 'the roundhouse'..
bedroom is the m-o-w car, and there is the dining car, bar car, etc..

the caboose is an area which is very sensitive and not often used in conversation.. if the super./yard, etc., asks/ states she could lose a few pounds, the engineer might inadvertently offer, 'your caboose is a little out-of-shape'.. at which the super./etc., may suspend the engineer from access to the m-o-w car and everything in it..

in these situations, the engineer has been known to sleep in the lounge car, or even in the coach behind the cab..

[Anonymous]

I've been working on my top ten list. Now, i'm not an engineer, so don't be too hard on me.
Top ten signs you've been driving a locomtive more than a car:
10. There was no bell in my car, so i put one up on my roof.
9. Headlights are ditch lights with a simple flip of a switch.
8. Brakes sure work a whole lot faster...
7. You perform a daily check of everything in your car every morning.
6. You're surprised to find out that you fuel tank now holds 4000 gallons less than it used to.
5. Your coupler is missing.
4. Tried to talk to your car radio - nobody is responding.
3. You always blow 2 longs, a short and a long when going through an intersection.
2. Checked under the hood- no traces of a toilet.
1. Steering wheel? What the hell is that?

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Puckdropper

What's the real mookie look like? Is she black with a white spot on her neck? Kinda sounds like our cat Blacky, wonder if it's something in the breed...

The real Mookie is a tortise-shell - a hybrid of their own. But she has pretty markings. She is med-hair - with a black mask and dark brown, black and medium brown markings with blonde underhair, white stomach and black toes. Have read that most torti's are female - didn't say whether they all came with the crabby disposition. She gets mad/scared and can sound like a bad Dash 9! The vet has learned to wear armour and steeled fingered gloves with her! But when happy, she purrs like an EMD! (see this is trains related!)

Mookie's Ma

[clinchfieldfan]

Another sign you may be a train nut: Your idea of lawn decorations is to have retired block and crossing signals in the flower beds.

[Anonymous]

When driving on the freeway at 70 MPH and passing under one of those overhead directional signs, you feel like the engineer of the California Zephyr passing under a signal bridge in Naperville IL.

When you hear train horns outside your church on Sundays, and feel like heading for the door, even when the sermon isn't half bad.

When mowing the lawn, you feel like a tired switch engine moving through a train "yard".

When washing your car in the driveway, you see it as a locomotive being serviced.

When you name the book you just wrote and published, Two Track Main.

John W. Baie, author, xlibris.com/TwoTrackMain.html

[Anonymous]

I have a switch stand in my front yard and a set of old occelating[sp?] headlights and an old emergency red warning light. I'm terminally infected.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

Mookie-
For lots of fun with your kitty, get one of those inexpensive laser pointers and shine against a wall or furniture. Just be very careful not to let the light hit their (or your) eyes. But the cats will go crazy chasing the light. The other caution is to be careful the cats do not hurt themselves chasing the light (they get SO worked up!). I've got three cats and two pointers--by the end of playtime, the cats totally flame-out for hours!!

My daughter's Dalmatian will chase a laser pointer (or any spot of light) ad nauseum, then keeps looking for it for hours after it's been retired. My fault. I started him on it...[:o)]

[JoeKoh]

ok here's one for you.A friend of ours has a poster that shows two railroad workman on a friday.the section of track lines up like this
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and the caption says thank god its friday? does anyone know if they still make this poster?
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Yes my signature is a joke

LOL the drivers seat is the cab and the passenger back seat is the coah!!

[Anonymous]

Something else I though of. If you're a steam fan you put diesel into your car instead of gas.

[Trainnut484]

You yell "KICK 'EM" when shoving a dead automobile with another car.

My wife and I did that one day. She "KICKED 'EM" while I rode in the dead car and applied the braking. We went over two "humps", and "spotted" the dead car in an empty "siding"(parking stall), and set the brakes.

Yes, we obeyed the yard (complex) speed limit too.

Take care[:)]

Russell

[Anonymous]

Thats true about diesel and gas!! that is a good one!!