Ten signs of a model train fanatic

[G Paine]

In addition to a vanity licence plate with the initals of a favorate RR, the family minivan is custom painted to match a favorite cab or hood unit. I have seen a number of vanity plates, and photos of a painted van - I think it was Chessie System

[Anonymous]

I bought a Pan Am Boxcar RTR from Athearn.

I did have several other modern era equiptment around to run it with. =)

Now that my confession is out of the way I feel better. =)

 

But I liked the Limited Run concept by Satan the best.

[Anonymous]

12. You worry about your wiring/scenery/benchwork etc. in bed.

thats me

 

[Texas Zepher]

To take a different angle on this topic, there was another topic on this forum last year, or maybe the year before last called "You might be a model railroader if..."

Well, crumb, I fail most of these too!  At least I got these three:

 *You have a manila folder in your desk (or a subdirectory on your computer) full of home-drawn trackplans that you know you'll never build, but they're too good to discard.
*You've visited a hobby shop on a busy day, and wound up answering detailed questions for other customers before you shop.
*When you are on Vacation in another city, and the First thing you do in your Hotel room is look in the phonebook for the Hobbyshops.

*You build a hot-rod designed specificly for train chasing.

Well not specially designed but specially purchased for following  ghost railroad grades:

*You've ever refused to buy a model freight car because the stencilled build date (which you had to squint to read) is a year off from the era you're modeling.

  This would be my club.  We can't worry about gross errors like having 1974 Kenworth 18 wheelers on the roads, but put a build date of 01/54 instead of 09/53 and one would think it was the end of the world.

*Your spouse assumes you can fix light switches, toasters, radios, and vacuum cleaners because "you know all about that wiring stuff from working on your trains, right?"

That isn't funny, because it should be true.....

*You've ever gotten into a debate over whether Kato is pronounced "kay-to" or "kah-to."

  Not funny either,  Just call them up and listen how they answer the phone.  Seems like they should be trusted to know how to pronounce their own name.

 

[SOU Fan]

To take a different angle on this topic, there was another topic on this forum last year, or maybe the year before last called "You might be a model railroader if..." I copied the list below from the thread, because I thought they were keepers! Thought they could bear repeating here. Enjoy!

You might be a model railroader if...

 

  

 

  

*You've ever run two or more boxcars in a train, and hoped no one else noticed that they have identical road numbers.

 

more than once

  

*You slow down approaching a grade crossing; hoping that you'll have to stop and be the car closest to the crossing.

 

Yep

 

 

*Someone asks about a certain structure and you know the exact page where it is in the Walther's catalog

you also know the walther #

 

 

*You check the MR forum more than your e-mail server 

That actually hapenns

 

dekruif

 

 

 

 

 

[AntonioFP45]

In addition to a vanity licence plate with the initals of a favorate RR, the family minivan is custom painted to match a favorite cab or hood unit. I have seen a number of vanity plates, and photos of a painted van - I think it was Chessie System

There was a photo a long while back on another forum of a guy who had is 40 ft. RV (a bus), and applied these big Santa Fe railroad logos on the side .   Talk about over the top!