You might be a railfan if.....

[Anonymous]

You might be railfan if you........
Daya dream about trains in school or at work

[lupo]

if you drive from Los Angeles to Dallas to show your 4 year old son a Bigboy at the Age of Steam Museum

(yep I know CMW, it's an UP[xx(][:p])

or maybe I'm a yUPpie ?

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[FJ and G]

you are so fixated on them that your wife leaves you and your dog bites you

[cwclark]

you look for railroad tracks everywhere you go instead of enjoying the immediate surrounding scenery...

[FJ and G]

you enlist in the U.S. Army just to travel to Iraq to see the Najab to Karbala Railroad.

[Anonymous]

Your garage walls are covered in posters of locomotives instead of swim suit models!

[Anonymous]

You paint your car for your favorite railroad.
You've memorized railroad scanner frequencies
You sit around for 5 hours waiting for a train (I've done that)

[fiatfan]

You walk away from your wife without a word when given the chance to ride in the cab of a GP38-2 (#424, 8/24/02, 9:15 AM)

Tom

[Anonymous]

You drive the long way home in hopes of being stopped at a rail crossing!

[CP5415]

You plan on making an outdoor climbing apparatus for your daughter in the shape of a GP38-2 out of wood.
Complete with operating headlight, cab doors & simulated controls.

Gordon

[Anonymous]

....You actually want to buy a home next to the tracks!
....You build a really tall treehouse for your kids, but plan to use it as a train watching outpost.
....At every four way street crossing on the way to work, you blast out long-long-short-long grade crossing signals, and buy one of those "train horns" advertised in the J.C. Whitney catalogue to do it.
.....For some odd reason, every town you want to move to is a major rail center.
.....You get a factory job just so you can watch the locomotives switch cars all day.

Anyone for "You Might be a Redneck..."?

By the way, Dougal, I want a white truck with a red stripe around it so it looks like a CB&Q F-unit![(-D]

[Anonymous]

You live in an old Railroad car (such as a caboose or a passenger car)
You go to the local railyard and ask for a cabride
You actually try to order an SD70MAC, and when asked why, you say "Oh, I just want it in my backyard to simulate a real train and practice my photography skills".[;)]
You go to your local GM dealer and demand an SD90
You go to the GE apliance store and demad a Dash-9.

[Anonymous]

You paint your RV Dark Gray with Light Gray Lightning Stripes, and call it the 20th Century Limited.

[Mikeygaw]

you have a paint scheme nicknamed after you (go Norange!)

[Anonymous]

If you watch the TRIANS web cam when you should be researching William Shakespeare for a term paper that is due in a week.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by elias

If you watch the TRIANS web cam when you should be researching William Shakespeare for a term paper that is due in a week.

LOL

[FThunder11]

the answer to your math problem is lineAC=4400.

[Anonymous]

You wonder why everyone wearing "Fighting Illini College Team" shirts look at you funny, trying to figure out what team "BNSF" is supposed to be.

[Anonymous]

I am guilty of all of these:
You might be a railfan if...
...you spend an hour out in rain and hail to get a few photographs which don't look all that wonderful anyway, because it was raining
...you wait seven hours to photograph one train, and don't really mind it
...on a trip to the California coast, you wake up early every morning just to photograph two Surfliners, and spend no time at the beach
...you read five train periodicals and four museum newsetters
...it annoys you that spell check on your computer doesn’t recognize lashup, intermodal, superheater, catenary, or railfan, but does recognize airfreight
...you think of Pacific, Mountain, and Atlantic as locomotive types, not time zones

See you around the forums,
Daniel

[lupo]

you book a motel near the tracks in San Diego to find out that the close a crossing from 1 at night untill 4 or 5 oçlock in the morning and don't switch of the bell!
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and stay there for tree nights [:p]

[Anonymous]

You pray for a train to stop you at the grade crossing and it is answered ( that has happened to me )

[Anonymous]

if you correct a little kid every time he goes "choo,chooo!!"

[Mikeygaw]

...you post here
...you have an account here

[Anonymous]

if your wife looks at you and says "I wonder what it would be like to be married to a NORMAL guy?" as she looks at you from across the dining room table, OVER your pile of model RRing paraphernalia that sits upon the table!
[#oops]

[Anonymous]

Some that I'm guilty of:

You try to find street routes that cross the most railroads.

You listen to trains going thru town at night when you can't go to sleep.

You only want to go on vacation to a town if it is a major rail center.

You find yourself doodling route maps of your favorite railroads when you get bored.

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if...
...you read TRAINS magazine while listening to recordings of steam locomotives and riding VIA Rail, all the while thinking about a GG-1, and consider it multi-tasking
...you consider your car a cab-forward
...you have ever described cars in terms of first generation passenger diesels
...you go to the auto show and spend the day telling your friend about Alco, Baldwin, and Lima after dieselization
...you can tell a Dash-9 from an AC-4400CW from half a mile away
...you can tell an F-3 from an F-7
...you consider steam locomotives to be an orchestra producing music, and resent anyone who links this music to "noise"
...you cry after reading about a railroad abandonned decades ago
...you live in California, but for some reason Acela crews know you on a first name basis
...you dream of "steamization" and "trails-to-rails" [:)]

Other things a railfan might do:
1.) Upon becoming rich, restoring to steam locomotives and ammassing a passenger car fleet, to be used for daily commuting.
2.) Becoming the largest shareholder in UP just to get them to stop charging for the use of their logo.
3.) Buying TV airtime, to be used to educate the general public on the technology of balanced slide valves
4.) Becoming chairman of the ICC, and splitting up BNSF into AT&SF, GN, NP, SP&S, CB&Q, SLSF, and have I forgotten anyone [:)]?
5.) Forming the "New MIlwaukee Road" just to give BNSF some competition, albeit with restored F-units and EP-5's

[METRO]

E-mailing Daimler-Chrysler and telling them they spelled Geep wrong.

[Anonymous]

TrainJunky29, can we really have the Q, GN, NP, SLSF, SP&S, and ATSF back?

With all of the Zephyrs, Empire Builders, N.Coast Ltd., and F-units too?

[:D][^][8D][:O][;)]

[IRONROOSTER]

You slow down at every rail crossing, just hoping.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

..you drive like the Dukes of Hazard while chasing a train to one of your favorite watching spots! [}:)]