You might be a railfan if...

[BaltACD]

steve-in-kville

 

adkrr64

When you cringe when someone in the media, when obviously referring to the engineer, instead calls them "conductor" or "driver". 

That's a big one with me as well.

You know its bad when you watch the local ATCS monitor and you question why the dispatcher is alighning switches a certain way, that at the time doesn't make sense. Only to realize later that the dispatcher knew what they were doing after all!

Thus the problem of Engineers dispatching the railroad they are operating on from behind their control stand, and they don't have the view that even ATCS has.

[steve-in-kville]

adkrr64

When you cringe when someone in the media, when obviously referring to the engineer, instead calls them "conductor" or "driver".

 

That's a big one with me as well.

You know its bad when you watch the local ATCS monitor and you question why the dispatcher is alighning switches a certain way, that at the time doesn't make sense. Only to realize later that the dispatcher knew what they were doing after all!

 

 

[Flintlock76]

When your skin crawls and your blood pressure rises (Especially if you're a steam freak) when a TV reporter says "The train sounded its whistle..." referring to an accident or incident on a contemporary rail line.

It's not a whistle.  It's a HORN. H-O-R-N.  Blasphemy!

[adkrr64]

When you cringe when someone in the media, when obviously referring to the engineer, instead calls them "conductor" or "driver".

[MMLDelete]

When you cringe when your local news reporter refers to any passenger train as a "commuter train." The Empire Builder can derail in the middle of nowhere in Montana, and it's a commuter train crash.

[steve-in-kville]

Thanksgiving Day I took the long way to my MIL's house and sure enough, caught a container train. Guy on the other side of the tracks is filming it. Later that day I saw the video being shared on a local Facebook group and our van can be see in the background between the container cars!! Kinda made my day.

[MMLDelete]

When you want to punch an acquaintance in the mouth when he asks you, in a voice usually reserved for speaking to children, if you are still in love "with the choo-choos."

[Fred M Cain]

SD70Dude

You are happy to get stopped at crossings.

 

 

Oh Yeah !  I can relate to this !  Most people when they approach a grade crossing will hit the gas to get across quickly if they see a train in the distance.  For me, if I see a train coming, if there was no one behind me, I'd stop and wait until the gates finally activated and came down.

 

No use wasting the opportunity to watch a good train go by !

 

Regards,

FMC

[SD70Dude]

You are happy to get stopped at crossings.

[steve-in-kville]

You're watching TV or a movie and you hear a train horn but its the wrong pattern for a crossing!