You Might be a Railfan if.......

[snagletooth]

 Your heart drops the first time you go into Marc's Big Boy and find out it's not a railroad-themed resturant.

[Anonymous]

...you watch movies that take place in NY and know its not filmed in NY because you can tell the subway train in the movie scene is from DC!

[DRGWfan]

1. You get mad when people say to the small children "look its a choo choo"

2. Your ideal honeymoon location is Sherman Hill

[Kurn]

 When someone asks you if you have seen the "Polar Express" and you give them a complete history of Pere Marquette 1225,C&O Kanawhas and Berkshires in general.

[alexweiihman]

Railfans are those people that you see at 3am near tracks just to see that "special engine". They talk about F40PH-2s or SD40-2s, or somthing like that.

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if:

 

*you can tell what type of locomotive is coming at you solely based on the sound of the horns. 

*you work for the railroad 

*you think you can fit a locomotive turbo under the hood of your car :)

*people think you're weird for taking pictures of "trains"

*you constantly hear the HBD (hotbox detectors) voice recording in your sleep.

*people ask you weird things about locmotives, and you somehow know what you're talking about.

*your house, right by the tracks, is sinking (or shifted foundation) due to the railroad, but you've done nothing about it. 

[railfandan@skamania]

When we come up to an intersection while driving and my wife at the wheel, I will scan to the right for her, calling out "hold for 2 more southbounds" or something similar.

[snagletooth]

Wen you refer to your rig as a Kenworth-built 2-8-8.

[Bob-Fryml]

While driving along a four lane interstate highway you come upon a construction site.  The two lanes you're on are closed for maintenance so the highway folks put you through a temporary crossover over to the other side.  So you now have to share the two adjacent lanes with traffic moving in the opposite direction - you have the your new lane going your way and they have their old lane going the opposite way.  A railfan calls this situation "single trackin'."

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While driving along unfamiliar roads you navigate with a highway map - but somehow you always feel lost unless the map shows whose railroad it is that you've been lookin' at.

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While waiting at a Chicago 'L stop during rush hour (pre-1973), you let three or more trains pass going in your direction because you prefer to ride only the most ancient equipment.

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You'll only drink a certain brand of beer not because you like the taste, but because you know that it was long-hauled from the brewery by rail.

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The only time you really enjoy shopping for Christmas presents is when you're at the model railroad store. 

[espeefoamer]

You are watching the movie "Under the Rainbow",about the making of "Wizard of Oz",which took place in 1939, and notice that the train was pulled by UP 8444( it's number at the time),which wasn't built until 1944.