Signs you're a train nut

[Anonymous]

Being in a railroading family the terms are nothing new to me. We will be at the dinner table and my dad will ask us to kick that food item over to him. If it is broken it is bad ordered, and he has even put tags on cars before while he was working on them. Thats hard to top!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Kev, Congadulation on your third star!!!!!!!!!!
If this was a well run and well organized WEB sight, that cares about its visitors, after three stars, It would give you a free subsciption to TRAINS magazine for a year!! But thats only if its well run and organized.
TIM A

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

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

[Anonymous]

Yes my signature is a joke

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

[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

[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)]

[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.

[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

[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.

[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

[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?

[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..

[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!!!

[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)

[Anonymous]

steam from an electric train? I think not.

[Anonymous]

LOL thats funny!!!

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






i'm kidding!!

[Anonymous]

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

[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

[brilondon]

Your dream vacation is Chicago.

[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

[ironhorseman]

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

[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...

[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

[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 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!!!!

[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

[JoeKoh]

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

[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