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Signs you're a train nut

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:37 AM
That's really funny[:D][:)]
I need some time to come up with mine.
Meanwhile, i hope someone else has a sense of humor.
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Signs you're a train nut
Posted by Puckdropper on Monday, September 29, 2003 11:03 PM
I'm reposting this (and cleaning the reposted part up) from the "what happened here" thread by limited clear.
Top signs you’re a train nut
1. You’ve purposely moved to a house closest to the railroad tracks.
2. You’ve never complained about the noise of the switching or horn blasts
3. Your train videos out number your movies
4. You have more home movies of trains than of your family
5. All your computer wallpaper, screen savers, and sound effects are train related
6. All your MP3s are train songs
7. If you haven’t already framed all the pictures from your train calendars you still hang them on the wall even though they’re several years old
8. One of the stops on your garden railway picks up the daily mail and newspaper
9. You have a garden railroad
10. Your doorbell is a soundbite of Ralph Wiggum (from the Simpsons) saying: “choo choo choo choo woo woo!”
11. You replaced your car horn for a real train air horn
12. You don’t speed down the highway, you highball it
13. You think your car runs on steam and you make absolutely sure your truck is a diesel
14. You refer to your driveway as the “yard”, the garage as the “shops”
15. Youthink of your trailer or fifth wheel like pulling a passenger car
16. You don’t live in a house, you live in a depot
17. You own a caboose
18. You always travel by train
19. When you travel by train you don’t understand what everyone else is complaining about
20. AMTRAK=FUN!
21. Your email address is the name of a railroad, the name of a train, or the name of famous trainman.
22. Most of your vacation pictures have more trains than family or friends or the feature attraction
23. The trains ARE the reason you went on vacation
24. You have more issues of Trains Magazine than most collectors have comic books
25. If you have 4 stars on the Train forum...and just started going there a few months ago.
26. Your wife will not let you drive because you always pick a route that follows train tracks in the hopes of catching a train.
27. You come to a rail crossing you STOP, LOOK and LISTEN without being told, in the hope of getting caught by a train.
28. Your wife hides the latest TRAINS magazine and will not give it back till you get all your chores done around the house.
29. You get a rush of adreneline when you hear the crossing bells and race to the crossing. (To, not over!!!!)

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