The mother of all "you might be a railfan ifs...."

[wcfan4ever]

How bout this:
- You put up a block signal in your backyard with a Begin CTC sign and a 10mph sign for the spur you live on, then to find out that they stop using the line a week after you get it all set up, every possible realistic detail including height above rail and sighted for the engineer to see, then you end up turning the signal to the side hoping someday to put it back in service.

Dave

[Paul W. Beverung]

You court you furture wife, by picking her up at 4am and driving 60 miles to spend the day riding a short line in the cab of an S-2 Alco. 3 times.

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if...
...you met your spouse using one of the pickup lines listed above
...you barely avoided an embarrasing experience because she knew you thought that PAs' noses looked good
...she knew what she was getting into because you were married on Tehachapi Loop after being proposed to in Union Station
...you violated your morals and said that you think NYC was the best railroad ever, since she didn't much care for the Pennsy
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Off that topic before I get in trouble[:)].
You might be a railfan if...
...every shirt, hat, and coat in your closet says either New York Central or "Down With the Pennsy"

No offense (I am a UP fan...I like Pennsy and NYC. Now AT&SF, that's a different matter...).

Hope you had some laughs,
Daniel

[Puckdropper]

...If you go to an art museum and ask about the "live exhibit outside"... that being the NS going up a overpass on a curve. (I may do that soon...)
...If the whistles from trains passing nearby annoy you, but only because you can't see them!!!

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if...
...as a college student you had twelve years of Trains Magazine isuues neatly organized into binders on your book shelf.... Anything sound unusual?[:)]
...every time someone says "pardon me" you instantaniously respond "boys, is that the Chatanooga...."
...you know more about 1940s fashion, style, and life than the people alive then because you paint your own figures for your model railroad
...you wonder if Mookie has ever actually posted about railways, ever. Just kidding, Mookie![:D][:)][:D][8D][:D][bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][bow]
...your family has learned all the street routes without railway significance just to keep you from talking for hours about trains
...when building your house, you fired fifteen contractors until you found one who said he would put Baldwin locks on your doors
...anytime you meet anyone with the last names Harriman, Vanderbilt, or Stanford, you immedediately bow and kiss their feet
...you went to a CPR training course because you thought the brochure meant Central Pacific Railroad Trains

Hope you got some laughs (no offense Mookie),
Daniel

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if...
...you are the only person who likes GE's on the EMD vs. GE. page
...you vehemently post about the superiority of steam locomotives on a diesel discussion page
...you really need a funny motto for your model railroad to match your humorous name for it

I am guilt of all three.

Sincerely,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if:
--You have read and understand each and every one of these jokes.
--People cannot mention B&O, reading, UP, PRR, NYC, BNSF, etc. without getting an interesting fact (Or boring lecture as some people would call it) from you
--No one wants to play Monopoly with you (For obviouse reasons)
--your chat room discussions look like "ooOOO OOOoo"
--Your days off of work are spent either in railroad chat rooms, Forums, or on your layout (Or a combination)
--You look forward to new jokes in this thread.
--You advertise rail forums on a rail forum.
--You like your job maily because of the Mainline nearby
--the other reason you like your job is because its at a rail museum

And I am guilty as Charged!!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainheartedguy

You might be a railfan if:
--You have read and understand each and every one of these jokes.
--People cannot mention B&O, reading, UP, PRR, NYC, BNSF, etc. without getting an interesting fact (Or boring lecture as some people would call it) from you
--No one wants to play Monopoly with you (For obviouse reasons)
--your chat room discussions look like "ooOOO OOOoo"
--Your days off of work are spent either in railroad chat rooms, Forums, or on your layout (Or a combination)
--You look forward to new jokes in this thread.
--You advertise rail forums on a rail forum.
--You like your job maily because of the Mainline nearby
--the other reason you like your job is because its at a rail museum

And I am guilty as Charged!!!

Dear traingheartedguy,
As I have preivously told kevinstheRRman, I am anti-LOL, so let me just say that was hillarious! I am guilty of 6 of those, except that people can't mention New York Grand Central Station without a lecture on the interesting ceiling paintings, and a discussion of the less-well-known (among non-railroaders/fans) Penn Station.

Here are a few:
You might be a model railroader if...
...you wake up in a hospital only to discover that you cut yourself on the too-prototypical cutlery of your dining car
...your spouse has spent more time modeling the clothing found in Classic Trains: Dream Trains than in modern clothing so that your 1:87 figurines can be "perfectly prototypical"
...you saw a freelanced freight car, and were confused because you weren't sure how many rivets there should have been to be to counted
...you went to Las Vegas and betted on "when Z-LA-CI-08-9 will reach milepost 487.6"
...you insisted that the five dollars your spouse actually one in a slot machine be used to purchase another freight car

I am not quite guilty of these, yet...

Hope you had some laughs,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if...
...kevinstheRRman talks about vanity mirrors in one of his postings, and you begin a long, introspecitve thought process about what it means
...the Amtrak reservations office answers your call as "where can I give you tickets to now, Daniel???"
...you walk into a random Amtrak superliner blindfolded, and immediately say "high _____," the ______ being the name of the attendant, whose name you have memorized
...you tell these jokes to your non-railfan acquaintances, and none of them get these
...you can't understand why they don't
...they have learned not to tell you where they are going on their next trip, because if they do, you'll tell them they can take the train there
...you told someone who wanted to ride Amtrak from Los Angeles to San Francisco to take "the Southwest chief to Chicago, Lake Shore Limited to New York, Acelas to Washingon, Crescent Limited to New Orleans, then to go up to Chicago, over to Seattle on the Empire Builder, and then to San Francisco on the Coast Starlight"
...you have actually done that trip
...you desperately need more people to post here to maintain your sanity
...your family always has a pretty good idea of where you are: if you are not at work, then you're at the train museum, if you're not there, then you're on the forum, and if you're not on the forum, then you are probably back at the train museum

Hope you had some laughs,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

You might be a railfan if.....
You hire out with a railroad company and actually like going to work.

[Anonymous]

Dear Scott218,
You mean railroaders don't like their jobs????

-Daniel