"...get goose bumps watching some one Elses train, and you check if you are about to lose your mancard if someone saw ya" 
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…...Live in a Van down by the river
...contribute to this Forum.
Buy a new house next to the main line of your favorite railroad!
What's this you might business? How about just "I am".
...Know more about Thomas the Tank Engine than the targeted demographic.
If you are :
4th generation train collector
Have to have one of everything from the catalog
Go to York
Scan the for sale forum every day
Use railroad terms at work, and you don't even work for the railroad
It's a good weekend only if you aquire a new train item
The only new technology that a peals to you is related to trains.
Vacations revolve around a train related location
You have painted your new truck Brunswick green with five gold stripes
# JDADDY Fun, Great list kind sir! ty
Make sure every vacation has a train stop.
I am guilty, and my wife supports my fascination. Sorry to interrupt the thread, but I wanted to share this: Planned for this year:
* Next vacation is to Denver, where we will ride Amtrak to Glenwood Springs
, to soak in the hot springs. My brother has both N and On30 layouts.
* Then a few days at the beach: no trains
* Finally, a trip to Alaska, cruise, helicopter to the Glacier, then ride the Alaska RR back to civilization.
2 out of 3 trips involve trains! Pretty nice of her to plan these, I must say! It will be a good summer.
You have painted your new truck Brunswick green with five gold stripes
I gave it some thought however the price to do it I could have bought two articulated s.
Have set out to personally every non-park-train narrow gauge RR in the US (and am only 3 away from that goal).
Have ridden trains in almost all of the 50 states.
Your Youtube channel is almost 100% train related stuff.
P51, is your web page photo of wicked kewl twin gunship a vader?
Hey #JOHN,
I got a brunswick green engine, but the stripes are fading...... 
...... go to a Major League Baseball game and look through the souvenir stands for items for the layout.
....... spend a day at the beach to collect buckets of sand to use on the layout.
(Not that I've done anything like that)
Attend a football game at Franklin Field and spend the whole time watching trains on the "High line".
Miggy posted:P51, is your web page photo of wicked kewl twin gunship a vader?
Not sure I understand your question.
Slip around while on a cookout in the mountains to find some rocks that would look good on your layout......
Jim
Swear you are not going to buy anything else and find yourself on the auction sites 5 minutes later.
Saw Thomas at Strasburg and were more excited than the kid you brought there to see it.
roflmao.... Exactly! wait, it's been two hours since I checked MENARDS for Tankers!! (sri, gotta run....) lol 
Miggy posted:roflmao.... Exactly! wait, it's been two hours since I checked MENARDS for Tankers!! (sri, gotta run....) lol
It's probably a good thing that Menards has no stores in NY. Whoever thought to put power tools and trains in the same store is a genius)
If your name is SantaFeJim.
Start selling stuff you don't run just so you can buy 6 engines you will run and build 2 trains and add and subtract constantly from 3 trains.
# SDIV TIM Ohhhh, Wait..WHAT? Is that MATH? oh my.. <salute> 
Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
Miggy posted:apologies, P51... Must be a link.
B-17G. I was standing under the landing pattern as it was coming in. One of my videos shows it as well...
If you expand your layout into your bedroom by knocking out a wall, getting rid of your bed ( saving the mattress ) and all furniture, pulling off the mattress and sleeping under the layout so as not to waste one precious square inch of real estate so you will have more room to run trains. 
I don't have an addiction. I can quit anytime I want
You buy basket-case model trains at show, that you never have time to restore.
You buy trains you all ready have, but forget about.
You find trains in storage boxes that you do not recall purchasing.
You have a computer hosted Data Base of model train inventory and still not sure what you have.
If the only cars you purchase are in 1/50 to 1/43 scale, and all other construction equipt., farm equipt., buildings, Dept. 56, Lemax, etc. If this Forum and 90% of all other computer time is only train related, you spend more time reading train related magazines, even though years old and very worn; you feel disappointed when you go to the mailbox and there are NO train magazines. And, every trip to Loew's or Hobby Lobby brings home something, whatever, that can be used on the layout or making work better. Oh, and every password or on line ID you use has a word related to trains.
Jesse TCA
Bob, sorry I didn't reply right away. I was in church praying -----for you! I too am not addicted to trains, I too can quit any time I want to! I've done it many times! LOL
How about watching movies from the 30 and 40s.Hoping to see an action shot of a train coming at ya.Or going to school and drawing trains on paper.
......... you throw a $3000 pool table in the trash to make room for a three track staging yard.
(no, I didn't do it yet, but.....)
Your first born child's initials are EMD.
When having a discussion with your computer technician and he mentions PC you think of Penn Central.
Think TCA stands for Train Collectors Anonymous. (I'm not a member of the TCA 'cause I don't have a train problem!)
Tom
When your at work...drawing track layouts on obscure pieces of paper....
Traindiesel posted:...... go to a Major League Baseball game and look through the souvenir stands for items for the layout.
Or you go to see the Seattle Mariners playing and ask for a seat that affords either a open view to the BNSF/UP/Amtrak approach to King Steet, or you run to see the trains when you hear them going by.
Also, if you've used an Army helicopter to chase Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor...
I do not see anything wrong with a single one of you.... "Kindred Spirits"
p.s. and Lee --==P51==-- deftly drops in, as if as an aside..... "Also, if you've used an Army helicopter to chase Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor"
Train addicts are pretty awesome folk....ok don't tell MITCH I said that
"If your significant other (did I just say that) says, either the trains go or Me and the Dog are leaving....."
...I am gonna Miss that pup
