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You keep loosing your "train of thought" while attending training seminars for work. You think its O.K. the first couple of times before you realize you've got to give yourself a kick in the caboose and stop it. Maybe even see a "Shrink" before extra people like FRED find out and think you're loco.

                              

You are loading up the mini van and refer to one your children as a "red cap"

and announce that we are behind schedule, and shout All aboard!

You live near the railroad tracks and every day still run to see the train go buy.

You are over 40 and you still count the cars on the train at the railroad crossing

You scan the internet on father's day looking for a operating live steam engine outing.

You are depressed if you do not run the layout at least 4 times a week.

You have not purchased anything train related and you start having withdraws

You visit this forum about 3 times a day.

 

 

 

You are a member of the Worship & Music Committee in a church. You pick hymns numbered 765, 844, 734, 17 (East Broad Top 2-8-2), 60 (Black River & Western 2-8-0), 425 (Reading & Northern 4-6-2), etc.

 

Watching the movie Dr. Zhivago, you notice that the rails move farther apart in city scenes (filmed on wide gauge lines in Spain) and closer together in rural scenes, especially when the CP Lake Louise station represents a location in Russia.

 

Your wife insists on seeing a movie without trains. You go to see True Lies. Then you whisper to her that the limousine chase scenes were filmed on concrete bridges (including Five-Mile Bridge) built for the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast.

 

You are so excited to watch Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20 as the EMMA SWEENY in the movie A Ticket to Tomahawk that you don't notice Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) among the dance hall girls.

 

You endure the movie The Wild Wild West just to see the B&O's elegant 4-4-0 WILLIAM MASON (1856 - a melody wrought in metal) back in steam.

 

You wish that the producers of HELLO DOLLY would have filmed Pennsy 4-4-0 1223 in her original paint scheme heading a Pennsy consist.

 

You think that Rich Melvin and the 765 and Ed Boyle should have been cast in The Polar Express.

 

 

 

 

When I was a kid we lived two miles from the tracks.  Whenever we heard a horn we ran to the car and tried to catch the train and usually did. 

 

Cheers rang out when our favorite road names went by on the cars. 

 

When choosing which church to go to, I chose the one by the tracks.

 

My sister realized that she actually likes trains, when she is by herself!!!

 

Nathan

 Every new electronic gadget...heck!...  everything you see you see!,

is automatically evaluated for its model railroading potential.

 The tv is volume is turned down so you can hear the passing trains nearby.

 The only time the surround sound remote gets looked for is when trains appear on TV.

 Most of your watches have a train on them.

 A crate needed for your collection, stacked nice, would be larger than a crate needed for your vehicle. 

 

Originally Posted by RICKC:

I once owned a Ford F150 window van and was going to have it painted in the B&O paint scheme  as an F-3.  But, my wife (Debbie downer) said "NO!!!".

 

Rick

When I was a kid, I dreamed of having a van with the front doors welded shut and faired over, making it look more like an F unit and then painted exactly as such.

Recently, I mentioned that to some train-chasing pals, they all admitted to having the same thought at various times...

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