You honk your horn 3 short times before you back out if your garage.
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Not if, but when I honk my car horn at the Highway W sign near our home.
My better half just stares at me when that happens!
You refer to your grocery store receipt as a "freight manifest"....
You think your car should have a warning bell as well as a horn....
I've been known to blow 2 longs 1 short 1 long at an intersection!
When driving, I ask passengers for their tickets before I let them board.
I was seriously thinking about buying a coupler attachment for the back of my pick up.
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 run red lights trying to see a train at the crossing around the
corner.
I was seriously thinking about buying a coupler attachment for the back of my pick up.
When you see or hear a train coming and slow down so you can see it.
Art
When you start planning your Christmas Display for next year before you completed this years. I'm guilty
When you pass a big truck on the highway, and think of it as a 2-4-4.
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.
Stop at a RR crossing with the gates up and wait for them to go down.
When you start braking 5 block before stop.
AG.
When you're on the boardwalk and you see a T-shirt that says, "Eat, Train, Sleep, Repeat", you think "heck ya, I can do that".
K.C.
the little woman wants you to come to bed, but you keep on playing with your trains !!
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
I want to have a PRR K and GGI airbrushed on my F150 camper top side windows but then remember I could spend that money on more trains!
When you're calculating your commission and it comes to 726, 2020, 2344, etc and it makes you smile.
My wife says if I buy one more train she is going to leave me!......
I am really going to miss her!
Every time I see a Waste Management garbage truck, I think Western Maryland, and
I have little interest in that road.
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.
I consider the yellow traffic light signal to be an approach indication, be prepared to stop at the next light......or when you see the police behind you ! conrail john
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
..... my train friends get bored with my train talk. It happens ... a lot!
However, I will say that there is so much more I don't know and I love to learn.
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.
You have FRA MP&E O Scale inspectors checking freight and passenger cars per CFR regulations on the model train layout. I had to get this one in, worked many years in the rail industry, no truly negative interactions with FRA inspectors, they had a job to do and would work with you on issues.
When, instead of writing down when school's out on a calendar, you write down what time and how loudly you hear a nearby train horn.
...You simulate dynamic braking while descending a hill...driving or walking.
Subway adjunct:
(...then you release brakes and go full power just before the bottom of the hill)
---PCJ
Your pick up line involves the word "caboose"...
You have these in your yard.
Is that why the next door house is for sale?
I must think too much about trains as I have heard my wife say, "Is that all you ever think about is trains?" No I do think about food a lot.
Art
You have these in your yard.
Is that why the next door house is for sale?
No, I think it was because of the ringing of the steam engine bell and the blowing of the diesel horns........
I find myself always thinking how I can lay/stuff more track making another pass in the layout, not to be confused with making another pass in order lay pipe and I'm always two or three projects behind schedule but, look at the bright side at least I'm not getting slapped.
When you finally put the coupler on the trailer I think everyone will know something's going on.
I was seriously thinking about buying a coupler attachment for the back of my pick up.
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...