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After reading the protecting your trains post, and the redneck qoutes, I started thing about Jeff Foxworth joes about "you know your a redneck when....."  

 

So are you a train nut when your 25 year son comes into the train at 11pm and tells you to stop blowing the whistle because you woke him up?

 

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You know you are a train nut when:

1) You purchase your dream house over looking a mainline

2) You constantly doodle track plans at work when things are slow

3) Your wife complains that another pot or pan is missing out of her kitchen

4) Vacation is planned around when and where the latest steam fest occures

5) You love the smell of coal and cinders in the morning

6) You have a dummy coupler in your pick em up hitch

7) York is a pilgramage

8) You have to budget your train purchases so you do not miss the house payment

9) You bought more than one vision line big boy so you could have multiple cab numbers.

10) You count the cars on train going by and call out the locomotive type pulling those cars

11) Making/ planting / and gluing  down model trees is relaxing

12) You spend more time in the basement than in front of the TV everynight

13) You can eye a switch from accross the room at a swap meet and know if it is a ross, atlas, etc, and what size it is... O100, or a number 5...

14) You purchase a house based on the size of the basement or train room.

15)  You save your coffee sticks to build a model bridge

16) You check Ebay and the for sale forum every time you get a chance.

17) You have  considered putting you favorite railway pin stripes on your car or house walls

18) You you pick out house paint you compare it to railroad colors... box car brown, reefer white, CN green, SP daylight orange...

19) you have more than one railroad switch lantern or mark lamps to decorate your man cave.

20) You wear a engineers hat when you run your railroad...

 

#2, yep, every time i get an extra page out of the printer, I save it on the side to doodle track plans.  Currenly trying to work on the layout I will begin building in March.

 

and #10, my mom is a math teacher, my dad used to drive the E train in New York City, so combine trains and math and I HAVE to count the cars on every train!  The biggest one ive seen was when I was in college at the University of Delaware, there was a freight line that came thru the middle of the campus.  It had 5 engines (not sure what road names) and 118 cars.  Yes, I waited once the gates went down just so I could count the cars!

The smell of ozone, hot oil, and slighty burnt grease immediately makes you think of Christmas.

 

The things you most look forward to during the holidays are the smell of ozone, hot oil, and slighty burnt grease.

 

You only post night photo shots of your layout on the OGR forum because you are really a member of the Broadloom Conspiracy but don't want to admit that fact to your internet friends.

 

 You know you are a train nut when you spend Valentine's Day with your train friends in Massachusetts (Marty Fitz and Chris Lonero),  instead of with the wife, and spend April 24 (my wedding anniversary) in York instead of with the wife by going out to dinner. Both of these are true, and my wife does not mind as I will take her out for dinner the next day for both.

 

Erol Gurcan

 

 

Last edited by locolawyer
Originally Posted by Tom Densel:

When driving and you see a train in the distance, you try to time it so that you DO get caught at the crossing.

 

When watching a train pass you lower the car window so you can hear the noise, even if its below 0 with a 20 mph wind blowing.

 

Tom

I do this all the time now.  When I was younger, I would speed up to miss the train.  Now, I slow down to catch it and then I lower the windows.

 

al K. 

Originally Posted by Tom Densel:

When driving and you see a train in the distance, you try to time it so that you DO get caught at the crossing.

 

When watching a train pass you lower the car window so you can hear the noise, even if its below 0 with a 20 mph wind blowing.

 

Tom

I do this all the time now.  When I was younger, I would speed up to miss the train.  Now, I slow down to catch it and then I lower the windows.

 

al K. 

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