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...