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?
Please add more examples
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Man, this is going to be good!!
...keep the rails polished...
You know you're a train nut when . . .
. . . you get your brains blown out protecting your trains from a baddie that was there to steal anything but your trains. 
Pete
When you ask the auto dealer if that car comes in Tuscan or in Brunswick Green . . .
You know your a train nut.
When your first born child's initials are EMD.
Tom
When your wife worries about you going to a hobby shop more than she worries about you going to a bar!
al K
When you tell your SO you'd like to do a lashup and you don't mean Fifty Shades of Grey.
When the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the Lionel Catalog come the same day...and you take the Lionel book into the "powder room" for reading material.
- Mike
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...
#20 above may call for counseling...
BUT:
You know you're a train nut when you keep looking for the latest New York Central paint
scheme book entitled "Fifty Shades of Gray".
Oh, yeah - like I was the only one.
When you wake up and the first thing you do is check the tracking on your purchases.
When you have a refrigerator in your train room, so you don't have to leave to get another beer
#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!
When you tell your SO you'd like to do a lashup and you don't mean Fifty Shades of Grey.
When the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the Lionel Catalog come the same day...and you take the Lionel book into the "powder room" for reading material.
- Mike
Dont everyone wear their Lionel engineer hat when running their trains??
When company sleeps over and you sleep on an air mattress in the train room!!
- you make out your Lionel wish list even after seeing the prices
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
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.
When you spend 100 hours a week on this forum.
- all week all you think about is going to the train shop on Saturday but in front of the family you try to act like it's no big deal
When you spend 100 hours a week on this forum.
Only 100 hours???
When visitors look at you like you must be from another planet.
Given the choice between buying your heart medication and smoke pellets... YOU choose the pellets.
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
........when your dog names are train related, Casey, Shay, Loco.
When you want to buy your spouse the lionel girl set for vantines day
When your license plate reads:
When your license plate reads:
When your wife says "Bring that big boy over here" and you start searching for your Legacy remote.
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.
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.
instead of selling the miss behaving red headed step child to medical science....you ask the local train store
When you wear your favorite train herald shirt along with these socks,
Found this fake sign, under the bench work..........
You know you're a train nut when you wait to go to the store until you hear 2 longs, a short and a long in the distance......so your car will be held up by the crossing gate....
Peter
When you go to the gym to work out with a shirt you bought in the early 90s.....
Peter
gUage?
When have a 50ft Rock Island boxcar in your yard and it is full of Rock Island
trains! And to top it off, it sets 150ft from the BNSF Transcon! NUTS or just
TRAIN CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
gUage?
It's French.
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