You shop for a house by the tracks instead of away from them!
When planning your next vacation, you choose your travel route based upon the location of active railroads and railroad museums.
When you blow your horn two longs, a short, and a long through every intersection.
Speaking of intersections, you call the signals as you go through them.
You call zoning to ask if you can use a boxcar for a shed.
You wonder why automobiles don’t come equipped with couplers.
While engaged in intimate relations, you suddenly find yourself mentally debating the relative merits of Shay vs. rod engines.
Your wife tells you her water burst, and your first reaction is, “My God, her boiler will be ruined!”
When you wire up the fog lamps to flash alternately when you blow the horn
When being served dinner, you say, “Easy, easy, that’ll do!” as you’ve gotten enough.
When riding with someone who’s backing into a parking space, you say, “two cars, one car, that’ll do.”
When you get a shopping cart with a bad wheel, you tag it and set it aside for the shops to repair, or park it in an aisle and put up a blue flag in front of and behind it.
You curse the dispatcher when you’re held up in traffic.
You’re test driving a hot V6 and think, “This thing can really move in notch 8.”
While driving your car, you put your arm on the window sill and wave your hand and blow your horn to all kids standing on the street.
Your wife opens her wallet to show the relatives photos of the children while you open your wallet to show them your latest rail photos from last weeks fan trip.
You install a pedal operated bell in your car and ring it while driving across railroad crossings.
You open your refrigerator door only to find it full of film for the next fan trip.
You find yourself looking for old locomotives and color sch
Guilty of:
3,4,11,15,19,20,22,23,30, majorly 31!!!, 33,38,44,48 big time!!!,46,47—when no one around[:I],54,58[:I][8D]… my god I got bit by the bug hard!!!
Very funny, and true! I’m guilty of many of them. As ar as the fireman part, sometimes, I’ll just hang out at the Park at Horseshoe Curve on a nice day. I’ll be sitting there wearing my Railroad or Railfan Cap and wih my scanner going. Alot of tourists, or occasional trainwatchers will come up and ask if I work for the Railroad on account of my radio, and attire, or else they’ll come up and ask me when the next train is coming. I usually give them a respectable amount of info on the line…which way is west, east, how do I know where the train is at? (Because I hear the detectors tripping, and the crews calling signals and direction of travel) It is quite fun though… Dave Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsaltoonajohnstown
Guilty of #'s 2, 20, 22, 25, 29, 34, 44, 49, 50, 51, 60, 62, 68 and 69. Plus #47 when I was a kid.
As for #22, check your rear-view mirror before you do that! As for #34, I don’t get asked that often but people sometimes crane their necks when they see the camera {why is that guy taking a picture of the trash next to the railroad track?}
