How bad do you have it?? Is it bad enough for you to detour slighty on the way to the hospital with your wife,who is just about ready to deliver your new son?!! I did and am guilty!!! I had to go through Nelson yard in New Haven, In on the way to Parkview Hosp. Then that wasn’t bad enough, on the way home 3 days later, We, my wife and my new son, paced a Sante Fe-Bnsf coal unit train east to Ohio. Got to the crossing and showed my new son what train watching is all about! This is the only way to break in your new son to apreciate trains!!![:)]
Wow, that’s bad… But then again, you can never start them too early. My daughter is two, and she loves Thomas and driving my trains on the layout.
Thought you might find this interesting, and educational! [;)]
This is the text of a sign that my Dad saw in a pub in Exeter this past summer.
BEWARE
Rail Enthusiasts Disease
Highly Infectious to Males of All Ages
The Symptoms: The sufferer becomes confused and bewildered when not near a railway. Will be observed wandering around with blank expression, muttering strange words. Rapid rise in temperature at sight of a train. Behaviour then becomes erratic: mush rushing about and waving of arms. Foaming at the mouth is not unusual. Is sometimes violent to non-believers. The Patient spends much time and money at book and magazine shops. Seems not to notice presence of “Normal” people.
THIS CONDITION IS NOT FATAL
The Treatment: Patient must be kept well supplied with items of railway interest. Should be encouraged to go on steam tours and to open-days where he can meet other victims of the illness and exchange ideas with them. Friends and relations can aid recovery with free transport, free beer and meals. In case of emergency, contact your nearest preservation society.
Someone said “The most important thing about this hobby is it is not the most important thing.”
(I apologise for not giving a source - it comes from a member of one of these forums, but I can’t remember who…)
Andrew
And once you get it, it never really goes away.
Well,When I retire it will be modeling 24/7…Its also most that now…
If it’s a disease, I don’t want to be healthy! I think I’ve got it about as bad as a person can have it!
Also, a phrase I heard once that can relate to this:
“He who dies with the most model trains wins!”
Here here!! Long live model railroading!!
I have it but not to bad will wait until others things are met just storing up until the day comes so i can start building my layout it will be xmas in july(2004)
dead as a rail spike though… (and someone else is conducting, while the winner rides in the caboose)[xx(]
If this ‘Train Fever’ is terminal, it is a long, long lingering disease. I have suffered from it for better than 50 years. When we go out to eat, I usually take a route that I know has a busy grade crossing and, if I’m lucky, we will get there just as a freight starts to cross followed immediately by a Metra train and with any luck, another freight after that. I just love to hear my family bitching. The last thing I do at night before bed is look at the layout I’m building. Yes, I have it bad.
I’ve got it bad, too!!! 
But I don’t want to be cured, LONG LIVE TRAINS!!! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:)][:)][:)]
[:I][:I][8D][8D][:p] [:p][:p][xx(]
I have it bad enough my wife is trying to cure me of it. It’s not working!! It just makes me yearn for more trains, both in railfanning & modeling. If there’s a train show on, I’ll phone my father-in-law to go with me so my wife won’t complain too much, as I’m spending quality time with her family.
When ever I go anywhere, I try & find the tracks I’ll be crossing on a map so I can watch for trains. I also try & find the hobby shops in the towns & cities I’ll be visiting just in case.
We cleaned out the attic, where my layout just so happens to be & put a futon up there as well as some of my daughters toys. So now my daughter & I have a reason to go up there.
I’m teaching my daughter train lingo. She can now say “stack choo-choo”
Train fever, if you don’t have it, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?[:)][8D][8)][:p]
Gordon
I was going to the lubber yard today to buy a door for my train room to keep my brother’s kid’s out when they come this weekend. When I heard a bell; TRAIN! And was excitde to see VIA Rail P42 #919 with four passanger cars.
I am afraid in my case it is Terminal and will shoot the person that finds a cure for it
Hail model railroading forever!!!
I found my Baby Book my momma kept. She said one of the first words I spoke was “Choo choo”. But then our house was 100 feet from a switching line and 500 feet from a double track mainline that crossed it with interchanges on three quadrants. Giving me lots of opportunities to babble “choo choo.”
Hopefully a cure can’t be found LOL. It can go into remission (getting married, raising a family, college…etc), but no cure can be found [:D]
Take care[:)]
Russell
Have it to the tune of $250 aweek. Good thing i am single!
Keep those N-Guages rollin’
MY TRAIN COLLECTION HAS NOT STOPPED GROWING SINCE 1986. I LIVE IN MY TRAIN ROOM. MY WIFE TELLS ME I HAVE A ONE TRACK MIND, BUT SHE KNOWS WHERE TO FIND ME. IT IS MUCH BETTER TO BE A TRAIN-A-HOLIC THAN SOME OTHER THINGS I CAN THINK OF.
Your wife is obviously not providing the proper treatment - see my message above [;)]. This seems to be a chronic, although not fatal condition that may have a long period of dormancy (mine was dormant for about 20 years…)
How old is your daughter? Mine is just over two, and can blow the wood train whistle, and drive the layout via the MRC throttle. She also has incredible hearing, and yells “Train, train!! Choo Choo!!” at the top of her lungs, often startling my wife. Only when we listen really carefully do we realize that she has heard a freight passing on the tracks about 5 miles from our house… [:)]
I’m so proud…!
Andrew
I have it so bad. That there is a camera with extra film in the glove compartment of my car. A long with a scanner mounted on the sunvisor with an outside antenna mounted to the car. I will go way out of way to see trains. I will take the senick root to where i am going if I know there is tracks a long the way. Have been known on numerous occasions to stop for no apparent reason and pull over and take pics of trains, then hurry and proceed to get ahead it again to get some more pics.
At train shows will circle the layout numerous times not looking at the same thing twice! plus spending lots of money at the vendors along the way.