You’re watching the recent Get Smart movie, and the only thing you’re worried about during the railyard sequence is what type of EMD loco is about to hit agent 86.
(What is it, anyway? I don’t really know much after the 1950s [:)])
You mention that you’ve been working on some gondola kits, then wonder why people think you’re talking about Venice.
You are watching a thrilling movie with friends, and you tell them, that the loco you have just seen does not fit either the era nor the location [:-*]
You eat breakfast at Choo-Choo’s Diner - (there is such a place where I live).
You dream repeatedly of MOW trains in old, closed subway stations at night, like I used to. I only exorcised these demons by building my own subway.
You see a post called “Hey, Charlie…” and immediately think of the poor guy stuck on the MTA.
Your wife rolls her eyes at you when you tell her what kind of lashup the train in the closing sequence of “In the Heat of the Night” is (the movie, not the tv series).
…when you have a “knuckle coupler” for a trailer hitch ball substitute.
…when you can’t wait to get home to see if your new loco has arrived yet.
…when you wish your “garden railroad” could be 1:1.
…when you dream of steam locos as a personal transport for your very own “private car” to travel in.
…when you daydream of the last train you saw going by recently.
…when you dream you ARE the owner of your own 1:1 railroad.
…when you spend more time on these train forums than you do with your family.
…when you think only of vacations that will include a train of some kind.
…when March rolls around and you are tired of winter and can’t wait for the first tourist train ride to open up.
…when you daydream of steam trains while riding the subway.
…when you daydream you are DRIVING the subway train!
…when you spend spare time watching youtube train videos.
…when the only magazines you read in the Dr.s office are the TRAINS and MRR-ing mags you brought with you cuz they don’t have such mags at the Dr.s office.
…when you live close enough to a tourist train line or train museum that you visit there frequently to “get away from it all”.
…when you keep that latest train magazines in a magazine rack in your car to read whenever you have free time to kill {such as at the Dr.s office of break from w*rk}
When you look forward to going #2 so you have some quiet time to think about that Model RR project you are working on…
Mark
When you’re bored out of your skull waiting at the Dr’s because you didn’t bring a RR mag [|)]… you pick up a ladies mag to sullenly flick through[:^)]… and spot a PRR signal way off in the distance beyond some young bikini lady model advertising… who cares!? [(-D]There’s a signal in the background and I spotted it![(-D]
Maybe I should see a shrink? [%-)]
…when you refer to fog lights on vehicles as ditch lights.
Kevin
Wedon’t have a Choo-Choo’s but we have a Box Car Billy’s.
How about you’re more concerned with the trains than the fight in the final fight scene of the movie S.W.A.T.
Here’s another one:
You know Groundhog Day was filmed on the west coast because the ‘driving on the tracks’ sequence features a diesel in the Burlington Northern green and white stripes.
When you hear a certain train horn, and you can tell if it is a Leslie or a Nathan.
It didn’t matter if Scully and Mulder were in Mississippi, Virginia or Maine. If there was a train involved it always said BCR on it. Now that is either a heck of a branch line or I’m just being picky.[^o)]
Brent
The big thrill of going to DMV to re-register the pickup is that the office is right next to the UP’s LA&SL route. (Today I got lucky! Two units and a short ethanol unit northbound.)
The big selling point about the pickup was that the color scheme and the hood hump resemble one end of a GG1. (I keep threatening to put a PRR keystone on the panel behind the door…)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I don’t know if its me or my grandson who has trains on the mind,probably both, as my grandson was heard talking in his sleep saying Grampa,grampa,toot,toot toooooot.[:D] AAAts my boy! BILL
The only part of the movie “Inception” that makes sense is the freight train running down the middle of a Los Angeles street - without tracks. Adds a new dimension to the term “street running.”
You’re right! The passenger train in Japan was cool too though.
Accidently pulled this one last night.
Get home from a long day at school and hop online and talk to another friend about trains, all the while forgetting that your girlfriend asked you to call her several times when you got home.
Dont ask how that one ended up…