Watash has a few years on me. It was Amtrak for me. LOL. I think it was right after Horseshoe Curve. By the Watash, I love the Heart Smileys. they are really cute!
You know you're a railfan when your in band and hear the local through freight and say "Hear that nice Concert F?"
When someone asks to see pictures of your family and all you have in your wallet are shots of locos you rode on.
Ever chased trains while wearing scrubs? I have. You know you're a railfan when....... you get off work on the night shift, swing by the apartment long enough to grab a camera, and head west on US30 to chase the 3985 over Sherman Hill- all the time still wearing the scrubs you worked in last night. Yes, I was the only person on Sherman Hill and Laramie, WY in scrubs last year to chase 3985 over Sherman Hill on her run to the Pacific Northwest. Hemi is a witness (reluctant witness, too........) to that.
You know your a railfan when.... Your reading this at 12:01 AM and you have to go to work at 6:00 AM, but you just can't shut off the dang' computer!!
You might be a railfan if... ...You have a large bumper sticker that says, 'Warning!! I brake for trains!':angel:
You know your wife's a railfan when.... She requests the last 4 digits of your phone number to be 3-9-8-5.....
When you open the new credit card envelope and discover that your account number is 3751-3985-4449-0261. :teeth:
When you play the lottery using the following numbers: 15,22,16,30,45,24 (only a diehard Frisco fan would get this one)
1630 is a 2-10-0 decapod originally built for Imperial Russia, but never shipped becaus of the Bolshevik Revilution of 1917. Frisco got quite a few of these Russians, and five of them are saved- the 1630 is in service at the Illinois RR Museum. The 4524 is a Northern, last in the 4500 series Frisco had. It's stuffed & mounted at Grant Park in Springfield, MO (a/k/a Mecca for Friscophiles )
When you start referring to road construction delays as "slow orders"...... When you refer to traffic signals as red board, yellow board, or green board.... When you refer to a trip to the bathroom as "setting out a bad order"...
