The good thing: you can remember all your card PIN numbers etc. because you match them to engine numbers....
You know you are addicted when.... Everytime you stop to fill up your motorhome with diesel fuel, all you can think is "Aw Man...there goes another Athearn Big Boy ) NCDaveD
You know you are addicted when.... Your Wife's water breaks and you yell, " OK, Just another minute, let me finish breaking down this freight." See ya ron
Grey One, Thanks for digging up this thread, I had forgotten all about it. (CRS) I'm getting to that age where I can hide my own Easter eggs so I had to reread all the posts. It's great to be able to laugh at ourselves just a little. Glad to see things still progressing "normally" for most. It's been what?, three years and I'm still just oooooone more loco from having all that I want. Merry Christmas to all Jim
You've been rousted more than three times from your railfanning spot-in one month. Your wife never worries about where you are after dark. (You're in the basement). You come to a RR crossing and pray for a train. You have a basement full of RR castoffs and aquisitions (most not stolen). Your son makes excellent knife blades out of the bogey springs you found. (totally true) You have a fully operational switch stand in your back yard that you "found" discarded. You're designing your layout on both XtrkCad and RTS 8.0 so you don't miss anything important. You build a new house (nothing wrong with the old one) so you can have a 14 x 18 train room - with a lock on the door. My therapist is putting together a longer list, I pick it up Friday.
Even when you are broke you still visit your favorite pusher's, er, um, dealer's, ah, no, hmm, ahhhhhhh, "etailers" web site. You have issues with word choice for vendor type.
You are opening windows when it is 40 degrees outside because: Your home is filled with smoke from: You burned while posting to this thread: Mannnnnnnnnn! I could just taste that marmalade and butter. I got there and the small one was litterally in flames.
You can tell you're addicted to trains when: You check into a motel and WANT the room closest to the tracks One of your sons has the reporting marks of a fallen flag Class 1 (my middle son, Matthew Kyle Thompson, and his initials MKT). Your email address is a steam locomotive Your bathroom has a stack of rail-related reading material while you, er, uh, "set out a bad order" You refer to going to the bathroom as "setting out a bad-order" Your hobby shop is on speed-dial You contemplate what your vehicle would look like painted in your favorite railroad's paint scheme
In the late '70s there was a guy I used to railfan with who had a Ford van painted in SP daylight colors. He even had air horns on the roof. Now those were the good old days.
If there's a little square up in the righthand corner of TrainBoard that says Welcome, Your Name/handle. You last visited.... Well you get the Idea!:tb-biggrin::tb-biggrin::tb-biggrin:
You are posting to this thread on New Years Eve. Your profile at online dating sites includes "model railroading"
You can position your cursor at the place where "View First Unread" will appear before the page comes up on your screen.
You're ready to go out to dinner with your wife on your anniversary and you ask her to wait till you get finished with your latest Trainboard post! (I really did) LOL!!! PS: She didn't get mad either!
...when: 1) you see if you can squeeze in a post before midnight on New Year's Eve (11:57...) 2) you spent the fading daylight on New Year's Eve day outside in a howling windstorm (wind chill in the teens) cutting a new layout valence from floppy Masonite with a handheld circular saw. Oops, this one goes in the You know your stupid when... thread. Happy New Year!
My replies 1. a.You buy a "not working" or damaged engine, cause your sure you have the parts to fix it. b. You realize you dont have the parts, so you scrounge around the "bay" for 2 months till you find another perfectly working one, just so you can take parts off it and make the broken one work. c. After getting the broken one working, the dismantled one that was working now starts talking to you, to go back to the "bay" and find another one to fix it. d. This goes on until they start sizing you up for a straightjacket. 2.On your birthday and Christmas, if anyone asks you a question that doesnt have "model train" in it, you dont really hear them. 3. Your 5 teenager kids think its a "big step" in their relationship when they bring their (GF or BF) down to my train room to show what "Popz" does all night. 4. Your ex-wife still refers to your train collection as "this many mortgage payments down here" 5. As I type this I have to reach over the latest dissasembled non working (fill in the blank n scale item here) that I am working on. 6. You make a post on trainboard at 4am in the morning, then keep hitting refresh for 5 minutes until someone replies..... 7. You actually get depressed when no one has replied by the next morning ( 8. Your cat always stops at the train room entrance, but never comes in any more since you explained to him for the past 10 years what cat hair does to tiny motors. 9. If you make plans to visit your parents in FLA, you know EXACTLY how far the closest hobby shop is to where they live. And you send your 70 yr old dad there to "scope it out" 10.You can pop off and replace rapido couplers with MT couplers faster then most people can write their own name........ Peace
A quick Bump! Addendum: You know your hooked when: Your pictures from Lancaster PA in front of the GG1 and 4-6-4 are in FRONT of your wedding pictures...... You take one of those Roche/Mind tests and your answers go like this: Doctor: Green You: Southern railway! Doctor: Yellow You: UPAC! Doctor: Blue You: B&O! Doctor: Silver You: Amtrak, then you frown and go into this long tirade about fallen flags as the doc and nurse look on helplessly.
You decide to take six months off from the site and N scale stuff in order to get a vintage car right for an Easter Convention but need to just have a quick look at the site every single day. (Easter and the convention are now over and I'm back at it. WooHoo)
