You might be a rail fan if....

[signmasters]

Your wife asks how fast are you going and you tell her notch 8!

[Norm]

You buy a better camera, a scanner, and put 30,000 miles on your car in one year of chasing trains.

[Aleks]

You plan your family vacation and hotel stays around what yards, busy lines, tourist trains & rail museums you can check out on the way there and back.

[Aleks]

You buy a lap top mainly to use just for ATCS.

[CAT345C]

You find a Jension stereo speaker along the tracks while waiting for N956 and you bring it home and hook it up to your stereo!!

[redside20]

you know what time every train will arrive an depart and you have it down to a science

you carry your scanner with you to a family outing

[CAT345C]

You live a few miles from a line, and you can tell which way a train is headed by the horn sequences for the crossings.

[PSK at CH45.2]

You've been sitting in your car next to a green absolute for over an hour with your wife and you look at her and say, "Just five more minutes...I know it'll be here in just five more minutes."

[trainjunkie47]

...if you will only eat out at Clara's in Lansing because of the view of the tracks.

[SD80MAC]

If you're with a friend and a train goes and they ask you about it, you can name the locomotives up front, the approximate date when they were built, what company owns them, the train symbol, it's point of origin, it's destination and it's stops along the way.

[J T]

You've been sitting in your car next to a green absolute for over an hour with your wife and you look at her and say, "Just five more minutes...I know it'll be here in just five more minutes."

Did that last summer while getting eaten up by mosquitos. "Honey, I know the Amtrak is coming ANY minute now!" (my gf can be so patient with me sometimes) This was before I knew about Julie, though.

[GreatLakesRailfan]

...people you haven't seen in a while ask if you've seen any trains lately...

[LSRC]

...get ticked off if you aren't first in line for the train...

[CAT345C]

you manage to pull one of these, while turning around to get a better shot of a train:

[GJ]

you definitely know that you're
a railfan when you get consumers
and lake state/sbs security tracking
your license number an calling you
at home to find out what you've been
up to.... .....

I couldn't resist that comment....they're
not so bad, they still let us enjoy some
things.... .....GJ

[BerkshireKid]

.... If you go railfanning in Ohio with two friends and its 5 degrees out w/ a wind chill of -25. Ask Matt and PAtrick about that. IT'S KOLD!!!

[tsinoms]

I have 4.
If all you can think about in school or on the street is trains.
If your mom wonders how fast you pace the train on chicago dr and you say,"They have the same speed limit as we do."
If you are a member of this site.
Lastly, JONS and JT will get this, If you pull a U-Turn to catch a couple of railfans
Trev

[LSRC]

...if you get all excited when answers turn out to be "1225", etc...

[TrainNut85]

You might be a railfan if:

1. You hear a horn of a train and run outside with your camera not realizing its 15 below outside.

2. Half of your wardrobe is railroad t-shirts and hats.

3. Everytime you get to talk to someone the instant they mention trains you tell them about your adventures, what you saw and how many cars you counted on every train.

[tsinoms]

...if you get all excited when answers turn out to be "1225", etc...

Theres gregg

3. Everytime you get to talk to someone the instant they mention trains you tell them about your adventures, what you saw and how many cars you counted on every train.

And theres me