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You might be a rail fan if....
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:06 pm
by Bluewaterfan
This is similar to Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck jokes, but with a rail twist.
post as many times as you can.
My first one
You might be a rail fan if....
you have your own private rail crossing.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:56 pm
by sd70accsxt700
....If you go to work just to photograph trains
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:52 pm
by SD40-2
............. if you always have your camera and scanner with you
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:34 pm
by redside20
If you paint your vehicle in railroad logo colors ex. New York Central lightning stripe silver and black or yellow chessie cat
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:17 pm
by GreatLakesRailfan
...you feel irritation when someone refers to a single abandoned boxcar in the middle of nowhere as a 'train'...
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:18 pm
by GreatLakesRailfan
...you know the difference between a GE and an EMD and can explain the spotting features of each...
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:25 pm
by RailCanon
...When you always swing by the tracks while doing chores
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:46 pm
by patrick
...you can tell what loco it is just by hearing the horn....
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:50 pm
by Scooterb
............You intentionally try to get stopped by a train, then get mad at the crew when they try to wave you by.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:09 am
by Railzfan
…….run out of church during a wedding and try to get a picture of a train before it passes!
Note: it was the groom that ran out
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You..
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:22 pm
by Traindriver05
you work for the railroad and at the end of the day, you watch as your blood pressure rises as you relive every detail.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:50 pm
by sd70accsxt700
that just made me think on one.
.........If you work for the railroad, and at the end of the day you chase your own train to get photos of it as the next crew takes it some where else.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:56 pm
by Railnut
...you have more pictures of the same 4 locomotives than of your family (ya know which 4)
Dave C
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:09 pm
by CAT345C
...if you have rigged your head lights to flash left to right when you sound your car horn
...if you ask the zoning commisson if you can use a boxcar as a tool shed
...you looked at the price of high-rail wheels for your car (2grand)
...all of the engineers on a particular line know you and sound the horn at your house, miles away from a crossing
ding.ding.ding
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:18 pm
by Bluewaterfan
You have a railroad crossing signal and bell in your garage (and it's operational!)
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:42 pm
by GT Railfan
..... when somebody ask you what train you saw and you tell them it was a GP38-2 leading a MOW train past MP 56.8 and they ask if you need to see a sycyatrist .
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:24 pm
by Bluewaterfan
Bumping it up
you take 60 pictures of one train and 2 years later, you Still don't know what to do with them
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:54 pm
by i995impalass
...if your house looks like the Grant Depot.......
not my apartment, but my train room does
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:16 pm
by J T
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:18 pm
by J T
You go out to chase trains when you SHOULD be looking for a job.
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