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Do you have traininitis?

Symptoms include:
1. Ears are acting as radar for train horns.
2. Constant eagerness to catch any train.
3. Camera goes wherever you go.
4. Trains Magazine and other related ones are basically your reading material.
5. You dream about trains in your sleep.
6. You designate every locomotive on every train.
7. Any type of excursion train you hear about you end up chasing it.
8. You watch Polar Express so many times cause the 1225's sound fx is in it.
9. Your video collection is nothing but trains.
10. Your hats are all railroad hats.


Relief of these symptoms are as followed:
1. Get out and chase a train!
2. "Durand is sure a nice place!"
3. One state for good train action: Ohio!
4. A once in a while visit to SRI.
5. The new issue of Trains is out!
6. Microsoft Train Simulator!!!!



So anyone has these symptoms? lol

I'd say I'm afflicted. Now if I could get a doctors note for the next two weeks off work so I can hang out someplace along the tracks.

TrainNut85 wrote: 5. You dream about trains in your sleep.

Not sure if I can say the dreams are ABOUT trains, but they certainly show up IN my dreams...at least 4-5 times a month for as long as I can remember.

I have all symptoms, except for symptoms 7 and 8. Great post... I am calling my doctor right now to get a note saying that if any of symptoms persist i need to cut class and go to chicago to watch trains. LMAO!!!!!!

You know now I can tell my wife what illness I have so when I am in a dead sleep and hear a train horn dart out that door camara in hand, she can call the doc. Emmett Brown of course LOL

this is just too weird, i know i had trainitis when i started having dreams about Durand Michigan.

hun i have 1. 2. and 5. help

traingirl21 wrote:hun i have...5.

You too? I thought I was the only weirdo dreaming about trains.

um. yeah. I should run.

osomething wrote:um. yeah. I should run.

Don't think your man isn't suffering from several of these symptoms!

You'll get used to it after a while. It took my girlfiend about 4 years, but she's finally "accepted" it.

I definately have #1...
#2 is only for decent sunlight, rare movements, and boredom
#3 is oh so true.
Sometimes on #5
all the rest are bonked.

railroadfan wrote:I definately have #1...
#2 is only for decent sunlight, rare movements, and boredom
#3 is oh so true.
Sometimes on #5
all the rest are bonked.

Other symptoms include-
-smelling like "metal"
-Naming pets after trains
-"woot woot or woooot" is a part of your everyday vocab
-oh yeah, and running a website dedicated to trains and photos of trains and other crazy train people.

osomething wrote:

railroadfan wrote:I definately have #1...
#2 is only for decent sunlight, rare movements, and boredom
#3 is oh so true.
Sometimes on #5
all the rest are bonked.

Other symptoms include-
-smelling like "metal"
-Naming pets after trains
-"woot woot or woooot" is a part of your everyday vocab
-oh yeah, and running a website dedicated to trains and photos of trains and other crazy train people.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well its that time of year, some new symptoms have came out in recent cases:

1. Standing outdoors in cold and snowy weather
2. the "Durand Syndrome"
3. ears stuck to a scanner
4. feelings at certain times to go out and catch trains
5. looking over recent shots of trains over and over again
6. planning your future model railroad layout

Hopefully I don't see any cases worse than this, but if there is, submit your symptom.

Somthing about #4 tells me that might hurt a little bit. Not much but mabey just a little.

Oh yea by the way TrainNut85, I think the word your looking for in your bottom line is sucessor to PC and PRR, last I rember predecessor was before and NS wasnt before PC and PRR.

Thanks for the reminder but I'll be changing it hopefully next month, I'll just correct it for now!

How's the Mattsquatch doin by the way?