Side Effects of being a Railfan

[jordon412]

If you watch TV as much as I do, you will see commercials for different pills that are supposed to help you with a medical problem. However, the list of side effects seems longer than what the benifits that the pill is supposed to help you. So since I've seen all those commercials, I decided to come up with a blog that lists the side effects of being a railfan:

1. All the favorite websites on your computer are train-related.
2. Spending long hours beside the railroad tracks, waiting for a specific train, locomotive, etc.
3. Spending days away from home, traveling to a place to watch trains (i.e. Cajon Pass).
4. Getting soot in your face when riding behind a coal-fired steam locomotive.
5. The only clothes in your closet have some train-related graphics on it (i.e. a locomotive).
6. Any tattoes you have are of trains.
7. On your honeymoon trip, you will take a train to your destination (or part of the way to the destination).
8. All the money on your paychecks are used to by a new camera to take pictures of trains with, or a better scanner to listen to what's going on.
9. Every present you give your child (children) will be something related to Thomas The Tank Engine.
10. Every family trip you take you stop off at a place like Cajon Pass or Horseshoe Curve to watch trains.

Let's see what you come up with.

 

[trooper1]

11. You can name everything that passes on the railroad crossing, and you do, thus everyone in the car looks at you like you have a third eye and an antenna sticking out of your head
12. When you say SD40-2 people ask you what year nasa launched it into space.
13. You had paramedics check you out after you got word that amtrak's last operational F40PH was turned into a cabbage car.
14. You didn't call the fire department after you wathed a general electric locomotive start up.