Re: [OT] You know you're a hardcore railfan when...

["Tom" <gunzel3801@optusnet.com.au>]

Think you better add me to the list of hardcore gunzels / railfans.

Jonathan Boles <jaboles@crossswinds.net> wrote in message
9fnkrj$mjp$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au">news:9fnkrj$mjp$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au...
> Here's a few to get you started:
>
> ...when you think about putting multi chime air horns on top of your car.
yes if i knew where to get a horn

> ...when you try to take a picture of 3801/3830 through a Tangara window.
no not a tangara window we took pictures through windscreen of the car.
hope to chase 3801 tomorrow.

> ...when you'd prefer to learn drive a train before you learn to drive a
car.
>
> ...when you learn to distinguish Sydney sparks by sound.
would like to lean this for other locos
but willing to learn to reconise sparkys too

<snip>
> ...when you look forward to drooling over double-page-spread colour pics
in
> Motive Power.
have'nt bought that one I get RD

Must be hardcore if I reading old RD magazines from the 80s also have here
the NSW Track and Signal Diagrams on CD thanks to the ARHS/nsw
Also reading the General Appendix to the Rules and Regulations (NSW).
Planning on a Gunzel for tomorrow Werris Creek to Gunnedah - chase 3801.

thats it for now
Yours in Railways
Tom