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

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

Tom <gunzel3801@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Think you better add me to the list of hardcore gunzels / railfans.
>
> Jonathan Boles <jaboles@crossswinds.net> wrote in message
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> > 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
>
I forgot to mention going to the Red Cow (Pub, as a child with parents in
the 1980s) opposite the railway line at Penrith.
Ah what fun.
Tom