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

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

SNIP
> >
> > jaboles AT crosswinds DOT net
> > decoy.address@spam.trasher.com
>
> ...when you spend your entire annual leave/school holidays going to a town
> virtually in the middle of nowhere (eg Dorrigo, Glenreagh, Paterson) just
to
> take a photo of some rust.
>
> ...when you take your gf/fiancee to Sydney for a holiday, specifically to
buy a
> Purple Weekly Travelpass to show her around the Cityrail network.
>
> ...when you want to design a website for a railway station over 2,000
kilometres
> away
When you own any website todo with railways this includes me :)

> ...when you spend a couple of hours working out how you could convert an
entire
> double-deck electric carriage in Sydney, into a house (eg where the bed
will be,
> where the bathroom will be, where to have the loungeroom etc)
>
> ...when, in Year 8 woodwork class, you don't make the jigsaw
puzzle/truck/spice
> rack that everyone else is making, you decide to make an XPT train.
>
> ...when you keep a nickname given to you by railway staff, more than 8
years
> ago.
>
> ...when you have dreams of having the money to complete Bradfield's dream
of the
> Sydney rail network.
>
> ...when you think of how to re-build Aberdeen Railway station into the
building
> of old
When you have a shed / room devoted to a model railway layout

> ...when you play a game like Transport Tycoon, and only use trains
>
> ...when you try to make a railway game, just so you can pretend to manage
the
> cityrail network.
>
> ...when you spend 15 minutes playing around with ticket machines finding
out how
> much the longest journey on the Cityrail network would cost, then looking
at
> timetables to see the shortest period of time to do it in.
>