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

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

Michael <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> jaboles@crossswinds.net (Jonathan Boles) wrote in
> <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.
>
> ...when you think about putting a hyrail beneath your car.
>
> >...when you try to take a picture of 3801/3830 through a Tangara window.
>
> ... when you open the window on a Tulloch to photograph ALCos at
> Leightonfield.
>
> >...when you'd prefer to learn drive a train before you learn to drive a
> >car.
>
> ...when you spend hours on train simulators to attempt to achieve that
>
> >...when you learn to distinguish Sydney sparks by sound.
>
> ... (guilty)
>
> ... and Melbourne sparks.
>
> ... and Adelaide sparks.
>
> ... and locomotives.
>
> ... (you get the picture)
>
> >...when you discuss ways to make the cityrail system more efficient.
>
> ... when you discuss ways to make Connex and M>Trains services more
> reliable, and wish they could base late running at 2 minutes and not 5.
>
> >...when you write software to emulate station announcements
>
> ...(guilty)
>
> ...and CRT PIDS.
>
> >...when you are in the process of writing software to emulate the
> >Cityrail plasma screen (actually I'll release an alpha version soon)
>
> ... See above
>
> >...when you look forward to drooling over double-page-spread colour pics
> >in Motive Power.
>
> ... ("Railway Pornography")
>
> >That's all i have time for now, add your own!
>
> ... when you catch an unsafe late night train halfway across your city,
and
> spend $45 catching a taxi home to gunzel locomotives on a suburban line.
>
> ... when you catch a train to Geelong, then catch a taxi to woop woop,
just
> to photograph 3801 out west.
>
> ... when you go away for weeks on end and come back with way too many
spent
> rolls of film.
>
> ... when you spend a whole day out beside a mainline and don't photograph
a
> single train
>
> ... when you chase one train for over 20 hours and many many kilometers
> ... at night
> ... and chase at least two more trains returning home the direct way
>
>
Going to Melbourne from Emu Plains by train to attend a model railway
exhibition and do most traveling once there by train or other form of
transport on tracks.
Tom