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

[Maikha@mailandnews.com (Maikha)]

For me:

...when you catch trains at Penrith and not walk 20mins to Werrington

...When you want to specifically sit on the window side of the
carriage for something along the line (Eveleigh, MainTrain, Flemo?)

...when a passenger on a train has his camera out, switched on and
armed in-case of anything significant passing

...when I slap myself, seeing a Quad 86 at Newnes going to Lithgow
when I should have got off at Mt vic for a pic.

...when I take the train from Penrith to St Marys straight after
skool, sparing $1.20 instead of taking a bus, which could be free from
a school pass

...when you keep your eyes on a railway line while driving instead of
the road (i.e. GWH in the Blue Mountains)

...when the road overpasses a railwayline, you take a peak at both
sides to see anything on the track

...when you are in the garage playing with your model railway layout
(I got one) and 2km away on the Main West you can hear a a heavy train
go over the South Creek Bridge before Werrington, and run out of the
garage just to 'analyse' what noise it is.


That's all for now, next episode, You know you're a hardcore sparks
fan when...


Maikha "V" Ly
theintercityplatform.iwarp.com



"Jonathan Boles" <jaboles@crossswinds.net> wrote in message 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.
> 
> ...when you try to take a picture of 3801/3830 through a Tangara window.
> 
> ...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.
> 
> ...when you discuss ways to make the cityrail system more efficient.
> 
> ...when you write software to emulate station announcements
> 
> ...when you are in the process of writing software to emulate the Cityrail
> plasma screen (actually I'll release an alpha version soon)
> 
> ...when you look forward to drooling over double-page-spread colour pics in
> Motive Power.
> 
> That's all i have time for now, add your own!
> 
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