50.You've considered mounting the same horn on the rollbar, only to realize that your pickup would look like an Iraqi
mobile missile launcher.
51.You call Conrail's business train the "Green Weenie".
52.You refer to the horns on Amtrak locomotives as "Big Hooters".
53.You were sued for sexual harassment for accidentally making the above comment at work.
54.You always make a perverted remark every time someone mentions something about "action in the humpyard".
55.You've ever railfanned drunk.
56.You've specifically chosen to work the night shift so that you can
spend all day chasing trains.
57.You've ever sat on the passenger side door of a car with your video camera and shot over the roof while one of your
buddies drove at speeds in excess of 60 m.p.h. trying to keep up with UP #844 on an excursion.
58~You have ever caused a 20 car pile-up while trying to get to the shoulder to shoot something that you did not expect to
find.
59.You have ever caused traffic to back up for a half mile while pacing a 15 m.p.h. shortline freight.
60.You were treated for depression when you heard that Norfolk Southern dropped the fires on 611.
61.You successfully got your wife involved in railfanning.
62.She can now "out-railfan" your sorry ass any day of the year.
63.Difficult decisions at the vending machine - The Milky Way at selection F7 or the Pay Day at E8...
64.Your little black book has numerous phone numbers - railroad automated tracing services, and one woman - Mother.
65.Your fiancee left you at the alter when she saw the scanner attached to your cummerbund.
66.You own at least three Morning Sun books, five Pentrex video tapes, and have least two subscriptions to railroad
magazines.
67.Your refrigerator has barely enough food to feed a rat for half a day, but enough Kodachrome to roster shoot each BNSF
locomotive twice.
68.You're photographing Conrail like there's no tomorrow, just like everyone else, and twenty years from now a Conrail
slide still won't be worth the acetate its printed on. 69.You apply 8^th grade algebra when chasing trains ("if train A leaves Allentown at 50mph, and railfan B leaves twenty
minutes later at 90mph...")