You Might Be A Foamer If

Article by Ian Cole

Today at RPJ we have decided it would be a good idea to make a list of things that would classify you as a railfan or foamer. If you find yourself to match up with any of these things, it may be a good idea to  reevaluate what your life has become... (Just kidding)


Anyways you might be a foamer if:

• Every time you see a blue locomotive you automatically assume it's an ex conrail
• Ex con does not mean prisoner to you
• You are more likely to go out to get a heritage unit instead of attending a family gathering
• Your I-pod contains nothing but songs like Wabash Cannonball, Orange Blossom Special, or any song that has to do with a train
• You cried when one of your favorite railroad lines was abandoned (Guilty)
•  Memory foam means a flashback of a good train to you
• When a derailment happens you are concerned about the crews well being AND the locomotives well being
• You call a dash 9 a trash 9
• You freak out over gevos
• your name is Ian Cole
• You've ended up on tosh.0 for all the wrong reasons involving trains
• You've threatened to shank vandals with railroad spikes
• When someone says they want foam insulation put up in their house and you tell them to hold a picture of NS 8114, 611, or a Ferromex locomotive in front of where they want the foam installed
• You cussed someone out who cut in front of your photo line
• You've been asked if you're gay for trains 
• Your entire wardrobe is nothing but shirts from daylight sales
• Your definition of a "drive by shooting" is riding down the highway closest to the train yard and shooting every damn piece of train equipment from the road while flying by at 45 miles an hour or more.
• You take home a railroad spike from every railroad line you visited
• Your spouse sends you with $300 to buy a Christmas tree and says you can keep the rest for trains (Buys a 10 dollar tree gets $290 worth of trains)
• Christmas time is the only time you seem perfectly normal to society
• If the numbers 611 765 8098 or 4014 mean anything to you
• You've been called in by some oblivious passerby who thought you were a psychotic maniac
• You can remember the best damn day of railfanning you've ever had but you can't remember your mother's birthday
• You name your kids Connie (for conrail) Chessie (chessie system) Casey (Casey Jones) Willard (Railroad town and last name of former B & O Executive) or Wheeling (Wheeling and lake erie railway)
• Your alarm clock is a train whistle
• You could care less if you're in a dangerous neighborhood as long as there are awesome trains in the area
• You walked over five miles to go shoot trains
• You go out railfanning when its below 0 degrees F
• Your kids first pacifier was a wooden train whistle
• Your vacation destination is to a place like Horseshoe Curve, Fostoria, or Folkston

See one that we are missing? Comment them below. Thanks for taking your time to read this list!