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{{trope}}
[[File:Foaming at the Mouth (4612464341).jpg|thumb|Just look at that Conrail paint job!]]
{{quote|''"[[Running Gag|I like trains.]]"''|'''"I Like Trains" kid''', ''[[Asdfmovie]]''}}
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kotetsu Segawa from ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': being a good-looking and stylish young man, he is a stealth rail otaku, until he pulls out a giant camera ...
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* Yuichi Yamanoguchi is a troubled boy who gets turned into [[Monster of the Week|EI-04]] in ''[[GaoGaiGar]]''.
* Touko in the ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]] 4th'' specials; the normal [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] scenes with Yumi turn into Crowning Moments of Funny.
* Giroro of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' has this as one of his quirks in the anime. One of the [[Whole-Episode Flashback|tadpole episodes]] touched on this during a plot where the [[Power Trio]] went treasure hunting: he revealed he had a special pass for the galactic trains, which they used to go exploring off-planet. A later episode had them becoming train conductors as part of one of their schemes, to his poorly hidden delight—and triggering a [[Heroic BSOD]] when
* ''[[Kuragehime]]'' has a variation: Banba, the short girl with a [[Funny Afro]] adores street cars.
* Suzuki, one of [[Those Two Guys]] in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', would rather take photos of rolling stock than of pretty co-eds.
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* Given the series' name, it should be obvious that ''[[Rail Wars!]]'' has a few:
** Takayama applied for the OJT program in order to become a train operator. He has a permanent track for model railroad trains in his room at home, complete with a full basic operator's setup.
** Sasshou can identify trains by their sound
** Prince Bernina (from Episodes 10-11) invites Takayama to be on a [[First-Name Basis]] because they're both rail enthusiasts.
** Out-of-universe, the entire series is [[Fan Service]] for [[Real Life]] Rail Enthusiasts.
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* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' was created by an [[The Vicar|English Vicar]], the Rev. W. Awdry, showing that that stereotype can be [[Truth in Television]].
** The character of ''[[The Fat Controller]]'' is sometimes attributed to another railway vicar, the Rev. Teddy Boston, a friend of Awdry's who had a narrow-gauge steam engine in his garden.
*** And the occasional characters of the Fat Clergyman and the Thin Clergyman are [[Word of God|confirmed]] as Boston and Awdry [[Author Avatar|Author Avatars]].
* One of the ''[[Discworld]]'' books discusses {{
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* One of the central characters in the fantasy novel "Palimpsest" by [[Catherynne M. Valente]] is a female Japanese rail enthusiast.
* The title of ''[[Trainspotting]]'' comes from a chapter in the novel called "Trainspotting at Leith Central Station". The joke is that the station is long-closed and derelict, so trainspotting there is an utterly pointless, dull and squalid experience, like most things the characters do.
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* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]] - [[The Last Battle]]'', Edmund is described as “the sort of person who knows about trains.”
== [[Live
* Gomez Addams from ''[[The Addams Family]]'' has an extensive model train layout in both the TV show and the movie adaptations, on which he likes to cause crashes and other disasters.
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' did a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTVDOx35FNg sketch] parodying all the rubbish about railway timetables. [[Michael Palin]], who plays the enthusiast, titled his very first travelogue program "Confessions of a Trainspotter", riding from London to Kyle of Lochalsh, and now has a Virgin trainset named after him.
** parodied by himself during his ''[[Journey Through The New Europe]]'' series, in a sequence involving a logging railway in some remote corner of the Balkans (
* In one episode of ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'', [[The Vicar]] refuses to talk to the protagonists because he's too busy... playing with his model railway.
** In another episode, Foggy is revealed to be one of these.
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* One episode of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' had a [[Rain Man]] type immortal whose fixation was on trains. He kept quoting train facts during most of the ep.
* Ernie Dell, the [[Red Herring]] of the Miniature Killer arc on ''[[CSI]]'' (see 'Loco Motives')
== New Media ==▼
* The F40PH locomotive, depicted in the page image, is a subject of [[Memetic Mutation]]. For some odd reason,<ref>weekly posting of trains have replaced weekly posting of furry artwork on 4chan</ref> it's common to post it coupled with the phrase "[[Yiff]] in hell, [[Furry Fandom|furfags]]!" on Image Boards. Also, [[Berserk Button|don't call it a train]] in front of Rail Enthusiasts.▼
* Rail Enthusiasm is so prevalent on the internet, that [[Image Board]]s almost always have a /n/ board, for "Transportatio'''n'''". It's not called just "trains", because they allow talking about buses, commercial jets, subways, and even bikes as well as trains. As said above, the F40PH is always popular.▼
* There's even a whole [[Image Board]] dedicated to trainspotting called 1chan.net. They feel very strongly about the political aspects of rail infrastructure.▼
* Australian [[Something Awful]] Goon "Maximum Sexy Pigeon" created almost a dozen realistic pixel art train cars for the [http://goontrain.derekmccrone.com/ Goon Train] art project. There were other train fans (all Australian, oddly enough) in that thread, but none as passionate as Mr. Pigeon.▼
* The "I Like Trains" kid from the ''[[Asdfmovie]]'' series.▼
== [[Radio]] ==
* BBC Radio sometime in the 90s had a half-hour comic monologue called "Anorak of Fire". The narrator is a trainspotter who's so obsessed with trains that he misinterprets everything else he sees and hears. At one point in his narration he describes seeing a train carrying nuclear waste through the middle of town, but all he's excited about is the fact that it's hauled by a rare type of locomotive.
** This was adapted and expanded into a TV movie/drama in 1998 for BBC 2.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Reverend Lovejoy loves, finds joy in, model trains. They have a tendency to get into terrible accidents.▼
{{quote|'''Reverend Lovejoy''': God, why do you hate my trains?}}▼
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Ted Wasonasong is shown playing with a model train in one episode.▼
* The [[Classic Disney Short]] ''Out of Scale'' has [[Donald Duck]] building a very elaborate model train set in his backyard. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when he removes Chip n' Dale's tree because it's out of scale with the rest of the set.▼
** In a related note, many of the Disney artists (including Walt himself) were Rail Enthusiasts, and had model trains in their own yards. Some even had full-scale locomotives!▼
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'', a series about trains, probably has a few examples within the cast but might well have been the starting point for a lot of railfans. For that matter, its popularity with autistic and Asperger's children overlaps, with some social workers noting that a lot of rail enthusiasts are also autistic or have Asperger's.▼
* The kid in [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Play Safe]], leading to [[Nightmare Fuel]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUgyWhKlH78 when he gets a little to close to his beloved trains].▼
* Mr. Bernard in [[The Rescuers]] covers his behind by invoking this trope, when Ms. Bianca accuses him of being too cowardly to travel by air.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In Lilly's route of [[Katawa Shoujo]], she and Hanako express their preference for old trains when going to Hokkaido.
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Reverend Lovejoy loves, finds joy in, model trains. They have a tendency to get into terrible accidents.
▲{{quote|'''Reverend Lovejoy''': God, why do you hate my trains?}}
▲* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Ted Wasonasong is shown playing with a model train in one episode.
▲* The [[Classic Disney Short]] ''Out of Scale'' has [[Donald Duck]] building a very elaborate model train set in his backyard. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when he removes Chip n' Dale's tree because it's out of scale with the rest of the set.
▲** In a related note, many of the Disney artists (including Walt himself) were Rail Enthusiasts, and had model trains in their own yards. Some even had full-scale locomotives!
▲* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'', a series about trains, probably has a few examples within the cast but might well have been the starting point for a lot of railfans. For that matter, its popularity with autistic and Asperger's children overlaps, with some social workers noting that a lot of rail enthusiasts are also autistic or have Asperger's.
▲* The kid in [[Max and Dave Fleischer|''Play Safe'']], leading to [[Nightmare Fuel]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUgyWhKlH78 when he gets a little to close to his beloved trains].
▲* Mr. Bernard in ''[[The Rescuers]]'' covers his behind by invoking this trope, when Ms. Bianca accuses him of being too cowardly to travel by air.
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▲== New Media ==
▲* The F40PH locomotive, depicted in the page image, is a subject of [[Memetic Mutation]]. For some odd reason,<ref>weekly posting of trains have replaced weekly posting of furry artwork on 4chan</ref> it's common to post it coupled with the phrase "[[Yiff]] in hell, [[Furry Fandom|furfags]]!" on Image Boards. Also, [[Berserk Button|don't call it a train]] in front of Rail Enthusiasts.
▲* Rail Enthusiasm is so prevalent on the internet, that [[Image Board]]s almost always have a /n/ board, for "Transportatio'''n'''". It's not called just "trains", because they allow talking about buses, commercial jets, subways, and even bikes as well as trains. As said above, the F40PH is always popular.
▲* There's even a whole [[Image Board]] dedicated to trainspotting called 1chan.net. They feel very strongly about the political aspects of rail infrastructure.
▲* Australian [[Something Awful]] Goon "Maximum Sexy Pigeon" created almost a dozen realistic pixel art train cars for the [http://goontrain.derekmccrone.com/ Goon Train] art project. There were other train fans (all Australian, oddly enough) in that thread, but none as passionate as Mr. Pigeon.
▲* The "I Like Trains" kid from the ''[[Asdfmovie]]'' series.
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