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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:Foaming at the Mouth (4612464341).jpg\|thumb\|Just look at that Conrail paint job!]] ~~[[File:F40PH reducida.jpg\|frame\|The F40PH locomotive, the idol of the trainspotter!<ref>And bane of furries</ref>]]~~ {{quote\|''"[[Running Gag\|I like trains.]]"''\|'''"I Like Trains" kid''', ''[[Asdfmovie]]''}} Line 27: {{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 ... Line 42 ⟶ 41: * 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~~. Her friend Kaori (in Episode 3) is even better at this~~. 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. Line 60 ⟶ 59: * ''[[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 {{~~smallcaps~~small-caps\|[[Grim Reaper\|Death]]'s}} patient, methodical personality by saying that while there aren't any trains or steam engines on the Discworld, he'll surely be there to note it down as soon as one is invented. ''[[~~Discworld/Unseen Academicals\|~~Unseen Academicals]]'' has a brief mention of a magazine for "Golem-spotters", suggesting that this has become the equivalent. It remains to be seen if Death has taken it up. ''[[~~Discworld/Raising Steam\|~~Raising Steam]]'', the last of the non-YA ''Discworld'' books, is about the Disc's first train and steam engine. Sure enough, once the permanent way has been set down, somebody in an anorak is there to spot the only train in existence as it goes by. [[Chekhov's Gun\|This becomes a plot point later in the book.]] * 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.