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* Chitan, the resident [[Butt Monkey]] in [[Katteni Kaizo]]
* Cilan in the [[Pokémon]] ''Best Wishes'' series is this trope 100%. And that's only one of his interests.
* Kiichi Funabashi of ''[[Digimon Xros Wars:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** 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 Avatars]].
* One of the ''[[Discworld]]'' books discusses {{smallcaps| [[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.
* One of the central characters in the fantasy novel "Palimpsest" by [[Catherynne M. Valente|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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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* 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 ( that's right, ''[[Lumber Jacks]]'' )
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** In another episode, Foggy is revealed to be one of these.
* In the ''[[Yes Prime Minister]]'' episode "The Bishop's Gambit", the candidate Hacker eventually appoints is said to be interested only in Islam and steam engines.
* Sheldon on ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' is one of these. In an episode where Sheldon abruptly decides to move out (because he can't figure out any other way to keep a secret from Leonard) Howard and Raj list off reasons why Sheldon would move out. Raj very seriously asks "Did you make fun of trains?"
** In the same episode, Raj attempts to dissuade Sheldon from moving in with him by announcing: "I hate trains."
** In another episode the four of them take a trip to San Francisco by train.
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* ''[[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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== 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|Image Boards]] 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.
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