you know your addicted to Amtrak when you
...attempt to delay departure on family car trips, so when you reach the point where you cross an Amtrak train's route, you can say there is a train coming in 15 minutes and convince the family to pull over so you can watch it pass
...have "Amtrak" or "Julie" on speed dial on your cell phone
...when you hear the name Julie you think of a robot voice asking about stations and train numbers, not a girl you know
...look into getting a K5LA, bell, ditch lights, etc. installed on your car
...have piles of old Amtrak timetables lying around your room
...have spent hundreds of dollars attempting to create a realistic HO scale model of Amtrak's Capitol Limited
...have logged thousands of miles on Amtrak since the last time you flew on an airplane
...only drive/fly someplace if there is no Amtrak service there
...save napkins, plastic dinging car plates, plastic cups with the Amtrak logo with the intention of someday being able to create a dining car place setting
...have more pictures of Amtrak trains saved on your computer than you do of family/friends
...call out traffic lights when you're driving around town (e.g. "clear, Third Street")
...think to call your host railroad to request a rescue engine when your car has troubles, before remembering you have no host railroad
...consider the outlet in your car to be Head End Power
...have trouble sleeping because your bed doesn't sway side to side, and you don't hear a horn every few minutes
...think of the left lane as "the express track"
...send your friends postcards with photos of the Amtrak train you rode, rather than photos of the place you visited, when you go on vacation
...consider a vacation without a ride on Amtrak a waste of money
