I rode my first Train today at age 43

[Red_TVRM]

Took my son to work last month for this first cab ride @ 3 yrs old, and he's avid trainz user

I Volunteer at the TVRM and took my son last month and he loved it as well. I can relate to how much you and him enjoyed the day.

The day after taking my son, I took my wife to work with me on the pusher engine as well.

 

[UP5521]

Wow, I bet he had a ball and who wouldn't?, I'm sure he will never forget that day, why I rode in the cab of a CSX locomotive and they were coupling up to a line of freight cars and let me tell you,that was the day I found a hobby that I liked alot and still do!

 

[rjhowie]

Funny to see this popping up again. There must be millions across the pond who have never been on a train. Such a contrast to here where passenger inter-town trains are numerous and not something once or maybe twice a day and thought an attribute. Our freight is only a tiny thing passenger is the main function whereas in the States it is the other way round.

I just wish I could find the timetable book somewhere in my loft from the Assoc of American Railroads. It listed every single tiny and major railway, timetables, etc. and was an edition in the mid-1950's given to me. Just shows what has been lost over there. America sadly has a long way to go on the revival of passenger rail.

 

[Alex99al]

I have only rode commuter trains for SEPTA and the monorail at Walt Disney World. On my first trip on the monorail I managed to ride up in the power car. I hope to one day visit California and ride with a Burlington Northern Santa Fe or heck, even a Union Pacific crew on a local.

 

[bassist118]

My very first memory was on a 125 with my faminly going to see my sister at her RAF passout and this is probobly why these are my fave trains and they sound like a plane taking off.

I took my first cab ride when I was 6, a class 411 emu from Bromley South around 1985ish, a kind guard invited me into his cab (we were in the rear end cab but still) this probobly wont happen nowadays too much health and saftey treating us like thickies.

When I was 9 a friend of the family owned a class 55 Deltic on the East Lancs (can't for the life of me remember its name), he paid £35,000 for it (a perfictly sensible way to blow that amount in my book). He took me for a spin in her and ever since I have loved Deltics, he ran both engines at one point and the noise was loooouuuuudddd even though we weren't at full throttle but I gave me an insight of what the drivers had to put up with on the long haul up to Scotland doing 100mph.



Andy

 

[scottling]

My first cab ride was the time I went to Blackall, central Queensland for the first time (I was six) Driver let me into the cab from Robina to Helensvale stations, let me blow the horn and everything. He must have spotted me as an avid train fanatic, even at that young age!