Poll: Discovering Trainz

[steamdrivre]

I, too, am a MSTS fan but when MSTS finely gave me its last PC crash, and I mean PC crash, I started looking for an alternative and read at TrainSim.com about Trainz.
I bought '06 within weeks of release but found CMP to be as bad as MSTS was so, I am now an avid '04 user awaiting for my second attempt at MSTS later this year or so.
Trainz is just a little too toyish for me to stay with it.
It has been fun, though, just not as realistic as I'd like.


Rick

 

[Iced8383]

how do you get the polls on here?

 

[Sourdough]

how do you get the polls on here?

If you mean how do we set up a poll....we can't...only Auran can...

 

[Drucifer]

It was a random Internet search. Forget exactly what I was looking for but I found images of then a future program called Trainz. Been around ever since.

 

[Rik81]

Well now

I got MSTS way back when, then somehow lucked onto the TRAINZ web site and have never looked back!

 

[Captain_Scarlet]

Other! Back in't day when I had dialup and BT-OpenWorld as my homepage, there was an add by some video game advert on the side banner with Trainz in it, I followed the links all the way to Auran's website. I then watched the that's all there is to it videos, looked at the screenshots of how a layout is made and bought it online straight away. Having tested MSTS at Paris' Salon de la maquette et du model réduit in spring 2001 I was keen on seeing the route builder in Trainz whilst MSTS had none to speak of.
That was on 10-20th April 2002.

I now use Trainz 2004 daily and have never looked back (actually I did once cow importing the route from 1.3 was a nightmare).

 

[Porsche944]

Went into my local computer shop for a network cable. They didn't have any! Came out with Trainz......Never heard of it before.......Maybe it was the A4 on the cover.......

 

[mikeaust]

Six months ago I found a copy of Trainz 1.3 in a discount box at a game store for A$10. Got hooked immediately. Before that I played Locomotion and Transport Tycoon, which filled in many hours for me. got a first class ticket and filled my old computer. Now have a fast laptop and purchased the Trainz collection and use 2004 all the time. spend about 15 hours a day......do you think I might have an addiction?????
mike

 

[trains4]

It was at the Brisbane Model Rail Show with the release of the 2004 display.
Spent most of the three days watching and had to buy it.
Problem was had never used a computer or even owned one.So very steep learning curve for me.

 

[Iced8383]

MSTS and XP

This is how i found about trainz: I used to love watching videos on Youtube about trainz and msts. i got MSTS and it wouldn't work on Parallels Desktop because it didn't have 3D Hardware Acceleration. i got a demo of TRS2004 and liked it so i got it. now these days i finally convinced my dad to get Bootcamp (he was the #2 engineer at notre dame)Thats how i discovered trainz!:udrool: :mop:

 

[Iced8383]

do you think I might have an addiction?????
mike

I think so!

 

[perry_weekley]

My dad found it and downloaded the demo. I played the demo but it crashed a lot on my old computer. Years later I found a train collection pack with UTC Paint-shed and Rails Across America. Pick it up and was immediately hooked.

 

[MATE]

Way back early in 2001 I think it was when the early forum was not long in operation (before the first change of Trainz logo) when it was still going to be a glorified on line model railroad . I lurked for a while watching the ideas tossed around then as it looked more what I was after I joined the forum. I bought the first copy of Trainz as soon as it was available and have never regretted it.

MATE

 

[shikadi]

In 2006 I saw TRS04 in PC World and bought it,since then I've been hooked.

 

[Shortline2]

Hi,

Heard about it, and read about long time ago, back when it was in work, and the idea was to release a download version first.
Being on dial-up I couldn't even imagine trying to download such a program, and while it sounded like a real great program sort of dropped away from following the forum talk.
Till I one day was back, Trainz was out and I found a version in a shop in Norway while visiting my family in Sandnes.

A few months later, UTC came out, got that from Auran direct, same with TRS04 - and my last version become TRS2006 due to my involvement with the Northbay project.
My life situation had by then become a little difficult, I suffered a major Trainz burnout on top of it, and from 2006 on, it has been a downhill ride - steeper and steeper downhill!
Some ups thanks to Trainz and friends I connected with through my involvements with Trainz - and I hope to be around to discover and learn more and more sides of Trainz over the next few years.
Trainz shared my downfall - I hope it can share my raising from the ashes too.

It was nice to see all the traffic in the forum and the Auran involvement while I've been gone since my birthday - it feels almost good to be back in Norway thanks to this!

May Trainz long live!!

By best wishes to my friends, people I know, people who knows me - and of course, all the rest too!!

Linda

 

[jfweaver]

I was reading a review of a new video card in a magazine and the author mentioned testing it with three games one of which was Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004. Having never been a "gamer" but always a railroading enthusiast I decided to check it out with an internet search engine. The rest is history! I'm still not interested in any other computer "game" software.

Jim

 

[ish6]

I was just walking around compUSA, and suddenly I bumped into Trainz, 8 years ago ... I was like, wow, I can create my own world without filling my living room up with a real trainz set.

Ever since that day I have been hook, and let me add that I am very happy that Auran is going full force, and hopefully give us a product worth buying and discussing once again!!

Ish

 

[Electro]

:wave: A friend lent me a copy of Trainz V1 back in 2000 i think it was and got hooked then i started to upgarde then i found the old forum then the chat room about 3 years ago.
As Trainz came out i buy them now im up to TC1/2 and love to keep going as much as possible

 

[klambert]

How I found Trainz

I was one day browsing through a model railway mag and I saw it was advertising MST (It was an old one I found on my Bookshelf dated 2001) I was bored of my other computer games. So I went to GAME in Reading. There I found TRS06.