Poll: Real trains, model trains or games?

[AHSAN]

I was a gamer ...

However, ever since I was kid I enjoyed playing with trainz toys, like most of us have ... :hehe: :wave:

Now you are a fantastic content creator.:wave:

 

[ianwoodmore]

Train Interest

I am interested in real, model and virtual trains. I would dearly like to integrate my TRAINZ with its Raildriver with the Digitrax DCC HO model railroad I am building using audio, video and animation. My goal would be to use my model railroad as a set piece with manual and AI operation, but when the trains disappear into a tunnel for longer distance runs then TRAINZ takes over and drives it to the destination scene in the other room.

 

[ex-railwayman]

I have always been interested in trains and since I was once employed by the railway of my country, which would be the major reason why I chose to play this game, to remind myself of what it was once like (in my own little real world). There are quite a few ex-railwaymen and women and still-serving railway/railroad employees around the world within our community it appears, who have railways in their blood, and always will have.....

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

 

[Pladroid]

I had to choose non of these as I originally was dabbling in 3d graphics and animation on my Amigas (yes more than one), and the only game I ever played a lot was A-Trains. When I eventually started playing with a pc (which I was given by a friend) and later upgraded to a better machine I was looking round the `GAME` shop and spotted the original version Trainz very cheap (on offer 3 games for £10) I bought it and MSTS and Carmageddon2. After a while I was given a better pc which I upgraded and bought TRS2004.
I gave TRS2006 a miss but I will definitely be buying TC3.

 

[chrisw27]

"I was a real life train fan"

Then I was a model railway fan.Then a 20 year break for marriage, mortgage, kids etc and now on to Trainz as an escape from all of the three (without leaving the house!!)

I also like to create my own particular trains era (1970s and 80s) as I'm sure many others do, and with all the content available , it is easily done.

chrisw27

 

[techni]

I was a Model-Railroad-Fan...
...and be a Model-Railroad-Fan today.

With 10 years I become a small model-railroad to my birthday.
Then my dad play with it - become trouble with my mum...

...then techni play without any map.
I play in german we say "Teppichbahn", on the foot in my room.
Look here, then you know what I play with 10 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZ-DhvO6s0

Then I forget the trains over the years and have a come back in the year 2000 with "eisenbahn.exe" later I play with Trainz:
Trainz, UTC, TRS2004, TRS2007 (german-version of TRS2006 SP1)

 

[arco]

Numbers two and three

 

[Mouse84]

He left out the option for professional railroaders

 

[JCitron]

I picked the model railroader, but really I fit into the railfan as well as the modeller. I've enjoyed anything on steel rails since I was about 2 years old. When I was a kid I received my first train set at Christmas and that became the cornerstone of an extensive N-Scale collection.

My foray into Trainz started with TRS2004 in early January 2005 after it hit the shelf at CompUSA. This has been my replacement of my model railroad which became more and more difficult to work on due to health reasons. In Trainz I was able to replicate the layout of my dreams, and expand it into a realistic route that could be anywhere in New England.

I never got to work within the transportation industry, but I hope someday to do so.

John

 

[mikeaust]

I wanted a trainset since I was a kid. Never got as the eldestf 10 kids on a farm. When I got the computer I came across a demo of Transport Tycoon and was hooked. then came Locomotion which I played for ages. Then one day was in a Game shop with my son and got hold of a copy of Trainz 1.3. now have 2004 and 2006. Now I have my trainset I can take with me anywhere on my laptop.....TRAINZ RULES.
I am 60 years old by the way.
Mike

 

[seward]

Always had an interest in Real Trains, used to go "Trainspotting" when young at Exeter St.Davids, later, at Weymouth.

I have "dabbled" with model railways, but they are now just too expensive and space-consuming. Also, my eyes are not up to any close modelling these days.

Trainz fulfills many desires for me, and the majority of my Routes are set around the late fifties/early sixties in Great Britain.

 

[colhad]

Always been into real trains, then I became a gamer later in life. Then I had a life changing experience when I discovered Trainz Community Edition, was it for the better or worse? I tend to think the latter.

 

[java23]

Real trains lover ... and owner

Cheers,

Philippe

 

[moggy]

When I was a young lad aged under 5, my family used to live in a rented house that was part of a coal yard in Bootle, Merseyside. Many an afternoon I would spend looking out of a bedroom window watching all the goings on in the yard. Then one day I escaped from our backyard into the yard..!!!! Because of all the coal dust flying around the doctors said it was best to move elsewhere. More to the point because I was stupd enough that I might get my head crushed by the buffer stops on the wagons..... same height...!!!!!! lmao

When I was 15 I joined the Royal Navy and for the next 22 yrs was up and down the UK on trains....well when I wasnt abroad .....lol

My first model rail outfit was bought from a cheap duty free shop in Gibraltar, the sort of shop where you buy a watch and when you leave the harbour it doesnt work anymore..!!!!! Anyway..with a load of Lima products in N guage,Deltic's.. Mk 3 carriages....etc etc... we built up a little railway run, from the messdwck to the locker room onboard ship ...2 decks down and on an incline of about 2:50...which came in handy for getting the beer rations after the nightly inspections..(Rounds) passed by. Which was fun seeing as I was a member of the ship's Regulating Branch....ask Angelah for a non biased answer ......lol

I tried to keep up the hobby during my service but due to the ever increasing cost it wasn't too long before it was out of my league. Then in time .... I found MSTS..then eventually arrived at Trainz....and the rest is history...


ps did you know that the Lima Deltic N Guage, could climb 60feet over a distance of 100 yds with a load of 12 full beer cans in tow ......:hehe:

 

[ess1]

When I was a young lad aged under 5, my family used to live in a rented house that was part of a coal yard in Bootle, Merseyside. Many an afternoon I would spend looking out of a bedroom window watching all the goings on in the yard. Then one day I escaped from our backyard into the yard..!!!! Because of all the coal dust flying around the doctors said it was best to move elsewhere. More to the point because I was stupd enough that I might get my head crushed by the buffer stops on the wagons..... same height...!!!!!! lmao

When I was 15 I joined the Royal Navy and for the next 22 yrs was up and down the UK on trains....well when I wasnt abroad .....lol

My first model rail outfit was bought from a cheap duty free shop in Gibraltar, the sort of shop where you buy a watch and when you leave the harbour it doesnt work anymore..!!!!! Anyway..with a load of Lima products in N guage,Deltic's.. Mk 3 carriages....etc etc... we built up a little railway run, from the messdwck to the locker room onboard ship ...2 decks down and on an incline of about 2:50...which came in handy for getting the beer rations after the nightly inspections..(Rounds) passed by. Which was fun seeing as I was a member of the ship's Regulating Branch....ask Angelah for a non biased answer ......lol

I tried to keep up the hobby during my service but due to the ever increasing cost it wasn't too long before it was out of my league. Then in time .... I found MSTS..then eventually arrived at Trainz....and the rest is history...


ps did you know that the Lima Deltic N Guage, could climb 60feet over a distance of 100 yds with a load of 12 full beer cans in tow ......:hehe:

Now if only something like your "Lima Line" was in operation when a pongo like me was entertained...

Keep your socks dry matelot

 

[Magicland]

How about "Before Trainz I had a life"?

As I fit in several categories, and there's no corresponding option, I didn't bother to vote. Who's making up these questions anyway?

 

[ess1]

Mr Marketing Tony??

 

[Joe_T]

When I first discovered Trainz back in July 2003 I used to do allsorts then it was just trainz for a while anyway then my website took off so had to dedicate more and more time to that. I am a rail life trains fan a photographer not a spotter & I also do modeling at my local club and when I was there a few weeks back I was sorting out some new track work to our 17'6 N gauge modern image layout.

 

[Sourdough]

I, too, could have chosen more than one, but I opted for model railroading....

 

[Red_Rattler]

I was a Model Railroad fan

Okay, okay who used the term railroad instead of railway??! But if things haven't changed, I believe their maybe a rail company that uses/used the term railroad in Australia.

This poll is to determine your trains background.

But does it really matter?

Anyway I voted/I didn't vote for _______________!

I was about to put, oh yeah, I thought when BOTH MSTS & Trainz came out that they were really meant to help with model railways, not try to compete with it - in a way.