What brought you into Trainz?

[NSWGR_46Class]

BT before trainz

I was never fan of MSTS and have never owned a copy, BT before trains I was happly playing with my model trams HO, 7mm (O scale) and 1/32 scale trams and N gauge trains. I was carrying around my HO scale tramway to model shows all over central west NSW.

I did see an item on Australian TV it was a morning show and during the whats new in the computer world segment had a bit about trainz, when I found out it was an Australian company sort of got hooked.

Was given a copy of Trainz CE and did not really do a lot with it.

Got a copy of UTC and found it rather intresting, and before you no it I was playing around with it. I met a fellow called Erik and he sent me a CD ROM with trams for UTC, inculuding the electroliners pity they only run on UTC.

Well now I was hooked saw what I could do with Trams and Traction modelling on UTC and instead of carrying around a layout was very soon hauling around a car load of computer equipment to the train shows for TotR stands.

2004 came on the market, I got a raildriver (gave Wazzers back) I met a few famous trainzers like Wazzer, Collin, Natvander, Ale_Beer, Footplate Phil and AD602000 who taught me Gmax and the rest is history.

Good times, Good memories and Good fun have kept me in trainz. Current shift work keeps me away from a lot of Trainzers and TotR events but hoping that the move to the country and better non shift employment will change all that.

The HO and N gauge is now all gone, the O scale layout and trams all in boxes and the 1/32 stuff has all been passed on to fellow members of the MTA (model traction assocation).

The O scale will run again and still got the bug to build O scale tram cars but also got the bug to have tramz in trainz. Still plan one day to have an O scale O running in the garden.

The tram thing is gentic just ask uncle Doug.

PS I own a copy of every Trainz Product made for the Australia market by Auran and have collected a few of the OS ones as well.

 

[santa_fe_dan]

I found the ad in Model Railroader magazine.

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

What made you get into Trainz?

For trains? Well, I have been recently considered with Aspergers Syndrome (or diagnosed, I say considered for agument reasons), but the whole idea started when I was about 3, back then Britisih Rail was sectorised, into many business sectors and there was something that attracted me to weathered blue and grey livery (dark blue with white shreaks down the side or a sort of greenish blue after some time of service, as thats how the blue tended to weather), so I can always remember the memories I had.
Back then, the area I lived in most of my life (Fishbourne) was a huge haven for slam door trains, every train going to Brighton OR Portsmouth was a slammer all the way, as much as going upto London or Southampton. There were also many great classics, CIGs, CEPs, BIGs, BEPs, now just memories, as much as the EPBs were. Then came the Networkers, I always found those things wierd, because of their traction motor sound.
This was the time when my father was working for RAFT or Acoustiguide Limited, I often use to travel with him a lot of time time, by train!

I then 'claimed' my first computer at the age of 3, a IBM PS/2 Model 60(!). It was a little out of place for a toddlers bedroom, with its size and huge monitor! After that my first layout, which I had to give up the large room I was in for something a lot smaller, barely wide enough (with desk and bed providing enough width to get through.) which I grew too big for, while my dad had a home office.
Transport Tycoon was the first game that involved trains, I got and I used to spend hours and hours and hours playing that game, involving as many trains as possible I could throw at it! I still play Transport Tycoon to this day, which proves to be very fun in multiplayer mode.

After that, came Rail3D, on a really old PC (My 4th one, as the case went through 3 motherboards and 4 processors. 486 DX66/486 DX100/P75/AMD K-6II 475mhz (clocked to 450mhz)), which I spent hours making rolling stock (awlful ones to todays standard) for the program and then laying down track, with signalling, etc.

After that came Trainz, where I just continued where I left Rail3D. The story has been the same EVER since. Now that I have some decent laptop equipment, I also use my laptops for creating stuff on and playing Trainz when there isn't a lot to do, sad I know.

 

[colhad]

What brought me into Trainz was way back when I was looking for MSTS sites.

I came across a site with turntable thingies with locos on them. You could spin them round with your mouse. I saw the 2100 class on that site and that was enough for me to go out and buy Trainz CE.

I'm not into TRS as much as I was, I'm more into the real things these days.

 

[brownie82]

Well ive been into trains most of my life from around the age of 9 or so, i joined a model railway club till i was 14-15 then i found girls cars and beer abit more interesting lol. Then a couple of years ago i bought a computer and was searching games and saw MSTS so i went to the shops to try and find it, i couldnt but did find Trainz 06 so i bought it. From what ive seen trainz is more customizable (sp). So im better off with trainz anyway. Plus seeing as the unit i live in is the size of bathroom theres no chance of me having a model railway setup. This way i can make my trainz aslong as i want.

Cheers,
Brownie

 

[HiBaller]

I found myself working harder and harder using MSTS, but enjoying is lesser and lesser. When M$ announced that they were cutting off support for MSTS I found a copy of 2004 in a computer store. Since then I have also purchased 2006.

I've enjoyed both ever since.

Bill

 

[81fairmont]

i have always liked mechanical things years ago i lived in mich. drove taxi cab for a co. that had a contract with northfolk & southern railroad co. i used to sit at the deasel house in melvindale and watch the trains got to talkin to one of the engineers who took me on one of the trains and showed me all around the yard and let me drive a train

 

[Thomas_The_Tank100]

For about a year, I had MSTS. One day my dad's friend let me try his copy of Trainz 2004 at his house and I was instantly hooked. He gave me his copy and I went from there. One day my TRS04 broke in the spring of 2005 and resorted back to MSTS. I followed the Trainz Forum for a while and found that Auran was making another Trainz game. That Christmas, I got TRS06 and was extremely happy. In May, I got the program Train Driver. More Happiness and I Highly recommend it!!! Unfortunately, I accidentally uninstalled '06 the other day (**sound of head hitting desk repeatedly**), but I plan on getting a new computer soon for my family so I can "take" the current one and modify it to my content. Currently, I resorted to Train Driver as a stand alone game to get my Trainz fix.
~TTT100~

 

[campbell5149]

I started to model "N" Gage when about ten years old, when went throught the teens chasin women, and when I got my fill of that, I started modeling again. Made a small track to run around the walls of a small trailer (Carvan), and throught walls and closets. But I sold the trailer and let he set go with it. Then while in living in Wyoming, I started a 8x8 in a rented mobile home. My father died in 1990, and I had to go back to operate the Ranch. I had to cut the layout on half and take out the window just to remove the sheets, packaged them togeather and set it up again in Oregon at the ranch. Then disaster took it all away!

Hey that was you? wow. i saw that on the news also, that is an amazing story. best wishes to you, and happy trainzing. It's really neat that I get to meet (for lack of a better term) all these people that have gone thru such disasters.

I dont know if any of you remember hearing about the story of the girl that had a pen slammed into the side of her head bout 2". Well i know the real story, but i dont feel like typing it out, long story short....i know the father of the girl who allegedly stabbed the other with the pen, and what you may have heard is more than likely wrong.

anyway, how i got interested in trainz.

I had MSTS and my dad played it more than i did, so one day i was at circut city with him getting some compy parts, and he saw TRS2004 and said "well i'll buy this and try it" and needless to say i tried it and was hooked. now my dad plays MSTS and i run TRS2006.

 

[SuperFudd]

I had fooled around with train sims since 1978 when I created a text only sim in TRS-80 level II Basic ( actually the first Microsoft Basic) of my N scale layout, the one that became Elko and Lincoln on the DLS. I had tried some of Abracadata's RR sims which were OK for it's time but I yearned for the day that the same efort was put into a RR sim as was in the MS flight sims.
I became aware of MSTS but I did not go for it. I did, however folow it on internet forums and read about Trainz there about 6 months before it's first commercial release. The rest is history.

 

[Thorinoakin]

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[S301]

Well, I've been a railfan since before I can remember... I've had a model railway (HO/00) since I was 5 or 6 years old. Then MSTS came out, I used it for a while and then found out about the addons that were available (I only used steam4me at the time). Then after a while I stumbled upon the demo for trainz. Then a friend lent me Trainz 1.3. Then I found UTC on sale a few years later, and then threw it on the backburner for a while. Then I went and started using it again, and enjoyed the Australian content that was available, then wet back to MSTS (Was more Victorian Railways content available back then). Then I got TRS04, and was hooked. After a while I started creating content, and as they say, the rest is history...
Zec

 

[trains4]

Well for me it was by going to the Brisbane model rail show and seeing the 04 display. And I spent three days lets say druling over the display that I had to by a copy but the big problem for me was that I had no computer and never even turned one on before.Still learning totally hoked.

 

[rayonier]

Just kinda stumbled into when I was looking for MSTS, sometimes I love trainz other times I hate it:hehe:

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

I found myself working harder and harder using MSTS, but enjoying is lesser and lesser.

Funny enough, I had/have MSTS and to be honest, there seems to be no clear and consicise instructions to use the program in terms of adding custom content or other objects.
There also seems to be no decent manual on custom content either!

 

[rayonier]

Funny enough, I had/have MSTS and to be honest, there seems to be no clear and consicise instructions to use the program in terms of adding custom content or other objects.
There also seems to be no decent manual on custom content either!

Its kinda like MS flight sims sometimes custom planes work sometimes they don't at least some these days come with installers

 

[casey38]

A long love story ...

I'm gonna try to phrase it shorter !

I joined the Trainz Community circa august 2001.

I've always been fascinated by railways world. I've had an HO layout but, many of us know how it is. I've grown up and moved sometimes, so, no more room to host my layout, and so ...

Once i've got MSTS, i found the stuff pretty nice, but the MSTS route editor was just the thing i was unable to use.

I discovered Trainz. Like fellow Axe 1970 said, i've played the Auran video again and again.
I pre-ordered my Trainz CE 1.0 as soon as it was possible to do.
Waiting for it was, :udrool: WOAW ! just a thrill.

I did get my copy mid-december 2001 ... Can't remember what i did first after the installation !

I have all the Tainz version, and i've been a beta tester for some years.

Now, i have 2006 and ordered TC ... Just can't wait !

The versability of TRS is just the thing i love. Sometimes, i love to drive in cab mode, sometimes, i love to run my trainz as a HO layout.

Auran did and is still doing a great job.

André.

 

[Euphod]

I was minding my own business way back in two thousand and one, riding over Marias Pass one Tuesday night in MSTS when a bush hat wearing, beer drinking bloke busted down my door and duct taped my wrists to my desk chair. He pulled out TS and stuck Trainz CE in the box.

I was able to free myself by the following Monday morning.

Ed

 

[Moojgoo]

Euphod, is that even true? Or is it another "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" thing? Wait, ARE YOU IN THE MILITARY OR SOMETHING?

 

[Thorinoakin]

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