What brought you into Trainz?

[train20]

hello i got into trainz because i have no room for the ho layout i wanted to build i do have some ho bnsf and union pacific engines and rolling stock.

 

[JRT]

A vary interesting idea for a thread topic...

I discovered Trainz while I was waiting to get my haircut. I picked up a magazine and saw a ad for UTC. The next day purchased it, it arrived and well... Here I am.

JRT

 

[UP5521]

steam engines for trainz!

for me, it was the steam engines!

 

[Thad09]

Yeah, I bought the Ultiamate Colection(UTC, '04, '06, and map pack) off of Amazon during my dad's back surgery because he had a gift card. Always wanted a Train(z) sim I guess. Got it in '09 and been working with the '06 version before a computer crash earlier this year. Now I work with '10!!!!!!!! Got to sart some where right!? lol

 

[aodgh0st]

well, i was walking through wal-mart with my son and wife and we were looking at games (i think grand theft auto possibly) i turned around and saw a Norfolk Southern engine, which naturally got my attention. i've seen simulators before, never liked them. but the price was right so i said what the heck and bought it. i think the one thing on the back on the box that was the tipping point was "thousands of downloable items". the only sim i had before this was microsoft flight simulator (the original) and i was able to download the stealth bomber or the sr71. anyway, thats my story

 

[Pellerijn]

It was either Trainz or the AA.

 

[leeferr]

I was always a model railroader, but we now live in a house that has no room for my models. They are sadly in storage now. I'll leave them for my grandson and maybe one day he can enjoy them. Not having room for any model railroad layout left me out of the hobby, except for magazines, train shows and Railroad Tycoon, until I was in Best Buy one day looking at the games and there it was on the bottom shelf - A train simulator named Trainz. I had heard of MSTS before, but had never bought it. I bought it to try it out and have been hooked ever since. It was exactly what I was looking for. I still love the hands-on of a model railroad, but Trainz really lets my imagination run wild without totally destroying my hobby budget.

Thank you Auran for renewing my hobby for me.

Mike

 

[sniper297]

What got me into Trainz was the old age of MSTS and the hopelessly lame Railworks AI traffic. :n:

 

[lorenw]

What got me into Trainz was my health. I had a 24x24 garage full of an ho scale layout. My body said no more so I found Trainz. Thanks Aurun for saving my sanity.

 

[SD45T-2]

Well,I was playing the Bridge-It demo one day, when leaving it I accidentally clicked on the Auran logo and went to the site. I saw TRS2004 in the links and clicked on it. The rest is self-explanatory. This was when 2004 was new.

 

[Deano5]

I had spotted the demo on a disk that came with a magazine and thought I'd give it a QUICK go just to see. I got so hooked on the building and running of the route given that I just had to get the full game.
That was Christmas 2003 and I'm still hooked. :wave:

 

[Mick_Berg]

I started with UTC which I bought from the Serif website for $9.99. I'm very tempted to re-install it to see what it's like, now that I am a somewhat competent route-builder. It took me about a year to lay the basics of a ten-mile route, something that I could probably do now in an evening!
Mick Berg.

 

[PereMarquette1225fan]

For me, Trainz started with Trainz Driver Edition. I found it for sale at a yard sale for $5.00 which is cheap for Trainz in my opinion. After a year and a half of playing the game, I went to YouTube and saw footage of the regular installments of TRS and I wanted my own. So, last year I bought 2009: World Builder Edition and 2006. I have 2006 on my older computer, while my newer one has 2009. I had MSTS, but to me, it was hard to learn, but not Trainz. Yes sir, Trainz is easier to work with than MSTS ever was.

 

[Warbo40]

I had seen what i suspect was the microsoft Train Simulator a few times when i went into PC World but never really had the computer to play it on. When i saw Trainz Simulator 2006 thinking it was the same game for sale at my local blockbusters i bought it. It was only later that i'd bought a different game but am glad i did as i've since found out that MSTS / Railworks gets a bit expensive when you buy all the add-ons.

 

[Torpedo423]

I started out with MSTS, I walked into wal-mart one day and saw this single copy of a game with a big train on the front, and then I begged my mom to buy it. That was the only copy left, and I never saw it in another store again. After playing for a long time (as in years) I started to get bored with it and moved on to other games. Back in (I think) 2007 I saw Trainz 2006 sitting on a shelf, all by itself and that was the first time I had seen it. My first thought was "Oh no, here we go again!" and I went ahead and bought it. Then I played it, played it some more, played it more after that, then even more after that! :hehe: Till one day I lost one of the 5 installation disk and could no longer install the game.

Then, after around 6 or 7 months of no trainz, I found Trainz Railwayz at a Five Below store in my town and scene it was only $5, I bought it. It had trainz 2006 and trainz classics in it, and boy was I happy! I reinstalled 2006 on my desktop, and threw classics on my laptop but never registered it so it doesn't show up next to my name. Shortly after I figured out how to install content from the download station and thrid party sites, then I went wild with it. I accumulated a ton of locomotives, rolling stock and a few routes to enhance my trainz experience and I have loved it ever since! The only thing I have to complain about it is the mentally ill AI. Gotta love 'em!

 

[TheWaluigiKing]

I really don't know what brought me into Trainz Probably because i like Steam Engines
Oh and I once had Trainz Classics 3

 

[sniper297]

Rail(don't)works. :hehe:

 

[NSWGR_46Class]

Whats with the bumping threads that are 12 months old that is happening so often these days

 

[ulmer94]

$10 UTC DVD at Office Depot in June 2009, just happened to see it. I liked it, but it was already obsolete. Bought TS2009 in December of 2009 for $30, also at Office Depot, and I've been having a blast with it ever since.

Off-topic: Haven't seen Trainz at Office Depot or Best Buy since... Means I'll probably have to order if I get 12...It might appear soon though, it's getting to be the holiday season, and that's when I bought TS2009.

 

[narrowgauge]

Bearcat

In this case what is wrong, it is not a dated topic, there are always new users to whom this is of interest. If the user who bumped this thread had started another one, he would have been roasted for duplicated threads.

Peter