Sometimes it seems like yesterday when John would be passing out WAFFLE tickets..I would have to say their was meny times when I would be rolling on the floor laughing my but off reading some of the posts:hehe: ...Miss those days..The Brew Crew was the best..A great bunch of people... Any old timers left here that could step up onto the soap box and say a few words???
What ever happend to the WAFFLE ticket????
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cascaderailroad
New member
Waffle, and Dreaded Whale, before my time...Goggle Search came up with nothing. Hmmm ?
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You are, and have always been far too kind. The only skill I've ever mastered during my life has been my completely inadequate method of dealing with it...
amigacooke
Well-known member
Waffles? With maple sauce! Yum.
Hi mrmom, funny you should raise the Waffle Ticket and seesee's mention of the waffle Train.
I had lunch with Greg Lane (remember him?) a couple of weeks back and we reminisced over the Waffle Ticket and other things that stood the original Trainz community apart from the community we have today.
For those of you who don't remember Greg, he was the father of Trainz, although it was John Banks who we mostly saw lurking in the forums.
I asked Greg if he would remind us all about Trainz beginnings and he wrote the first of two articles in the June issue of the Trainz Community News. It's a great read, and I'm certainly looking forward to Part Two where I hope Greg reminds us about more things we've long forgotten.
So why am I writing this? Well several weeks ago I started a thread called "Trainz veterans please read". In that thread I asked all you Trainz veterans if you could dig deep into your toy boxes and find anything that would remind us of Trains way back in the beginning. Things like Screenshots from version 1, advertisements, posters, videos, screenshots of forum posts, waffle tickets - in fact anything at all I could add to Greg's final article.
Well guess how many replies I got?
nix
zilch
zero,
none
0
not a bl**dy one!
The response makes me wonder what I'm doing here. I often think I've actually bookmarked the wrong forum.
Not only that, I'll bet half of the people who read this haven't even read Greg's article in the TCN.
Here's my post:
Link
LINK to Greg's article.
Oh, the reason why they don't issue waffle tickets any more is because almost everyone on these forums would have at least one. Including me.
I had lunch with Greg Lane (remember him?) a couple of weeks back and we reminisced over the Waffle Ticket and other things that stood the original Trainz community apart from the community we have today.
For those of you who don't remember Greg, he was the father of Trainz, although it was John Banks who we mostly saw lurking in the forums.
I asked Greg if he would remind us all about Trainz beginnings and he wrote the first of two articles in the June issue of the Trainz Community News. It's a great read, and I'm certainly looking forward to Part Two where I hope Greg reminds us about more things we've long forgotten.
So why am I writing this? Well several weeks ago I started a thread called "Trainz veterans please read". In that thread I asked all you Trainz veterans if you could dig deep into your toy boxes and find anything that would remind us of Trains way back in the beginning. Things like Screenshots from version 1, advertisements, posters, videos, screenshots of forum posts, waffle tickets - in fact anything at all I could add to Greg's final article.
Well guess how many replies I got?
nix
zilch
zero,
none
0
not a bl**dy one!
The response makes me wonder what I'm doing here. I often think I've actually bookmarked the wrong forum.
Not only that, I'll bet half of the people who read this haven't even read Greg's article in the TCN.
Here's my post:
Link
LINK to Greg's article.
Oh, the reason why they don't issue waffle tickets any more is because almost everyone on these forums would have at least one. Including me.
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Well there you go. I've been using that dud link for a week or so now on several threads and probably 500 people have clicked it and found it didn't work.
Wouldn't you think that just one person with an ounce of decency would take ten seconds to add a post saying "Hey John, your link doesn't work."
As I said, this forum sadly lacks Community Spirit and I think it will never return.
Wouldn't you think that just one person with an ounce of decency would take ten seconds to add a post saying "Hey John, your link doesn't work."
As I said, this forum sadly lacks Community Spirit and I think it will never return.
amigacooke
Well-known member
Well it worked OK for me.
IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
No offence John, but i don't have bugger all to offer. :hehe:
All old boxed versions of Trainz chucked in the dustbin long ago.
2006 & TC3 are all i have left.
All my newer versions are digi downloads, my prefered method of delivery.
As to the waffle ticket and brew crw stuff, i found it all a bit childish.
It never appealed to me at all.
Best wishes,
Mike.
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Back to the original thread topic;
Waffle tickets disappeared along with a load of other useful forum features when all the fun and spirit was sucked out of these forums.
These days, topics are deleted for being far less off-topic than this one, and it doesn't exactly promote enjoyable discussions.
These days, you MUST talk about the product!
The good old days weren't perfect, but at least they were good.:wave:
Smiley.
Waffle tickets disappeared along with a load of other useful forum features when all the fun and spirit was sucked out of these forums.
These days, topics are deleted for being far less off-topic than this one, and it doesn't exactly promote enjoyable discussions.
These days, you MUST talk about the product!
The good old days weren't perfect, but at least they were good.:wave:
Smiley.
amigacooke - I fixed the link(s) a couple of hours ago once I discovered they were broken.
IsambardKingdomBrunel - No offence taken. I'm in the same boat although I do still have my "Collector's Edition" of the Community CD.
I used the cover for the cover of last' months TCN.
There was an ad In Model Railroader I'd love to get hold of.
Regards,
John
IsambardKingdomBrunel - No offence taken. I'm in the same boat although I do still have my "Collector's Edition" of the Community CD.
I used the cover for the cover of last' months TCN.There was an ad In Model Railroader I'd love to get hold of.
Regards,
John
Hi Everybody.
I am old enough to be retired (well semi-retired) but still fairly new to Trainz as compared to many on the forum. I spent virtually all my working life in the road transport industry initially and for many years as a heavy goods driver before moving on later to become a health and safety officer in the same industry.
I can recall many happy times especially during my years as a driver which would include the thousands of people I met, the people I worked with and the nights out with the lads when parked up away from home (that was when I was single of course). But as with everything there where also the down side of those times. The awful vehicles we drove, which are now considered as preserved classics by collectors who never had to drive them everyday. There were also the terrible roads which we drove those vehicles on in the 60s and 70s.
The point of the above is that we always look back through rose colored glasses. We always remember the good times but blank out the bad things that happened during those times. As I recall the 60s and 70s in reality life on the road was far more dangerous, working conditions were very uncomfortable and when you had free time there was far less to do. There were no computers therefore no Trainz, no Internet and no forums to communicate with other people all over the world. The best you could do was go to the local pub or dance hall or sit home and watch your black-and-white television.
As stated, I am fairly new to Trainz and even newer to the trainz forum but I have found not only great help from the community in learning how to build routes etc. but also a lighter side where off-topic conversation is good and sometimes very entertaining and funny.
Only a few weeks ago there was a thread that myself and many others were involved in which went off-topic talking about the original home computers of the 1970s and 80s along with the magazine type ins that went with them. By the time It had finished over 2000 people had visited the thread and although I cannot remember the exact number I believe there were postings in excess of 150. I remember several nights on the trot getting into bed still chuckling about what had been said with regard to those type ins and the frustration they caused.
Whether you agree or not with what I say in the above, one thing is certain, times change and we are where we are. I believe that life is better today than when I left school and started out in my adult life. I accept that is a debatable statement in which many would disagree. Yes people were more patient and good mannered towards one another in my early days but many of those people had been through two world wars, the worst recession in history and lived with the fear of diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and polio. No life is better today, it's not perfect but definitely better.
If you look for the up side of life you will find it. Therefore look for the bright side of this forum, it is there all you have to do is join in and enjoy it.
Bill
I am old enough to be retired (well semi-retired) but still fairly new to Trainz as compared to many on the forum. I spent virtually all my working life in the road transport industry initially and for many years as a heavy goods driver before moving on later to become a health and safety officer in the same industry.
I can recall many happy times especially during my years as a driver which would include the thousands of people I met, the people I worked with and the nights out with the lads when parked up away from home (that was when I was single of course). But as with everything there where also the down side of those times. The awful vehicles we drove, which are now considered as preserved classics by collectors who never had to drive them everyday. There were also the terrible roads which we drove those vehicles on in the 60s and 70s.
The point of the above is that we always look back through rose colored glasses. We always remember the good times but blank out the bad things that happened during those times. As I recall the 60s and 70s in reality life on the road was far more dangerous, working conditions were very uncomfortable and when you had free time there was far less to do. There were no computers therefore no Trainz, no Internet and no forums to communicate with other people all over the world. The best you could do was go to the local pub or dance hall or sit home and watch your black-and-white television.
As stated, I am fairly new to Trainz and even newer to the trainz forum but I have found not only great help from the community in learning how to build routes etc. but also a lighter side where off-topic conversation is good and sometimes very entertaining and funny.
Only a few weeks ago there was a thread that myself and many others were involved in which went off-topic talking about the original home computers of the 1970s and 80s along with the magazine type ins that went with them. By the time It had finished over 2000 people had visited the thread and although I cannot remember the exact number I believe there were postings in excess of 150. I remember several nights on the trot getting into bed still chuckling about what had been said with regard to those type ins and the frustration they caused.
Whether you agree or not with what I say in the above, one thing is certain, times change and we are where we are. I believe that life is better today than when I left school and started out in my adult life. I accept that is a debatable statement in which many would disagree. Yes people were more patient and good mannered towards one another in my early days but many of those people had been through two world wars, the worst recession in history and lived with the fear of diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and polio. No life is better today, it's not perfect but definitely better.
If you look for the up side of life you will find it. Therefore look for the bright side of this forum, it is there all you have to do is join in and enjoy it.
Bill
IsambardKingdomBrunel
Joined June 2001
A very nice cover it was as well John.
Waiting for the next TCN now, cheeky git aren't i.
cheers,
Mike.
Waiting for the next TCN now, cheeky git aren't i.
cheers,
Mike.