i first saw train when i was 4.when my dad took me to nearest station where a local passenger train was idle.i was sitting on the motorcyle parked very near to staem locomotive and when its time to depart.he blow a whistle and due to that whistle i start weeping a lot.from that day even though my first meeting with train went quite bad bcz it made me cry but i start visiting station with my father on motorcycle every day whenever the train arrives in evening .and that day was the day that i do my first love and my first and last love is trains
Young People And Railways (how old are you?)
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Im 14 and my parents said ive been around trains since i was born, they said they brought a HO scale BNSF ES44DC into the room, they laid it next to my mom in the hospital bed and they said as soon as i saw i would not let go of it ever since then ive in love with BNSF. GO BNSF!!!!!
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Rumors go that the first word I spoke sounded like "train" (well... the word in my language then), so neither mom or dad was happy :hehe:.
Played with trains ever since I got my first train set (Marklin HO). I think I stopped around the age of 13. Still got the trains, but in a box somewhere; never had the room to rebuild.
... and then there came digital trains. First MSTS many years ago and now TS12 at the age of 34.
Played with trains ever since I got my first train set (Marklin HO). I think I stopped around the age of 13. Still got the trains, but in a box somewhere; never had the room to rebuild.
... and then there came digital trains. First MSTS many years ago and now TS12 at the age of 34.
stevelerro
Owner of K&L Trainz
I'm 25. I've been using trainz since the first release. July 25th marks my 10th year since I registered my username to the download station! November 2006 to the forums. Wow how times flies!
specter02147
New member
I'm 19 now. I would be a liar if I didn't say the old Railway Series books (Along with the original British season of the show) got me into trains. Ever since I was little, I've been a big fan of steam locomotives and railways, especially the British ones.
I've been obsessed with trains since i was a todler. I live in Western Australia. My favourite trains are the TransPerth B-series and TransWA Prospector. Both absoloutley sleek trains. I am 14. I first recieved trainz simulator from my dad when I was 6 or 7. It was UTC. It became unuseable when we got a new computer. I now own a Mac and when trainz simulator became availible on the mac app store I saved up
Below is the transperth b series. The second below is the prospector
Below is the transperth b series. The second below is the prospector
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Fuzzybones
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69 and still loving my trains.
20 going on 21 here, been a railfan as long as I can remember. You could say I pretty much have steam in my blood. Grew up with the TTTE series narrated by George Carlin and the other classics like Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo. Anything related to trains, boats, airplanes, trucks, old muscle cars, old machinery of any sort along with a few others. Blame the Arcade & Attica for giving me steam fever when I saw that sidelighted scene one fall evening back then. Hopefully I'll get to see Southern 630 and the 4501, hope to take a railfanning trip someday and catch the 844 and 4449. Member of a local model railway club, have five (soon to be six) engines of my own and a few pieces of rolling stock. Running Trainz 2010 atm and lovin' it.
I rode behind Southern 630 on the second weekend of her return to steam, and almost every mainline excursion behind 630 since the beginning of Norfolk Southern's new steam program. I'm about to turn 23 this month, and I haven't lost my love of trains. Most people may have lived next to tracks when they were young and then had to move away to somewhere they couldn't get to see trains as much or at all. I could consider myself an exception, here's why:
Born: Johnson City, Tennessee (TN)
Moved to: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Introduced to trains at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Also went to the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Holiday Inn, which is the old Chattanooga Union Station turned into a hotel, along with a large model railroad representing the area around Chattanooga.
Moved to: Spring Hill, TN
Located near: Columbia, TN
Home to: Mid-south Live Steamers, 1/8 scale ride-on model trains. The problem with that is the only times the public could ride on the models was the weekend of Mother's Day and my Mom's birthday.
Located near: Nashville, Tennessee
Home to: Tennessee Central Railway Museum
Took one trip. Only time I was in a dome car.
Moved to: Alpharetta, Georgia (GA)
Located near: Duluth, Georgia
Home to: Southeastern Railway Museum
Also rode Atlanta's subway railroad, MARTA, once: fom the north side of Atlanta to the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. I've still got the little token I got while riding on the subway.
Moved to: Rocky Face, GA
Located near: Dalton, Ga
Only place between Atlanta and Chattanooga where Norfolk Southern and CSX pass thru the same town. They also cross over each other in downtown Dalton.
Located near: Chattanooga, TN
Home to: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga Choo-Choo Holiday Inn and Lookout Mountain Incline Railway.
Returned to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Musuem many times, rode behind TVRM 2-8-0 #610 on one of its last trips before having to be out of service because her 15-year Federal Railroad Administration-mandated boiler overhaul. I also volunteered at the TVRM once.
One more thing: for years I went to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee over spring break (by spring break I'm referring to when spring break falls on the county school's 'school calender' (when school goes on during the year)) to go to Dollywood, a theme park there. I always tried to ride their Dollywood Express, pulled by Ex-White Pass & Yukon 2-8-2 mikados, which are 3 foot gauge. The half-hour trip features a 6% uphill grade to the upper reverse loop (it's a loop-to-loop trip) before returning downhill back to the station. When the locomotive is hauling a fully-loaded train, you can hear her working hard to pull the train uphill.
P.S. I'm also autistic, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
RoysTrainz
Rembrandt van Trainz
@Jordon412
great post here gives me the TN shivers and so many good memories of the time I lived in Soddy-Daisy(worked in Dalton,GA), Shore drive........at night hearing the distant sound of the NS heading S or N wow this feels good and bad at the same time as over here where I live now no trains only Trainz to fill the gab! the only train if you can call that a train is 2 hours from here near Khon Kaen the N-S track to Bangkok 8 hours more south.
thanks for posting and by the way age does not matter I feel like any young age that would make sense but looking in the mirror Ning says hohohoho in Thai hoc sib si or 64 but young from heart.
Is the railway museum still there in Chattanooga?? used to help there once in a while in the early 2000 period.
Roy
great post here gives me the TN shivers and so many good memories of the time I lived in Soddy-Daisy(worked in Dalton,GA), Shore drive........at night hearing the distant sound of the NS heading S or N wow this feels good and bad at the same time as over here where I live now no trains only Trainz to fill the gab! the only train if you can call that a train is 2 hours from here near Khon Kaen the N-S track to Bangkok 8 hours more south.
thanks for posting and by the way age does not matter I feel like any young age that would make sense but looking in the mirror Ning says hohohoho in Thai hoc sib si or 64 but young from heart.
Is the railway museum still there in Chattanooga?? used to help there once in a while in the early 2000 period.
Roy
Yes it is. They're running their flagship Missionary Ridge Local (MRL) on Saturdays this month and next month. They'll start running their MRL on weekdays in March. I'm not planning on going up there tommorrow at least, even though my mom is going up there to do shopping. Normally when my Mom goes up to Chattanooga to shop, I would go along and she'll drop me off at the TVRM while she goes shopping (buying more shoes). I would ride the train twice in a row, so that my mom gets most of the shopping done and won't hear me complaining about how long it's taking her to find something in a store. My philosophy with shopping is: Go into the store, find what you need, buy it, leave. No browsing. I'm not going up there because 'The Local', as I call it, will more than likely be powered by diesel, since a steam locomotive is more matainence-intensive. My philosophy with the Missionary Ridge Local is: No Steam Pulling MRL = No Go.
It's great to see teenagers getting interested in the local rail scene, as the young/teen generation are what is needed to keep this hobby alive - my childhood rail memories are mostly sadly gone forever, the days of the Perth rail system prior to electrification (this was the 1980s, early 1990s), with X class diesels hauling elderly wooden-bodied AY/AYB/AYE/AYF class carriages, all in Westrail orange and blue livery (many carriages of which had frames that dated from the 1890s), freight trains still shunted into private sidings at suburban stations like Cottesloe and Rivervale (many consisting of four-wheeled wooden open wagons and guard's vans), 'somersault' semaphore signals were still commonplace on the main lines and in yards, and Perth station still looked much like it did in the steam era, with only minimal 'modernisation'.
At least the current scene isn't too different from a decade ago, other than brand name/livery changes and some extensions to the network (Mandurah and Thornlie) and some newer stock in use. Anyway, sorry for that little trip into the past - if you haven't found them already there's some WA/Transperth stock available in Trainz, but sadly it's for older versions and will have errors if run in newer versions. If you can fix those bugs though it will be well worth it.
I'm 51 going on 52. I've been interested in trains since I was born. My dad used to bring me over to the fence across the street to watch the freight and passenger trains go by. Later on I took trains to Boston and rode the street cars, subways, and elevated. I've been hooked I would say since birth.
I started with Trainz TRS2004 back in December 2004, and have been hooked since. It's the best of both worlds where I can drive in a virtual world as big as I can make it. This makes it much better than the models I used to run which ran in circles. I was saying to a friend of mine the other day, I wonder what I would have done if I had a program like this when I was 10!
John
I started with Trainz TRS2004 back in December 2004, and have been hooked since. It's the best of both worlds where I can drive in a virtual world as big as I can make it. This makes it much better than the models I used to run which ran in circles. I was saying to a friend of mine the other day, I wonder what I would have done if I had a program like this when I was 10!
John