I think this thread should also include when people first bought into Trainz. As I said before, took over two years to get my serial number from Auran and get it registered, so I was accually in Trainz long before my first post!
This is roughly because i can't remember fully but i first got trainz 1.3 or whatever when we were looking for games to buy my brother for his birthday. This was around June 2001 or 2002 because we never heard of UTC but wen't straight to 2004 after that.
Also for bringing back memories purposes, When we first got 1.3 we loaded the good ol Highland Valley passenger run and spent half an hour figuring out what accelerate was