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[City Builder]

LOL!  I went looking for Trainz 2006 and found Trainz 2009 at GamersGate. There certainly a lot of railroad games and simulators and most are 2004 dates. Makes me wonder where I've been. 

And even more if you have Steam.  On steam there is a company producing 'Railworks', that spams out new locos or individual maps on such frequency that it's got a huge amount of people up in arms over it since it places their 'DLC' at the top of the list and with such abundance on the list of simulation games that you can hardly find anything else.

I personally laugh at 'Railworks' because by the time you are done buying the base simulation and just some of the DLC locos and maps you've spent over $150.00 which to me is just the developers taking advantage of the gamers that like the Railroad games (although admittedly we don't have to buy it, but steam does have to do somethign about getting their stuff blocked for users that don't want to see it).

Trainz -06 was the first Trainz game that I bought, then I was part of the beta testers for 09 and bought it after release, but honestly I probably haven't really gotten my money out of it just yet.  While I like creating the landscapes, it actually makes me nauseaus when trying to do so, and I think it has to do with the way the camera moves around.  So I can really only work on creating the landscape in Trainz for about 30 minutes at a time before I have to go lay down to let my head stop spinning.

Oh and I sold my Trainz 2006 game on ebay, had to give them my auran account too (after I removed all personal and financial information from the account).

[TomNobles]

I wouldn't call myself a railroad buff, but I did just get back from a trip to Winslow, AZ and back (Portland, OR) on Amtrak. I'm 27 mi. from Portland, Ridgefield, WA. 41 hrs and twenty nine on this train. I was in last car - 9 total.

[City Builder]

I would so love to take an Amtrak across the country just once in my life.  Having dogs makes things like that not really doable, especially having 3 large dogs.  My grandmother took me on an Amtrak from somewhere around L.A. down to somewhere near San Diego, I remember very very little other than I had a good time.  When I was in my 20's I bought a travel trailer and moved it into the canyons between San Fernando Valley in CA and Palmdale, CA.  Theres some really nice canyons up there and so I leased out a space in the only mobil home park up in the cyn just because the property I leased butted right up to the train tracks, so every x hours the train would come rolling through and if home I'd stand there gawking like a child in a candy shop.  Yeah I love trains for some reason.  I find them totally fascinating and would have loved to be a train driver in real life though everybody kept telling me that I'd need to know somebody to get me in the door so I never bothered to try.

[CoconutKid]

Sort of off topic.

I grew up in Denver and I now live on the "western slope" of Colorado -- so I have soaked-up of Colorado RR lore. The Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad was the one my father showed me -- well at least were it had been. He had ridden the "Fish Train" that took fishermen out in the morning and returned to pick them up in the evening (it ran up the South Platte River from Denver to Kenosha Pass into South Park). He showed me the ponds where they cut ice to ship into Denver.

A good many railroad fans love the narrow gage lines of Colorado, and I can practically walk out my door and point to where they once were steaming past.

The poor old DSP&P got overshadowed by the D&RGW  .

BTW, when I was in college in LA, I rode some of the last remaining 'Pacific Electric' lines (if I remember the name correctly).

[TomNobles]

The Southern Pacific may be the only old name left. The track in AZ on my trip used to be Santa Fe now BNSF.

[CoconutKid]

The Southern Pacific may be the only old name left. The track in AZ on my trip used to be Santa Fe now BNSF.

Perhaps we should hope that the "War on Terror" will lead to something similar to the government action during WWI when all the railroads were put under a national government administration which rationalized operations and eliminated most of the stupidites of that era in the competition between lines.

Today, what little difference between management of segements of the national rail net should be recognized simply by names such as, Mega-Mover (RR) #1, Merga-Mover (RR) #2, etc. for the freight segment of the business.

Does anyone know of a private corporation which moves passengers - other than vacation passengers - on a traditional railroad? AMTRAC does, but does mostly on a "cherry picking" basis.

Oh my, I strayed way off--base. Sorry! 

[TomNobles]

Just in case someone is interested;
Burlington Northern Santa Fe is the product of some 390 different railroad lines that merged or were acquired during more than 150 years.

The Amtrak route from LA to Chicago (Southwest Chief, the one I took to Winslow, AZ) I believe is BNSF track. Anyway, Amtrak is the only train I know of that hauls passengers other than local (commuter) trains in cities like LA & NY.