Well, hello
 

Tristan, 23. Closest railroader in my family was a grandfather I never really knew. Interested in railways since... before I can remember. Wish I could remember, though. That is, I lived in BC in the late 80s-early 90s, and the British Columbia Railway is one of the fallen flags (that lasted into my lifetime, that is) I'd most have wanted to see.

Got into HO modelling for a few years in the mid-late 90s. Looking to get into N sometime.

After my early years, had basically no interest in foreign (both US and Canada counted as "over here") railways. My interests expanded, as the signature suggests. Really needed a lot more room for that. My weaknesses range from New York Central steam to older electrics, Alco/MLWs in eastern Canada and the huge iron ore trains of Australia and Brazil.

Guess that's the short story.

Hello Tristan And welcome to the Railway Forum. Nice to see another Canadian on board. Hope you enjoy the site and post some photos of Canada's railways.

hello tristen and welcome to the forum i'll look forward to your posts

Welcome
 

Hi Tristan welcome to the Railway Forum.

Welcome to the Forum Tristan. Look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Hello Tristan and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

Yo Tristan & welcome.

Canada has a big foothold on today's British Railway.

Love 'em or hate 'em (and we do in equal amounts ;)) the output of London Ontario dominates our freight world.

Cheers,

John

Hello and welcome to the forum Tristan.

to tristan,
welcome to railway forum.net,and as member 'FLYING PIG said canada has a strong hold on the uk,espicially company 'bombardier' who builds most of the uk's trains now,look forward to hearing from you,
calum mclean,14

one more thing tristan please please please,learn about the BR era,from BR Network SouthEast,to,BR Inter-City,i think you would enjoy them and most people are british on this site so please learn about BR because i think you will enjoy it!
enjoy railway-forum.net,calum mclean,14

What makes you think I haven't already got into studying Britain? ;) I started getting into the Rail Blue era a few years ago, and since then into steam.

do you know about nse?

Do I know of it? Yes. My interests lie more in the direction of freight, and railways with more locomotives.

I love hearing about freight in Canada and N America. The sheer size of the trains and the engineering challenge of getting them over mountains and down the other side is fascinating

Al Krug is quite a character. I'm sure you're familiar with his site Tristan, but if anybody on here isn't then this is well worth an oggle. He writes great 'photo essays', and when he talks about the hours and conditions it makes you realise about how freight guys are married to the job .

Check out this link....http://krugtales.50megs.com/

Hello & welcome to the forum.

Tony