The thing that got me into content creation was a private model of a Midland 2P, with a comment that said something to the effect of "I learned to make this; if you want it, you can too".
So when did my journey begin? I first met Trainz when I was a child, I might've been 3 at that time. My dad found TRS2004 demo and it quickly became my favorite game.
I first encountered Trainz in 2002, when I bought the first version of Trainz by Planet Auran. Although the original version was rudimentary by today’s standards, I found I got a great deal of enjoyment constructing and testing new routes.
When we asked for beta testers for MPS, this group of testers started out trying to break things, and now there a close knit group making things! We speak today with "NJP" (probably because he likes to talk a bit more than the other guys) ;)