Update #46 - Sunless Skies Giveaway Contest and Next Video

I remember having a nightmare as a kid where I was stuck in a dark room and all I heard, echoing, was Sir Topam Hat saying, “You have caused confusion and delay.”

Kc40k

I live on a street with train tracks on both sides. Inexplicably, both sides of my road were blocked off by the trains, so I got to just call into work with the incredibly believable excuse of 'No really, I'm trapped for the unforeseeable future. Good Luck, lol'.

I have a fun train memory, so why not? I was in Europe for a study abroad and had to take a night train. The train we booked was Hungarian, running out of Budapest. I get onboard and the ticket inspector was a squat Slavic man with a giant, bushy Stalin-esque mustache. He asks for "Papers, please," checks them, then says in the thickest accent, "Ve 'ave problem vith gypsy in de night. Lock door." I thought it was both hilarious and glorious as the most Soviet-era thing possible... in 2010.

PaulToon

I have to drive over a horribly paved, bumpy train track every day for work and I hate it so much because I have never seen or heard a train go by once.

I already have a copy, but just felt like sharing. I remember growing up loving trains and watching Thomas the Tank Engine. One of my earliest memories was taking a train ride to Denver from California. We stopped at somepoint in the Rockies and I wanted to go out and hike around. So rather than explaining the finer points of getting left behind by a train and starving in the mountains my father spun a yarn about how the Rocky mountain gators would get me if I walked to far away from the train. My first experience with anxiety also came from Thomas the tank engine. I forget which episode it was but I remember one engine worrying about getting sent to the scrapyard if he wasn't useful enough. That scared the shit out of me, and might explain some of my views on labor now that I think about it.

I have had precisely 0 personal run-ins with trains of any kind, so I'm going to outsource my greatest train memory to watching Bobby Baccalieri get whacked in the model train shop on The Sopranos.

Other than going to an old Florida museum that also had trains i remember Diesel from Thomas the tank engine nearly killing people but its really hazy. Thanks for the vids and cant wait.

That is actually what they do in RL :) Push up the wagons tightly, then start pulling, to create this effect :)

RailwayHacker

My nephews face when he realize that yes, that old steam train in the Danish Railroad Museum? That one? That one, we can actually enter, we don't have to just look at it, we can get into the actual STEAM train and look at and mess around with the controls of a 1940's era steam locomotive.

I don't' actually want Sunless Skies, but I want to share my train memory. It's from an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine, and Thomas has to take over a very long line of train cars. And there's so many and they're so heavy he can't even make them budge. So the conductor or stationmaster, I forget, thinks and then lengthens the chain between each car and has Thomas try again. This time, he's taking on the dragon of only 1 car at a time and so is able to gradually get going. It was a neat lesson in problem solving.

Samuel Albert Mell

I live near the biggest level crossing in England, and I remember I was sat at around 11pm waiting in the car with my mate going to pick up another friend from the station when the barrier is down for the better part of 20 minutes. As we wonder what's going on, this museum piece of a steam train crawls it's way past us, completely coating the road in steam and we just sit there gobsmacked. The barrier lifted like nothing happened and we carried on baffled by what we saw (we assumed it was being transported, but it was still surreal.)

Lew

My worst train memory was riding a train down to Charlotte to return to college. The train would always get delayed so I would end up arriving there near midnight. Well one time the train was stopped for a very long time in the middle of nowhere. After A very long wait the flashing lights of an ambulance showed up. From what I heard from some people, someone had given birth and had to wait for an ambulance to show up. Worse part is ia bunch of other college kids decided to get drunk and were insufferable the last leg of the trip. Never forgot how long that trip ended up lasting. Didnt get back till 3 am and felt every minute of it.

Theres this place up in New Hampshire that you took a train up the mountain as part of a trip. Clark's Trading Post was its name I think. They had bears there.

TheGriff

I rode around in a Ukrainian train when I was younger (It looks exactly like how you would imagine it would work). I remember when a Police officer intimidated my mom for some reason.

Hum, train memory... I remember taking the train from Montreal to Toronto and bringing a laptop with me to watch some movies. I decided to watch Planet Terror (or was it Death Proof?), and I forgot that there was a fake trailer for Machete before. With two half-naked ladies in it. I've never close a laptop screen so fast in my life!

Hugo Prevost

My greatest train related memory was from when I was doing a summer internship in Switzerland while still an undergraduate. My girlfriend had just graduated college and was doing a Europe trip, and we made big plans to go up to a fancy spa hotel up in the mountains (this one http://www.alpentherme.ch/en.html) followed by a quick 2 day trip to Milan , and we naturally got around to these places via trains -- which worked great! Really a highlight vacation moment of my life.

Andrey Kurenkov

My worst memory of trains was when I was the regional manager of a mid sized paper company in Pennsylvania. I was deep in credit card debt, due to my obsession with magic sets, as well as my useless purchase of the Core Blaster Extreme. Turns out the marine core doesn't even use it. I didn't know what to do or where to turn, so i decided to hit up the local train yard and get my vagabond on. Ride the open rails, put my belongings in a handkerchief tied to a stick and finally get good at harmonica. Alas, by the time I arrived, the train had stopped and the engineer had left. I was forced to return to a job I loved, my hot girlfriend, and my crushing debt. Trains let me down that day, and I will never forget it.

I live in a semi-tourist based area, and it so happens to have a train attraction that goes through some scenery and mountains. My girlfriend at the time had wanted to go on it for some reason, I didn't really care cuz it was probably pretty cheap, so we got there and eventually I saw the prices of the tickets. 60 dollars per round trip per person, so I immediately try to back out but she is adamant about it and I argued with her but eventually I cracked and we went with it. We got on the train and they let us know it would be two God damn hours per way, so we waste most of the afternoon riding this slow ass train, and we get to the other station, they only give you 15 minutes to go to the bathroom and get something to eat before you ride back and they just tell you the same history stuff they did on the way there

The greatest train memory I have was this train ride that my family and I took on a trip to Alaska to this town called Skagway. There was a railroad that was used during the Klondike Gold Rush, and it actually went all the way into Canada, but we didn't get that far. It went up a mountain, and we got to see a lot of the nature that surrounded the town. Not to mention that there was a huge boulder that we passed that evidently had the crushed bodies of at least one or two prospectors, so that seems like it fits rather well with the feeling of Sunless Skies. Also it was cold as hell.

Generic Pheonix

I've never been on a train before. I'm haven't even played with toy trains as a kid. I was too busy playing with hot wheels cars.

Isaac H Chapman