What was the first train you ever rode on
This beauty had the honor of taking me on my first train trip with started the spark of me becoming the man who I am today,meet the regio calatori automotor also known as the class 97,the first 2 photos are the actual locomotives who ran the line and one of them alone took me on the journey, located in romenia the line went from Timisoara Nord-lovrin and back again, my grandpa worked in Timisoara and he took the train daily, one time he brought me to the station to see the train and i remember i LOVED it, I begged my grandpa to take me on a ride but he said "the conductor can't let us" I remember criyng the walk home until i got my first scooter (another historical moment of my childhood), one thing I didn't like tho is that since the station was acualy a hault that dropped people off the platform was really short, now taller people had no trouble climbing in the train but lil,5 year old me did, my grandpa had to help me get on the first step and I'd crawl on the second and inside the train,but when i turned 7-8 I stopped having problems, I have so many memories with that little train, but it never lasted forever, around 2020 CFR (the main railway that runs romenia) bought the branchline, and now a Siemens disero runs the line, I miss the old regio days, before we got more variety like you could take a train from periam to Arad, or further with that singular train,now you can ONLY go to Timisoara Nord and if you wanna get further you gotta catch a connection, also the train is old, recently they put another train a class 77 MALAXA automotor and it was really shitty, there were holes inside the train in wich you could see random pipes and it rocked and rolled all the way,sure the tracks are bumpy and every train running the line gets pretty shaken up, but that was a whole difrent level, luckily the rock and rolling wasn't a problem I'm a big fan of that but it didn't feel safe, turns out it wasn't even safe because in December it caught on fire