Have you ever been on a choo choo train? Do you have them where you live?

Question

For those who don't know what a choo choo train is, it's a steam train, choo choo!!

I've been on a Choo Choo train in Wales AND seen the proper Thomas Woo!

Answer 1

I've been on two real steam trains. One in Swanage, Dorset and the other one was the South Devon Railway service round trip, Buckfastleigh - Staverton - Totnes. I'm from Dorset but study in Devon so there's steam trains in the two places I live!

In fact, the Devon steam train goes through my college campus! Can hear the toot toot from my bedroom!

Answer 2

I seem to think that when I was a kid we went on a 'choo choo train' in the Isle of wight. I have never been on an aeroplane either, I gave away a two week all expenses paid holiday in Valetta Malta, because I daren't even walk up the steps to the plane, because I was told you could see through the steps onto the tarmac below, I gave the same person who told me that the holiday.......what a sucker I was then.

Answer 3

Haha! So yes, both in Aus and here (in the UK!). Imagine living where there were no "Choo-Choo" trains! Your life clearly sucks! Nothing beats seeing a steam train running over the fields etc! It rocks!

Answer 4

We have a miniature choo choo in a major city park. Was on it a few years ago. I think it's still running. Ride takes about 5 minutes. Has tunnels and everything.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Yes once or maybe twice. Only once that I can remember. They are groovy. I need to go on one again. My babies like choo choos so that's what I might be looking out for this summer.

Answer 7

I have been on a steam train and I loved it! There was a fake robbery on the train which made it even more fun! I liked it because I felt like I went back in time of the cowboys. I was a fun experience. I went on the train in Ely, Nevada. That's where they have the most train rides in the entire state of Nevada.

Answer 8

I've been in one, once we went to visit grandma and grandpa.
We went to their house at the beach in Devon, and we went to Paignton, got the train that took us to Totnes, there we had lunch, and for the way back they bought me and my little brother a big gingerbread man. My brother ate almost the whole thing, but I didn't like it so I fed it to my grandma's dog when she wasn't looking. Then we arrived at the station and visited a butterfly farm, and there were also some beavers.

I saw another of these noisy trains in Weston-Super-Mare.

And here where we live, we used to ride a model train on Sundays after swimming.

Answer 9

Many times. I used to go to school on one (or two, actually). And I could hang my head out of the window and get smuts in my eye like the best of 'em.

I used to love that steamy oil smell of the pistons and con rods.

In those days you could make marvellous maps of your village and write on them "Here be Dragons"!

Oh for the secret language of 0-4-0 and 4-6-0 and the quiet that descended when you stopped at a small station and nobody got on or off.

Answer 10

Yes. I took the steam train up to the hill station of Simla. But I think they have phased it out. Sad, as thinking of it always brings back the memories of my good old days in India.