Well I think I forgot to introduce myself, very forgetful of me not intended to be impolite.
So who am I?
Well, I'm Wolf also known as Lupus or Waldwolf650, real name being Johannes Gebhard.
I'm part of James's team and coordinate between him and the german members of the team.
Aside from that, I'm now 30, and a student of history, after going through a long sickness and evening school to get my Abitur to study.
I originally come from the military flight sim community, started flightsims in 1998 with a few pauses I have been in it for that time.
Originally my interest was mostly modern fighters, my first plane was the F-16, which thought me a few bad habits, for years I didn't know how to trim for example.
Later played a lot with the A-10, F-14 and other fighters, followed by quite some time playing IL-2, where my favorite planes where the 109, the spit, the Hurricane, the Gladiator and the P-38.
Flew a few others and got good with them, like the P-39 and even the FW-190.
Back in 2013 I got Railworks/TS 2013 as a Christmas gift from a friend, a loco driver, who was big into train sims.
I guess he somewhat regretted that since, given that I even got more into it than him, played somewhere in the region of 1400-1500 hours since.
Having a real life loco driver as a freind really helped when trying to learn the german signalling, as I could just ask a lot of dumb questions!
But that isn't where my love for the Railways started, I was born in 1986, a year after the 175 years Aniversary of German Railways.
So during my childhood, a lot of the restored kettles were around, and my father took me on quite a few excurstions.
We also shared our love of scale railroading, originally on my fathers set, but I got a few pieces and track of my own over the years.
Namely an E10 of the first three series, a "Kastenzehner" roughly translated Boxcab ten or boxy ten, an old metalbased model, a newer plastic Br 64, and a few wagons, including a 1920's coach converted from Roco.
I also kept some of his older locos, like his much coveted 01 from the sixties and the V200 from the same era.
Those old metal models might not have been as precise as today but they are something.
There is another story that my mum still likes to tell, about me being admitted as two and a half year old into the study cabinet section at our city's library.
That was a section where only people over 14 were allowed for studying, where you had to be quiet, so that everybody could study.
So you could imagine the librarian's horror at a mother coming in with her two and a half year old kid came in.
We had run out of railway books in the children's section, and I wanted books with more in depth information.
She tried to shoo us out, but when I pointed out the Adler/Eagle, the first german steam locomotive out to her in a book, and kept quite for the rest of the time, I was allowed to stay and was never challenged again.
That's what my mum tells me, I can't even remember that incident anymore.