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OT: Do you like trains?

Thanks for the heads up Empeck. Looks awesome.

Is this sim easier then MSTS?

With MSTS, I kept getting shut down on routes with auto-brakes. Hard to finish a route. Dropped it after a couple of days of trying.

(I want to run the train, not hone my abilities to work on speed limit signs and deceleration abilities)...


Bill
 
I have been using Railworks since it was released, great product! As for Steam, I didn't really care for it at first but it does make it easy for keeping the game up to date and I have bought some pretty nice add-ons for RW there. There are some other really good routes out there, the Colton and Northern is a really good one as is the Rascal and Cottonwood. Isle of Wight is magnificent and is one of my personal favorites.. Bought this package not to long ago and it is very good as well, http://store.steampowered.com/app/24031/ .
 
peter12213 said:
that last shot Embeck is that a PUG?
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It's 0-4-0ST Saddle Tank locomotive. It's a payware locomotive bundled with the pack.

Henry - yes you can build new routes, new rolling stock. There is even a channel on the youtube with videotutorials for Railworks editor:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RailSimulatorDotCom

And a wiki with docs:

http://www.railsimdownloads.com/wiki/tiki-index.php

warchild - Gmax is not supported, but there are plugins for 3dsMAX. Very good British community is here: http://forums.uktrainsim.com/

I wasn't a fan of Steam too, until their holiday discounts, hehe. Now I have few games there and I even like it.
 
welll, i gotta admit. after taking a run up through cajun pass i figured i'd try and fnd some nice US routes ( where i can drive my new centenial ) but alas, i cant find squat for america.. plenty for Britain, germany even argentina, but nothing for america.. thats when i decided i'd give it a go making a cross contry line someday ( like UP ) and start with part of the rock island line out of chicago.. heh.. theres no chocago.. the rail designer is flatter than a board.. I'm lost ::lol:..
Knowing the "siim" community though, and seeing how much fun this can be, i fully expect over the next cou7ple years, there'll be addons galore, and maybe even a multi-player mode where maps can be shared and everyone be on the dame page alll at once.. it'd be cool (especially as i drive up in that monster :) )

i will say his much. Everything about the game is extremely complex, except for driving the trains, which is dirt simple .. It's a great game.. I've been up all night enjoying it..
 
Yeah, I like trains, but only as a passenger and preferably in nearly empty carriages. :d
 
well the lack of American content kind of puts me off. Im sure there are some great routes in europe but I'm looking for some scenic american routes
 
ryanbatc said:
Yes I like trains, I also like PZL Orliks :icon_lol:
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:D

I've just finished coding first radio mode in Orlik. It is now possible to input COM frequency with keypad in VC. I have a manual of radio from Unimor Radiocom (Polish manufacturer of military radio equipment), and I'm trying to make it 'as real as it gets' ;) I hope I will be able to make channel programing mode too. I'll make short film and I'll upload it to youtube when I'll finish coding. Of course it will take some time :/
 
Colton and Northern & Rascal and Cottonwood are fictional US routes, but they are really good.. Also, the Raildriver unit works well with RW's and makes the whole thing much more realistic. Raildriver.com
 
Its all excellent. I have not been near FSX for 2 days - a record. But I still cant take off :isadizzy:
 
spent pretty much the last 48 hours downloading, installing, and learning.. I sem to have found most of the payware.. looking for decent freeware now.. fortunately even the payware is inexpensive and dangerously affordable ( its only 10 bucks,, i cant get overdrawn on that can I ?/).. Sadly, the Payware DD-40 i bought isnt quite up to specs.. with a half mile train behind a double unit its only managing 35 mph on a 2.4% slope.. Thats a bit ridiculess..
Biggest drawback, i'm a flight simmer as well as rail fan, and i'm accustomed to there being a complete world out there in sim land.. not just pieces of one.. cant wait for this to get a couple years older so that theres more available for it.. would also like to se some U-boats, and 9 crossing fingers ) a veranda style gas turbine..

Steam really went out of their way to make sure you couldnt find the game files.. i've never seen a structure so kerfuggled in my life. its confusing as hell, but i'm glad it works.. some other things could be a bit more user friendly as well,, but for a version 2 package, i cant complain.. its tons of fun, and quite relaxing ( til you fall asleep and hit the junction at 70 mph ) Cant really aford any hardware. just wish there were a way for me to use the throttle and other niceties of my joystick.. till then, the keyboards ok i guess.. wish i could do scenery. then i could start laying out all the east west mainlines between new york and california, then the north south lines.. theres a couple i remember from my old days with N-Scale like the red rock and western that i'd love to do in railworks as well.. its simply gorgeous ( and tricky i might add ) very fun sim.. more than worth the 30 bucks they're charging for it, though i wish they would have included the challenger in this version instead of the other..
 
warchild said:
Biggest drawback, i'm a flight simmer as well as rail fan, and i'm accustomed to there being a complete world out there in sim land.. not just pieces of one..
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That's why I can't forgive Microsoft that they axed Aces... MSTS2 was supposed to have whole planet already with default tracks from various vector data :(

Website is still live: http://www.tsinsider.com/ :/
 
Question folks ...

So what I'm reading here from WC and others ... the American Continent is there, its just flat and uninhabited? No lakes? No rivers? No mountains?

Has anyone seen any Baldwin 4-4-0s?

Any rolling stock from the US 1800s era?
 
Snuffy said:
Question folks ...

So what I'm reading here from WC and others ... the American Continent is there, its just flat and uninhabited? No lakes? No rivers? No mountains?

Has anyone seen any Baldwin 4-4-0s?

1800 rolling stock from the US era?
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Train sims unlike FS are modeled differently, the whole world is flat, everywhere, everything....except the bits with tracks in...obviously. In train sim you are given a blank canvas, you select your geographical area that you want to model, then you go and get the DEM data for that region, you import the DEM for your route and it generates the land mass from the base flat land. You dont need masses of DEM, just 15 miles each side of your route should suffice, ie you make a 'corridor' of terrain for your route.

Once you have that then you go in and begin laying tracks, there are tools that wil allow you to say map out your route in Google earth, placing way points are key locations or trace the route every 200m or so if you wish, you then import that into your terrain and it will place markers for you to follow when you lay your rails, as you lay your rails you set your gradient as you go along, to match your terrain or your gradient profile. Once thats all done you begin to add in your scenery and other structures.

Thats basically how MSTS 1 and partsof MSTS 2 worken, not sure if Railworks is exactly the same but it'll be something close to that from what I've read.

I've managed to avoid this with great restraint but it draws me ever closer as time passes LOL.

Best

Michael
 
michael davies said:
... I've managed to avoid this with great restraint but it draws me ever closer as time passes LOL. ...
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Thanks for all that info Michael. I guess that means I don't have to tear up a bunch of pre-existing terrain and other features. That's cool.

Pertaining to your quote above ... Yeah its getting harder ... I might be able to model that rail system I've always wanted to model and not take up 10,000 square fee to do it. LOL!
 
What theyve done is to try and find the balance between the best of two worlds. The world of the software simmer ( naturally ) and the world of the table top modeler. Thats why the world is flat to begin with.. it allows you to create your own layout in any way shape or form you want ( was just doing some sandbox playng in there.. havent used finger paints in nigh on 60 years ). its kinda cool, but it also means that if you want an accurate representation, you need to be more technically minded.. If you dont want to get too technical, you can still build a really nice layout. i thnk fantasy layouts make up almost 80% of all scale railroading. its by neccesity of course as no one has a mansion they can dedicate to nothing but a single rail layout.. Even in Z scale, it could take that big a barn ( and Z scale will fit in a small briefcase )
 
Henry said:
LOL
tempting aint it:icon_lol:
H
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You HAVE NO IDEA !!.

Must resist !, actually its not too hard 'right' now as I'm cataloguing all my internet ship (35,000) and train (85,000) photos as well as my own photos (500 alone last month) and when I'm not doing that I'm out when ever the sun is out taking even more ship and train photos.

Quite what I'm ever going to do with all those images is beyond me, but I've enough ten times over for any Max project I ever wish to choose for !, just like taking and collect photos really, bit like stamps, only cheaper LOL.

Kindest

Michael
 
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