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Welcome to Train-Sim.Com! Since opening in 2001, this site has served as a central meeting place for the train-sim community, a "club house" of sorts where you can find all the latest information, chat with other enthusiasts, trade files, learn about trains and much more.

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ConBuilder Christmas Sale From now until December 31, ConBuilder is available for a special price of $15 (download version) or $20 (CD version). [More...]

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VMD Releases ATSF-BNSF GE B40-8 New from Virtual Motive Division is the final release of their GE Dash 8, tested with TRS2004 SP4; it should work with TRS2006 SP1 too. [More...]

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New From GM&O Simulations: N&W Pokey Pack MSTS NW hi-nose dual-cab 4-pack with one SD45, one SD40, one GP40, one GP35. These units operate with MSTS Patch Bin 1.6 and work in both directions with reversed cabs and full reverse lighting. New cab views positions included. [More...]

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New Releases From Razorback Railway It's "Nifty November" at Razorback Railway, with four new "Steam Gala II" activities available. [More...]

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Swanage Bonus Pack And The End Of An Era Released Now available from 3D Train Stuff is the Swanage Bonus Pack, with new rolling stock and locomotives for their Swanage Railway route. Also releasd is The End Of An Era, featuring activities for the Donner Pass Route. [More...]

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All Aboard Announces Cumberland Route The latest route for MSTS from All Aboard/Rich Garber is Cumberland, located in southeast Kentucky. It models the CV Divison of the L&N line offering spectacular mountain scenery as well as rolling stock and activities. [More...]

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Announcing This Is V-Scale: Virtual Railroading On A Small Computer by Alfred Barten This e-book on a CD-Rom contains 29 chapters and 188 illustrations and covers all popular train sims. It's the perfect introduction to train simming. [More...]

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Announcing MSTS Activity Generator Create your own Train Simulator freight activities for your favorite routes without using the MSTS Activity Editor! Activity Generator, a new version of Skyline Computing's popular "SwitchList Generator" program, enables you to select where you'll start, the locomotives you'll drive, where you'll pick up and set out cars, and more. It's a lot like "Explore a Route" except you'll have cars on the spurs, AI traffic, and work enroute. [More...]

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New From GM&O Simulations GM&O Simulations has added a new line of GP40s and GP40-2s, a Burlington Northern/CB&Q GP40 set and a set of BN/Frisco GP40-2s, with more roads to come. [More...]

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Rail Simulator Support For RailDriver Announced Kuju has announced that their upcoming Rail Simulator will be designed to work with the P.I. Engineering RailDriver controller, allowing the sim's users to operate it using realistic train controls. [More...]

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Euro Loco Train Sim Back Is Back Just Trains has announced that Euro Loco Train Sim Pack, a collection of European content for Microsoft Train Simulator, is now back by popular demand. [More...]

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3DTrains Scenery Expansion for Tehachapi Pass II Route Released The Scenery Expansion for Tehachapi Pass II is now available. 3DTrains has taken 3D Train Stuff's Tehachapi Pass II route and visually tweaked everything from terrain textures to adding their own ScaleRail Track System - including prototypically correct ballast and tie textures. [More...]

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VMD Releases NYC Pacific VMD has announced the release of the New York Central (NYC) "Pacific", Alco K5b (4-6-2) locomotive for TRS2004 (SP4) and TRS2006 (SP1). [More...]

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VMD Releases Its Seventh Loco-Class Now available from Virtual Motive Division is their seventh locomotive type, the SD70ACe and SD70M-2. In addition to a wide selection of liveries, the locomotive features animations, engine specs based on the prototype specs, new sounds and much more. [More...]

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German Railroad English Translation Available An English language translation for German Railroads Platin DVD Edition is now available. The add-on itself is also now available as a download version. [More...]

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TMTS On Hold Indefinitely The TMTS team at P.I. Engineering has announced that Train Master Train Simulator has been put on hold indefinitely, as they have been overwhelmed by the amount of work coming in for their professional simulator products. [More...]

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New Winter Texture For Canton Owners of the Canton route can now download and add winter textures. Included are leafless trees for clear winter days and trees with ice on the branches. [More...]

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Eric Vaillancourt Joins TrainMaster Eric Vaillancourt will be taking on the Technical Director role at TrainMaster. He comes from a professional railroad and simulation background, having been with CANAC in their Rail Services business unit for well over a decade. Recently the professional and commercial TrainMaster business has been growing quickly and Eric's expertise in the professional railroading and simulation industry makes him a welcome addition to the TrainMaster project. [More...]

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Train-Sim.Com 5th Anniversary It's hard to believe, but five years ago, March 28, 2001, Train-Sim.Com first opened to the public. At the time, Microsoft Train Simulator was not yet released and the new hobby was barely known, but in the past five years we've developed a considerable community of railfans who enjoy various computer sims. Even the cancellation of MSTS2 did not stop the hobby, and with several new sims under development we can hope for a long future.

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Railwaves Releases BR Mark 1 Coach Pack Railwaves announces the release of a new BR Mark 1 open coach pack for Trainz 2004 and 2006. It features three BR Mark 1 open coaces (First, Second and Brake Second) in twelve liveries, from the original crimson and cream to the final Intercity and regional versions. [More...]

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New SD40s From GM&O Simulations Released New SD40s in B&O blue. These five SD40s are fully lighted and come with their own cab, plus a new B&O horn to add the B&O touch to your running experience. [More...]

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TrainMaster Train Simulator News The TMTS team has posted more details on the recent DevCon 2006. Also announced is the second route to be included in the sim. [More...]

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Announcing CB-Run CB-Run is a front-end for ConBuilder, using mini-routes. Have several installs of MSTS Train Simulator, don't want to wait for ConBuilder to finish reading all of the stock before being able to change the path? Well CB-Run is what you need, available from http://www.conbuilder.3dtrains.com web-page. Each copy is personalized for the person that purchases it. More info, head on over to the Conbuilder web-page. [More...]

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Trainmaster Interview - Mike Hambly From BlueArrow TS Trainmaster is thrilled to have the renowned BlueArrowTS team working on a Second World War version of the Severn Valley route for the UK version of TMTS. You read about the Severn Valley "The War Years" route last month, now they have a chat with the man behind BlueArrowTS, Mike Hambly. Meet Mike here.

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Sumner Electronic Publishing Announces New Web Site Sumner Electronic Publishing Company has announced that it will provide regular coverage of virtual railroading on their new web site. Included will be articles from Woodbridge's Train Simulation Craftsman magazine. [More...]

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Review: East Coast Express Part 1 London to Peterborough Can an MSTS route be accurate enough to satisfy someone who is intimately familiar with the real route? In the case of First Class Simulations' latest offering, East Coast Express Part 1 the answer is yes. The add-on covers the UK's East Coast Main Line and includes suitable modern rolling stock as well as the route itself. [More...]

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TrainPlayer Software Announces TrackLayer TrainPlayer is a stand-alone simulator that allows you to run your favorite model train layouts. Now available as an add-on is TrackLayer which allows easy conversion of any model train layout into a TrainPlayer layout, ready to run. [More...]

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Razorback Railway Announces Plans The Razorback Railway has announced that it will continue to develop only for the TRS2004 platform and will not be supporting Auran's latest release Trainz 2006. [More...]

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DevCon 2006 Report A report on the TMTS DevCon 2006 event (developers' convention) is now available. Also available is new information about the Severn Valley route. [More...]

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BATS Releases Southern Region Update Now available from Blue Arrow TS is a downloadable update to their Southern Region add-on. Two parts are available, one for the route itself and another for the rolling stock. [More...]

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New How To Added Thanks to Michael Sinclair we have a new "how to" article on how to create trees for use in MSTS routes. The tutorial is told entirely through pictures that guide you through the whole process. [More...]

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Trainmaster Interview - Dan Toth From P.I. Engineering Dan Toth joined P.I. Engineering recently to work on TrainMaster Train Simulator. Get to know him better and learn what plans he has for the project here.

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Announcing East Coast Express (Part One) First Class Simulations has announced that it has secured the rights to publish East Coast Express (Part One) London to Peterborough, the latest product from leading train sim developer, EuropeanBahn. [More...]

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Blue Arrow TS To Do TMTS Route The Blue Arrow TS group has been picked to do one of the routes for the UK version of the upcoming TrainMaster Train Simulator. [More...]

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New Look BATS Web Site Launched Blue Arrow TS has announced the opening of their new BATS web site where they will now be hosting their own freeware library including paint jobs for BATS locos and rolling stock. [More...]

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Trainmaster Interview - Henk Plaggemars From P.I. Engineering Henk Plaggemars (aka Cafe) recently joined the team to work on the TMTS project. TMTS put him under the microscope to find out what makes this bloke tick, besides a triple strength latte that is! Read all about it here.

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Review: Berlin Subway Driving a subway might bring to mind endless hours in dark tunnels with little to see, but with Aerosoft's Berlin Subway nothing could be further from the truth. Not only are the routes interesting to drive, with lots of variety amoung the stations and substantional portions that are actually above ground, but Berlin Subway actually includes an all new graphics system that actually improves on the capabilities of Microsoft Train Simulator. Learn more about this breakthrough product by reading Jane-Rachel Whittaker's review here.

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TrainMaster Train Simulator News Following on their interview of the South London Commuter route devlopers, TMTS now offers a look at the route itself. [More...]

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TMTS Website Update - Screenshots The developers of TrainMaster Train Simulator has started a new screenshots page. They will be updating it regularly with screen captures from the simulator as it develops. As always, remember that these things are a work in progress. You can get to the screenshots here.

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Alpha Two Five Ltd Announces New Product Alpha Two Five Ltd. has announced the Mark 1 Coach Pack for Trainz Railroad Simulator as its next product under development under the Railwaves.com brand. [More...]

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Trainmaster Interview - Dale Stewart & Dave Babb from MakingTracks Tim Court had a chat with Dale and Dave from MakingTracks over the holidays. Get a behind the scenes look at what makes MakingTracks tick, what they've done, what their plans are and get introduced to their extensive development team. We'll have some information on the route that MakingTracks are working on in a future release. Right now though you can read the interview here.

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Trainmaster Train Simulator Progress Update The TMTS team has issued an updated report on the progress of the upcoming Trainmaster sim. Visit their web site for all the details. [More...]

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Christrains Releases NS2200 v1.1 The v1.1 of the NS2200 loco, formerly of the Euro Loco Pack, is now available with new textures, new geometry and modified eng files. You can download the new model from the download page. [More...]

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Trainmaster Train Simulator Progress Update The TMTS team is now at the stage where they feel comfortable issuing detailed updates and exposing some of the developers involved in the project. The first update details the developer tools for modeling and an interview with Paul Gausden, one of the project's key developers. [More...]

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Train Driver Released Just Trains has announced that Train Driver has been released. Train Driver, created by Railwares, is a stand-alone sim of the West Somerset Railway. [More...]

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Call For MSTS Genie Beta Testers The Brockville Simulator Works (BSW or BrockSim) has announced a call for restricted beta testers for MSTS Genie. MSTS Genie combines the features of a variety of utilities into one. [More...]

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Storm of 1952 Released Now available from 3D Train Stuff is Storm of 1952 for their Donner Pass Route - High Sierra Crossing. With this add-on you can step back in time and run trains during the winter of 1952 when over 800 inches of snow fell. [More...]

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Announcing MSTS Genie 1.0 The Brockville Simulator Works (BSW or BrockSim) has announced that development work has been completed on MSTS Genie. MSTS Genie combines the features of a variety of utilities into one. This press release includes an extensive discussion of the utility's functionality. [More...]

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Announcing MSTS Genie 1.0 The Brockville Simulator Works (BSW or BrockSim) has announced that development work has been completed on MSTS Genie and it is now undergoing final testing. MSTS Genie combines the features of a variety of utilities into one. [More...]

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Blue Arrow Announces Southern Region Set in the 1960's, Blue Arrow's new Southern Region features a 25 mile stretch from just outside Woking to Basingstoke. Also included are over twenty locomotives and cars. [More...]

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Trainz 2006 Screen Shots Just Trains has just released a new set of screen shots for Trainz Railway Simulator 2006. TRS2006 is now in production and will be available later this month. [More...]

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Canadian Pacific Railway Offers MSTS Add-Ons Though these may have been available for a while already, Canadian Pacific Railways offers free MSTS downloads available through their corporate web site. [More...]

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Announcing Grove City For Canton All Aboard is back with a new expansion module for Canton. Grove City expands the route by 75 miles and includes busy downtown industries allowing for lots of switching possibilities. [More...]

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Trainz 2006 Now Available For Pre-Orders Just Trains has announced that pre-orders are now being accepted for Trainz Railway Simulator 2006. TRS2006 is now in production and will be available later this month. [More...]

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Train Times Announced Just Trains has now announced the release dates for two major upcoming products: Trainz Railway Simulator 2006 and Train Driver. TRS2006 is the follow-up to Auran's popular Trainz and TRS2004 simulators Train Driver by Railwaves is a stand-alone sim of the West Somerset Railway. [More...]

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Announcing Nickel Belt Rail Photos A new website devoted to railroad photography and Microsoft Train Simulator add-ons. Their first release is now available, 15 Canadian Pacific GMD SD40-2's in five paint shemes. New rolling stock packs will soon be available as will new locomotive sets. They have different pages and topics for all who will visit. [More...]

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New Products From Just Trains Just Trains is back with the announcement of two upcoming products: Trainz Railway Simulator 2006 and Train Driver. TRS2006 is the follow-up to Auran's popular Trainz and TRS2004 simulators Train Driver by Railwaves is a stand-alone sim of the West Somerset Railway. [More...]

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Announcing Rail Simulator Kuju Entertainment (the company who actually wrote the original Microsoft Train Simulator) and major software publisher Electronic Arts have announced Rail Simulator, an all new sim now under developed that is expected to be released in 2006. [More...]

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