![]() The package comes with half a dozen or so routes, and once you’ve used these a few times, you’ll find they are pretty ordinary - however add-on routes provided by third parties are often, much, much better, and the same can be said for third-party trains. Even at the time, it wasn’t that flash, so it has a bit of a 1999 feel about it (although the official site is now saying there is a new one coming). This product was more or less abandoned by Microsoft about five years ago, and well, frankly, it shows. There are several different rail simulators out there, but I’ll talk about the most popular, and the one I use, and that is Microsoft Train Simulator, or simply MSTS as it is known in the rail simming community. It’s a way to allow your inner engineer to be Casey Jones for a day. It is to rail what flight simulators are to aviation. “What’s a virtual railway/railroad?”, I hear you ask… Sapo and Happy Wanderer asked me some questions about it, so I’ll answer those here, and also any other questions other dopers may have. ![]() In order not to further hijack this thread about model railways, I’m bringing the discussion I started about virtual railroading over here.
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