Train Simulator
Take the controls from the engineer's cab with thousands of tons of freight behind you and exciting challenges ahead. From steam engines to diesel to electric, immerse yourself in the sights, sounds and adventures of trains.
Train Simulator takes the obsessive realism of Microsoft's best-of-breed Flight Simulator games down to earth. Six real-world rail lines are included from throughout history, including the Flying Scotsman line of 1920s England and the modern Odakyu Electric Rail commuter line in Tokyo. Attendees at the National Model Railroad Association's August 2000 convention marveled at the game's painstaking attention to detail. But this game is not a model railroad game; it simulates the real thing. The game's developers traveled across the world with cameras and microphones in order to authentically capture the trains in their natural habitats. Train Simulator lets you experience the world's greatest trains in all their glory. Train aficionados can drive the train, run the rail yard, or dive in with the terrain editor and create the rail lines of their dreams. Or you can just sit back, relax, and admire the beautiful scenery and dreamy click-clack of the tracks. --Andrew S. Bub
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Train Simulator Reviews
It's great that it gives you a number of options on what engines to ride, which routes to take and what to do on those routes. It's a great program, the graphics and simulation are great. We run it on W2000, but have plenty of processing power an memory, but it still crashes once in a while. It's a good tool to give us a flavor of what it's like to ride a train and what all the engineer has to be aware of and pay attention to. My son loves it and I find it very interesting as well. You can just check out the route with an engine or do real jobs of pulling freight, for example, with tasks along the route like picking up and dropping off cars or switching cars at a particular place. It includes the manual for engineers to teach you how to run each of the engines in the game and do all the jobs that are there.
The views from inside (forward, or to either side) or form outside, birds eye view are great and all the gauges and control gear inside the cab of each train is designed realistically after real trains. It's a bother, but given that it's Microsoft it's no surprise. It's a job well done, no question about that. I suppose there may come a time when one masters all the routes and all the jobs and there is nothing new to learn after that, but we're not to that point so for us it's still learning something new. I do recommend this game for anyone interested in trains and wanting to get the experience of being the engineer.
But the program is so large it sometimes causes my system to crash while trying to load up. My son loves trains and is an expert at them now because of this product while only being in kindergarden.
You can observe it in the cab and out of the cab. The game is very good because you drive the train, control the speed and the brakes. I really, really love it. I also like it when it simulates a crash when you make an error. You can pick the train, the track, the season, the weather conditions and the cars.
My mom purchased this game for me. Very great game worth buying. When we read the reviews for the games we looked at, they refered this game as the best. It also simulates the scenes in the engine and out of the engine, all the way to the caboose. We got online and checked out other train simulator games.
I bought the train simulator for my Dad for Christmas and he LOVES it. I would recommend this product for anybody who likes and enjoys trains.
In some cases you may only go a few hundred yards while in others you can travel for miles just idling away as you see fit. Have fun - that's what these games are for. No one else has mentioned the enormous amount of fun one can have with this (or any other rail simulation for that matter)by simply exploring at your own pace all the little highways and byways of this new and fascinating track world. Select an engine with which you feel the most comfortable and then get off the main track and enjoy a gentle run along the back "lanes" of the different countryside areas. For long journeys I use a "Class 50" on its own while for the really little known places something like the "Nene Valley NV8" really fits the bill.
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