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15 March

Photo albums - aspect ratio

A couple of photo albums have been posted of some trainsimming on the Marias 3.1 route.

Having re-installed MSTS on a new puter with a wide screen, it's taken webDotTrainSim a while to get all the settings right, especially finding the correct setting to tell the graphics driver to re-scale the screen.

Any new screenshots posted to the photo albums should be ok in the future Smile

11:34 AM | Add a comment | Permalink | Blog it | Marias Pass

March 15 update - links to news and downloads from Train-sim.com

Content below is a re-post from www.webDotTrainSim.com

Some (very late) news about Microsoft Train Simulator 2, downloads from the Train-sim libary which caught webDotTrainSim's eye, links to some sites, and, yes, webDotTrainSim has re-installed MSTS on a new, faster puter (a bit more about that in another post):

Bees busy at Redfern station: news.ninemsn.com.au
BLS Cargo: www.blscargo.ch
BLS Lötschbergbahn: www.bls.ch
California High Speed Rail Authority: www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov
Christian Wolmar - UK Transport Commentator: www.christianwolmar.co.uk
Driver H. Potter's Wombledon Park Picture Page: wimbledonparkdepot.spaces.live.com
Editing Timetable for Passenger Trains in the Activity Editor: steam4me.railpage.org.au
Evolution of Compound Locomotives: mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r043.html
Living In De-material World - On Microsoft, Train SIM and the Virtual Everything: www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/
Microsoft ESP - Visual Simulator Software Development: www.microsoft.com/esp/
Mount Washington Train Ride (Photo album): cid-adf963b5687a052a.skydrive.live.com
MSTS on Widescreen Monitors - Desktop: forums.uktrainsim.com
MSTS on Widescreen Monitors - Laptop: forums.uktrainsim.com
Railnews UK: www.railnews.co.uk
Railroad Facts and Figures, Photo Essays (Al Kruge): www.alkrug.vcn.com/home.html
Railway Eye - The (U.K.) Railway Blog: railwayeye.blogspot.com
Running Microsoft Train Simulator 1 on Vista: forums.flightsim.com/vbts/
Stevens Pass: www.stevenspass.com
Thun–Spiez–Frutigen–Brig (mountain route) / Spiez–Raron: www.bls.ch
Transportation Technology Center Pueblo: www.ttci.aar.com
Yard Limits: yardlimits.spaces.live.com

Downloads from the Train-sim.com library:

Trainhandling Tutorial by Bill Prieger (aka TurboBill), th_tut.zip (380kb, 01-Feb-2009)
Acela cab by George L. Kenson, cabview.zip (8.4Mb, 04-Jun-2008)
Generic EMD Winter Cab Add-on by Dwight Mitchell, gpwinter.zip (9.6Mb, 08-Nov-2008)
Generic Jordan Spreader Winter Cabs by Dwight Mitchell, jswinter.zip (25Mb, 08-Nov-2008)
Charlie Sibaja has a number of new cabs, such as:
- ALCO Century Cab, alcocv12.zip (5.1Mb, 27-Feb-2009)
- F59 Cab, emdf59cb.zip (3.1Mb, 01-Mar-2009)
- GE P42 Cab, gep42c12.zip (4.1Mb, 31-Jan-2009)
- GE SAFE2 Cabs, safe2v12.zip (7.6Mb, 25-Jan-2009)
- EMD Comfort Cab 3, comf3v12.zip (2.7Mb, 06-Dec-2008)
- SD70ACe Cab, 70acev12.zip (3.7Mb, 09-Jul-2008)
- GEVO Cab, gev1cv12.zip (4.3Mb, 03-Jul-2008)

11:29 AM | Add a comment | Permalink | Blog it | Microsoft Train Simulator

23 August

Train Simulator 2 announcement at Game Conference, Liepzig

Via The Little Wheel Goes in the Back (tdragger):

Sorry it's been so long since my last post but there's been a lot happening. Nonetheless I thought you'd like to hear about what I'm up to this week. I'm in Leipzig, Germany at the massive Game Conference--the biggest is Europe--meeting with journalists to discuss Train Simulator 2. Despite the conspiracy theorists that claim we're not really working on it I've been talking to press and showing screens and videos from the game. Each one walked away with a DVD of content so hopefully you'll start seeing examples of TS2 on the web really soon.

In fact I'm in between press meetings now, which run every 30 minutes from 0900 to 2000! It makes for a very long day. Nonetheless the facilities are superb and the German staff has been amazingly accomodating. I'll try to share more when I have time. But for now, I've got more journalists to amaze...

and Major Nelson:

Today at the annual Game Convention in Leipzig, it was announced that Ubisoft has joined the Games for Windows program, with their first title 'Settlers: Rise of an Empire.' Plus, Microsoft Game Studio announced 'Train Simulator 2.' These announcements join the hardware news from yesterday. Speaking of hardware, did you know that the Microsoft Hardware division is 25 years old?

10:01 PM | Add a comment | Permalink | Blog it | Microsoft Train Simulator

03 June

"Photos" (screenshots) on Marias Pass 3.1 (May 2007)

A new album added - SD70ACe locos on Marias Pass 3.1 taken May 2007 during an intermodal run from Shelby to Whitefish (as far as Cutbank - oops, path yet to be fixed after derailment) and an intermodal run from Whitefish to Shelby (not completed as yet - having a "rest" at Summit).

26 April

Best of U Railways Live Maps collections

Here are four Live Maps collections of lines, freight yards, some trains (should be able to find more at a later date) and towns and cities of prominence.

To find these locations, webDotTrainSim has made extensive use of excellent maps in many issues of the Trains magazine (published monthly). See www.trainsmag.com.

Best of U.S. Railways Part I - Pennsylvania and plenty of freight yards in Chicago
Best of U.S. Railways Part II - Detroit, St. Paul/Minneapolis
Best of U.S. Railways Part III - Omaha, Council Bluffs, Powder River Basin Wyoming
Best of U.S. Railways Part IV - Donner Pass, Mt. Shasta, Ports of Oakland and Long Beach (containers), Cajon, St. Louis, Long Island NY

20 January

New webDotTrainSim activities on Wupper Express 10.1

Over the past couple of weeks webDotTrainSim has put some time (again) into a couple of activities for you to try.

He's re-timed the traffic and two can be downloaded from downloads.webdottrainsim.com. You can read about them on their respective pages:

He's got another one ready to upload for you to try:

Freight service W-Langerfeld to DU-Rheinhausen

and it should be available in a day or two.

Technorati tags: Microsoft Train Simulator, activities

5:02 PM | Add a comment | Permalink | Blog it | Wupper Express

Microsoft announces new train simulator

Yesterday (January 19, 2007) Microsoft announced it's going to work on a new version of our well-loved (when it does what it's told; frustrating is the nice word used when tools such as the Activity Editor misbehave) Train Simulator.

The announcement is here.

There are a number of blogs by the Train Simuatlor team members:

Mavyryk's Place: mavyryk.spaces.live.com
Sim Elations: simelations.spaces.live.com
The Little Wheel Goes in Back (Mike Gilbert, Program Manager First Class, Aces Studio): blogs.msdn.com/tdragger/
TSEngineer - Rolling (Jamie Osborne, Dev Lead, programming, for Train Sim): tsengineer.spaces.live.com (no content yet, as of today)
Yard Limits (Rick Selby, Lead Game Designer on Train Sim): yardlimits.spaces.live.com.

You'll find these in the Favorites list for future reference. It's worth subscribing to feeds from each of the above so it's easy to follow what's happening.

There are links to various threads on the MSTS forums at www.webdottrainsim.com.