OpenBve and TRS2010 Trainsims, anyone?

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[159jim]

Has anyone plyed these two Trainsims?

I so, do you like them? and whats your favourite train for them?

Thanks,
Jim.

[standclearplease]

I haven't used either, but I did use RailWorks for a few months with my old computer; this was the best IMO^▸ (in my opinion).

[eightf48544]

I've not played the two you mention.

I've still got three Siam DOS games which I occassionally play using DOSBox as an emulator under Vista. Works pretty well.

Aller Junction is played for a Saturday in Summer 1955.

The Driver simulation is Bristol to Birmingham New Street with 45/47/50 and HST^▸ (High Speed Train) and different train lengths. You chug up Lickey with a 45 going over the top at about 15! AS it's not a 125 line you are constantly in danger of exceeding teh speed limit with an HST

The other is American on around Spokane. It's a CTC simulation over a great length of single track with passing loops. You have to be quite careful the first time I did it I ended up with a stalemate with trains going in the same direction in adjacewnt loops. As there is no facility of reversing a train I was stuck.

Both Aller Junction and the American one can be speeded up but Aller Junction at 600% can get hairy especialy as it's 3 levers to pull for the switch diamond between the Up Torquay and Down Plymouth and the Up and Down  crossovers between main and relief lines towards Newton Abbot.  FPL^▸ (Facing Point Lock) to normal to disengauge and one to reverse the crossing then FPL reverse to lock.

 But you do get to know your Bell codes. Remembering to change 1-3 Branch passenger from Newton Abbot West to 4 (express) or 3-1 stopper to Torre.

[devon_metro]

I'd recommend openBVE

[thetrout]

I've played TRS2010, I have it on my PC at home. I've also played TRS2006 which I thought was very good.

It's not the most realistic series of Train Sims as the graphics can go it bit strange sometimes. The junction control and signalling is a nightmare if you let the computer automatically drive the trains, as if you have 3 trains arrive at a junction, all wanting a platform... the results are interesting and often lead to derailment Also if you crash 2 trains into each other as I did once by accident (Dad said i'd never make it as a signaller ), they don't derail but join as a complete consist. Another bug is that if you stop a train across a junction, you can drive another train through it

But on the whole, I found it very easy to use and it was good entertainment.

There is also Rail Simulator by EA, which does feature FGW^▸ (First Great Western) stock. It's a much more advanced game with superb graphics which feature passengers actually walking down the platforms (Auran TRS they are static on the platform and just appear/disappear). But I found it quite difficult to use if you wanted to make up your own rolling stock consists or maps. Driving the things is quite realistic too, but it does need a fairly beefy machine to run. I didn't find it as easy to use as the Auran series, but thats possibly because it has so many features.

I haven't played Railworks or OpenBVE so I can't comment on those unfortunately.

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after spending a whole weekend modifying vista to take bve 4 (this is a while ago) i couldnt really be bothered to install open.... but i have to say its fun for about 10 mins and then i got bored

[devon_metro]

after spending a whole weekend modifying vista to take bve 4 (this is a while ago) i couldnt really be bothered to install open.... but i have to say its fun for about 10 mins and then i got bored

openbve works on vista/7 with no mods

[JayMac]

openbve works on vista/7 with no mods

Indeed it does. Just driven a 158 from Edinburgh to Aberdeen.

[tramway]

158 and a 31 on BVE, not done much with routes as the video card on my old Pent II is a bit on the slow side with it's refresh rate. 

I'll probably have another go when I eventually get something a bit quicker.

[IndustryInsider]

OpenBVE is potentially very good, but almost all routes (all of the ones in the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) at least) are currently ports of the BVE4 route.  There's a very promising upgrade of the WCML^▸ (West Coast Main Line) from Watford to Rugby and the Cross City line in Birmingham coming along soon, but as they're mostly being developed by computer-savvy enthusiasts it takes an awful long time! 

Updates on those two routes can be found here:

http://www.railsimroutes.co.uk/watford-jn_rugby/index.php

http://www.railsimroutes.co.uk/x-city_south/index.php

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I can't find the link and I nolonger have the file but there is a poorly rendered (to be fair looked unfinished) route covering Plymouth to bodmin

[Mookiemoo]

Why?

[Cruithne3753]

I'd like to know what would be the closest thing to having a "virtual model railway" on my PC...