After getting into MSTS a long time ago from a conversation I had with CJ and getting slowly around all its problems to the point of writing activities for others and getting the whole thing to work almost flawlessly, I was browsing the 3dts site and stumbled across the then to be released Run 8. After buying it and some upgrades later (free of charge for the upgrades) this has to be the most realistic sim I have ever used. It can be run in multi-player mode, (what it is designed for) or stand alone by yourself, but no A1 traffic, There are some fella’s who use this that are real life engineers and to a man say it feels real. Just wondered if any one else here had tried it yet?
Wow! A whole paragraph and I have no clue what you are talking about.
Hope its fun, if that’s an appropriate response.
Ric Golding said:
Wow! A whole paragraph and I have no clue what you are talking about.
Computer train simulator.
MSTS…Microsoft Train Simulator
Ok, found a link. http://run8studios.com/index.shtml
Looks interesting. However, the demo videos won’t load.
Multiplayer Ops sessions might be interesting to quite a few, I would think.
One can even “dispatch” using CTC.
New “piggyback” cars are available, $8.00…so it seems like one of those “money pits” where you are forever buying additional rolling stock 
Ralph
I thought I was clear that it was a sim. Hrmmm
Ralph, Your wish is my command
As for the piggy backs and Auto racks that are a buy there is the option to download a free not so well detailed version.
Ooh, cispatching… May have to consider this one.
It looks interesting… I am currently using Trainz’s simulator…
Bob, I use Train Dispatcher 3 for a dispatching sim…
Bob. A little light reading on the subject matter. You want to dispatch then go no further than this. Sean has done it all and then some
Yep, I have TD3, but my issue with it is that it seems to get more and more complicated as time goes on, and eventually gets to the point where no matter how fast I work the panel, I still have trains waiting. It appears to not be a simulator, but more a game.
Andy,
Tried Trainz after MSTS, Then Railworks and a couple of others. None of them even hold a byte of info left on my H.D. Deleted the lot.
Videos on YouTube.
Ralph
That’s pretty neat. Thanks Ralph.
Grant, I had no clue Sim meant simulator or MSTS = Microsoft Train Simulator
It does look like fun, enjoy. I’ve never got into video games of any type. Obviously, my knowledge is limited. Never even enjoyed Pong.
Thanks for the answers, I really had no idea what you were talking about.
Ric Golding said:
That’s pretty neat. Thanks Ralph.
Grant, I had no clue Sim meant simulator or MSTS = Microsoft Train Simulator
It does look like fun, enjoy. I’ve never got into video games of any type. Obviously, my knowledge is limited. Never even enjoyed Pong.
Thanks for the answers, I really had no idea what you were talking about.
Don’t worry about Ric, Grant. Ric is an old Coast Guardsman who served with Noah. It takes a while for him to come up to speed.
He’s not even sure that these new-fangled diseasals will replace tried and true steam.
They have replaced steam??? With what, rockets?
David Hill said:
They have replaced steam??? With what, rockets?
Not rockets, but some sort of infernal combustion engine. You put a waste product of oil into a cylinder with some air, then the piston compresses the mixture until there is a barely controlled explosion inside a steel box. That is supposed to drive something called a turbine, not turban, btw, that then produces Ben Franklin’s new invention called e leck tri city, what ever that is. Somehow, that is supposed to make the thing go. These things don’t even look like proper locomotives. They say that this is the new way things will be done.
I don’t see it, myself. What happens when the explosion is no longer contained?
Steve Featherkile said:
David Hill said:
They have replaced steam??? With what, rockets?
Not rockets, but some sort of infernal combustion engine. You put a waste product of oil into a cylinder with some air, then the piston compresses the mixture until there is a barely controlled explosion inside a steel box. That is supposed to drive something called a turbine, not turban, btw, that then produces Ben Franklin’s new invention called e leck tri city, what ever that is. Somehow, that is supposed to make the thing go. These things don’t even look like proper locomotives. They say that this is the new way things will be done.
I don’t see it, myself. What happens when the explosion is no longer contained?
What happens when the oil runs out? Will that infernal engine burn wood?