Now, that the World of Subways is out, many game play movies are cropping up on You Tube. This clip gives a very good representation of game. I really liked the sound and lighting in the game.
As mentioned before, you need to have a pretty good computer to get the good stuff.
Strobist, gives detailed instructions on how to build a cheap Macro Studio. You may already have the cardboard box and tissue so it would basically be free!
Most of the pictures of my scratch build structures were taken in this light-box. Here are some of my observations while taking these pictures:
A Popeye cartoon. Onion pacific verses the Sudden pacific race
I try to seek out Trainz content hosted on other sites because of the erratic nature of the CMP. I would like to add this find to my previous list.
Neoklai & Lana have created excellent content for trainz. Notable among them are the building/warehouses and animated people/machines.
Video by spikerod shows the various animated people.
To Download, click on the title link above the picture.
You will be taken to item page, where you start the downlaod by clicking on the title above the image.
Note: Since this is a personal site, it may go away. Please save your downloads in a safe place, if you liked them.
12 questions about the National Parks and railroads, posted by Bob Janiskee. I got only 2 correct! My knowledge about national parks and railroads is seriously lacking 
Let us know how you all did!
The download version of the Subway Simulator is now available for $36.62. This covers the New Jersey and New York City PATH route. UKTrainSim has posted a review of this sim.
There are two EXE’s that you get when you purchase it, one is the LOW version and the other HIGH version. The HIGH version has the eye-candy but my PC will not be able to handle it.
System requirements:
Minimum:
Processor: Pentium IV 3,0 Ghz
Microsoft Windwos XP/Vista
Free hard disk space: 2.5 GB
RAM Memory: 2 GB
Graphics card: 128 MB NVidia GeForce 66xx or similar ATI
Recommended for a very good framerate in the HIGH version:
Dual Core or similar AMD Processor
Microsoft Windwos XP/Vista
Free hard disk space: 2.5 GB
RAM Memory: 2 GB
Graphics card: NVidia GeForce 8600 or similar ATI
Its movie time. Paradise Express(1937) is an B&W movie about the bad trucking company trying to squeeze out a small railroad business. This movie is in the Public Domain.
This is a very entertaining show about railways from around the world.The host Mark Found is very funny and spirited. He is based in UK and so he reports from there. Jonathan Newton is based in Melbourne and will do 6 shows from there. Though between them, they will cover UK and Australia, Mark plans to put in some clips from other railways too.
The first show covers the Garden gala event held at Llanfair, the Welshpool & Llanfair light railway, Youtube clips of a couple of train chasing brothers and much more.
I love Mark’s style. Give them a viewing and bookmark them for future shows. I hope though they put in a RSS feed to make it easier for us to get the updates.
5 high-speed railway projects as evaluated by Popular Mechanics.
Gmax software is used to create structures and models for the Trainz simulator. Gmax, is free but has a steep learning curve. I gave up on my first attempt but recently found some great user-created tutorials that i can go through to give it one more try.
Start with Ianz tutorial on setting up Gmax. He also teaches us about creating backdrops. TaFWeb has also an excellent tutorial about preparing an image for Gmax.
However, the newest, Jytte’s tutorial is the best for newbies. He takes us through each step with detailed screenshots which makes it very simple.
Since i love scratchbuilding structures in the model world, with the help of these tutorials i decided to give the virtual world a try once again.
Note: Please printout or save these tutorials to your local drive. These are personal sites and hopefully they will be still there when you need them but just in case…
