Ever since I visited Japan for the first time at the age of 10 I've 1) been enamoured by the Shinkansen and 2) wanted to play a good simulator. I finally have the resources to start working on it and I've been building it for a few months. So far I have the entire Tokyo to Shin-Osaka route mapped with the correct route, terrain, elevation, etc. along with catenary, superelevation and line side equipment. There's still lots to do in terms of the environment around the track itself however the goal is to be as realistic as possible.

So my question is, what would you want to see in a Tokaido Shinkansen simulator?

Hi! I am trying to play a map that is a tramway where i work. I dont know where to download NewRoads and then where to pu XTrack and NewRoads. Please help!

Recently, my interest in the Chicago NorthWestern railroad has seemed to skyrocket because my late grandfather worked on that railroad for 30 years and he died in 2015. Since I was eight years old then, I couldn’t do much to serve as a tribute to him but now, at the age of nineteen, I know I can do something significant to honor him so I decided to try my hand at reskinning again. Initially, I was going to do a fictional ALCO (American Locomotive Works) RSD-7 wearing the CNW livery but I ran into an issue that didn’t let me do so (basically, the texture files were not in the TGA format, which I will fix at a later point in time to complete that reskin). Instead, I decided to go with the MLW (Montreal Locomotive Works) RS-18 since it is the Canadian equivalent of the ALCO RS-11, which was used on the CNW.

After up to eight hours of meticulous work (including a handful of instances where I had to fix some small mistakes on my end), I did manage to make an exceptional reskin! Since my reskinning abilities are not yet top tier, I’m sure there’s more that I can do to fully improve on this reskin and I will be sure to work on that!

But right now, I hope that this serves as a good example of my dedication to making an excellent tribute to my grandfather and of my determination to improve my reskinning skills!

Be sure to give me some honest feedback on this because I almost guarantee that there’s room for improvement on my end! Feel free to also rate it on a scale of One to Ten if you want to! I cannot stress enough how much I appreciate any feedback and tips from those who are much more experienced and talented at reskinning (which is more than likely most of you guys) than I am!

P.S.: I will definitely be sure to share my RSD-7 reskin when it’s done but I would like to get some more practice in by completing a few more reskins before then!

Working on procedural track generation, signal interlocking, and first-person driving/riding. Would love to hear feedback from real railfans on what train models or details you'd like to see next!

Double Class 50s passing through the winter.

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hi, i've been viewing videos about train sim world 7 but then i saw that with all dlcs it is like 600GB, is this worth to play just the base version or are there other games that are good as well?

I work for a railway company outside the US and I'd like to develop a Simulator considering a real scenario, real locomotives. I understand we'd have to weigh a couple of things such as the "best" simulator in a technological/graphical standpoint might not help us very much, as we would need to MOD it a little bit to recreate our own railway, locomotives, etc. But if it is too much of a blank page, it will require us a lot of effort (that we don't have - right now) to adjust and put it to work.

I'm in the business for >15 yrs but I never saw a simulator that doesnt cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, I might be wrong but I believe something very useful can be done using tools and softwares already available.

Free stuff is good but paid options are 100% on the table as well. I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences about this.

And if you know people who can create custom mods (and getting paid for it), let me now, also.

Please can anyone help.

I've been having loads of fun driving in this Polish train simulator. I used to only drive the diesel frieghters since running a train not having to stop to pick up and drop off passengers I found to be far easier to learn this awesome sim. I enjoy the driving lots, sounds too even, feels very authentic and immersive despite the ps3 looking graphics. I'm usually a flight simmer, recreational flyer IRL and in the process of perhaps driving a real EMU in my home country eventually. And this sim for sure makes me get a grip of taste of what its like, and I love it.

Does anyone know anything about this drivable human? I looked it up and found nothing.

A freight train is pushed uphill. A worker uncouples the cars. Then gravity takes over, sending them rolling downhill onto different tracks.

It sounds simple until you have to decide where to uncouple, when to tell the driver to slow down, and how to coordinate with the locomotive crew.

I built a 3D browser game where you can try the job yourself — solo or with a friend. One player works as the yard conductor, while the other drives the locomotive.

It's based on my experience working at a real hump yard in Uzbekistan.

🎮 Play in your browser: https://gorka1520.vercel.app?lang=en

Tracks are slowing starting to get where I want them to be. It's a procedural system meaning you can build track any way you like without being forced to use modules for switches, etc. Drawing on demand gives you the freedom to build the way you want.

To follow game development, you can join the Railhead discord here https://discord.gg/abzA9nHsuW

Yes i know, another train sim... But this one lets you become not only an engineer, but a mechanic and a logistics operator.

Its a little bare bones for now but updates will follow. It has manual saves for each job you choose and each job has a guided and unguided mode.

I've been working on this for a couple weeks now and i think its finally ready to release. please comment anything you would like added or fixed, and if you want to hate on the game, go right ahead, just let me know what i can fix or add.

I'll add some photos to see if you'd be interested and a download link will be available.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/109xCUsXVrCnDbjdTbmJG9Xz_0Wd_22gP?usp=drive_link

Enjoy!