Train Sim anyone...?

[HighBypass 2,339]

22 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

What does thrill you in a train simulation 😃 ? 

.... I'm not sure. Me personally? Perhaps the enjoyment to be had from the simulation of operating powerful machinery. Relaxing just watching the scenery roll by (assuming the graphics are good enough ... until you need to alter the throttle or the brakes which leads me to.... The challenge of the timetable; trying to bring thousands of tons of freight or a hefty/fast passenger train to a stop or slow to the posted track speed. 🍻

[Twenty6 693]

22 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Maybe the simulators are much better now, more complex. What does thrill you in a train simulation 😃 ? 

Construction. Making something from nothing. More realistically, taking various components or models and turning them into a small town, factory, siding, etc. Terraforming, landscaping,, etc.

You're right, actually running the train gets boring real fast. I bought Trainz 2019 and occasionally add onto a small layout I've been building. Change of pace from when flying gets stale.

[W2DR 1,860]

On 1/14/2021 at 8:42 AM, radorabatin said:

Imagine ASOBO making new TrainSim!

 

Rado

And then imagine it working correctly...🙂

[radorabatin 24]

6 minutes ago, W2DR said:

And then imagine it working correctly...🙂

I’m not a 40 years experienced FS user :-), only 15 years of experience, and to be honest..latest release is the best, even though it has issues, but as a very complex peace of software I wouldn’t expect it to be “bugless”...and I don’t want to speculate about possible reasons behind maybe rushed release...But as I foundation for future expansion it just great....and with this potential the possible Train Sim would be something unbelievable 🙂

 

Rado

[Paul Deluca 164]

12 hours ago, HighBypass said:

I don't know if the sims feature that level of "creativity"! 

LOL Mark. I know nothing about train sims. I was combining real trains vs sims in my post  MY BAD!!!!!!!

Edited January 16, 2021 by Paul Deluca

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

I do TrainSim from time to time as well, but lately I have been more into both American Truck Sim and European Truck Sim

[HighBypass 2,339]

16 hours ago, Paul Deluca said:

MY BAD!!!!!!!

No not bad, it just adds to the discussion! 

[Paul Deluca 164]

LOL  Mark!!!!

[Fielder 3,674]

I used a CH fighterstick USB for all the dovetail trainsims. Because with CH Control Manager you can put keyboard commands onto their flight controller buttons and hats. No problem at all. Reverser, Throttle, Brakes, views, couple/uncouple etc. It was all programmed onto my fighterstick and CH Pro throttle. I laid the keyboard aside, I did not need it. I could do it all on the HOTAS stick and throttle.

 

Any thing that runs with keyboard keys can be put onto CH controllers. I do not have any problems under windows 10 using CH CM as long as I do not map the controllers together but instead just map them separately.

Edited January 16, 2021 by Fielder

[188AHC 2,138]

I have Train sim and can't use it. 15 mph through 50 miles of terrain drives me nuts. I love trains and would enjoy this but it isn't my cuppa tea. 

[C2615 319]

On 1/17/2021 at 5:49 AM, Fielder said:

I used a CH fighterstick USB for all the dovetail trainsims. Because with CH Control Manager you can put keyboard commands onto their flight controller buttons and hats. No problem at all. Reverser, Throttle, Brakes, views, couple/uncouple etc. It was all programmed onto my fighterstick and CH Pro throttle. I laid the keyboard aside, I did not need it. I could do it all on the HOTAS stick and throttle.

 

Any thing that runs with keyboard keys can be put onto CH controllers. I do not have any problems under windows 10 using CH CM as long as I do not map the controllers together but instead just map them separately.

Can it run with throttle axis? As I tried before with TSW, they doesn't work.

[Mace 1,927]

Did any of you play Railroad Tycoon?  Railroad Tycoon 2/3?  The first RRT was one of my go-to's back in the 90's.

[HighBypass 2,339]

I had a brief dabble with A-Train, but no RRT 

6 hours ago, C2615 said:

Can it run with throttle axis? ....

I cannot say for certain as I only have an XBOX controller hooked up for TS2021. Yes the triggers on the controller are proportional, however the sim only advances the throttle by detents or increments, run 1 to run 8. This is on diesel and electric locos (Dash 8, or German ICE for example) - I've not got back into the steam locos yet.. (I really must get around to buying the 9f and the Bullied Q1 - my favourite British steam engines)

[jon b 2,049]

I find that train sim is an ideal thing to do for an hour with a large strong cup of tea on my desk, quite relaxing yet stimulating at the same time.

A mate of mine has recently retired from train driving, he arranged for to spend an afternoon on theIf full size voyager simulator. That was good fun, I came around a corner doing 100mph on icy rails to find a horse loose on the track.

[HighBypass 2,339]

2 hours ago, jon b said:

to find a horse loose on the track.

Can you eat or sell any "railkill"?  They eat horses in France, but I don't think horsemeat is on our export list..