The original MS Trainsim was made by Kuju. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_SimulatorKuju is still working on a spiritial succesor to the first trainsim. It might be a Q1 2007 release. You can find the official site here: http://www.railsimulator.com/en/index.htmStrange thing is that they where actively demoing their game with Microsoft during the CES Las Vegas.We also have Auran Trainz 2006 as a competitor in the trainsim market.http://www.auran.com/TRS2006/index.phpThe great thing with trainz is that you can move resources between industries and you see the cargo get loaded and unloaded.Currently on hold we also have trainmaster http://www.raildriver.com/trainmaster.phpNow we get MS Trainsim 2 as a yet another player in this market. I wish we would have this many active competitors in the civilian flightsim market today. MS Trainsim 2 has to be very good and improve on the current products in the market (or just use superior market skills to sell the game outside the dedicated trainsimmer community).

Just to clarify a bit for those who aren't in the know about train sim.The original Train Simulator was programmed by Kuju. It was published by Microsoft. Kuju later coded Train Simulator 2 for Microsoft. Due to circumstances that are still largely unknown to us common folks, Microsoft fired Kuju and brought the code in house for completion. They later abandoned the effort, again for reasons we really don't know. MSTS 2 was officially cancelled.Recently, Kuju announced it's own title seperate from MSTS 2, called Rail Simulator. Like it was said above, that is slated for release fairly soon.Now we arrive here at the new Microsoft simulator based on FSX. This has been referred to by many as MSTS 2 , however it has nothing to do with the cancelled MSTS 2.