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BVE Revisited
By Alfred Barten, 3 July 2008
Mackoy may be quiet, but the third-party folks have been busy.
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Lincolnpin Rail Road Extension 2
By Alfred Barten, 29 June 2008
This is the second expansion to the original single baseboard layout for TRS2006.
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Traveling on the Orient Express
By John D'Angelo, 15 June 2008
Adventure! Intrigue! Opulence! John D'Angelo describes the beautiful Orient Express available for Trainz.
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Amazing Animated People for Your Route!
By John D'Angelo, 30 May 2008
John D'Angelo shows where and how to get Neoklai's fabulous animated people for Trainz.
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Bus Driving in Trainz
By Alfred Barten, 26 April 2008
Bus Driving in Trainz explores the possibilities of bus simulation using Trainz and links to a demo layout.
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Let’s Add New Trucks to Your GG1
By John D'Angelo, 20 April 2008
John D'Angelo shows how to change the trucks on a GG1 in Trainz.
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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway for Trainz:
The Final Spike
By John D'Angelo, 14 March 2008
AFTER 31 MONTHS of group effort, the full-scale 50+ mile long railway with about 200 baseboards filled with over 2,000 custom items has been completed.
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Lincolnpin Rail Road Expansion
By Alfred Barten, 6 March 2008
LINCOLNPIN RAIL ROAD has been expanded from 1 baseboard to 6.
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Operations on the Lincolnpin Rail Road
By Alfred Barten, 11 February 2008
LINCOLNPIN RAIL ROAD was designed to take advantage of Pecil42's new 30-inch gauge equipment for Trainz.
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UPDATED article (pg 2) 15 Feb 08; download 2 Mar 08
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United Central 2008
By John D'Angelo, 19 January 2008
John D'Angelo upgrades his United Central and provides a free download at the VR Downloads page. The route requires TRS2006 with SP-1, but does not require any additional assets.
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Trainz Dogbone Traction Lives Again
By Sanford Mace, 10 January 2008
Sanford Mace completes the cycle of building the Dogbone Traction route in BVE, Rail3D, MSTS and now Trainz.
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Payware for Trainz
By John D'Angelo, 27 December 2007
A review of some of the great payware websites and items available for Trainz.
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Trouble in River City
By Alfred Barten, 20 December 2007
Briefly, for those who haven’t yet heard, Auran has voluntarily filed a chapter eleven for its Fury developments segment of the organization. Trainz is a separate branch. However, the umbrella part of Auran employs all the personnel. As a first step, all personnel were fired last week. Some were hired back to continue work on the next delivery of Trainz Classics 3.
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Operations at Grand River Junction
By Alfred Barten, 12 December 2007
GRAND RIVER JUNCTION was designed to demonstrate the use of Portals and iPortals. It also works as a standalone module that will keep you busy switching cars and monitoring train movements indefinitely.
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White Mountain Winter, a Holiday Gift
By John D'Angelo, 1 December 2007
Here's a holiday route filled with snowtime fun. The route and session are downloadable at our Downloads page and require no additional assets.
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Shooting the TC Harlem Line
By Alfred Barten, 14 November 2007
Grab your virtual camera and join us in photographing the Trainz Classics Harlem Line.
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Meet John D'Angelo
By Alfred Barten and John D'Angelo, 11 November 2007
Meet John D'Angelo, author of numerous articles here at the VR Reading and its predecessors, Virtual Railroader e-zine and Virtual Model Railway Journal. John is also the creator of a number of very popular Trainz routes.
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Colorado Narrow Gauge: Rebirth of an Old Friend
By Alfred Barten, 14 October 2007
An update to John D'Angelo's Black Canyon route, adding Portals and interactive logging, lumbering, mining and passenger service.
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A Busy Day at Station
By John D'Angelo, 4 October 2007
John D'Angelo builds a perfect train watching route complete with signal box that lets you view all the action and control routing.
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Getting And Keeping Their Attention:
A Good Use For iPortals
By Alfred Barten, 27 September 2007
THERE'S NO BETTER WAY to sell a train simulator than by demonstrating it. When at a train show I make sure at least one of our laptop computers is being used to properly convey the concept of what a simulator is all about. That requires keeping personal or tight control over the activity on that computer.
The National Narrow Gauge Convention in Portland. Maine last month gave me a good reason to try out iPortals.
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Jamesport, A Seaside Railroad Railroad
By John D'Angelo, 11 August 2007
JAMESPORT IS A FICTIONAL SEASIDE SWITCHING RAILROAD that can be used in modular fashion to be added to any route or operated on its own using portals.
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Bearpaw Lumber Company for TRS 2006
By Alfred Barten, 8 August 2007
THE BEARPAW LUMBER COMPANY ROUTE is a simple switching layout designed to demonstrate the workings of Trainz dynamic industries. You may find it addictive.
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Metro North Harlem Line: A Trainz Classics Original
By Alfred Barten, 15 July 2007
THROUGH THE YEARS my approach to route design has been to imagine a type of operation and then create a route to go with it. The opposite approach, and one that has found much favor on the MSTS and BVE platforms, is to replicate - or at least be inspired by - the prototype. The new Metro North Harlem Line by Auran is an outstanding example of the latter approach, an authentic modeling of about 38 miles of this busy former New York Central commuter rail line.
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Creating the Virginia & Truckee for Trainz
By John D'Angelo and Collin Trevena, 15 June 2007
Collin Trevena describes progress on a Trainzer group project: The Virginia & Truckee Railroad. The Trainz route currently stands at 1000 baseboards.
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Operations on the Rockbottom & Beatte 2007 Railroad
By John D'Angelo, 8 June 2007
Here's a Trainz layout with loads of action. It's based on an HO gauge layout but takes advantage of the features that only virtual railroading can provide.
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A Great New Idea for Passenger Cars
By John D'Angelo, 5 May 2007
This Download Gold series for Trainz article describes Ben Dorsey's namable and numberable Pullman cars. Now you can have Pullman cars with any road name and number you desire.
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On the Road to Darjeeling
By John D'Angelo, 15 April 2007
John D'Angelo brings us an update on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway simulation project underway from Trainz Railroad Simulator.
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Building the Canal at Windsor Locks
By Alfred Barten, 21 March 2007
Second in our NEW Hartford & Springfield Street Railway series. This article describes playing in the sandbox and arriving at a solution for building a canal in Trainz 2006.
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Northbay County
By Alfred Barten, 15 March 2007
Second in our Straight from the Box series. Northbay County is a Trainz 2006 route featuring 2-foot and 3-foot narrw gauge railroading.
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The NEW Hartford & Springfield Street Railway
By Alfred Barten, 3 March 2007
Part one of a series describing the building of this new route for Trainz.
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Automating the M-Line
By Alfred Barten, 26 February 2007
Describes use of the automated features incorporated into M-Line PE, which is an enhanced version of the M-Line 2006 route.
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Adventures in CMP
By John D'Angelo, 23 February 2007
John D'Angelo explains how to deal with an uncooperative CMP.
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Boston's M-Line in N Scale and Trainz
By Alfred Barten, 15 January 2007
An expanded sequel to Dogbone Traction, this route fills a single Trainz baseboard and adds plenty of scenery and action. Read the description here and download the route.
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Meet Ben Neal
By John D'Angelo, 14 January 2007
Meet Ben Neal, steam locomotive builder for Trainz.
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Subpar Productions
By John D'Angelo, 5 January 2007
This Download Gold series for Trainz article describes Ben Neal's steam locomotives for short line railroads plus a pair of Gorre & Daphetid layouts.
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Steam Locomotive Cab Simulator
By Doug Johnson, 5 January 2007
Doug Johnson builds a 3/4-size working steam locomotive cab simulator for use with MSTS and RailDriver.
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Converting DEM Files to Trainz Maps
By Bill Slack, 3 April 2006
When you want to create a Trainz model based on actual terrain, you may need to use DEM (Digital Elevation Modeling). My approach is certainly not the only way to do it, but I like the method I learned, and I can do it fast.
In the beginning, you have to have an idea of just what terrain you want to duplicate. There are a couple of sources of DEM for the area in which we are modeling the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - NASA, GIS Data Depot, and MapMart. All three sites allow free downloads, some with restrictions. Of all of them, I find that Mapmart is the easiest to specify what you want.
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Pogo was Right
By Alfred Barten, 18 November 2006
As I understand it - and I admit I wasn't aware of the offending postings nor have I seen directly the statement from Lance Jago quoted in a post on the Train-Sim.com forum indicating the reason for the closure was undue negativity directed at Auran and its employees - Auran decided that there was no point in maintaining a forum where people were attacking others.
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VR Railfinder
By Alfred Barten, 25 March 2006
If you're looking for concentrated rail action, look no further than the New York Transit Authority (NYCTA). It's the largest component of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). The system combines subway, surface, and elevated running, with an emphasis on subways. For the virtual railroader and subway modeler, the NYCTA is as close to Nirvana as one could come. (OK, the London Underground is another worthy candidate, but today we're talking about the NYCTA.) HTML
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Train Sim Webfinder
By Alfred Barten, 2007
UPDATED FOR JANUARY 2007. We’ve compiled two listings: Part 1 – Train Simulators and Part 2 – Train Simulation Support. We don’t want to leave anyone out, so we’ll be adding to the list as we go along. Feel free to send suggestions (and corrections). HTML
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