Re: Railway Simulators

Terry Burton (telljb@ozemail.com.au)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 02:13:14 GMT

mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly) wrote:
>For those who may be interested in this sort of thing,there are a few
>companies who make Railway simulators of some sort,usually however they dont
>in any way relate to the scene is Australia.
>One US company however does make a CTC simulator which now includes a bit of
>AUS track , namely Maitland to Kempsey, ie part of the Nth Coast Line.
>All the loops are there and the main stations etc.
>Its just been released and Ive been playing it for a while and have to say
>that its pretty close to the real thing,ie you are a controller sitting in
>Broadmedow Complex running NR trains to Brisbane and Coal trains to stratford
>mine etc.If you are interested there is a free demo on www.usaor.net/signal.
>There is also a track builder for modelling your own tracks / adding extra
>trains like XPTs etc.
>Have a play, you may get addicted like me.
>cheers
>MD

SIAM in the UK do a Melbourne to Albury, it is not
available for trial, but Tehachapi Loop in the USA and
the Highland line in the UK are freebie trials and are
available for download.

There are three zips available, SIAM1.ZIP, SIAM6.ZIP
AND SIAMM.ZIP. Well worth a look.

If you think you can handle trains try the Tehachapi,
it starts off quite enough and then you find more
trains than you can handle including helpers.

SIAM home page is at: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~siam/

Cheers

----Tell
Alice Springs NT