TrainSim.Com Celebrates 22 Years Online

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of TrainSim.Com, and with the site undergoing some changes it seemed worth looking back and commemorating the event. Way back in 2001 I had already been running FlightSim.Com for five years and when Microsoft announced that there would soon be a Microsoft Train Simulator to go along with Microsoft Flight Simulator I just felt like I had to open a new site to support it. Some of the other flightsim sites just opened new sections in their...

You can view the page at https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/conten...ite-March-2023

When I woke up to read the forums here on January 16th, the first discussion thread I came across was regarding concern for another site -- UKTrainSim. A day later, a post on that site confirmed what everyone knew was inevitable -- the site would be closing in August 2023. As someone who's been in the Train Simulation community for over 20 years, that really hit home. We've lost other communities like Mophouse and the personal sites run by Otto Wipfel & Paul Fowler, and within the last yea...

Trainsim.com is running on new servers as of Sunday evening.

This marks the final step in a long process of separating Flightsim and Trainsim's technical infrastructure, management and support resources.

Thanks for your patience and understanding thru some of the cutover activity the past two weeks.

While we weren't able to avoid a small outage during the migration, the planning and testing helped to reduce it to under two hours.

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