Article: State of the Site - April 2023

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Running a 22 year old website is a lot like buying a 70 year old home... There's always something to keep you occupied. Fortunately, a month after the move, almost all the boxes are out of the garage, we've figured out which rooms needed some paint, found places for most of the furniture, and very quickly gave up on the idea of a ceiling fan when we discovered cloth wrapped wiring behind the light switch. But then there's the roof.... In last month's update, I mentioned the site's...

Earlier this week, my wife asked if I could pick up my granddaughter from a friend's birthday sleepover she'd been at. She's been on Spring Break this week, and as they only live one town over, she's been spending a lot of time at our place while their parents are at work. On the way back to our house, I saw an approaching train on the tracks that parallel the highway between our two towns. This is a pretty rare thing at 11:00 am, given the commuter trains that run on weekdays. Being the train nerd tha...

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.

Requires Run8 v3. CSX Fitzgerald Sub Route Summary Located in the heart of central Georgia, the Fitzgerald Subdivision is one of CSX's most vital arteries in the Southeast, linking Southern Georgia and Florida to the Midwest, including Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, and St. Louis, to name just a few major locations. The Fitzgerald subdivision's northern end starts at the busy crew change point of Manchester, Georgia, which is also where the Lineville Subdiv...

Developer RSSLO announces the OBB 8633 Pack for Train simulator Classic. The pack includes the control car, wagos an OBB 1116 - CityJet.

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This week we are pleased to announce that the new ANR DL Class Australian National locomotives pack from Barisbeer and the DB Uaai Low-Loader Flatcar from 3DZug are now available for purchase through the Trainz Store, Steam Store, and Mac AppStore, and for download for TrainzPlus Gold members! ANR DL Class Australian National Locomotives Pack Built between 1988 and 1990, the DL class locomotives were designed for use on both passenger trains (particularly the Indian Pacific...