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    STREAMLINES....Dead or Alive?

    Does anyone know if they plan on anymore new releases or are they just leaving there website up to sell what's already been released?

    #2
    Originally posted by trainman_47 View Post
    Does anyone know if they plan on anymore new releases or are they just leaving there website up to sell what's already been released?
    Not sure what their status is, but they do tend to go through dry spells from time to time. Weren't they going to be responsible for development of equipment for the Sherman Hill route being worked on by 3DTrains?

    That being said, and this is purely speculative, but it could be DW is going to be providing the equipment either in conjunction with or instead of SLI/TS ...More Autoracks are coming as well as a UP AC6000W. Not to mention they already make a bunch of UP painted locomotives: SD40-2, SD60M, SD90/SD9043s, SD50s, AC44s, ES44s, etc......

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      #3
      Streamlines "died" about a year ago. They are now called TrainSimulations. They have released a few products since then, a couple of them were released only a week apart. As kknobl noted, they go through dry spells. That seems to be what they are in now. Nothing out of the ordinary going on with them.
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        #4
        Point of order... there are a couple businesses serving the community who've changed names.

        That isn't anywhere near the same as dying.
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          #5
          Originally posted by eric View Post
          .... there are a couple businesses serving the community who've changed names. That isn't anywhere near the same as dying.
          True.
          But why, when you have an established name, would you change it?
          And...having made the decision to do so, why not advertise same in these very pages?
          I don't recall reading anything at all about Streamlines changing to TrainSimulations.
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            #6
            TrainSimulations did post a notice of the name change last June. If you check the Tweets section on the website you'll see comments about the change.

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              #7
              Originally posted by seagoon View Post
              True.
              .........
              I don't recall reading anything at all about Streamlines changing to TrainSimulations.
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                #8
                Probably re-invented and re-branded to take advantage of some government help towards the hosting fees. Other vendors have done the same recently.

                I would do it, too. After all, fewer and fewer buyers remain after each new sim platform emerges. And the few who are left always seem to be broke. Meaning, they didn't move on because of new platform costs.
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                  #9
                  I would imagine they changed the name to take advantage of the when people search Train Simulations. Would most likely be the first site to show up.
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                    #10
                    Hey gents, as long as we're on the subject of SLI/TrainSimulations, I have an unrelated question. I bought the SLI UP Feather River upgrade right when it first came out. Now I see that the one that TS is selling now is suitable for Open Rails. What exactly is the difference? I've tried several times to send them a question but the site won't accept a "contact us".

                    Do I have to buy this again in order to get the OR "updates", or will the old version I have work the same. That's a lot of money to shell out just for a few file mods.
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                      #11
                      Originally posted by geekman View Post
                      Hey gents, as long as we're on the subject of SLI/TrainSimulations, I have an unrelated question. I bought the SLI UP Feather River upgrade right when it first came out. Now I see that the one that TS is selling now is suitable for Open Rails. What exactly is the difference? I've tried several times to send them a question but the site won't accept a "contact us".

                      Do I have to buy this again in order to get the OR "updates", or will the old version I have work the same. That's a lot of money to shell out just for a few file mods.
                      I agree Larry. Although I was a beta tester for Marc and Nalle during their development of the route, I was not even inclined to do as you did in buying the SLI UP Feather River 1984. And still am not so inclined. Yes, that is a steep price. Particularly for more copies of engines that I already have in my trainset.

                      One would have to own both sets to really see what makes them "Open Rails" ready. Since their description states that Open Rails or MSTS with Bin are required and they have not specifically touted any OR features such as 3dCabs, OR physics in ENG files, dds textures, multiple Freight Animations, etc., I really doubt that much has changed from the set you bought except for the three OR only activities.

                      If someone does own this set, would you please answer these questions:
                      1. Do the Folders containing the locomotives' ENG files contain:
                      ===a. A Open Rails folder?
                      ===b. A CabView3D folder?
                      2. Do the Folders containing any of the rolling stock have DDS files?
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                        #12
                        1a - no

                        1b - no

                        2 - yes

                        They gave you some open rails-only activities and some DDS textures and called it compatible for both.

                        As for the feather river pack, the value is not in the locos, but rather the rolling stock. There were 96 shapes in that pack. Who else sells 96 shapes for less than $25 and which can be had for $15 on sale? If people worked half as hard at buying things when on sale than as they currently do explaining reasons not to, imagine how much father they would be.

                        I'm becoming a big fan of buying these large packs, rather than the $15 packs all the time. It took awhile to build, and cost $10 more than the usual smaller pack, but the selection was awesome and there were very few errors for that price. I have no problem with the dry spells provided its always as good and generous as the FR pack was.

                        I do think they are working on a route for Open Rails, anybody who is on ET can see Jason's occasional questions to the OR dev team. But that's not to say OR subfolders or 3D cabs will be there in any initial OR-only packs. I see those features getting worked in gradually.

                        Larry, if you paid for it once, no need to buy it again. Their stuff for the last 3 years has been 'suitable', provided you make the same OR physics tweaks if you are one who has left MSTS behind.
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by geepster775 View Post
                          1a - no

                          1b - no

                          2 - yes

                          They gave you some open rails-only activities and some DDS textures and called it compatible for both.

                          As for the feather river pack, the value is not in the locos, but rather the rolling stock. There were 96 shapes in that pack. Who else sells 96 shapes for less than $25 and which can be had for $15 on sale? If people worked half as hard at buying things when on sale than as they currently do explaining reasons not to, imagine how much father they would be.

                          I'm becoming a big fan of buying these large packs, rather than the $15 packs all the time. It took awhile to build, and cost $10 more than the usual smaller pack, but the selection was awesome and there were very few errors for that price. I have no problem with the dry spells provided its always as good and generous as the FR pack was.

                          I do think they are working on a route for Open Rails, anybody who is on ET can see Jason's occasional questions to the OR dev team. But that's not to say OR subfolders or 3D cabs will be there in any initial OR-only packs. I see those features getting worked in gradually.

                          Larry, if you paid for it once, no need to buy it again. Their stuff for the last 3 years has been 'suitable', provided you make the same OR physics tweaks if you are one who has left MSTS behind.
                          Thanks for the answers. Tells me a lot. As to the 3dcabs, why wait? 3Dtrains and Dekosoft released loco for OR with 3dcabs this time last year. Not that hard to do.

                          BTW they did not give you the Open Rails only activities. It cost $25 (or $15) to get them. I guess you believe the motels give you a free breakfast.
                          Charles

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                            #14
                            Still Alive, and working on new material.


                            Cheers,
                            Jason@TrainSimulations
                            Last edited by TrainSimulations; 03-09-2017, 20:10.

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                              Let's keep the topic on topic, shall we?....
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