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  • SP Shasta Video Review

    SP Shasta Video Review

    At The Railyard reviews the TrainSimulations SP Shasta Route.



    https://youtu.be/lj_XKQI4NFI...
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    Last edited by eric; 01-19-2025, 21:34.

  • Run8 - A New CSX Route and an Update

    Run8 - A New CSX Route and an Update

    It's been a busier than normal week for the folks over at Run 8 Studios.

    Hyrail Solutions released their CSX Baldwin, centered around Baldwin, Florida near Jacksonville.

    Run8 issued their latest game update as well - Dale wrote about it in the Run8 forum here back on Monday, so check out the details at the following link:

    https://www.trainsim.com/forums/foru...s-v3-update-11

    The Baldwin route features portions...
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    Last edited by eric; 01-19-2025, 19:35.

  • Ghosts and Zombies...

    Ghosts and Zombies...

    No, that isn't an error on our site.

    Have you ever seen a store that runs “Going Out Of Business” and “Everything Must Go” type sales, but never actually closes?

    I’m starting to think that way about our friends at UKTrainsim.com....

    While I gave open praise for the eight months advance notice of the site’s closing, I do have to say the ending is turning out to be nowhere near as organized.

    For whatever reason, they’re approaching...
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    Last edited by eric; 10-31-2023, 23:57.

  • The Greatest Show On Earth

    The Greatest Show On Earth

    Last weekend, my wife told me we were taking a Sunday drive up to Wisconsin. Normally, I need no convincing to take a road trip and "head north", especially if it's Green Bay. But no, we weren't going to the Frozen Tundra or the Packers Pro Shop. We were going to Milwaukee to see the circus at the Fiserv Arena, home to the Milwaukee Bucks. I've always had a thing for the circus. My grandfather was a Shriner, and when we were kids, it was a bit of a family tradition to see the Shrine Circus ...
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    Last edited by eric; 10-19-2023, 16:18.

  • State of the Site -- October 2023

    State of the Site -- October 2023

    Our week started with some sad news -- longtime community member Yuri Sos passed away after a courageous battle with bone marrow cancer, which had been diagnosed in 2019.

    Yuri was a huge influence in the early MSTS community, and the tutorials on his website Steam4me.net have been used by hundreds of thousands if not millions worldwide.

    In real life, Yuri spent 49 years as a practicing veterinarian, graduating from the University of Melbourne and taking on his father's...
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    Last edited by eric; 10-17-2023, 14:23.

  • State of the Site - September 2023

    State of the Site - September 2023

    A month ago, we were in the middle of a heat wave. Today, the leaves are already starting to turn, there's a definite chill in the mornings and evenings, and my wife's tomato crop is finally starting to slow down. Oh, and the Green Bay Packers are definitely back in action with a Week One victory at Lambeau Field South (also known as Soldiers Field...). Fall is in the air..... Heading into fall and winter usually means a couple things around here -- more new users, and people spending more "i...
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    Last edited by eric; 09-13-2023, 16:21.

  • We Remember

    We Remember

    On this day, we remember and honor the thousands who perished in New York City, Washington D.C, and Shanksville, PA
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  • Horseshoe Curve ( NS ) and Run8 Update 10

    Horseshoe Curve ( NS ) and Run8 Update 10

    A new region from the folks at Run8Studios and the first route for it is Norfolk Southern (NS) Horseshoe Curve on the Pittsburgh Sub. Run from east of Altoona up and over the hill down thru Cresson on the West side

    https://www.run8studios.com/pitts.shtml

    Run8's NS Pittsburgh Sub East:
    Route Features:
    • Over 60 Miles of NS Mainline Operations
    • A PDF that lists all of the trains over the NS Pittsburgh Sub
    • Rose Yard
    • Woodvale Yard
    •...
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    Last edited by eric; 01-19-2025, 21:46.

  • State of the Site - August 2023

    State of the Site - August 2023

    What? It's August? NFL football is back? Where has the year gone?.... This week, my granddaughter and youngest son both went back to the classroom (starting fourth grade and senior year of college respectively), so summer is definitely winding down quickly. We've had a fairly busy summer at Trainsim as the tie gang was hard at work rebuilding the main line: the site upgrade took place allowing for a face-lift, the servers got CPU, storage and memory upgrades, and despite that, we've seen a ni...
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    Last edited by eric; 08-16-2023, 20:56.

  • Saving our Digital History

    Saving our Digital History

    During the past six months, I've spent a lot of time thinking over how best to protect the history that this forum represents, as well as that of other sites including UKTrainsim and Elvas Tower. As UKTrainsim.com prepares to turns off the lights at the end of the month, I'd like to recognize Matt Peddlesden and his father Peter for creating and maintaining one of the better repositories for British, Welsh and Scottish oriented content. The amount of personal time, effort and resources that went i...
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    Last edited by eric; 08-05-2023, 00:44.
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  • State of the Site - November 2026
    by eric

    Can you believe it -- Thanksgiving is two weeks away....

    After the beginning of the year dragging out while we awaited our house build to be complete, the last couple months have just sped by in a blink. We took a walk around the property today, and it's amazing how different everything looks from just two weeks ago when all the leaves were still up and in their full fall colors. Not today -- they're almost all down now, and we can see across the gorge, and the water is running low...
    11-19-2026, 20:13 by eric
  • Search engine updates
    by eric

    Sometime ago I mentioned making some new changes in the file search capability of our library. Among those are the ability for a file to belong to multiple sections, and better indexing by reporting mark and attributes like locomotive class.

    Those have started to roll out and some are available for public preview.

    In addition to the back-end changes, I've also made a few changes to the user interface to bring things up to a more current state. Results in the new setup...
    11-03-2026, 10:12 by eric
  • State of the Site - October 2026
    by eric

    There's a saying that a bad day on vacation is better than a good day at work. I subscribe to that 100%. Late last month, my wife and I escaped Tennessee, and spent a few days in Florida and then off on her favorite type of vacation... a cruise in warm waters. Normally, I'd question going in hurricane season, but it's been a tough 18 months between getting our house ready for sale, moving, and then building our current house. Even a hurricane would have been a welcome change... Kudos to the folks at Roy...
    10-15-2026, 00:45 by eric
  • State of the Site - September 2026
    by eric

    Hard to believe, but the leaves are already starting to change and drop here in East Tennessee. A year ago, we were just starting construction on our house, and with all that behind us, it's time to enjoy the important things in life: NFL football. Green Bay had an embarrassing loss in the Week 1 opener at Minnesota, but there were also a few glimmers of hope in that game, and Week 2 had an overtime win after an almost just as embarrassing first three quarters against the Jets..

    Regardless...
    Today, 16:57 by eric
  • Server Adjustments
    by eric

    It's been an eventful two weeks, but it seems we are definitely now back to baseline performance, and maybe a little better..

    Nerd-talk warning...

    I'd been using Apache's mod_evasive module to try and trap the bots, but that didn't distinguish between a page load and an image load within a page. People reading a screenshot thread or doing a file search with lots of thumbnails to display would hit the limits in place to catch the bots largely because of the image loading....
    08-17-2026, 09:30 by TrainSimJack
  • State of the Site - July 2026
    by eric

    Hope everyone's having a great summer. Ours has definitely had a little adventure and drama.

    We currently live above a Norfolk Southern mainline, lovingly referred to as the Rathole but officially known as the CNOTP Second District. One of our resident historians, Jerry Sullivan, spent many hours inspecting these tracks when he worked for the Southern Railroad. The railroad has been good neighbors to us, and last month they took things to a new level -- a 24+ hour bonfire, complete...
    07-24-2026, 10:59 by landnrailroader
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