My Compliments to the Open Rails Team!

[Shortliner]

I've been playing with Open Rails for at least a month now, and I love it. I've mostly been doing shortline routes in the month but I honestly love how the sim operates. The locomotives and cars have actual weight to them and you can feel it when you start a train from a dead-start. It took me awhile (and a few derailments) to figure out how thee air brakes system works but once I figured it out I loved it because it just adds more realism to my virtual train operations.

I can't wait to see how this simulator acts when I'm pulling a long train with multiple locomotives instead of the shortline work that I've been doing. I also can't wait to start contributing to Open Rails in the ways of route creation, 3D modeling and hopefully in the way of Multiplayer Ops Sessions.

Anyways, I just want y'all to keep up the good work and hopefully I should have something to contribute to OR in the near future.

[advut]

Are you serious or is this sarcasm? Since when Open Rails simulates derailments? I understand that they dislike people derailing virtual trains in youtube videos but at least a simple message box would be very much helpful.

[sburr]

Are you serious or is this sarcasm? Since when Open Rails simulates derailments? I understand that they dislike people derailing virtual trains in youtube videos but at least a simple message box would be very much helpful.

I don't think that's what he was saying. It looks to me that he said that it took him a few derailments before he learned how the brakes worked, meaning he may have been going to fast going into a curve or going downgrade and didn't know how to stop it w/o derailing the train.

[Shortliner]

Are you serious or is this sarcasm? Since when Open Rails simulates derailments? I understand that they dislike people derailing virtual trains in youtube videos but at least a simple message box would be very much helpful.

I said that part with tongue in cheek, I know you can't derail in ORTS. However, my compliment and high praises to the ORTS team is fully sincere.

[advut]

OK....I understand. Nevermind

[lindsayts]

I've been playing with Open Rails for at least a month now, and I love it. I've mostly been doing shortline routes in the month but I honestly love how the sim operates. The locomotives and cars have actual weight to them and you can feel it when you start a train from a dead-start. It took me awhile (and a few derailments) to figure out how thee air brakes system works but once I figured it out I loved it because it just adds more realism to my virtual train operations.

I can't wait to see how this simulator acts when I'm pulling a long train with multiple locomotives instead of the shortline work that I've been doing. I also can't wait to start contributing to Open Rails in the ways of route creation, 3D modeling and hopefully in the way of Multiplayer Ops Sessions.

Anyways, I just want y'all to keep up the good work and hopefully I should have something to contribute to OR in the near future.

Openrails will handle 100 car iron ore trains weighing in at around 15,000 tons, using 4 dash 9's or a couple of Bigboys (UP 4000 class), You have to be VERY carefull as its REAL easy for the brake system to get on top of you. In the Western Australian iron ore mining route, there's 2 dash 9's at the head and another 2 half way down the train.

Lindsay