The news of some dlc's from trainsimulations.net

[Trainguy3436]

So Apparently while I was looking through the site as there is a sale now, there is a announcement that some of the older DLC's will be removed. That surprising considering some of those are not going to be easy to get and they were converted from msts too. I mean even back then there were some that are hard to find since they got removed. Now this is going to more added to the list. So if I were you, I would try get all the older stuff so you all will have it and have it not loss from time.

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[Orbita]

I assume the products in question being removed are under the Archived Products category. Or not.

Either way, I'm taking advantage of this sale.

[Trainguy3436]

Yes. Under the Archived category. That means all the routes and trainsets are being removed. But yeah, take advantage of the sale and getting nearly all the achieve stuff.

[Big Boy 4014]

I was just about to add a topic on this subject. Does anyone know what addons will be removed?

[Trainguy3436]

Sadly, I don't know. I wish someone can give that information out so people can get the stuff before it gone.

[CSRX]

Chances are, what is being removed, will be replaced with better options, if I know those fine gentlemen over at TSN right.

Even now, a lot of those older models can be easily replaced by some of the newer models they have done, including the Amtrak sets found in newer route packages.

[Trainguy3436]

You have a point there.

[CBQSD24]

I'm gonna generalize what Andrew (rrdiesel87) has said in the discord server here, as well as offer my own and some of the communities' thoughts:

There is no official statement on what exactly is being removed. It will not be all archived products, just the ones that don't sell well as they need to make room for newer ones, no number on how many that may be. Nothing new will be removed either. Whatever gets removed will not have replacements lined up. (say for example, if they remove the VIA trains, there has been no word on a replacement set with newer models). I also recall hearing a while ago that they were kind of done with making trainsets, so that is probably another reason as to why we wont get replacements for a lot of this stuff, but I could totally be remembering wrong so please correct me there. It sounds like whatever gets removed will be gone for good. A couple people have asked in the discord if this stuff could be rehosted on TS.com, and I don't recall getting an answer on that. Andrew said he would chat with the TS team about this, and so far I haven't seen any statement from him as to what the final plan is. I don't think we will know until the day hits.

Now, we have been speculating a lot on what will be removed, and the general theory amongst the discord is it's likely gonna be the Canadian stuff. The Canadian trainsets do not sell nearly as well as their US counterparts apparently, and thus are likely (this is NOT confirmed, I wanna restate that - we still do NOT know) that the CN, CP and VIA sets will be out. I've seen some people also mention the CSX sets as candidates, but I feel those probably see more sales. But I dunno, I don't work with TS. I can say at the very least that I'm pretty confident the 3 archived routes will stay, something tells me those are still fairly popular. Same reasoning, they probably see more sales, but again, I have no idea. All speculation.

I think it would be a good idea to really try and weigh in the severity of this, and see if we can persuade them into maybe allowing this content to be hosted here on TS.com or reuploaded as freeware if the models are really that old and don't sell well. We already were hurt by the previous content wipe from TS and I, among many others feel like this will hurt this already niche sims' scene even more. Not to mention that, if it is true about the Canadian stuff going, that will set back anyone who wants to play with Canadian trains like, 10-20 years? (I don't know of many replacements for a lot of the stuff on TS) There's also a lot of unique rollingstock in some of the sets that may be going, and if that goes, we may have no replacements (or again, 2-decade old models) but again, nobody knows what is going at this time. I encourage you all to definitely buy what you can, buy anything that's not new as it may be gone for good by the end of the month, even if that is (imho) a bit of a setback for the open rails community.

[pschlik]

With all the discussion that's already been had about prior products that have disappeared and the damage that's caused (want a BN SD60M? We used to have multiple variants of those but not anymore and there's never been a replacement) it is very disappointing to see more disappear, especially when it's unclear which things will disappear.

Allegedly this is a limitation with the number of products supported by the storefront, which is annoying as it's 2026 and there are plenty of off-the-shelf providers that will happily give you room to sell a bazillion products (otherwise how would anyone sell all 10,000 of their AI slop novels?), but I'm going to assume the ship has already sailed on the selection of storefront. In this case, doesn't removing products now just delay inevitably hitting the limit again as more routes, expansions, and engine/stock packs come out? As mentioned, years back a bunch of things were removed never to be seen again, and that clearly didn't solve this problem of product count as here we are now, again talking about making more things lost media. Remove 5 things now, add 5 things over the year, then next year we have 5 more products to be deleted from existence to make room for the next 5 things. And every year, those 5 products to remove get newer and newer and more and more popular (though personally, I don't think something being old and/or 'unpopular' justifies sending it to lost media hell). How long before significant pieces of content with a lot of history and no modern replacement like Green River (or, for all we know, Green River could be gone next week!) 'need' to be removed to make way for the next set of 20 boxcars? It's unreasonable and unsustainable.

Less punishing options like bundling products to reduce SKU count, retiring old/unpopular products to freeware, or selling on a platform without restrictions from 2006 would be vastly less destructive to the community than generating even more lost media, making more "sorry you can't get that anymore" discussions, and encouraging hoisting the Jolly Roger.

[eric]

I'm sure TrainSimulations has looked at all the options. Don't forget that they just recovered from a serious issue and a bankruptcy with their previous provider that wound up with them not getting paid for stuff sold over several months, and having to do a hasty replacement to the current storefront provider.

If there are products from any payware provider they'd be willing to donate to the library, we'll gladly host them.

[Trainguy3436]

Just check on recent response and I wasn't aware of some deep of this. You all make good points on this. But we have to see what next week brings after the sale. So I guess for now, just get the stuff before the sales end.

[Orbita]

Era of their products plays a role in what gets removed. One era of routes, trainsets, and rolling stock may be more popular than others. 70s-90s is their sweet spot as of recent, so content depicting that timeframe probably isn't going anywhere.

Eh, just my two cents.

[eric]

Bought a few older NS sets just to hedge my bets, and the Railbox (it's a 70's thing and that's my favorite era).

My past purchases with SLI always tended to be the Midwest roads, followed by the UP sets because that's what I knew. And then I bought Mullan and the Seligman (both) which gave me all sorts of BNSF. But I never bought any CP, CN, CSX or NS stuff.

Now that I live literally above the NS/SOU (600 feet to the right, 200 feet below where I'm sitting...), it's time to diversify a bit, even if it does become the UP in a year or two...

[Trainguy3436]

Well throughout the sale, I manage to buy nine trainsets in that section. Those are:
C&NW TRAINSETS VOL.1
CN TRAINSETS VOL.1
CN TRAINSETS VOL.2
CP TRAINSETS VOL.1
CONRAIL TRAINSETS VOL. 1
CSX ROCK RUNNER TRAINSET
CSX TRAINSETS VOL. 1
UP FEATHER RIVER 1984
VIA RAIL TRAINSETS VOL. 1
Yeah nine sets and worth getting them. Out of those nine, I also got the three routes there along with a few other trainsets too.

[Unoriginal]

So it appears TS has removed the following items

CN SD70M-2 coal & sulfur trainsets
CP SD40 grain & potash set
CP GP20C-ECO MOW camp trainset
Rock island train set
Via 150th trainset

ATSF K-line trainset
CN prairie grain & potash
CP SD30C-ECO British army set
CSX rock runner
GTW freight set
KCS freight set

I had wished the communication as to which sets were to be removed was there, but alas that was not the case. I’m surprised the rock island set got pulled out of all things. I hope this stuff can be archived or rereleased, some models like that CN SD70M-2 were the best version of that engine available. Seems Danny Beck models will have to be relied upon once again.