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Well, if it's true that players prefer " their own era of trains ", that doesn't augur well for us older railfans. As time goes by, the audience...

NYT Service 130 Washington- NYP Stuck behind another ACS64 which is stuck at red light at Secaucus. Dispatcher says to wait, but after 15 min.,...

My own view is that recent routes like NYT and, possibly, the upcoming Rhine route are unfinished, not because they ran out of time for those...

This buy or not buy argument is not completely valid as long as there is effectively only one developer of train sim routes and locos. If I like...

Well, you obviously know quite a bit about North American rail. What is your source material? I'd like to refer back to it. Sounds interesting.

Don't forget that DTG has an effective monopoly in the train sim business. It's not as if some other company is offering these routes at a lower...

Ah, thanks, redrev1917. Now I know how to get an immediate response from DTG. Simply surreptitiously hide my question wrapped inside a discussion...

That's very simplistic. I'm sure that the quality of track varies on both continents. Consider that the United States alone has over 160,000 miles...

Is that so? I mean it might make sense in a way, I just haven't heard that from the horse's mouth. Do you have a source?

I do what Vern does. I put a few bucks into my Steam wallet every couple of weeks and that way I always have enough to buy what I want. But I'm...

That's it!! You hit the nail on the head, stujoy. Americans are such loudmouths that everything has to be at high volume.....train horns and...

I think you have to time stamp the train sim evolution. I have to chuckle when I think back to MSTS, but, at the time, in the early noughties, it...

Well, I have to say I'm quite enjoying driving the ACS64 and the Metroliner Cab Car on NYT. Haven't really gotten to the ALP46 yet. Yes, there...

The only interesting thing right now is the SD70ACe, especially as it comes with some different freight cars. Should flesh out the traffic volume...

I would buy it in a heartbeat if it came with an ES44DC a GP38, the SW1500 switcher and related freight cars as G-Trax made it for TSC. Not likely.

This is what irks me the most right now. I don't mind paying $40 for a game, but I do expect value for money. And one new train plus maybe a...

In some ways you're right, if you value green dinosaurs, feral cats and ( sometimes ) working elevators. But in the core elements, SPG and GWE are...

I think you know that any new route, even a portion of WCML will likely come with just one new train. That's the business plan now. BML was a...

We already know the contents of the post- release patches.

I kinda like this idea too. I've got so many routes I still haven't even half finished with, I really don't need any more for a while. Polishing...

They already are to some extent, though I'm not sure what the criteria are, not the ones you mention I would think. We know it's possible, you...

I think arrival times should match the actual timetable, but the timetable should include the " padding " which I assume real life schedules...

Yes, but there are some instances, I'm thinking of Cajon Pass for instance, where the low luminance of some wayside signals is such that the...

Couldn't agree more. SPG, which was not perfect, was a paradigm which has only occasionally been matched since. The team which produced it was...

It's a fairly common practice among US engineers to dip their headlights when passing another locomotive, just as you would do when passing...

This is a perennial issue. It's been mentioned in numerous threads over the years. Some locos have halfway decent headlights, on Cajon Pass, BPE...

I think Brandon said somewhere that when he handed the route over to DTG, they changed the speeds, probably to make the trains run faster....

Well, the definition of Quality Assurance is " the maintenance of a desired level of quality in a product by paying close attention to every...

We were assured by MP during the preview stream that Rush Hour passengers were " turned on ". To be fair, I did see a reasonable number of...

I noticed the same NPC problem on Trenton as I've seen on Boston for the past couple of years. It's winter, snowing very heavily, a blizzard...

I wonder how many of us will be comparing the timetables and counting the number of services on the upcoming UK and German routes.

Yes, that and the use of " we " , purporting to speak for the entire community when expressing a personal opinion, is really annoying.

Not sure where to put this, but is anyone else having a problem with turning off the bell on the ACS-64 on NYT?

Thank you for that. I'm generally aware of what it does in terms of file loading without knowing the underlying tech.. If that's all it does, and...

Yes, there are some people on the forum whose posts seem to indicate, almost certainly falsely, that they are unofficial spokespersons for DTG....

Well, if the larger topic of this thread is the abysmal timetable of NYT, then I think that has been answered - in the negative. Not the answer...

Yes, you should post this in the suggestion section. But I agree with you about the Chicago area routes. TSC has " The Racetrack " with Metra,...

As you begin the scenario, " Havoc Across The Hudson ", you are warned that, due to engineering work, you should expect " queues into NYP ". As...

Well, we don't really know, do we, The Steam client is different from Sony and Microsoft. I get Steam updates every few days affecting how the...

I don't understand the technical details, how it works etc., but it is a phenomenal achievement on the part of DTG, to be able to overcome the...

Must admit I'm not very impressed with the painting. I did buy the pack, but mostly for the extra gameplay. For me, $15 isn't a lot for 6 new...

Yes, I'm aware of that, but it doesn't allay my concerns. It's still something I don't need and I don't like being compelled to use it. Sorry if...

Then maybe you need to get one!! :D:D ( Just kidding )

Well, I guess we'll have to carefully observe how it works for PS5 users. If it works flawlessly for them, I'll be less concerned, though I have...

If this new add- on feature can be released independently for each platform, why does it need to be released for PC users at all? Speaking...

Well, we've gone backwards with the save game feature. In MSTS, we had multiple saves per route and you could actually choose from a list of save...

Well, so long as DTG has a virtual monopoly and until there is a full editor, we, as players, will have very little influence on content. Best we...

Well, " caveat emptor " of course. There's certainly enough information in just this one thread to enable someone to make an informed decision....

That's correct. Unfortunately, the NPC's were not " apparel-adjusted " for the New England winter in many cases. You can see this on a number of...

Then simply don't deliberately choose routes that you know are limited to just one train, which seems to be happening with depressing regularity...