As Real As It Gets - Experience the excitement of
trains on your PC
The details make the difference. We went to the
source to recreate real trains and routes with authentic landscapes and
real-world challenges. Now the experience is yours as the details come to life.
Take the controls from the engineer's cab with thousands of tons of freight
behind you and exciting challenges ahead. Or relax in the passenger's seat and
enjoy the unfolding scenery. From steam engines to diesel to electric, immerse
yourself in the sights, sound and adventures of Microsoft Train Simulator.
Create your own routes and activities with the editors and tools. Modify rail
routes to suit your own preferences or add houses, train stations, vegetation,
new track and much more. Use your imagination to create new adventures that test
your own skills as well as those of other Train Simulator enthusiasts.
Drive one of Amtrak's new high-speed electric trains on the busy Northeast
Corridor. Race along some of England's most beautiful countryside in the
world-famous Flying Scotsman or guide the Orient-Express through the Austrian
Alps for the ultimate in romantic European train travel. Take on real-world
challenges as you operate nine-realistically modeled locomotives in
breath-taking routes from Europe, Asia and North America. Microsoft Train
Simulator is your ticket to experiencing railroading like never before!
Challenge your abilities - you're the engineer. Determine the success of your
activities by obeying the railroading rules and avoiding violations, even costly
derailments.
Manage your own train, operating from the cab of nine detailed locomotives with
accurate fully functional gauges and working controls that you manipulate.
Multiple views from inside and outside. Choose your camera angles from a variety
of perspectives: engineer, passenger, overhead, trackside and others.
Six highly detailed train routes from around the world
with over 600 total miles of rail, carefully recreated with accurate elevation
and terrain data, to mirror the real-world scenery, industry, and towns along
the routes. Routes include both historic and contemporary rail operations:
- Amtrak - the "bullet train" comes
to America with Amtrak's new Acela high-speed train running the busy U.S.
Northeast Corridor.
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway -
experience the challenges and awesome power of moving today's freight
through the spectacular Marias Pass and along the southern border of Glacier
National Park in Montana.
- The Flying Scotsman Railways - race along
some of England's most beautiful countryside in the late 1920's in what is
arguably the world's most famous steam locomotive.
- Kyushu Railway Company - explore the
mountainous Hisatsu line on Japan's southern island of Kyushu.
- Odakyu Electric Railway - navigate one of the
busiest commuter lines out of Tokyo or take in the breathtaking scenery of
Mt. Fuji.
- The Venice Simplon - Orient-Express - visit
the Austrian Alps in the 1930s for the ultimate in romantic European steam
train travel.
The most realistic experience of rail equipment ever
brought to the PC - placing you in the cab of each detailed locomotive, with
accurate, fully-functional gauges and working controls that you manipulate.
Whether it's working the regulator on a steam engine or the air brake system on
a modern diesel, you are in control.
Authentic train and route sound recordings of the actual equipment and
locations. Whether in the cab or standing by the tracks, you'll hear the
distinctive hissing of the Flying Scotsman as it gets up a head of steam, the
throaty rumble of a Dash 9 diesel as it hauls its load of freight, and the
distinctive sounds of jointed, wooden-tie track versus welded, concrete-tie
track.
Real-world rail Activities based on operational events unique to each route.
Players can choose from a variety of challenges, such as keeping to a strict
passenger timetable amidst unforeseen obstacles, or using helper engines to get
a 50-car intermodel train over Marias Pass during a winter storm. Alternatively,
you can enjoy any of the routes from a passenger or observer view - just sit
back, let the computer control the realistic rail operations, and enjoy the
sight and sounds of your journey.
An open architecture, and tools that encourage enthusiasts, railroad
clubs/historical societies, and third-party developers to customize and extend
the product by creating new trains, routes, scenery, and challenges, many of
which will be available for download from the Internet.
Key partnerships with major railroads around the world who are assisting
Microsoft in recreating the trains and operations to provide an authentic rail
experience.
Microsoft Flight Simulator heritage, and the exacting standards of quality and
realism associated with that product family. The same ingredients that make
Flight Simulator so appealing will make Microsoft Train Simulator irresistible
to anyone with an interest in trains.
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