K&L Trainz

This website is good for which version of Trainz?

RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:

This website is good for which version of Trainz?

No, it's not Trainz for model trains, but a computer simulation game. I still have the originla Trainz UTC PC Game. Also still have Microsoft Train Simulator I still play. Even for me at my age, I still play it. Actually it's the only computer game I play for if you want to call it a video game.

It will say which version it's for on the add-on page. I think everything is compatible with all versions.

Wraw I understand it's for the game trainz. I have the 2012 version. Will it work with the K&L locos?

RaritanRiverRailroadFan4 posted:

Wraw I understand it's for the game trainz. I have the 2012 version. Will it work with the K&L locos?

Yes.

A simulator doesn't beat the real thing. But for a simulator, the detail is insane. On the 765 add-on, you can read: LIMA LOCOMOTIVE WORKS INCORPORATED SEPTEMBER 1944 on the builder plate clear as day. On the T1, you can see the stoker auger rotating in between the locomotive and tender. But like I said, doesn't beat the real thing.

Yeah it's no contest that a simulator can't beat the real thing. But it's a lot of fun to build your own "dream railroad" in these games. (And much cheaper than model railroading) But then again I suppose it's games like these that further people away from model railroading. Or further drive the passion?

There is one on 1218 too. You can see it at 2:27. Have a look.

But when these add ons are made, the developers, usually Steve Lerro, actually visit the locomotive and take close up pictures to add maximum details. They also use original blueprints when designing the locomotive, but simulators are not for everyone though.

I don't think I would buy a train sim .... I'm more a Grand Theft Auto guy   ..... but I played with one at someone's house. I was behind the controls of a PRR GP7/9 building a train in the Altoona yards.

A bit tedious, but still fun getting the engine to stop where I wanted it to stop, things like that.

GTA, too funny. I made it into the cab a week after the release. So disappointed I couldn't man the controls though. If youve been taken out by a rolling sniper that was likely me. Especially if there was a Bugatti Z or buzzard load (heli) Pinned down from across the lake? My way of saying "Hi there!"   Lol. Those trains and mountains are my "hood". In the city, I use the interurbans and tunnels too. Or used to; been a year or two now since I played. No crew; cur rah hee.       

The graphics and realism are nothing compared to these simulators though.

I can't run the real thing in my house and aren't capable outside of it. I don't think I could handle the vibration being a passenger either. So being of the first generation of gaming youth, the game trains are still of interest. The coin op/atari age had no trains worth mention.

I like the different aspects of view you can't really get from watching video too.

Better than real? No way.   Interesting and fun change of pace? Yep!

Just.imagine HW and Rich playing GTA.......

Those foul mouth kids likely wouldn't stand a chance, "a lobby of shocked silence".

(Half the games fun is put downs and bravado comming from young "ameratures" at foul mouthed belittlement. As an older adult, its sort of a "You play Sorry, I play chess" thing.)

Adriatic posted:

Just.imagine HW and Rich playing GTA.......

That'll be the day the world ends.

In Trainz you can do what you want. You make the rules. You can run a steam excursion on CSX if you want. Run a 2102/425 double header on Reading and Northern. 2102 is by K&L Trainz, USLW reskinned a freeware 4-6-2 into 425, I made an update with the latest paint scheme, but never released it. The loco used for 425 was originally by Ben Neal.