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I purchased a new computer a while back and recently updated Windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1. I like to use IE 11.0 for my browser. Recently I tried to post a picture or two to the screenie USA thread, but IE 11 would not let me do it, it just kept giving me the wait for something to happen sign...

I am working on a transition era route, late 40's early 50's, and have a grain facility. Were they still shipping grain in boxcars at that time, or had they begun to use covered hoppers? There are some nice 40ft covered hoppers in Trainz but I don't know if they are of the correct period.

I tried asking this question in another forum, but did not get too much in the way of useful information, so I thought I would try in here. I am working on a contemporary UP yard complex (formerly DRGW) in Grand Junction, CO. It is a fairly sizable complex with a flat classification yard...

Not a Trainz issue, but maybe someone can offer some advice. I bought my wife a Macbook Air last Christmas, and recently it stopped connecting to our WiFi. It just scans and scans and finds no WiFi, even though our WiFi is working fine and connecting other devices such as an iPad. I talked to...

One of the minor annoyances of using plans published by Model Railroader magazine is that for the convenience of the HO scale modelers they publish the plans at HO scale, which is I believe, for historical reasons, 1/87 of full size. However most architectural plans (at least here in the USA)...

When I logged into arraial's Marz Base thread a few minutes ago, this is what I got from my antivirus system. No other threads in the forum that I visit are doing it.

Now how do I download it? Am I supposed to get an email or something? Where do I download it? The shopping experience at N3V is not a particularly good one.

I came across this photo of the Super Chief being refueled in Albuquerque and thought it was interesting.

Internet .com advertising on tree branches? What on earth are you up to here, Jan? I guess it is one way of "going green". ;)

Cold weather's coming. Time to head south to the sunshine state.

Just saw this on Squawk Box a few minutes ago. He is buying the rest of the railroad that he does not already own for $100 per share in cash and Berkshire Hatheway class B stock, which he is splitting 50 to 1. The stock prices of all the other Class 1 railroads are jumping in premarket trading...

It is 2015, and a pair of motors haul a Union Pacific freight up the Harriman cut-off on Sherman Hill. Inspired by the Photoshopped cover of this month's Trains magazine showing some future UP motors hauling a coal train. Did you know that the Union Pacific had a section of test catenary on...

A few months back I bought myself a new computer, and have been enjoying the new and improved performance. I have run into an odd problem however involving my raided hard drives and windows xp. If I try to do a "warm" reboot such as those requested by some software updates, the system will not...

Is there a track out there that produces and/or consumes sugar cane?

Do any of you railfans happen to know what the speed limits are on the two routes over Sherman Hill from Cheyenne to Laramie? I would assume that the passenger limit is 79mph, but I am interested in the freight limit.

I took a look at trainman177's request for a map a couple of days ago. It is easy enough to determine that his scenic railroad lies in both Franklin and Essex counties, New York. However, Franklin County alone contains 46 USGS 24k map quadrangles. How can I tell which ones I might need? The...

Everone is probably familiar with the distinctive catenary system the PRR used on its 4 track mainline and indeed we have some in Trainz. My question is however what did the PRR do about its industry tracks and sidings along the mainline. Were these also all electrified, or was local switching...

Railroads have been begun with everything from 2'-0 gauge to 6'-0 gauge with a few yet smaller and larger. Most of these were developed in the early and mid nineteenth century using then current technology and many survived until the "standard" gauge was standardized by the US government, and...

I was browsing around in the TRS2009 TrainzDev pages reading some information on the new "stitched" track and I noticed the following tags are to be supported: mesh-length 0.0 adjust-height-to-ground-threshold -3.402823466e+38 adjust-height-to-ground-offset 0.0 adjust-cross-section-to-ground 1...