John,
Thanks for your under standing. That makes me feel better when I see that I'm not a lone. How ever I'm limited on what I can spend on games. and it won't be until later on this year before I can buy a ticket.
I have TS2010 Build 49933, Are there any patches for this. Any updates for this build. Sorry I can't seem to find the version number for this game. I wanted to make sure it was updated to the newest version.
2nd thing. Do you have a list of content, A small list. of what would be a good content for me to add and play with.
Last thing, do you know where I can find some videos showing me how to use. Start and setup this game. I just don't under stand how to start or what to do.
Joe
Hi Joe,
We will help you all along the way here the best we can so don't feel like you're on an island. I too worked for many years only to suddenly find myself fighting for income in September 2012 when my manager was going to fire me due to "lack of production", meaning I could no longer support nearly 700 people myself plus the 30 field people and I had 55 open tickets in my work queue. The gall here is out of the 55 tickets 49 of them were there because I had users put them in to cover things like a mouse replacement, or a phone headset needed. It's along story here, but I spoke with HR and so did he, and he lost the battle. He was so nice to me the day I left, he acted like he knew me from kindergarten.
Anyway, there are patches. The best one for that is Shane Turner's website link. He has links to the various patches available for your version, which is found on your launcher screen. For TS2010, the highest I recommend is SP3 since SP4 was for multiplayer unless you want to do that, and you lose the compatibility mode with that change. On his website, he'll point out which patch will bring you up to where.
http://www.trainztutorials.com/
At any rate, there are some YouTube videos on how to use Trainz.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trainz+simulator+10+tutorial+
Another good source is here, and written by a Trainzer local to me. He even consulted me on some of the information here on his still to be finished Wikibook:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz
The program is essentially divided in to sections or modules, loosely connected together. Surveyor is used to build and modify routes with Driver used to run them. In your version, you can take one of the built-in routes and modify it for your own use, such as adding in extra sidings, and even expanding them in any way you wish. You'll probably find this aspect to be extremely rewarding as you fiddle with things in the same way as you would a basement full of a model railroad.
When I started 12 years ago now, almost to the day, I opened up a built-in route and saw how the author build things. There were things I didn't like and there were things I did. I then downloaded a small route by someone and took that apart as well. I then added some extra track and drove around it. Way cool!

After that I set out on building my dream route - one that was based on a model railroad theme I had started a decade before that but never got to complete. This dream layout is now 12 years old and is 190 miles long, or thereabouts. Sections have been rebuilt, others deleted, but the core of the route is still there and will probably be rebuilt at some point. And yes, I have imported it all the way into T:ANE with minimal issues.
So for starters, I recommend taking one of the built-in routes, pick one you like and poke around it in Surveyor. There are all kinds of things you can do right in the game without downloading anything - there are about 7,800 assets there alone should you want to try building something. If you want to venture on to the DLS, there are some older routes you might like including The Loops by George Fisher and many others. His Indiana and Western (I think that what it's called) is nice to drive too. With these routes, you may have to do some asset hunting and downloading, but we can help you there. There are really, so many routes up on the DLS, that you can spend hours upon hours hunting and finding stuff, and then end up with 175,000 assets like I have on my hard drive and 680GB of hard drive taken up by Trainz stuff alone!
Anyway I hope this gets you going and feel free to ask questions.
John