Simple Pleasure

[SharkNose]

One of the most common configurations in model railroading is the circle or oval. The neatest thing about Trainz is that this type of track layout is allowed. You can set up a simple oval, put a locomotive on it and presto! You're running a train already! IIRC, the "other" simulator will not allow this type of simple track setup (at least not without severe fiddling). Being able to jump into Trainz route creation so easily is excellent! You old time route creators probably take this for granted by now, but as a still relative newbie, I find this amazing.

Andrew

 

[kin3]

Yea. Have fun.5

 

[Enkidoh]

Yup, my very first route I made in Trainz 1.3 when I first started tinkering with Trainz in 2005 was a simple one track oval on a single baseboard - it was very much like a model railway. But I was still proud of it all the same.

It's indeed the magic of Trainz - you can be as simple or as complex and realistic as you want, limited only by your imagination and the technical limitations of the software!

 

[jlp1551]

And, Trainz gives ya something to do when you get laid up. I tore my shoulder up pretty bad this summer, as luck had it, working the fourth of July for some nice and easy overtime, or so I thought. Being post-op now, and no arm to use now, if I was doint my old HO layout, work would come to all stop! But, using one hand I cam keep Trainzing along:Y:!
And fixing errors on assets gives something to do too! Trainz is helping from going totally insane!:hehe:

 

[frogpipe]

I've always seen Trainz as a virtual model railroad. With the liberation that you are no longer confined to the available space in your basement or garage!

 

[KrisDeagle]

Not to mention if you do a bit of tinkering, you can get some trains doing some crazy speeds on circle tracks.

Kris

 

[Robert2d6]

I can remember adding a pair of switches to the Lionel 027 gauge set I had as a teenager and thinking that was the cat's meow. Now I have a train set that can go hundreds of miles at the click of a mouse. Can't beat it!!!!!

 

[Euphod]

There are some very fine small oval layouts on the DLS, it is amazing what one can achieve!

 

[Mick_Berg]

Strangely I was thinking about a real oval layout today. There was a miniature railway that ran around a lake in a park near my house. The engine was a lovely miniature version of "Mallard". It had a diesel engine and generator in the tender and was powered by an electric motor.

The lake is there in the ECML. If anyone wants to make a miniature route, this would be a good project!

There is some discussion of this railway on the LNER.info forum. I have found very little mention of it on the web at large, though.

Mick.

 

[JCitron]

And, Trainz gives ya something to do when you get laid up. I tore my shoulder up pretty bad this summer, as luck had it, working the fourth of July for some nice and easy overtime, or so I thought. Being post-op now, and no arm to use now, if I was doint my old HO layout, work would come to all stop! But, using one hand I cam keep Trainzing along:Y:!
And fixing errors on assets gives something to do too! Trainz is helping from going totally insane!:hehe:

Jeff,

Trainz is a great escape when there are rotten things. When I am really stressed, or have had other miserable things happening, I go off get involved in Trainz for quite some time. Whole days and weekends have disappeared as I got more and more into projects. This takes my mind off of the bad things happening around me.

The fact that we can build our own little world that is hindered only by our imagination and our computer's abilities is what really makes this great. How else could I build a real-scale version of my N-gauge model railroad? In N-gauge I could barely fit a 3 x 6 chunk of the route. In Trainz the layout has become a possible as if it exists in the real world with towns separated by realistic distances.

John