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Original version features

Routes

The original game featured the following lines:

* Arlberg railway in Austria (Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof – St. Anton) in the 1930s, with the Orient Express
* Settle to Carlisle Railway line, with the "Flying Scotsman"
* Northeast Corridor (Philadelphia—Washington, D.C.) in the United States with the Acela Express
* Marias Pass in the United States with the BNSF Railway
* Odakyu Odawara Line in Japan with the Odakyu Electric Railway
* Hisatsu Line in Japan with the Kyushu Railway Company (or JR Kyushu)

Locomotives

* BNSF Dash 9
* BNSF GP38
* BNSF SD40(Unplayable)
* BNSF SD40-2(Received by patch or separate download)
* Amtrak GE Genesis(Unplayable)
* Acela Express
* HHP-8 Double Cab
* Metroliner AEM-7(Unplayable)
* LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman
* Royal Scot(Unplayable)
* GWR Pendennis Castle(Unplayable)
* British Rail Class 50(Received by patch or separate download)
* Gölsdorf 380
* Gölsdorf 310(Unplayable)
* Odakyu 2000 series
* Odakyu 7000 series LSE
* Odayku 30000 series(Unplayable)
* KIHA 31
* KIHA 140(Unplayable)


These original models were criticised by many people for being inaccurate. However, as with uktrain sim, people started creating and distributing their own models and other content through websites. New routes, trains, sounds, cabviews, and other MSTS accessories are available either as freeware or payware from various websites and companies.

Editor

Included with Train Simulator was the Editors & Tools program, which mainly allowed the user to build railroads, or "routes", as they were called in MSTS. Users could also create activities for any route, create custom cabviews, or edit the default ones.

Bugs

The original version contained many bugs, for example the "front coupling bug", where the locomotive's front coupler would not work, the "white void bug", where the route scenery disappears, leaving a white void, and the "end-of-the-line bug", where the locomotive, if it crashes through the last buffers on the route, would fall into an empty void. There are also issues with the signalling and AI dispatching. However, through the work of people in the community, some of these bugs were either removed or avoided by applying "unofficial" patches to the program.[1]. The game is also somewhat unstable with a tendency to crash.

[edit] Version 1.2

Later, some more stock was added, including: Drivable SD40-2 with BNSF Heritage I paint, a Class 50 British Locomotive, new British Passenger Cars, a few new US freight cars, and a US caboose with a special "caboose view".

Version 1.2 also includes a few new activities for the new train equipment.

Download
Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/153085478/MSTrainSimulator_CD1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153091312/MSTrainSimulator_CD1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153246399/MSTrainSimulator_CD1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153253493/MSTrainSimulator_CD1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153239106/MSTrainSimulator_CD1.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153191947/MSTrainSimulator_CD1.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153197739/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153203763/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153210172/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153216539/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153223192/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153230574/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/153079229/MSTrainSimulator_CD2.part7.rar

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