Anyone understand Train Sims ?

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Re: Anyone understand Train Sims ?

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I'm right of right now.
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Well, at least it's a start! 8)

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Signally true I think.
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But definitely on the wrong track or do US railways drive on the right?

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And it turns out that they do indeed drive on the right in the US and Canada. Driving up the down line.

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interesting subject on left or right hand driving. Well worth reading below are two reasons why we drive on the left and the Americans on the right.

Left hand driving:https://axleaddict.com/safety/Why-do-th ... f-the-road

Right Hand Driving USA:https://axleaddict.com/safety/Why-do-mo ... -the-right

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Train Sim World 2020 (my recommendation) is now £14.99 at Humble Bundle (which sells games/sims/apps for charity):

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/train-sim-world-2020

As it happens they also just created a "Humble Train Simulator Bundle", which is basically TS 2020 plus addons. You can pay as little as $1 for TS 2020! However, the basic idea is whatever you choose to pay above a threshold is donated to charity. Higher thresholds allow you to "unlock" more addons and more goes to charity.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/train-simulator

I'm a big fan of this scheme and even though I'm happy with TSW it means I may now get TS as well.

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An excellent idea/way to raise money for charity but unfortunately at the moment after buying a Logitech G29 Steering Wheel as compensation for the Oculus Headset, I'm now broke!! :lol: Otherwise may have taken up on some of the offers.

If you do get TS I found the graphics very very poor against the TSW2020 but don't want to put you off by saying that, if you do however purchase it and find a way round the graphics to make it look good then I'm all ears as had uninstalled it.

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I picked up TS on Instant Gaming as it was cheap and I only wanted something simple that could run on this laptop when I should be flight sim planning.

Since then they seem to be having more sales on Steam and Greenmangaming than DFS, so I have a couple more routes that I have not got round to trying.

Anyway as mentioned above you can now pick up the core game with a bundle of routes and trains from about 77p, depending on whether any of Dominic's muppet puppets have opened their gob and caused a run on the pound again.

If anyone wants the Riviera Line 50s, West Rhine Koln-Koblenz or Feather River routes for TS, I have them now as duplicate steam keys from the Humble Bundle sale.

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