Train Simulator 2013

[Blacklight]

Have any of you tried "BVE"? It's a freeware train sim that's kind of like the train version of what Orbiter is. It's not bad.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Have any of you tried "BVE"? It's a freeware train sim that's kind of like the train version of what Orbiter is. It's not bad.

BVE was great, OpenBVE had promise, but unfortunately about three to four years ago there was a massive schism in the community which lead to a lot of the creative developers removing their work from the internet. The BVE community has never really recovered from it, the great routes like Maybank, and the Northern Line, as well as the great promise of the updated West Coast Main Line route, and Birmingham Cross-city South...well, it's all kind of fizzled out. I imagine the Japanese community is still going strong, but the British one has pretty much died now. A shame, it was good fun.

EDIT: A quick search, out of interest, has shown me that some parts of BVE are still going, the Network West Midlands (the update of the old Maybank route which I mentioned) seems to still be online, as does Steve Greens lovely Northern Line, and some of the old trains that were hosted on Steve Greens site have made their way to BVETMD...so it's not all doom and gloom. I might even be tempted to dust the old girl off and see if I can get it running again.