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2010-05-28 - Open Rails Public Beta

From Open Rails comes this announcement:

The Open Rails team is pleased to announce the next public demonstration of the updated Open Rails software will be made available to public on May 27th starting at 9 a.m United Kingdom time. This version of the software includes highly detailed daytime and nighttime skies, rain, and snow along with other environmental features, updated authentic steam locomotive physics, and other enhancements. A guide to the software will be included. The demonstration release of Open Rails software makes no changes to any MSTS content. Please note that like any demonstration software, many features will be missing. Periodic releases of the software demonstrating key features to the train simulator community are an important way to share our continuing progress as well as establish a context for two-way communication.

To download your copy of the Open Rails software, click here: www.openrails.org/release.html 

You will need to have the following software components installed:

- MSTS.
- XNA 3.1 Redistributable. ORTS will notify you if you do not have XNA installed. Please visit microsofts website to download XNA 3.1 if you do not have XNA installed.

After installing XNA, please follow these steps:

- Unzip the installation package to a folder on your desktop or any convenient location.
- Then, double click on the ORTS.EXE program.

The Open Rails is a constantly evolving project that runs on volunteer participation. Please feel free to post questions and comments about Open Rails at the Open Rails forums at uktrainsim.com, train-sim.com, and elvastower.com. The Open Rails team will be periodically monitoring these forums. If the train simulator community wants to ensure the Open Rails team gets their feedback, please use the feedback form on the Open Rails website at www.openrails.org. Your feedback helps the team to gauge how well we are doing and /or what additional features you are most interested in us developing. The team will release a summary of the feedback to the train simulator community once we have closed downloads.
If you would like to learn more about the Open Rails project and/or would like to join the team, please visit www.openrails.org and the official Open Rails Wikipedia page at http://wiki.uktrainsim.com/display/OPENRAILS/Home.

2009-12-20 - Kingston to Lumsden route including the Mossburn Branch line. 1955-1965.

The Train Simulation group has decided to build a route in memory of Peter Gow (Moe) who passed recently.

We are basing the route on the Kingston to Lumsden route including the Mossburn Branch line. 1955-1965.

Do you have access to any info including maybe yard diagrams and bridge /building information?

Just anything that may help us with this very worth while project.
This is going be a team effort, so anything you can do would further our project. What can you do, I hear you ask?

Well, photos, we need trees and stuff for textures, we need model builders, People makers and anything else of a New Zealand nature that fits into the route.
Also help locating information, do you have access to the NZ Model Railway Journals, namely the following dates:
June and August 1986
April 1988
Feb and August 1993
October 1994
April and June 1995

if so can you scan the info re Lumsden,Kingston, Mossburn or anything in those magazines of that area.

The route and all the models will be distributed free when finished, as we are a 100% not for profit group.

2009-12-22 - RIP Mr Moe

It is with sadness that I write to inform the group of the passing of Peter Gow AKA Moeraki suddenly today. Many NZ simmers will be familiar with Peter, or 'Moe' as he was commonly referred to as.

Peter was a large part of our local train simming community and will be greatly
missed now that he has ventured to the great railyard in the sky.

Thanks to all for the donations so that we could send flowers, Pictures of the flowers available on the forum.

Regards,
Stefan van Vliet
On behalf of the entire TSNZ Management.

2009-04-08 - Another Site Update

Greetings Simmers!

I am happy to announce another update to TSNZ's usability.
You can now browse to our downloads page and click on the image or text of one of the latest releases, and you will be taken directly to it in the database, enabling you to download without searching!

This is another much requested feature and should help make your visits to TSNZ more enjoyable.

Cheers,
Stefan van Vliet
TSNZ Webmaster

2009-04-05 - TSNZ New Feature, New Releases

TSNZ continues to improve. From today onwards all new downloads will feature 'clickable' thumbnails that will allow you to see a larger version of the image. This is a commonly requested feature and it is my pleasure to bring it to you.
(Note: This does not apply for the existing files in the library, only for files uploaded after today, April 5th 2009.)

New files continue to be released for Rail Simulator, now with almost 40 files - often with more than one item - now available.

Stefan van Vliet
TSNZ Webmaster

2009-03-27 - Chat Reminder

Greetings to all our visitors!

Just a reminder that every FRIDAY NIGHT at 20:30 New Zealand Time (GMT+12hours (we are still in dalyight savings time, finishing on the 5th of April so currently GMT+13hours)) TSNZ holds a regular chat session in our chat room. Come along and introduce yourself.

TSNZ Management

2009-03-12 - Rail Simulator Releases, Cont.

For those that havent been checking our 'Downloads' page or forum regularly, a whole range of various scenery add-ons have been released for Rail Simulator - which is good news for the Route Builders out there. Hopefully if a few people take up the challenge we will have somewhere to run our upcoming rolling stock releases!

Regards,
TSNZ Management

2009-03-10 - MSTS New Zealand Routes

The MSTS New Zealand Routes can now be downloaded 24/7 from the windows SkyDrive site. To start downloading, go to the Downloads Section and either search for 'Route' or change the filter for Simulator to: Microsoft Train Simulator and the Download Type field to: New Zealand Route