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Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:03:19 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.*SayNoToSpam*net
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Bryan Kinkel wrote:
> Microsoft will be releasing a product called "Train Simulator" in the spring
> of 2001.
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> Here is some more information with a link to slew of screenshots -
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> http://www.activewin.com/interactive_media/shots/games/trainsim/index.shtml
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> Featured prominently in some of the shots is the Amtrak Acela.
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> It will be interesting to see if you can add your own trains and scenery
> from external modules, etc. (Like you can with Flight Simulator). I would
> want to take some of Lego MOCs in this group for a spin through the
> simulator.
Looks like you have a choice of 9 trains. Here's a blurb from one:
· The Flying Scotsman Railways. Enthusiasts chug
along some of England's most beautiful countryside in the late 1920s in
what is arguably the world's most famous steam
locomotive.
"World's most famous steam loco"?!!! Krike! And I thought the Universe
stopped revolving around England about 200 years ago. Give me a break!
-John
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| (...) J2 is right again. While the train itself may be famous (but arguably, the Orient Express is more famous) the locomotive is no great shakes, and there were more than one of them, with nothing to make one particular instance stand out (it says (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Microsoft will be releasing a product called "Train Simulator" in the spring of 2001. Here is some more information with a link to slew of screenshots - (URL) prominently in some of the shots is the Amtrak Acela. It will be interesting to see if you (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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