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Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:52:43 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi=avoidspam=.chem.tulane.edu
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John Neal wrote:
> Bryan Kinkel wrote:
>
> > 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 -
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> > http://www.activewin.com/interactive_media/shots/games/trainsim/index.shtml
> >
> > Featured prominently in some of the shots is the Amtrak Acela.
> >
> > 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:
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> · 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.
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> "World's most famous steam loco"?!!! Krike! And I thought the Universe
I am going way of topic here, but I love that word...."Krike!" I have never used
it myself, but it always makes me laugh when I read it. It is just such a silly
word.
Chris
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> stopped revolving around England about 200 years ago. Give me a break!
>
> -John
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> >
> >
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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