Less important but desirable: be able to also have a 'SimTrain' like quality of creating these fake railroads and crafting timetables and even budgets ( provided there's still an unlimited money option).Relatively recent would be good, since the graphics will at least be passable.First-person driving and the ability to kind of 'explore' my model railroad in-game, much like you'd explore something like this.A reasonably active user community of free and some pay add-ons and models ( those appear to be found at, similar to ).Have a wide variety of train types (from early 20th century to modern high-speed rail).Be able to freely lay out my own fictitious tracks and railroad lines anywhere in the world, either following well-known routes or inventing new ones- mostly in central Europe.I'm seeking a combination sim and railroad creation game, and would like to: What I'm looking for is a happy user's review of the best one to get as I figure among the teeming masses of MeFites there must be a few diehard train simulator afficionados to guide me. I've been to but the number of options are kind of confusing. However, I've developed something of a fascination with railroads lately, and think it'd be fun to find a good train simulator/railroad simulator. Unless you have a particular question about the challenge, please do not engage in casual conversation here.I know, I know- you'd think that a train simulator would be the most boring thing in the world- I mean, at least with flight simulators you can bank and fly all over the place, but a train simulator?! Meh! Note: This thread is for screenshot submissions only. Just post them below here in this thread, or if you’re on Twitter you can tweet your photo with the #MSFSchallenge hashtag! You may also add a watermark or username to your image if you wish. 1 will be featured as the main photo of the next dev update and the other 10 will be featured in the community section. The rest is fair game! Use your creativity! We will pick the top 11 shots. Default aircraft and scenery, or aircraft and scenery from the MSFS Marketplace.

If you have any screenshot challenge ideas for the future, send a DM! Rules This can be anything from screenshots showing us what you love about the series, to ones that show us just how far we have come. This week’s theme is open-ended - entries this week need simply be a celebration of 40 years of flight simming with MSFS. To this purpose, we’re opening up screenshot challenge submissions this week to all previous Microsoft Flight Simulator titles.

While we count the days ahead, we’re also going to turn our eyes back to the past!

WinterBand54341 1920×1200 68.9 KB This Week’s ChallengeĤ0 Years of MSFS - In only 8 days from this post being made, we will be releasing the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition update.

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