Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006

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Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006

Developer(s)	Auran
Publisher(s)	Auran (PC, Mac)
Engine	Auran JET
Latest version	2.6, build 3092
Release date(s)	September 2005
Genre(s)	Train Simulation
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB rating: Everyone (E) OFLC rating: G
Platform(s)	Windows
Media	1 DVD, 5 CD, others
System requirements	1.5Ghz Pentium IV processor. Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows 98. 512MB RAM. 4GB hard disk space. 32MB DirectX 9.0-compatible DirectX video card, 8x CD-ROM drive.
Input	Keyboard & mouse, RailDriver

Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006, more commonly known as TRS2006, is a Microsoft Windows train simulation game developed by Auran. It is the 4th game in the series, succeeding Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004. The main modules are Surveyor, the route editor (and route creator), Driver, where the user can drive a train, play sessions, and play scenarios, Railyard, where the user can view locomotives, sound the horn or whistle, lights if the loco has any, and toggle the pantographs or any other animation made by the pantograph buttons if the loco has any, and view rolling stock, Trainz Exchange, where the user can see the most recent news, download content, and more. Trainz Exchange will be removed from future versions of the game.

[edit] Gameplay

TRS2006 can be played through either the DCC control type (simple) or Cab Mode (advanced). DCC control uses a model railway display for train driving, designed for beginners or when you are running many trains at once. Cab mode uses a realistic driver control, players can either use keyboard commands to move and stop the train or go inside the train and drive it first person, once they learn the controls. On the Trainz DownLoad Station (DLS) website are thousands of add-ons for the game; buildings, rolling stock, locomotives and maps (layouts/routes). Thanks to the support of all the 3rd party creators in TRS2006 you can drive almost every train, from the first steam train, the Rocket, to the experimental S1, a massive 6-4-4-6 steam engine, to the futuristic deisel designs of turbo trains and the MagLev. A very interesting, stand alone addition is Train Driver (not the more recent "Trainz Driver"), featuring just the route and rolling stock (five steam locos, a Hymek and a DMU) for the West Somerset Railway (from Minehead, through Washford, to Norton Fitzwarren, see Jowett's 135-136). This is basically a nice UK subset of TRS2006 without Surveyor. Twenty sessions are included.

[edit] Railyard

Railyard is where the user can look at locomotives and rolling stock. They can hear the locomotive's horn/whistle, raise/lower the pantograph(s) if the locomotive has one,(or operate other animations triggered by the pantograph button), and turn on/off the lights if there are any.

[edit] Surveyor

Surveyor is the route editor where the user can create and edit a route/layout/map. There are 7 tabs activated either by the Function keys or by clicking them. The top one is the Topology tab, where one creates the landscape (raising/lowering the terrain), create/raise/lower/delete water, make new baseboards (grids), and use displacement maps which allow easier creation of the landscape.