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Folks, thanks to our friends in the Netherlands community, and especially to Henk van Willigenburg who translated it, there's a great new Keyboard Reference Guide (labelled a Quick Start Guide... and it is really helpful for getting familiar with the keyboard quickly). You'll find it on our Download...

The Open Rails Development Team is pleased to announce the interim release of Version 0.6.2 of its train simulation program. Open Rails is a completely new computer simulation designed from the ground up by a dedicated team of volunteer programmers, supported by rail enthusiasts and professionals th...

The enthusiasm for OpenRails has been overwhelming, and for this the members of the OpenRails team are extremely grateful. I’m sure its easy to understand that when people put in the sheer quantity of work that our team members do, for no compensation other than the satisfaction of creating a great ...

The OpenRails team is very proud to announce that a “maintenance release” with a number of important fixes is now available on the Release page of the OR website, http://www.openrails.org/release.html. Based on the incredible feedback that the community has provided, a number of significant improvem...

We've just gotten the word from our website host. In the eight days since Version 645 was released, community members have downloaded more than 7500 copies of the program and more than 1100 copies of the source code.

Thanks for your incredible support!

The OpenRails development team is pleased and proud to announce the release of Version 0.645 of OpenRails Train Simulator (ORTS) software, the "railroad simulation platform that’s open for inspection, open for continuous improvement, open to third parties and commercial enterprises, open to the comm...

"A word to the wise is sufficient."

http://www.youtube.com/user/OpenRails

SDTrains... In light of these comments, I wonder how you would assess Vimeo as opposed to YouTube? I have several channels of content over there from "other lives", such as this one: http://vimeo.com/channels/betatechnologies Try them full screen. I've found Vimeo to be much higher quality, but Vime...

I happen to agree mightily with you. The overwhelmingly most important thing to remember and emphasize is your comment in the first paragraph. This IS an entirely volunteer effort of a team of people doing a massive amount of work in their spare time. Only recently have some of us (like myself) come...

Oh my... what did it take? less than two weeks after the first suggestion, and BEAUTIFUL work is getting churned out to replace the default content. We really are an amazing community! Thank you Daniel and others!

Jeff..............................

The Open Rails team has been following this thread with great interest. While we haven't come to a conclusion regarding the best distribution method, we did want to provide the project with some technical guidance to avoid any dead ends. Going forward Open Rails will continue to support the MSTS sha...

Yeah, those are probably shape and texture files. Thanks so much for the advice! I'll try it.

I downloaded the nice looking flower box addition for the Settle-Carlyle stations, but when I got around to installing it, there was no Readme for instructions. The zip has only image files and a REF.TXT which looks like it's got to be pasted into the REF file for the route. Could someone give me a ...