Thank you from RS.com

[davejc64]

I would just like to say thanks to everbody who contributes to this Sim we call Railworks in any way shape or form, whether paid or unpaid, THANK YOU!

[oldgreyowl]

I would like to echo the previous post.

I am not into developing anything for this great sim, I just enjoy the fascination of this great hobby of ours. I hope this does not come across as me being selfish, I just don't have the patience that I know is required to develop anything. I created plenty of activities for MSTS and I enjoyed that, but Age + memory problems does not equal developer's skills.

Many thanks to everyone involved.

keith

[mpnielsen]

Hi RS.com,

there you were... and so many of you! I am sticking with you guys, this is going to be fun.
Looking very much forward to your impending leap and to what the future will bring!

On a not really completely unrelated note there was a news piece on national television in my country a couple of days ago about an ongoing project to substantially increase the country's rail freight capacity. Track is being laid again. Makes me very happy.

Best regards
Morten

(I bought a substantial amount of stock in biscuits today).

[Acorncomputer]

It all is indeed a team effort with RS.com leading the way and hundreds of others all over the World contributing with content and thousands more contributing by buying and using the simulator.

It probably started with the vision of one person though, who made that decision to actually start creating a new RailWay Simulator. That was the very seed of what we have today. I wonder who that person was but my thanks to him/her whoever he/she is and I hope that your vision has been fulfilled and more.

[FrankJ]

Congratulations to you all you have given me and my Bank Manager a lot of pleasure over the last two years. And when you see how fare RS has come in the two years just imagine where we will be in another two

Frank

[jimmyshand]

The whole franchise is a storming success and it's still got that sense of community with the links between UKTS and RS.com still going strong. I think it's great that key developers and even the main man himself RSPaul, still communicate through the UKTS forum. So many things progress as a result of this forum and the resultant work that RS.com and other developers do. Even much of the perceived negativity that has often been around on here has in the end proven to be a force for the better with the customers being able to communicate directly and freely open straight to the guys who actually make the stuff!! This has surely been a factor in some of the leaps forward in quality that we've seen and that is promised to come.

It's great to think back to the early days of Railsimulator which were only 4 short years ago, we had to wait months/years for new content to arrive and against a backdrop of MSTS with it's market domination and masses of content, Railsimulator had its work cut out to take the throne. To the present and Railworks is awash with add-ons and new routes, locos etc and still growing at an enormous rate.

This is very much a niche hobby but with trains/railways a very, very popular interest around the world we are lucky to have a dedicated team of professional developers whose sole job it is to create highly realistic virtual railways for us to play with!! When I was a kid growing up in the 1980's I would never in my wildest imagination ever have thought a simulator with the quality of Railworks would one day be sat in my home with a fleet of my favourite British locomotives ready to jump into and drive every single day! My train sim back then was a BMX bike, a finely crafted repetoire of engine sounds orally recreated and a vivid imagination!!

[jimmyshand]

Another great thing about train simulation is that it gives some of us blokes a chance to be like kids again, playing trains!! How could you indulge your hobby without Railworks? you'd either have to become a 'modeller' watching your plastic trains going around in circles in the loft or you'd have to join a heritage railway and give up years of your Sundays to try to promote yourself to driver and then you'd be restricted to the odd diesel day here and there!! Or you could do what we used to do as kids and ride round on your bike pretending to be a class 37 whilst making "bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggg" sounds with your mouth!! Not really appropriate behaviour for a grownup, in fact you'd probably end up in a padded cell fairly swiftly!!

With Railworks you can be a kid and a train-nerd again without fear of a straight-jacket or alienation from your friends and peers and for that I thank you RS.com!!!

[phill70]

When I was on the railway, my ex wife used to tell people that I was interested in trains, they used to ask, have you a train set then, I used to say, no I have real trains to play with.
I still don't have a train set, because I have this.

[theokus]

RW offers so many opportunities to be creative.
Without laying one meter of rails, one can make beautiful landscapes, villages or cities
I have never encountered this and I have been walking 62 years around on the planet.

In the beginning of Rail Simulator, I saw almost immediately the opportunities.
The great satisfaction imho.is to achieve something.
It takes a little practice but the motivation is there because everything is possible
and everything is so beautifully displayed.
And something beautiful is what I like to have.
Just ask my wife ...

[styckx]

I still don't have a train set, because I have this.

I have the trains portion of one, but they sit in boxes scattered around the house and everytime I get the inkling to build another platform I suddenly get really tired, grab a cup of coffee and go play Railworks.

[alexnick]

Hmm. I have one like that sitting on my wardrobe. Unfortunately there's no longer any space for a layout.

AN

[radu1972]

And...thank you RS.com for developing this simulator and turning it into the multifaceted realistic and wonderful train driving
experience I had hoped for!

[CaptScarlet]

I still don't have a train set, because I have this.

I have the trains portion of one, but they sit in boxes scattered around the house and everytime I get the inkling to build another platform I suddenly get really tired, grab a cup of coffee and go play Railworks.

You have a lot money sitting there. If you still had the boxes for them it would be worth so much more apparently assuming you ever decided to sell them ( based on my watching way too many auction programs )

John

[theokus]

I still don't have a train set, because I have this.

I have the trains portion of one, but they sit in boxes scattered around the house and everytime I get the inkling to build another platform I suddenly get really tired, grab a cup of coffee and go play Railworks.

You have a lot money sitting there. If you still had the boxes for them it would be worth so much more apparently assuming you ever decided to sell them ( based on my watching way too many auction programs )

John

I wonder what those gray layers are on top of his trains.

[RCH37401]

I would also like to give a big thanks to all at RSC, and couldn't appreciate enough the work they do.

They've given us diesel, electric and steam locomotives, multiple units, sound and reskin packs, coach and wagon packs, route packs, scenario packs, freebies like assets (ta Derek ) and all the other updates and additions.

With such a large team, and then the Beta testers assisting with the team's developments, and all the freeware and third party developers, we certainly have a strong and tight-knit community.

Many thanks to you all!

Cheers, Richard