Welcome to a cab ride in
RAILSIMŪ Australian Version
This is the northern portal of Sleeps' Hill tunnel on the steep climb up to Mount Lofty, several miles out of Adelaide on the Main South Line. Right click on the image to see it full screen.
We have about a hundred screen captures, each of which can be accessed from its thumbnail, taken on an actual RailSim simulated driving run of two 3-car Trans-Adelaide 2000-class diesel hydraulic railcars, nicknamed "Jumbos" by railwaymen, and "supertrains" by the travelling public.
The version of the track file we used was an early one, which did not have any trees set along the route. This tends to make the "look" quite barren. Production versions of the tracks have trees. We know you won't mind, because of how long it would take to capture and edit shots along the route :)
The first section shows the introductory screen pages where you select your route, the type of power, the type of train, and make the choice of where you wish to stop the train (if passenger).
We have selected a double 3-car 2000-class passenger train without any stops. Actual photographs of trains on various points along the route are included to draw comparisons. Being a DOS program with quite limited graphics, the quality is not what you would expect from seeing a video. Please remember this. However the realism is quite good, and while stations and signals are not quite where they would be in real life, and platforms are all longer than prototypical, the effect is very real.
You can even select poor visibility - the worse case being in pouring rain, with the windscreen wipers keeping the front window clear. One frame demonstrates the worse of the two - that of overcast sky and driving rain - complete with windscreen wiper operating. Watch for this in the storyboard!
Okay, having read all of that, please take the link below to the route and power setup screens...
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