Did anyone ever have Rail3D

[mspljd1990]

It was a brilliant simulator. Very basic but I was part of the main Yahoo group where there were some fantastic layouts, such as Greater Manchester, Merseyside, the Great Western Main Line, North West England and North East England. And these layouts were very accurate too.

Unfortunately that's all gone now. I wish there was something like it these days. Simple and free. There are games like Simutrans where people have made some great stuff, but to build the railways you need to have in-game money.Rail3D, you could just build from scratch.

 

[nlogax]

Yep, it was something I used to tinker at many years back..so long ago that I forgot the name.

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/long-lost-railsim-question.159581/

I've built a new PC to run various sims so really need to find some of those old assets. I'm sure they're out there somewhere.

 

[Trackman]

Never heard of it, just had a google and found this website (programme last updated 2015)
Is this it?

Rail3D

 

[prod_pep]

Yes. Used to love it. The first layout I tried was the Cross-City one which was always my favourite.

 

[Peter C]

I'd never heard of Rail3D until I saw this thread and it looks quite interesting. Obviously, being an older sim, it's not going to be as technically-advanced as the likes of TS2021, but it still looks to have a charm to it. I started out playing Trainz 2009, which looks very similar - maybe that's why I find it quite charming?...

-Peter

 

[Peter Kelford]

Rail3D - download.aspx -

You can of course still download it here should you wish if you have a windows PC.

 

[nlogax]

Been tinkering with it here since yesterday and it doesn't quite inspire in the same way it used to. There's a lot more functionality than my first time of using it but it seems to be less stable than I remember.