If you haven't heard about it yet, there's a new site to add to your bookmarks!

OpenRails is a brand new development getting underway to build a new simulator that is compatible with MSTS!

All existing and future Making Tracks products that are developed for Microsoft Train Simulator should be compatible with OpenRails.

Here's the link:

http://www.openrails.org/

We're going to be keeping a close eye on this one and you should too!

They've already managed to make astounding progress loading MSTS routes in and getting trains drivable so it's well on the way.

Note however that it is definitely still a work in progress, lots of stuff still to be done and/or may not work at all well so give it a try and if you have some positive feedback (or even some code to contribute!) then I'm sure that the authors will be very grateful - but don't expect it to work smoothly or flawlessly yet.

Very exciting news for and we wish the developers the best of luck in this wonderful project!

Original Report posted by Matthew Peddlesden at UKTrainSim .