TRAINZ RAILROAD SIMULATOR 2004 3309738 TPB

THE BEST TRAIN SIMULATION GAME: WORKS ALSO IN OLD PC'S

The game is divided into four modules: Driver, Surveyor, Scenarios, and Railyard.
Modules

* Surveyor is the route editor. Here, the user can shape and 'paint' the landscape, lay tracks, and place buildings, scenery and trains. Users can create their own routes as well.

* Driver takes the scene created in Surveyor and allows the user to operate the trains. There are two methods of manual control: DCC mode which simulates the simple stop-and-go of a model railway, or Cabin mode, which simulates real-world physics. Alternatively, the trains can be given instructions and driven by the computer (Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 and later only). This is known as "scheduling".

* Scenarios (available since Trainz 1.3) are pre-scripted activities which allow the user to go through a specific set of challenges, such as getting passengers to their destinations on schedule, or switching rail cars in a rail yard without damaging the cargo. Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 (TRS 2004) also had sessions in the driver module, but the main scenarios had much more advanced programming that did not allow cheating in-game by changing around driver schedules, making timetables easier in the surveyor, and other things.

* Railyard (known as My Collection in Ultimate Trainz Collection (UTC) and earlier versions of the game) is a virtual trainshed where the user can view locomotives and rolling stock, toot horns (UTC and later only), toggle pantographs and lights (UTC and later only), and view the trains' descriptions.