Train Simulator 2012 (aka RailWorks 3), Trainz Simulator 12, BVE, and Microsoft Train Simulator/OpenRails have a new sibling! Run 8 Studios, an outfit formed by some very experienced MSTS and RW add-on creators, have just released a new high-realism rail sim focussed on the BNSF Mojave Subdivision and the GEVO-hauled freight trains that labour on it.Įarly reactions in the forum aren't especially encouraging. Would the intensely tribal train sim community welcome the hatchling or nudge it from the nest? Installed in the Flare Path hide, a Nikon fieldscope and copy of Bill Oddie's Bumper Book of Avian Metaphors at my side, I set about finding out.
This week's eager egg exiter was Run 8, an indie railroad recreation short on variety but long on verisimilitude.
It's always interesting watching a new sim peck its way into the light.