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Railway simulators become more diversified: Modern simulators for the rail industry are no...

Publication: International Railway Journal
Date: Sunday, April 1 2001

THE Microsoft Train Simulator, due for release this spring, has over 1000km of rail scenery, variable climatic conditions (including wheelslip simulation), authentic sound, and current rules requirements. It is considerably more sophisticated than the route familiarisation videos used 20 years ago or the video disks used less than a decade ago.

Operators such as Amtrak, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), JR Kyushu, and Odakyu Electric Railway, Japan, were all involved in the development of the new "computer game".

It used to be fashionable to complain that

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Fake quakes help prepare for real ones.

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