An obscure piece of train simulator history

[Pizzaguybb]

I've been looking around a little, and I noticed somthing strange about the sparks reno route on rail works America. This sd40-2 does not look like any sd40-2 I have seen in the game yet. I looked some more, and it seems to from the original railworks 3 (aka train simulator 2012), but YouTube videos don't do much justice on pinpointing exactly what game each variation is from. I now find myself strangely intrigued by this obscure locomotive. I will have to get my hands on a copy of railworks 3 and see for myself. Does anyone know anything more about the early railworks games?

[EngineerJohn]

What you're referring to goes back all the way to the beginning when Cajon Pass and Castle Rock were introduced. They're the oldest US models in the game along with the old UP es44.

[Antwerp]

What you're referring to goes back all the way to the beginning when Cajon Pass and Castle Rock were introduced. They're the oldest US models in the game along with the old UP es44.

Heck, those SD40-2 and ES44 models date back to EA's Rail Simulator.

[trev123]

I've been looking around a little, and I noticed somthing strange about the sparks reno route on rail works America. This sd40-2 does not look like any sd40-2 I have seen in the game yet. I looked some more, and it seems to from the original railworks 3 (aka train simulator 2012), but YouTube videos don't do much justice on pinpointing exactly what game each variation is from. I now find myself strangely intrigued by this obscure locomotive. I will have to get my hands on a copy of railworks 3 and see for myself. Does anyone know anything more about the early railworks games?

I have a copy of RW3 made as a backup when I had RW3 on my computer. If you try and install which it needs Steam to do so you end up with TS Classic.

[Pizzaguybb]

I have a copy of RW3 made as a backup when I had RW3 on my computer. If you try and install which it needs Steam to do so you end up with TS Classic.

Its hard to find much online. All I got found a disk copy on amazon for 80 bucks. To be honest, I wanted to see if I could port the old locomotive over to the new version for fun, might make a good AI locomotive for scenarios if I am lucky.

[Pizzaguybb]

New update: I remembered I had a disk copy of the old Rail Simulator from Kuju. I thought it had the same sd40-2 textures and models from the current train simulator USA assets and Loco Pack (available on steam), but it upon inspection, it seems my memory has lapsed.


I can now get textures, that in my option, look better than what comes with the current game aesthetically (all other locomotives and stock were more or less identical). I had to find the game in a stack of disks, download, take the sd40-2 from rail simulator, and place in the existing engine folder for the US pack, in the railworks steam folder, which then replaced the "weathered" and "unweathered" variants already in the game. I dont know how to do it without overwriting the existing sd40s because they have the same names, which make it impossible to have all 4 versions without editing the game files. The good news is that the overwrites automatically updated into all scenarios, meaning that I dont actually have to make any new scenarios to use the locomotive, given the scenarios I choose are using the "Steam USA locomotive and assets pack". Actual texture quality effected negatively a little, and some small model features are missing, like 3d radiators, and the 3d radiator fans on the top. I will assume that driving quality is similar enough that it should not adversely effect scenarios.

[trev123]

Some of these routes from All Aboard may be what you are looking for from as early as 2009. https://store.steampowered.com/search/? ... l%20Aboard

[EngineerTJ]

I didnt really read through this because tl;dr, but I just wanna introduce you to the JR/SS UP SD40-2 for a second. While it is currently not available for purchase, it's beyond anything you could find in this game. Especially that SD40-2, almost everything is wrong on it besides the things you couldn't possibly mess up.