http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/ Virtual Railroader News Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:56:35 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/123 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/123 New at the VR Reading Room: "A Complete Down East Fishing Village From the Download Station" by John D'Angelo. See Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:14:31 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/122 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/122 See our newest article "Action At Gotham Tower" at the VR Reading Room (http://www.virtualrailroader.com/GothamTower.html ). It's a rapid transit train Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:49:53 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/121 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/121 I know, it's been awhile. John D'Angelo has come through with another of his great articles. This one is titled "Let's Bring Life to You Signal Box." Read it Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:26:06 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/120 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/120 Doug Johnson completes his P-scale (aka Prototype scale) steam locomotive cab simulator for MSTS and RailDriver. This is an amazing project. Read about it at Thu, 28 May 2009 02:00:22 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/119 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/119 "The Never Ending Operation" by John D'Angelo (Never_Ending.html ) at the VR Reading Room describes John's use of iportals and other devices to ensure Wed, 27 May 2009 17:27:52 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/118 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/118 New at the VR Blogger (http://vr-blog.blogspot.com/ ): "OpenBVE has arrived." Stable version 1 is now ready for DL. Read about it at the VR Blogger. -- Al Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:17:54 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/117 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/117 Well ... at least it does at Virtual Railroader, where John D'Angelo has created a virtual Lionel layout for Trainz and written about it at the Virtual Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:06:55 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/116 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/116 Wayward Junction 3 is a minor update to Wayward Junction 2. A turntable with a roundhouse have been added to give more flexibility to operations. I've also Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:56:49 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/115 John D'Angelo has created Trainz versions of John Allen's three famous layouts. You can read John's (D) accounting here Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:52:51 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/114 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/114 A good series of comments on my VR Blogger prompted me to start the Virtual Railroader Google Group as a way of making such discussions more visible/accessible Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:33:58 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/113 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/113 New at the VR Reading Room (http://www.virtualrailroader.com/reading.html ): "Wayward Junction 2: The Update." The updated route is for TRS2006 with SP-1 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:11:22 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/112 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/112 It's Ground Hog Day and the sun is shining. I welcome the break from sub-zero nighttime (F) temperatures, but not the thought of 6 more weeks of winter. Oh Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:35:51 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/111 I said it wrong. Aces Studio has taken a big hit, but has not been shut down. However, the Flight Simulator X team has been let go. That does not bode well for Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:21:52 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/110 Microsoft has closed its Aces Studio, the group responsible for Flight Simulator X and MSTS 2. You can read more at my VR Blogger at Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:08:17 GMT abarten1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VR-News/message/109 New at the VR Reading Room (http://www.virtualrailroader.com/reading.html ). Tired of the technology spiral? Don't give up. There's plenty of affordable,