Talk:Trainz

Why have a Wikibook on Trainz
Trainz is an incredible yet complex railroad simulator. It has a relatively steep learning curve once you get past running through the tutorials and the default railways. The forums are a tremendous collection of knowledge relating to Trainz. They are a phenomenal place to get answers to questions. Problem is, even with the search tool, it's low signal to noise ratio makes it difficult to locate specific information. A little creative googling locates a wide variety of tutorials. The ones you can find are generally quite good. Sadly, some of the tutorials are a bit out of date. Other promising links wind up as 404s.

Enter this Wikibook. It is a collection of processes, techniques, tips, hints, etc. We hope will be the ultimate Trainz reference.

Rules of the Road

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 * 3) If you find material that you authored and didn't give permission to add it here, please remove it. Also, please let us know via the discussion page what you did and why.
 * 4) Consider opening a discussion before undertaking radical and major changes.
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 * 6) Consider adding a link to both the previous and next page for logical book order reading.
 * 7) Please sign and date stamp your entries in the discussions by adding ~ at the end.

Proposed Top Level
What is the best way of handling the differences between TRS2004, TRS2006 and TC? For example a lot of Surveyor is common to all three but not everything. Tricky. John259 (talk) 20:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Assign each version of Trainz a category, in the form "Trainz UTC" "TRS2006", or some such, and apply the category to pages to which it is appropriate. ÞorsHammer (discuss • contribs) 08:03, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * This suggestion would be unnecessarily complicated, and duplicate much material. Best to just note exceptions and scope in a separate section. Or indent under a section title using the template that the technique or material does not apply to such and such a version.
 * See Trainz/Templates for some useful templates. // Fra nkB 03:35, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposed Local Style Guide
I've copied the draft local style guide to Trainz/Local Style Manual for editing and/or comment. Please take a look when you get a chance.Mawilson (talk) 19:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Worthwhile Templates
The list is getting long so I moved it to Trainz/Templates. Mawilson (talk) 13:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Move Asset Management?
I'm thinking that the Asset Management part should move up to follow driving since that is the next thing most users are going to get into. Also, I think we can cut the title back to just "Asset Management." What do y'all think? Mawilson (talk) 13:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Good ideas, both of them, IMHO. Go for it! John259 (talk) 14:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Update Content Status
As you edit portions of the book please update the status on the contents page. Obviously any section that has some content should have some level of completion greater than zero.Mawilson (talk) 21:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Time for Another Reboot
I started this wikibook almost 10 years ago. Not too long after that life and career took me away. I came back here after recently retiring. While I appreciate the efforts of contributors in the interim, the book has wandered away from the original intent: a reference and compendium to fill in all the blanks in the manual delivered by Auran as well as capturing the hard earned wisdom of creators and users. There are issues in voice, grammar, structure and yes, even in content. So I'm going to take a shot at a significant cleanup and facelift. That said, in light of the relatively new Trainz wiki hosted by Auran, I'm not totally sure there is a place for this book now. Perhaps the better approach might be editing the various articles that are here to become articles in the Trainz wiki. I'll incorporate that possibility in the reboot. Mawilson (discuss • contribs) 03:38, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Nevermind
There is something wrong with Wikibooks when someone who has never had anything to do with this book can revert edits without even leaving a comment. I have a real problem spending any working on this book under those circumstances so I won't. As this book stands now, out of date, filled with unhelpful redundant marketing babble, loaded with stubs, it should be a candidate for deletion. If you came here thinking to contribute, consider contributing to the Trainz wiki instead. Mawilson (discuss • contribs) 22:57, 12 December 2017 (UTC)