NEWS BRIEFS

December 21, 2011
Durango & Silverton
A new G-TraX project
US narrow gauge comes to RailWorks! The Durango & Silverton project is well under way. To read more, click here.

November 26, 2011
POV: Scenario Blues
Creating scenarios isn't one of my favorite pastimes. If you want to know why, click here.

November 1, 2011
New Web Page:
Hacks & Quick Fixes
I get a lot of inquiries about how can this or that can be modified. Visit the new Hacks & Quick Fixes page for information about do-it-yourself mods. For experienced users!

October 21, 2011
Big Steam TS2012
Updates Ready
Big Steam Patch 7, for all three locomotive products and all of their companion locomotives, is now available! This patch applies to products purchased directly from G-TraX. For further information and for the patch itself click here.

October 12, 2011
Berkshire Beta
Patch Update
A new Beta patch ("Patch 6") with some updated shaders is available for the Berks only. If you downloaded Berkshire Patch 5 from earlier this week, you'll want to uninstall it with Package Manager before installing Patch 6. For further information and for the patch itself click here.

October 10, 2011
Big Steam Betas
Now Available
Beta patches for all three Preservation Series Big Steam products are now available. These are complete updates, for the default locomotive only, of each Big Steam pack.

This is a Beta release and you are the tester! The final release, to include all default and alternate locomotives in each pack, will be available after Beta testing has been successfully completed.

For further information and for the patches themselves click here.

October 2, 2011
Big Steam Sales
Temporarily on Hold
The three Preservation Series Big Steam products will be available again after upgrade work, necessitated by the release of TS2012, has been completed. The upgrades should be ready in the latter part of October.

New Patch Available
In lieu of new sales, a temporary patch to correct the cab-camera view in the three Big Steam products is available here.

September 29, 2011
New Update Patch
and Public Beta
A headlight/cab-light patch with special supplementary Amtrak Genesis locomotives is now available as a public Beta. Also available is a Beta of the "Ridin' the Chief" scenario, featuring this locomotive update. Click here and read the September 29 progress report for more information.

September 23, 2011
TS2012 Updates
and Bug Hotline
Most G-TraX products will be updated to take advantage of the new features in Train Simulator 2012. Click here for more information.

August 30, 2011
Genesis Pack
Released on Steam
For more information, straight from the developers, Click here.

March 25, 2011
Portland Terminal
is Now Available
Click here for more information.

March 10, 2011
Portland Terminal
Imminent Release
RailSimulator.com has announced a release date of March 18! Click here to view the announcement. You'll also find a link there to the screen shots RS.com have been posting on Facebook.

February 15, 2011
New Portland
Terminal page
Still a ways to go before it's released, but Click here for more information about the route.

December 15, 2010
What's Rick been
up to?
It's been a while, hasn't it! Not much to show for it yet, but I've been pretty busy. More

August 29, 2010
Celebrating
the first year
G-TraX has now been offering downloadable railroad simulator products for a year. To celebrate the occasion, all three Preservation Series steam locomotive packs are on sale! More

May 10, 2010
Double-StaX
by G-Tracks
Er, I mean Double-Stacks by G-TraX. New freeware for RailWorks and MSTS!. More

March 18, 2010
G-TraX Donations Top $11,000
The first payment for G-TraX products sold on Steam came in yesterday. Thanks to all patrons. Your money is helping a good cause. More

January 23, 2010
GS-4s now on Steam
The G-TraX Preservation Series GS-4 pack is now being offered at the RailWorks Steam shop. More

January 5, 2010
More Lightweights,
New Scenarios
A new Lightweight 4-pack consisting of four seven-car sets in four road names is now available. Also, you want scenarios? We got 'em! More

December 14, 2009
The Southern Pacific
GS-4 pack by G-TraX
is now available! More

November 24, 2009
SP 4449 by G-TraX, another offering in the Preservation Series, is nearing completion and will be released in mid- December. More

October 3, 2009
US Steam now on Steam
Both of the locomotives that are currently part of the G-TraX Preservation Series are now being offered at the RailWorks Steam shop. More

September 7, 2009
First Contributions!
 Thanks to your generosity, the first checks have gone out to the heritage organizations that maintain and operate the prototype locomotives represented by our US Steam packs. More

September 3, 2009
Steam Locomotive patch Availble
 The patch includes the new whistle and cylinder cock steam effects. Also, chuff and whistle volumes have been increased, and the H-key (headlight) is more responsive. More

August 28, 2009
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 Some customers have reported receiving the above error message from PayPal. This is a widespread problem affecting many merchants who use PayPal. More

August 26, 2009
Berks and Northerns
 The Nickel Plate Berks and SP&S Northerns are ready! More

August 7, 2009
Roster Additions
 The soon-to-be-released SP&S 700 and Nickel Plate Berkshire, for RailWorks, will have some company. SP&S 700 will be accompanied by its freight-only sister, number 701. And the Berk roster now includes perhaps the most famous Berkshire, number 765. More

June 15, 2009
RailWorks is here!
 It's time to move on. RailWorks, the successor to Rail Simulator, was released on June 12. Like it or not, agree or not, RailWorks is the new gold standard of railroad simulators. Best of all, this is just the beginning. More

January 23, 2009
Farewell to ACES.
 Yes, ACES has been disbanded, but G-TraX is still very much around! Time to shift gears, but not to rest. The list of potential add-on products is endless. A lot of high-quality products, including the ones shown at the right, are in the pipeline. It's just a matter of time before they become available for one platform or another—maybe even more than one! Stay tuned here and keep an eye on the railroad simulation news and forums for the latest developments.

January 12, 2009
SP&S 700 by G-TraX
 G-TraX announces the first of its highly detailed Preservation Series models: Spokane, Portland and Seattle number 700. More

December 13, 2008
POV:
Is it Accurate?
 You hear it all the time. Is this route accurate? Is that locomotive accurate? Well at last here's the answer to all those questions: More

October 10, 2008
G-Trax Simulations
Launches New Web Site!
 G-Trax Simulations, a supplier of high-definition add-ons for railroad simulators, launched its own new web site today... More