Trainz: A New Era

Trainz: A New Era is a train simulator in which you drive locomotives across routes, operate rail lines with other players and build your own railroads. Its Platinum Edition includes the Standard Edition, additional routes, sessions, locomotives and rolling stock, along with access to user-created content. You can also create routes with the in-game editing tools; routes on the Download Station (DLS) are available as free content.

Driving and simulation

Choose between Realistic Mode and Easy Mode. The simulation models engine power, train weight, rolling resistance, track gradients, curve resistance and track adhesion for each car when accelerating or braking. Real-time physics editing tools let you adjust values while the simulation runs and monitor forces such as tractive effort, drawbar pull and brake pipe pressure at a specific point along the train.

Cab sway and car rocking are modelled from inside and outside the train, with cars wobbling and shaking independently on rough track. Smoke and weather effects respond to world objects: rain does not pass through tunnels, smoke can billow from beneath bridges or the tops of tunnels, and particle effects change direction, velocity and flow. The graphics engine includes world shadows and per-pixel lighting.

Build your railroad

Surveyor includes track-laying tools that automatically place frogs or vees, blades and checkrails when you make switches, turnouts and junctions. The blades animate as you change a junction's direction. You can create routes using the in-game level-editing tools, and open multiple windows to compare items in Preview Mode while working on your world in another window.

Multiplayer

You can work with other players to operate a working rail line.

Routes and sessions

The Platinum Edition includes over 60 sessions and 10 tutorials, more than 120 locomotives, over 600 rolling stock vehicles, more than 18,400 assets and thousands of miles of track. It also provides access to over 250,000 free DLC items through the Download Station, as well as an in-game system for downloading payware and freeware content.

The included routes and content feature a range of settings and railway operations:

• Kickstarter County: an upgraded route based on Highland Valley, with new track, industries and high-definition assets.
• Chesapeake & Ohio RR, Hinton Division: a coal-producing area in the United States in 1950, running from west of Thurmond, West Virginia, to Hinton, West Virginia, across the Laurel Creek, Piney Creek, Rend and Loup Creek subdivisions.
• ECML Kings Cross - Edinburgh: a 393-mile route from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh, set in 1976.
• Healesville: a recreation of 1915 Australian towns, stations, bridges and countryside, including a 1.6-mile timber trestle over the Yarra River and flood plains between Yering and Yarra Glen, and one of the few tunnels on the Victorian Railways.
• Avery - Drexel: a Milwaukee Road route in the United States in the 1970s, crossing the Bitterroot Mountains from the end of the electrification at Avery, via St Paul Pass, to the crew-change point at Alberton. It includes Little Joe EF4 electric locomotives and seasonal rolling stock.
• Warwick to Wallangarra: a route along the QR Southern railway through the Darling Downs and Granite country to the New South Wales border, set in 1990s Australia.
• Season Town Northern Rail Road: a fictional railway somewhere in the eastern or Midwestern United States, with seasonal changes and controllable weather. Its layout has a short main line, a six-mile branch connecting a limestone mine to a cement plant, and a streetcar network with four branches.
• The BiDye Traction Railroad: a virtual model railroad set in a large garage. This short-line electric railway serves a lumber mill, furniture factory, grain mill, commercial bakery, paint and solvent factory, metal can and container factory, and coal-fired electricity plant.

Additional content

The Platinum Edition also includes routes, sessions, locomotives, rolling stock and trainsets beyond the Standard Edition. Its listed additions include:

• Appen: a UK model railroad route with Freight Service and Passenger Service.
• Chiyoda Branch Line: a Japanese route with Rush Hour, Freight and Emergency Service, Max Shinkansen, Minato Express and Minato Express Early 90's sessions. Its locomotives include DD51, Tokyo Metro 05 units, JRH DF50 and DF200, E233 2000A, B, C and CC units, EF641009 and EF641052, ODAKYU 4000BA, B and C units, ODAKYU VSE50000-01 to 10 V2, and Bell 412EP and Super Puma AS322 helicopters.
• Niddertalbahn: German sessions featuring freight, passenger and coil-wagon services, with locomotives including BR 218.xxx-x Verkehrsrot, DB 628.4 and 928.4 Ep. V, BR151 DB Cargo, BR W232.03 ITL, BR 232 157-4 DB, BR 143 069-3 RBH 117 and BR 143 366-3 DB, BR 101 016-4, and several DB Railion and DB BR models.
• Balezino-Mosti: a Russian route with four passenger sessions: Night Passenger 618, Evening Passenger 617, Day Passenger 627 and Day Passenger 628. Its locomotives include CHME3-3172, CHS8 A and B units, several CHS4 and CHS4t models, DM62-1804, DR1A-821g, ER9P and ER9 models, M62-1628 and 1675, and RZD VL60k and VL80c models.
• LMS Duchess Pack: 36 Duchess locomotives in LMS Crimson and BR Brunswick Green liveries, plus 24 Stanier Period III carriages in LMS Crimson and BR Crimson and Cream. The pack includes detailed locomotive cabs and passenger interiors, scripted couplers, steam heat and brake hoses compatible with existing S&C stock, locomotive headcodes, carriage lights and tail lamps.
• LMS Coronation Scot Pack: four LMS Princess Coronation locomotive liveries—Caledonian Railway blue, LMS Crimson, LMS Crimson with double chimneys, and wartime black with double chimneys. It includes detailed cabs and passenger interiors, scripted couplers, steam heat and brake hoses compatible with existing S&C and LMS sets, locomotive headcodes, numbers and nameboards, carriage lights and tail pumps, and Coronation Scot and Stanier Period III coaches.
• PRR T1 - A Fleet of Modernism: T1 Prototype Series locomotives 6110 and 6111, and Production Series locomotives 5500–5549 as delivered. It also includes scripted retractable couplers and hoses, marker lamps and road and builder's plate numbers, updated smoke and sound features, a custom cab, a PS18 'City Series' Roomette Sleeper and a POS21A 'View Series' Observation Lounge with Federal, Metropolitan, Skyline and Washington views.

The game also includes a navigation system, configurable control schemes and a 250-page digital user manual.