In practice, the project benefits dramatically from this openness with contributions both large and small and, of Our use of the GPL (or Free Software) license means that anyone can read the software, find out how it works and create a Our team is working to provide a sound future for the communities' content and to create the best possible train simulator. It is a project launched, developed, maintained and nurtured by a team of volunteers. Open Rails is open, as the name suggests. This leads to higherįrame rates, more colors and detail, larger displays and smoother motion. Open Rails uses more recent technology so it can take advantage of modern graphics processors. Open Rails is a successor to Microsoft Train Simulator and runs the trains on routes built for Microsoft Train Simulator. However, Microsoft Train Simulator was an open platform and a host of content both free and commercial has been Microsoft Train Simulator, which was launched in 2001, was very successful but Microsoft had several false starts at developing it furtherĪnd these came to an end in 2009. Our project provides a train simulator for the largest collection of digital content in the world - routes, rolling stockĪnd activities - initially developed for Microsoft's Train Simulator product.
