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Idea (if much changed from the original) - online national rail networks: The simple way: each person has there own little railroad with industries and published their own timetable. cars are then e-swapped to and from said industries. a seperate server logs where the cars are. example: person A then can "order" (per say) a load of oil cars from texas B to be refined in that persons (A's) philidelphia layout. C may then order chemicals from A to be processed at Kodak. C could then send out boxcars of film to D, a distributer. as people cannot get to their computers every hour to check for deliveries, this would simulate the real-life delays. this could be done on a pretty simple network. the more complicated way A group of people group up based on a common interest in a single railroad, for example, i am a fan of the Chessie System. these groups then publish a time table and each one takes a branch line. they have to order and dispatch cars to and from the industries on their lines. half the group could be dispatchers (shipping, recieving, track rights, switching), the other train ops (pick up and deliveries). train operators would have to deal with not running into eachother. lotta time involved and it would be quite the networking! a better option three does anyone out there know anything about the guys who put MS Train Simulator together or the guys who have made the add-ons for chessie and cn? maybe they can build an online version where you just sign on, pick up the next train that needs to go, and drive it there. people with a couple hours on there hands could drive the long consist cross contries, while people with 20-30 min could run yard ops. you could set it up so that the computer, the engineers, or a third party tracks-ops person could do the switching and shipping orders. it would be a little like a real railroad with whoever is there to jump up into the cab and go!
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