wcu boy wrote:Does anyone know if the computer game that was free called RR Switch is available on the internet? I remember playing it on my computer from 1992 to 1996. It was based on the Allen timesaver. Is it still available? I was not very good at it, but I loved playing it. I would appreciate finding it again so that I could play it. Please help.
RR Switch. I remember it well. I haven't seen it on the Internet but then I haven't looked for it lately. I do remember seeing ads for a company that bought it and made into a sort of model railroad planning software. I haven't seen it in a least 5 years tho. I dop remember downloading it from the Compuserve Trains forum which no longer exists.
Irv
RR Switch, yeah I was never any good at that either. It seems it is no longer available for free but it is still out there, available from Challenge Products.
RR Switch
Edit: I think version five of RR Switch used to be available here but it seems to be gone now. I post the link in case there is anything else of interest to anyone.
wow that brings back memories !
after downloading the free version of RRswitch i became a beta tester for their other program 'Freight Train'
they were a lot of fun to play but i forgot about them after upgrading to XP (didn't work with XP) . also if i recall , after you'd played them a few times it didn't offer much new challenge . if you want to buy one now i'd get freight train unless you really just want to do timesaver puzzles
ernie
I had one of those on my old C-64 back in the 80's.
I have Train Player now. I even used it (TP) to test out some track work I am building for my new layout.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
Found this link to a simple online version one can play.
http://www.precisionlabels.com/shunt/jg3tims0.html
Enjoy!
Glenn
wcu boyDoes anyone know if the computer game that was free called RR Switch is available on the internet? I remember playing it on my computer from 1992 to 1996. It was based on the Allen timesaver. Is it still available? I was not very good at it, but I loved playing it. I would appreciate finding it again so that I could play it. Please help. YOU may email me at donj1044 @aol.com I have the information you want. Donj Raleigh, NC area USA
YOU may email me at donj1044 @aol.com
I have the information you want.
Donj
Raleigh, NC area
USA
YES I remember that game. I have a copy of it.
Email me at donj1044@aol.com Mention in title page RR Switch game
Don J
Try downloading this
https://archive.org/details/RailroadSwitchChallenge1989FredMillerSimulationStrategy
It may not run on a modern computer, so you may need a DOS emulator. I use DOSBOX
http://www.dosbox.com/
I remember that. I also had Fred Miller's Trolley Time Challenge (you even had to remember to ring the bell or you got docked points!) and I also had an early design program called Design Your Own Railroad. I actually designed one of my layouts with it. I kind of got lazy once I found that program - I previous was using a free MSDOS CAD program called PC-DraftCAD and I had created many track items for a library. Those old programs pretty much all need DOSBOX to run, a modern computer is WAY too fast. Many old classic games are available on sites like GOG and when they are old DOS games they come with DOXBOX preconfigured. Been playing a lot of my old favorites that way, the nostalgia combined with the convenience of it being ready to use makes it worth the couple of bucks they charge.
Hard to believe Challenge Products is still in business. Next thing, someone will pop up who has my Fast Clock program I write in VB for DOS. I made it Shareware for like $5 and I think I got ONE order for the full version - AFTER I had moved on well past the computer I used to write it (I still have the source code actually). I think I found a compiled copy and sent the guy's $5 back with it.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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