Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon (1994) was an influential game in this genre, spawning remakes such as Simutrans (1999), OpenTTD (2004 to present) and Sawyer's own Locomotion (2004). The A-Train series (1985 to present) is an early example. Railroad-themed strategy simulation video games are focused mostly on economic part of the railroad industry rather than on technical detail. Engineering is a programmable desktop cab controller with throttle, brake lever and switches designed to work with Trainz, TrainMaster, Microsoft Train Simulator and Rail Simulator. Peripherals specifically designed for use with driving simulations include RailDriver by US manufacturer P.I. The PC game 3D Ultra Lionel Traintown, amongst some others, give a different experience to driving, by being in a 3rd person omniscient perspective, controlling the trains from a bird's eye view. Trainz Simulator - the longest running Train Simulation franchise on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android devices.Other train driving simulation software includes: It was followed with Evening Star in 1987. The game simulated a journey of the Southern Belle steam passenger train from London Victoria to Brighton, while at the same time the player must comply with speed limits, not to go too fast on curves and keep to the schedule. One of the first commercially available train simulators was Southern Belle, released in 1985.

Train driving simulation games usually allow a user to have a 'driver's view' from the locomotive's cab and operate realistic cab controls such as throttle, brake valve, sand, horn and whistle, lights etc. There are two broad categories of train simulation video games: Driving simulations and railroad-themed strategy simulation games. Signaller training simulators have been developed by The Railway Engineering Company (TRE) in the UK, and OpenTrack Railway Technology in Switzerland. Sydac a member of the Knorr-Bremse Group based in Australia.CORYS T.E.S.S., a French company based in Grenoble.Transurb Technirail, a Belgian company based in Brussels.Driver simulators include those produced by Like flight simulators, train simulators have been produced for railway training purposes.

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