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The second service pack for TRS19 is now officially available to all users on all platforms.
If you use Steam, the update should be installed automatically. All other users will receive a message when starting the game that updates are available and then just have to follow the instructions to install them.

This introduces the following changes:

For everyone

SP2 fixes the bug in tunnel portals that started flying in the past, e.g. on the high-speed route from Schwäninger Land. If no attempt was…

The time has come, from today you can open doors on the advent calendar!
We are trying out a new software for this this year, you can find it here or if you click on Home-Icon > "Advent Calendar" in the navigation bar above.

By clicking on the respective day you can see what is hidden behind it. However, not all doors will contain something, unfortunately you might find some doors to be empty as we unfortunately only have a limited amount of content.

Your TrainzDE team wishes you a pleasant time…

At the moment there are quite a few offers to get hold of in the official Trainz store for the Black Friday sale.

For example, for those who don't yet have TRS19 the standard edition is available for just € 21, or, our recommendation, the Platinum Edition for around € 30. Click
Most DLCs are discounted by 75%, so even expensive routes can be picked up for around € 8.50.
(Personal recommendation from the author: if you're interested in Russian/Ukranian rail transport, you can also get to…

As the days are getting colder and darker, the Christmas season is approaching quickly.


Of course, this year is a lot different than usual and for most of us the festival will probably be far less festive than in previous years. Nevertheless, we want to maintain something that is almost a tradition, the annual TrainzDE Advent calendar.

We know that the announcement is a little later than usual this year, but we still want to give all the hard-working content creators among us the opportunity to…

A beta version of the second service pack for TRS19 is now available for all TRS19 users. Please note that this is not yet a final version of the update, as is usual with beta versions you should save your Trainz installation and the database folder beforehand or, at best, use a separate beta installation for testing instead of blindly installing beta updates on your main installation.
Depending on which version of TRS19 you are currently using you have to select a different "update stream" when…

Starting today, an "Early Access" version of the multiplayer editor is available for all TrainzPlus users.

The server for this is now continuously online (apart from maintenance work, which is usually carried out weekly on Wednesdays at 6:00 a.m. CEST) and the tools can be tried out on a selection of routes that are already on the server and can be edited by anyone. Users can also upload their own routes, although it should be noted that currently only a selection of the objects included in the…

Although TrainzDE is primarily a forum for the Trainz series, we always keep our eyes open to see what else is going on in the world of simulators.
About a week ago, the newest member in the world of train simulators, Train Sim World 2, released.
We played the new simulator to test whether it could also be of interest to trainzers...
Für alle die Trainz gerne spielen, weil sie dort ihre eigenen Inhalte erstellen und vorhandene anpassen können, nein, überhaupt nicht

The Gameplay

TSW2's gameplay is…

While the Central Europe route group project for TRS19 is still progressing, some places on the map currently lack some signature rolling stock. One of these cases is slovakia, where a major gap has now been closed.

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The ZSSK Class 240 (ex ČSD Class 499) from 1968 remains an important backbone of rail transport in Slovakia to this day. Thanks to the work of yuz6099, it is now possible to enjoy this classic piece of eastern european technology in TRS19 in all its glory, as it is now…

Its summertime and that means... saving big on games!
As every year it is once again time for summer sale. Of course, T:ANE and TRS19 are on

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About 8 years ago, ProTrain Perfect 2 released as a German train simulator based on Trainz 2009. Even though production of new content for the game ceased in 2014 already, it still remained fairly popular for some time after and still holds the second biggest compound German train network in any simulator after Microsoft Train Simulator.

Unfortunately, the game became increasingly hard to come by after the closure of the Vizzart-Webshop and a slow but steady raise in prices on the remaining…

When communicating with other creators it is sometimes nessescary to discuss something in privat. The forum software used by us and many other German train simulation related forums, "Woltlab Suite", offers a few useful features for that in its "conversation" system

A few days ago, we a piece of content from our download area was reported for apparently using textures from another game without getting the permission of the original authors who made the discussion. After a bit of back and fourth…

We’ve just made three small changes to our filebase and download area.
As you may have already noticed, we’ve been quite busy over the last days and weeks to manually transfer all the content from the old TrainzDepot website to our filebase here to unite all content in one location. That includes many assets which don’t even work correctly in current Trainz versions.
We have decided to host them regardless of that, since we, as much as you, absolutely hate content suddenly vanishing from the…

Building and driving together,

is the premise of the brand new Multiplayer Surveyor feature currently in closed beta testing. But what is it about and what can you currently do with it? How does it feel to build a route cooperatively together with other players at the same time?



When it comes to what it feels like we can say, pretty cool actually! The times of continously sending .cdp files back and forth to make a route together are finally over, making this a far more efficient approach to the…

Hello everyone,

after long preparations I finally managed to import the forum content of the TrainzDepot and the TrainzDepot archive to Trainz.de.

So we now have a database regarding the forum that goes back to the year 2008.

This would also explain the somewhat longer maintenance break.

Due to the takeover, some (sub-)forums have been added, but there will certainly be adjustments to this in the future.

Old user accounts were not transferred (privacy!), all old posts are not linked to a user…

Dear Trainz.de visitors,

almost unnoticed I have bought and installed an update of the forum software in the last few days. New features are mainly in detail and in the background, for some of the new features you have to make some adjustments.

Visible or relevant changes:

• We will replace the currently used "news system" with the integrated article function in the future, so it should be possible in the future for users to submit news, which will be checked and activated by the moderation.

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The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting more wet... perfect time to play Trainz! Here are some news from N3V about upcoming updates:

T:ANE SP4

The fourth service pack for T:ANE is working on getting out some bugs and bringing the better stability of TRS19 to the T:ANE users as well. The full release of this update is expected to happen next or the week after, until then every T:ANE user can change the update stream to "SP4 Beta" in the game settings to try out the service pack now…

The current freeware content catalogue contains pretty much everything to form the most common trains you see on our tracks, but what about the more specific and obscure wagons? In the past, one of the locations to get those for Trainz was the website trainworks.eu, but since trainworks needs to make room on their webspace, we are happy to host their Trainz downloads from now on.

Additionally, we reached an agreement with the author Topae who made most of the content for trainworks allowing us…

Last week, a new russian freeware route has been published to the DLS. Mosty - Balezino - Solnechnaya 4.1 is a complete revamp and extension of the beloved Balezino - Mosti route from Trainz 2012. This new route has been fitted with some more industries and developed for the use in TRS19 Multiplayer. Signalling and train protection systems work with that as well and make this route suitable for building single player activities too.

A few impressions:

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Bored? How about some new content?

Since the last week, new free content is out on the DLS that you should defently give a try then!
For everyone intersted in building and operating US railroads, a lot of the freeware content from http://jointedrail.com/ is now available on the DLS as well. That means that this content is finally usable in multiplayer, but also has been updated to work without issues in Trainz 12, T:ANE and TRS19. Heres a list of the available new locomotives, but obviously much…

As some of you may have already observed, we changed the process of submitting new content to our download area.

Content uploaded now has to be reviewed by a member of the team before being made available. This is to ensure that all uploads comply with our terms and conditions but also that all uploads appear in a unified scheme.

In order to being made available, a download must have:
- a thumbnail image
- a larger preview image in the description which may be a higher res version of the thumbnail
-…