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Railworks-Related Online Forums and File Libraries with American Content, Useful Utilities for Railworks

RailWorksAmerica Quoted from RailWorksAmerica: "The primary goal of RailWorksAmerica (RWA) is to offer a positive environment for the development of American content for Railworks (although non-American content is quite welcomed also), as well as make available some help in the enjoyment of the sim in the Forums, and offer a content rich site for ideas, tips, and downloads." Please click here to visit RailWorksAmerica!

Elvas Tower Elvas Tower is another train simming online community dedicated to simulating US railroads. The members and contributors of this site have a strong interest in modeling steam and trolley/traction in the first half of the 20th century, there is also quite a lot of narrow gauge equipment available, mostly for MSTS. Please click here to visit Elvas Tower!

TrainSim.com Quoted from trainsim.com: "Since opening in 2001, this site has served as a central meeting place for the trainsim community, a 'club house' of sorts where you can find all the latest information, chat with other enthusiasts, trade files, learn about trains and much more." Please click here to visit TrainSim.com!

RailServe.com (RailWorks Page) Find a great collection of links to Railworks-related pages from all around the world and many add-ons for direct download at this site's RailWorks page. Quoted from RailServe: "RailServe.com is a leading provider of rail information services, including the world's largest and most popular online rail directory." Please click here to visit RailServe!

Obo's Railworks Locomotive Catalog Obo's Railworks Catalog offers an overview of many locomotive models and repaints that are available for RailWorks, Trainz and MSTS from all over the world. A download section with the fine work of Michael Zimmer is available too. Please click here to visit Obo's Railworks Locomotive Catalog!

Mike's Train Sim Utilities — Home of RW_Tools At Mike Simpson's website you can get one of the finest and most useful tools for RailWorks: RW_Tools! With its help you can, among many other uses, swap rolling stock in downloaded scenarios. You do not have or want a certain piece of equipment? No problem! Simply replace it. RW_Tools is also a must-have tool to check and edit routes, scenarios, assets, for packaging and distributing custom content, repainting assets, and much more! Please click here to visit Mike's Train Sim Utilities

RW Decal RWDecal is a tool for RailWorks that allows you to quickly and accurately create decals using data from Google Earth. These decals are essential for the accurate positioning of scenery items and where complex track laying is required. Please click here to visit RW Decal

ZugWare — Home of ReDem ZugWare are in the business of providing utilities and other good stuff to the rail simulator community. Their first product is ReDem, a tool to quickly create terrain for Rail Simulator and RailWorks from the highest resolution USGS data. Please click here to visit ZugWare

Producers of More US-related Add-ons for RailWorks:

GTrax Simulations Producer of fine rolling stock for RailWorks, focusing on the steam/diesel transition period in the USA. The add-ons being offered are of a very high quality and feature some of the most famous engines and trains to ever run on US rails, among them such great names as Southern Pacific's Daylight passenger train and engine 4449, the Spokane Portland & Seattle's number 700, and the Nickel Plate Road's Berkshires! Please click here to visit GTrax Simulations!

BritKits BritKits is well known since the very early of days MSTS for producing a great variety of US steam and early diesel packages, together with plenty of freight and passenger rolling stock to go with it! You can chose between the famous reskinning kits, shipped with a set of layered template textures to make it very easy for you to create your own repaints, or themed sets of engines and accompanying rolling stock for various railroad companies. Whichever set you chose, all include a great selection of fantastic models, giving you very much to run on your RW tracks! Please click here to visit BritKits!

Broadway Limited Locomotive Works (BLLW) Much obliged to their company name, BLLW are specializing on producing highly detailed and historically very accurate rolling stock and engines for the Pennsylvania Railroad. They offer many free- and payware add-ons for MSTS and also an increasing amount of new products for RailWorks, the first one being a set of Pullman heavyweight sleepers. More rolling stock is already on its way, including a set of PRR 70-ton coal hoppers! Please click here to visit BLLW!

Trains and Drivers Trains and Drivers arrived on the RailWorks scene in early 2011 to to share their fun and enthusiasm with YOU. They are "always on the hunt for a new Route to drive on, new Rollingstock to assemble and new Scenarios to play, that's (their) passion!" Please click here to visit Trains and Drivers!

Smitty's Locomotive Shed Smitty's Locomotive Shed offers you a growing collection of scenarios for RailWorks, many of them focusing on heavy duty mainline running on Cajon Pass. Also check out the Icon Service: you send in your favorite railroad photos or train sim screenshots and will get them back as icons you can use to customize your Windows programs, shortcuts and folders. Please click here to visit Smitty's Locomotive Shed

Digital Train Model Digital Train Model offers you several high-quality add-ons for Railworks, including EMD DD40X, ALCo FA, and EMD GP30 engines in various liveries. Please click here to visit Digital Train Model

3DTrains 3DTrains is another veteran add-on producer in the world of train simulations, especially famous for their outstanding F-series models. For RailWorks, you can get some of the most realistic road and vegetation assets from them, the high-resolution versions of ScaleRoad and RuralLandscapes, which are already in use by many route builders. Also available are the first of the famous F-units, sporting Santa Fe's Warbonnet paint scheme, and modeled in stunning detail. Please click here to visit 3DTrains!

SMM Digital SMM Digital offers you many fine freeware models (signals, grade crossings, houses, and more!) and the NS Atlanta North District route. Please click here to visit Pike's Products!

Pike's Products Pike's mission is to create add on products for Railworks that help to make the game more immersive. He has mainly created freeware products so far, and while he will continue to create free products for the game, he will also be creating some pay content. Please click here to visit Pike's Products!

All Aboard! All Aboard! have been producing high quality routes for MSTS and RailWorks since almost a decade. Focusing on a 'rural America' theme, the routes are always set up with a maximum of playability and fun in mind. Switching, wayfreight and local duties, industry and yard work – it is all there! For RailWorks you can order three different routes: the fictional Rascal & Cottonwood and Colton & Northern, and the real-world Bangor & Aroostock Ft. Kent route. All of them with a unique story behind them, providing great immersion and entertainment. Please click here to visit All Aboard!

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