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19th June 2002

Hi Trainzers,

As promised in the last installment of Community Express, we can now update you with further details on the Trainz promotional initiative. Thanks for the great response to our proposal. With the expressions of interest received it is time to open a new forum area, "Trainz on the Road", for further discussion and to support your efforts in this area. Do you like "Trainz on the Road" as a name for our promotion? Can you think of a better one? Let us know here.

Trainz on the Road

If you are interested in participating in our Trainz on the Road promotion, or even have a few ideas that you would like to contribute please post here.

For starters we would like to hear from anyone interested in participating by demonstrating Trainz at events such as:

• model rail exhibitions
• local club meetings and events
• hobby stores and rail museums
• computer clubs, schools, seniors clubs, etc
• other places where Trainz may have appeal

Please let us know the details of specific events coming up in your area (name of event, location, date, estimated attendance numbers, etc.) by creating a new thread; such as our one for NMRA National Train Show, Fort Lauderdale, July 19-21.

NMRA National Train Show, Fort Lauderdale, July 19-21.

Auran will be demonstrating and promoting Trainz and the new Service Pack 3 upgrade at the National Train Show in Fort Lauderdale. We are looking for keen members of the Trainz community to assist us with the event. Levels of involvement can vary from dropping by to say hello and chatting with stand visitors to actually bringing along your PC and helping us with demonstrating Trainz. If you can make it to Florida please post here and email helpdesk@auran.com.

We are expecting over 20,000 visitors to the show, so the more help we can get the more fun it will be :)

Website in the Spotlight

This week's featured website is Terry Frank's (tafweb) excellent TrainzObjectz. If you're after UK objects to enhance your layouts, from shops and factories to English pubs, Barclays Bank and an Elizabethan Manor house then make sure you visit the site and start downloading. You will also find a few layouts and locos to download as well. A fantastic effort Terry :)

Screenshot of the Week
This week's screenshots feature the high quality creations of landrvr1. If you frequent the screenshotz area of the Trainz forum then you've no doubt seen many of the other great shots contributed by landrvr. This batch are from his latest project: the current cars of the South Shore Line. Stop by the forum and check them out!

Download Station Report

Here's the week's Download Station report:

Currently available from Download Station:
Buildings / Structures	127
Layouts	67
Locomotives	121
Miscellaneous	24
MSTS Addon	2
Road	17
Rolling Stock	246
Textures	8
Track	11
Trackside Accessories	23
Vehicles	15

This Week's New Uploads Include:
Mike10	Wide Viaduct Kit	Track
Mike10	Viaducts for Junctions	Track
Mike10	Bricked-up Viaducts	Track
whitepass	WPY92	Locomotives
ZyryZ	DB 145 BASF	Locomotives
ZyryZ	DB145 Regional Lok	Locomotives
ZyryZ	DB 145 DB CARGO	Locomotives
smcbride15	DART Line	Layouts
tafweb	Beam Bridge Single Track	Track
tafweb	Signal Box 1 - Dorking	Buildings / Structures
tafweb	Gasometers	Buildings / Structures
tafweb	Supermarket - Tesco	Buildings / Structures
tafweb	Suburban Shop 11	Buildings / Structures
tafweb	Suburban Shop 10	Buildings / Structures
John_SB	Freight Australia S 303	Locomotives
majekear	40ft Boxcar No Pacific 1288	Rolling Stock
majekear	4-Bay Hopper CN 371893	Rolling Stock
majekear	Gondola CN 90830	Rolling Stock
majekear	4-Bay Hopper SKPX 635333	Rolling Stock
majekear	4Bay Hopper Alberta 396173	Rolling Stock
Magicland	Panama Limited Car Pack	Rolling Stock
OverlordNZ	OCR Logging Camp Warehouse	Buildings / Structures
louvain	GWR Pannier 54xx	Locomotives
Eurostar	Telegraph Pole Splines Set 1	Trackside Accessories
louvain	GWR 40 ton coal wagon	Rolling Stock
OverlordNZ	OCR Logging Switcher Shed	Buildings / Structures
majekear	50ft Reefer Bookey Packing	Rolling Stock
vulcan	Container Crane	Buildings / Structures
p_hucklebridge	Class 50 - Network South East	Locomotives
Mike10	Brick Arch Bridge	Road
Mike10	Modern Concrete Ravine Bridge	Track
Mike10	Brick Road Viaduct	Road
Mike10	Brick Rail Viaduct	Track
Mike10	Pack of 3 wooden fences	Buildings / Structures
majekear	Hopper 3Bay Wincester&West	Rolling Stock
majekear	50ft Gondola Southern 50757	Rolling Stock
majekear	Hopper 3-Bay SCL L&N 252545	Rolling Stock
majekear	50ft Boxcar Cracker Jack	Rolling Stock
majekear	50ft Boxcar Columbia & Cowlitz	Rolling Stock
Magicland	E-L Phoebe Snow Car Pack	Rolling Stock
whitepass	PPBX reefer	Rolling Stock
whitepass	NYC gon	Rolling Stock
OverlordNZ	50 foot Log Car with Logs	Rolling Stock
Magicland	Illinois Central E8 A-B-B-A	Locomotives
OverlordNZ	55ft Generic Log Wagon - Empty	Rolling Stock
majekear	RinglingBrosBarnumBaileyCar	Rolling Stock
mattoo	Q.R.383	Locomotives
barticket	North America 1	Layouts
vulcan	Container Ship 1.1	Buildings / Structures

The Download Station current hit parade of top five all time downloads are:

1. Sagatukett [Downloaded: 2521]

2. New River Rail [Downloaded: 2312]

3. SAR Passenger Station 2 Tracks [Downloaded: 1577]

4. Rail Ale [Downloaded: 1478]

5. SAR Passenger Station 3 Tracks [Downloaded: 1417]

This Week's Top Five Downloads

1. Container Crane [Downloaded: 402]

2. Brick Arch Bridge [Downloaded: 284]

3. NYC gon [Downloaded: 272]

4. Container Ship 1.1 [Downloaded: 263]

5. North America 1 [Downloaded: 233]

The Current Top 5 Uploaderz are:
1. majekear	103
2. tafweb	47
3. gjvh	41
4. RailroadKing	21
5. tony-meredith	19

The Trainz forum waffle thread of the week "OT, but .... Say ........ did you know" was started by geep and provides some interesting trivia on the infamous hotrod ;)

Community Events

The Halton County Trainz get together, organised by Boco, was held last weekend at the Halton RR Museum. Here's a few photos from the event that Dave sent in.

Featuring, from the left: skybear, thor1, boco, sorry I don't have a nick, and austin316hockey.

Take a look at this forum thread for reports of the day. It sounds like the event was throughly enjoyed by all who attended. Congratulations to Boco and Co for organising the get together.

Finally, don't forget to stop by the new Trainz on the Road forum area and let us know what you think. Where would you like to demo Trainz? Are there any train exhibitons coming up in your corner of the world?

Until next week.....

Cheers,