The NMRA has selected RITMRC.ORG, the official site for the RIT Model Railroad Club, as the Webmaster's Choice for April 2007, featuring selected photos and content, including links to FREE-MO.ORG, on http://www.nmra.org/.

Here's a quick screenshot from the Trainz newsletter. It looks like we're running an ACMU northbound at Scarsdale! Awesome!

From the Trainz News newsletter:
"Trainz Classics is now well underway and while there is not a lot we can tell you, we'll let some images do the talking."

My initial reaction is WOW! There seems to be a lot of accurate detail here, so I'm hoping that Trainz Harlem Line Edition is equally well-done.

An update on the status of Trainz Harlem Line edition, I caught this snippet from an Auran email on a fan forum:

"Our research phase and extensive geographical survey of the Metro North Harlem Line is now complete and the art team is working hard on bringing the data into the Trainz environment."

According to an announcement posted on the official MSTS site:

"Following the successful release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, the Aces Studio is using the same technology to develop a new version of Microsoft Train Simulator. Unrelated to our previous Train Simulator development efforts, this version will be an all-new product built on the Flight Simulator X platform, the culmination of 25 years of product development and technology."

What's exciting here is that it will be built on the Flight Simulator platform. I had recently thought about why they have two different platforms for what is essentially the same sort of 3D simulation. Perhaps this merge will help keep train simulator's development moving along as fast as Flight Simulator's.

According to their newsletter...

"Trainz Classics #1 "Harlem Line Edition"
A prototypical representation of New York's Harlem Line.

Activities will consist of historically accurate commuter and departmental operations typical of those seen from the early 80s to the present day. Each session is designed to reflect the real-life atmosphere of the locality and the services. For the first time in Trainz, we take you there!"

As a rail photographer, I consider myself to be a historian of sorts; I try to capture today so we can all remember it tomorrow. As such, I want to capture as much detail about my subjects as I can. As a purely digital photographer, I want to extract the maximum amount of information from my digital photos. A GPS receiver in my camera would allow me to capture the exact coordinates where all of my photos are taken and record them along with the usual metadata in the photos.

Here's some of the best of my recent work:

• Railroad Museum of New England
  http://www.rmne.org
• RIT Student Music Association
  http://music.rit.edu
• Rochester Chapter NRHS
  http://www.rochnrhs.org
• Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
  http://www.rgvrrm.org
• RIT Model Railroad Club