On behalf of Engine Driver (Railsimulator.Com), ASN would like to bring you this interesting true story about the Southern Pacific’s snowbound train The City of San Francisco on the Donner Pass in 1952. Intense winter storms and record snowfalls are commonplace on Donner Pass, Southern Pacific’s route through the Sierras. Since its discovery in 1844,...

Alstom has received an order for five additional metro trainsets from the municipality of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The order, worth around €42 million, is an option of the contract signed in 2010, which included 23 Metropolis for the metro network of the Dutch capital. The additional metro trainsets will be delivered to Amsterdam during the second half of...

AnsaldoBreda apologize to the Netherlands and Belgium for the Fyra problems. We are committed to the utmost to solve this unexpected situation. The problems, occurred in the last days on trains V250, were caused by unexpected problems that, after the first technical tests, seem to be related to an undue accumulation, under the vehicles, of a big quantity of...

China has crossed another milestone in its high-speed railway network development, with the inauguration of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway line in December 2012. The Beijing-Guangzhou railway line is the world’s longest high-speed railway line, as of December 2012. It stretches 2,298km (1,425 miles) in length and can accommodate trains travelling...

The new Alstom trams will travel on a line linking Lyon’s Saint-Paul Station to Brignais. This event will happen two months after the inauguration of the first Citadis Dualis tramway route in Western Lyon, linking Saint-Paul train station to Saint-Bel. Citadis Dualis contributes in boosting the economy of France’s regions, for it is designed and assembled in...