In many instances, out-of-place error messages, usually for missing files, will cause a highly undesired crash at the wrong time. The game is also notoriously unstable with unusually high tendencies to hang, crash without giving reason, and display error messages incorrectly and/or at the wrong times. There are also issues with the signalling and AI dispatching. For example the “front coupling bug”, where the locomotive’s front coupler would not work, the “white void bug”, where the route scenery disappears, leaving a white void, and the “end-of-the-line bug”, where the locomotive, if it crashes through the last buffers on the route, would fall into an empty void. The original version contained many bugs.
Rolling Stock: The base package contains 9 drivable locomotives and multiple units plus 8 AI trains Users could also create activities for any route, create custom cabviews, or edit the default ones. Included with the game was the Editors & Tools program, which allowed the user to build custom routes.
Microsoft Train Simulator (sometimes referred to as MSTS) is a train simulator for Microsoft Windows, released in July 2001 and developed by UK based Kuju Entertainment.