Bruce Kelly Wrote:
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> There are certainly plenty of add-on routes out
> there, some great, some not so great. I haven't
> allowed myself to be sucked into hours of activity
> building in quite a while, but my 13-year old son
> hacks into activity and route building all the
> time. He's figured out most of it on his own, and
> a little bit from places like train-sim.com. One
> of his latest projects was to build the Klamath
> Northern line to Gilchrist on the Maple Leaf
> Tracks Oregon Cascades route. I brought him
> satellite and ground-level photos of the mill
> complex and its track arrangement, and he went
> from there.


Bruce... what was the beginning of getting your 13 year old wanting to build new routes? My 13-year-old was addicted to MSTS-1 for about a year, and as I bought add ons, he stayed interested, but now he just doesn't care about it anymore? He was psyched about MSTS-2, and is now disappointed. But his interest in the older program is gone.

Building a new route seems to me a terrific educational tool too.