It's been a steller week for the first entries submitted for the screenshot contest! This entry is for Doc Beeching...

The winner will receive the original water color painting of the Empire State Express used to create the collectible postcards found in American Classics Train Sim Pack.

We're still accepting more entries!

Do you think you got the eye for taking screenshots? Jump over to the Gallery to find out how you can enter!

The Train Artisan GS4 4449 is progressing well! We're starting to paint out the whole set from the highly recognizable Southern Pacific livery to the Patriotic American Freedom Train to the sleek and shiny BNSF.

Doyle McCormack and the Friends of the 4449 have been a great help to us! They've been supplying lots of great high resolution pictures of the actual 4449 from any angle that we require for both reference and textures for the model.

The cab has also been started...... and we have some great surprises there! We're working hard to make this something special with the help of Doyle and the Friends of the 4449!

That's right! Conn McCarthy's excellent USRA Light Mountain is getting updated!

We're going to add our famous custom Steam cab and sounds to the Mountain download. We're also making the cab set-up easier so you can alias the steam cab to any other locomotive that you have in your Train-sim Roundhouse.

We're going through the testing phase this week and we should have it ready for download under the FREE section in another week

Keep an eye out!

Here's the latest offering from Train Artisan - Atlantic Coast Line's "The Champion"!

Very colorful and Purple!

We're going through testing now and should have this great trainset ready for Club TA members in a week!

Last week, Verne got everybody started with the basics.

Now we're on to some practical techniques that you can use to make your models look great! Learn about light and shadow and how you can add depth to your loco's paint job!

Club TA members, come in and learn more!

We've got a new download section in Club TA! It's a section especially for members who want to repaint the Club TA trains and share them with other members. Our first contributor is Rick Lamp and his colorful B&O E7!

Club TA members, come on in and grab your's today!

To kick-off the new screenshot gallery, we're announcing the start of a new screenshot contest.

The BIG prize - An original Watercolor painted by VR Horton! This is the original artwork used to create one of the postcards in the American Classics Train Sim Pack.

VR Horton is a classically trained artists who has a 40+ year career as a commercial artist and illustrator as well as being a fine artist specializing in watercolor renderings of railroads of the 20's thru the 60's.

His artwork is in the hands of such collectors as: Union Pacific Railroad, State of Nevada, Nevada Governor's Mansion, and private collections in the US and abroad.

This is a highly valuable piece of artwork painted on archive quality acid-free cold press 300lb paper stock, ready for framing. The size - 17"x10.5". No telling what this artwork maybe worth in the future...

Wanna enter the screenshot contest, go to the Gallery for more info!

A new addition to our on-going famous trainsets - the colorful Illinois Central's "City of New Orleans". You'll get the powerful E7A and B along with a 6 passenger car set, custom cab, and passenger view with animated people to enjoy the ride with!

Club TA members, Come-on in and get your free IC trainset! Hey, you might as well get the whole Zephyr trainset as well while your at it!

Things are really cooking now! We've been fortunate to be able to develop strong relationships with the groups responsible for restoring and running these great and famous locomotives!

The results...the most accurate and realistic steam locomotives that we can make for MSTS. We're getting access to all parts of the locomotives.

Currently, we're working on the custom cabs of both steam locomotives. You'll get to feel what it's like to run one of these beauties by yourself - It's an experience that not many people get to have upfront and personal, but we'll be doing our best to bring this realistic experience to you. We've got all of the sound, custom captured for us by these restoration groups. All of us are very interested in bringing to you the excitement and experience that only a few can experience - what its like to run the 4449 or the 1522 from inside the cab!

As you can see, the 1522 Frisco is coming along great! Conn did an excellent job in modeling and Verne is just putting on the finishing touches of paint!

For the 4449, Doyle McCormack and the Friends of the 4449 Inc have gone out of their way to generously provided us with our own 360 degree views of inside the 4449 cab in QuickTime VR format! What this allows us to do is look around the 4449 cab, then capture the pictures and views that we'll need to create the cab view and textures for MSTS. We have full 360 degree views of both the engineer's and fireman's sides in high resolution! You people are going to be in for a real treat! Stay tuned next week as we unveil more progress on the 4449 model....

Keep checking back at www.trainartisan for more progress news on these great locos!

Our own VR Horton will show you his tips and tricks for painting high quality locomotives and rolling stock. This is an on-going series to help you learn the basics as well as how to improve your own skins!

The first in the series addresses The Basic Set-up and is a great introduction to skinning....

It's all here in Club TA

Our own news hound, Chris Lee, has been scouring the web for the latest news from around the web concerning the fantastic hobby of Train simming...

Here's some headlines:

Want more info? Click here!

Wanna purchase American Classics Train-sim pack in the USA, but you don't have access to a credit card?

Well, we've talked to Flight1 and now they'll accept payment by personal check or money order! Click here for the order form

For more info send email to sales@flight1.com

There will soon be a new webpage at Flight1 to place non-credit card orders..

We're also talking with Just Flights about alternative payment methods for those of you ordering from outside the US....we'll have news for you soon!

The New forums on Train Artisan have been heralded as a great improvement!

There's a nice buzz of activity there....check out what we and others have to say about MSTS 2 as well as other topics....

You'll never know what new info you'll pick up on in the Forums!.....

Are you looking for Train Artisan trains because they've been lost due to a Hard Drive crash or other misfortune...well check out the products page.

It's our Catalog and roadmap to where you can get any one of our trains..

We've got a quick update now......

Wanna get American Classics Train Sim Pack at a 25% discount in the USA?!

Well, we've finalized an agreement with Flight1 to allow our verified donators and members, both past and present, to get a special 25% discount towards the on-line purchase of American Classics from the Flight1 website.

If you are a verified donator or member from the past or present, go to either the Batcave or the Club TA section for more information about getting the discount! There, you will also find information about discounts if you are ordering from outside the US through Just Trains.

Get ready for next week! We'll be having a BIG update next week...lots of news and info....be sure to check back!!!

We have our first add-on for our add-on!

We've made a new passenger set view add-on that includes more sets of people that also animate! You'll see the bartender wiping the counter while a couple in the back of the observation car take in the sites. Looks around and you might see a newspaper with headlines and news from the 40's.

It's a little something extra to add to your adventure when riding in the trains of American Classics.

Instructions for how to get your hands on these are included in the manual of the product!

Be on the look out for more extras from Train Artisan that you can add to the American Classics pack.

Yeah, that's right! We've moved away from the old ezboard into a new home for our forums. Our new forums are hosted by Loco1.com. These forums are a great improvement - not only do we not have any pop-up ads, but it is also very fast and moderated by Train Artisan.

If you want a place to relax, get away from it all, and have a chance to talk to some great people who really just enjoy talking about trains, then come on into the Forums!

We've had this under wraps for a while too! You're looking at the marvelous modeling of Train Artisan's own Conn McCarthy and the painting talent of VR Horton.

We've been working with Don Wirth and the St. Louis Steam Train Association to bring this famous surviving steam locomotive to life in MSTS.

We really enjoy forming relationships with the major steam restoration groups - not only do we get to talk to the people responsible, we also get full access to the locomotive so we can get as much accurate reference as we can.

It'll come with a new custom cab built from scratch the Train Artisan way - we're also including new real sound effects to heighten your experience running this loco.

Look for more news in the coming weeks for availability!

Welcome to the NEW Train Artisan Website!

We've added some great new features and sections that everybody can explore. Find out about who we are in the about section. Browse through our new gallery and see how others have been having fun with our trains.

Looking for a particular locomotive or trainset, then scan our product page and find out how you can get a hold of your favorite trainset.

Interested in other related websites? Jump through our links page and discover more about trains and train-simming.

Hey!, Want some freebies? Grab ahold of some great locomotives and rolling stock out of our free section.

We've also created an "Appreciation" bonus section for those people who donate to the many charities that we support or who have purchased our product, American Classics for MSTS.

Regardless of your interests, Come on in and have a look around!

American Classics MSTS add-on available in Europe on April 25th and in the USA on the first week in May.

We are proud to announce that Doyle McCormack and the Friends of the 4449 Inc, will be working together with Train Artisan to bring the famous 4449 GS4 Locomotive to Microsoft Train Simulator.

Not only will Mr. McCormack and his organization provide exclusive reference material, they will also endorse Train Artisan's efforts in re-creating the 4449 for MSTS. "We stand behind Train Artisan and we think they'll do a great job in making the 4449 come alive on the computer for everyone to run.. It'll be nice to see the 4449 in all her glory on a train simulator that you can run.", stated Doyle McCormack, the man responsible for the restoration of the 4449.

"With the help of Mr. McCormack and the Friends of the 4449, we hope to do our greatest work yet. This relationship will really allow us to re-create the 4449 with the utmost accuracy and quality - this is going to be some exciting add-on!", stated Cyrus Lum, founder, Train Artisan.

Look for more news about the 4449's progress in coming weeks....

That's right! The Train Artisan crew has done it again! It's a whole "Zephyr" pack! Here's what's included:

CB&Q F3a and b units

WP F3a and b units

DR&G F7a and b units

California Zephyr passenger car set includes a 7 piece car set with the sky dome observation car and a passenger view from the top!

Locomotives come with TrainArtisan's 3D animated cabview, animated windshield wipers and fans.

All of this with high Quality textures by VR Horton. Realistic custom sounds by Rob Easterday and prototypical physics/eng file courtesy of Chris Lee

We are proud to offer this unique trainset to our special guests in our new appreciation/bonus section!

This weeks news centers around some hot topics for both Train Simulator and Trainz.

Train Simulator message boards have been ablaze with wonderful comments about Kicking Horse Pass, check out what all of the excitement's about!.

News also includes the low-down about North American locomotive works new site and Narrow gauge doings.

This weeks Trainz news centers around its first collection pack and the new competition.

Wanna know more? Check out the full Hot Topics News....

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