Best train sim out there
Sun Mar 10 2019 Dproctor123Blows every other simulator out of the water. Looks really nice on the IPhone XS and I love that the missions actually give you purpose in operating the trains. Very realistic controls with electrobrakes and airbrakes. Very well-polished interface as well. Love all the different trains (although there could be more) and the fact that you need to compete missions to earn money to buy them.
Missing one star because I think the camera feature needs to be proved. First, allow zooming from inside the cab! On a small phone screen sometimes would like to zoom in on the beautiful scenery. Second, allow a further zoom out when outside the train. Would love to be able to take in a view of a whole train within the highly detailed environment.
Hope the devs continue development of this particular app because they are really into something here!
This game is amazing! But...
Sat Nov 04 2017 Accuraa FokstrotThe game is great. The controls are simple and somewhat realistic. The graphics are good for a phone and it’s fun to play. But there’s an issue and I’m not sure if it’s intended or not. But it’s the fact that I have an issue where the game says I failed to use my horn at a grade crossing even though I did. I even sounded my horn before the game was telling me I should and I still get the fine. And it’s constant too. I can’t sound my horn to stop it and it gets really annoying really fast. If you could please fix that, it would be greatly appreciated. Also, it would be cool if you added more cars like auto racks or flatbeds specifically made for trailers. It would also be cool if you added SD type locomotives and be able to switch the orientation around so there could be locomotives that are facing backwards. Heck, you could have it so you could have an end of train locomotive or be able to edit the color of it as well. I could go on and on for suggestions for this game. But the fine thing, I’d love for it to be fixed. Either it’s a bug or I missed something in the mini tutorial. If you do take my suggestions, I thank you a lot.
Bug Report – Grade Crossing Horn Issue in Train Pro 2018
Thu May 22 2025 JellyJam91First off, thank you for creating Train Pro 2018. It’s still one of the most enjoyable train sims available on iOS, and I really appreciate the effort you put into making it realistic and engaging.
I wanted to report a bug that still affects gameplay, especially for those of us who enjoy longer trains. The issue happens when pulling a consist with 31 railcars or more. If you go slowly over a grade crossing, the game gives a citation for not using the horn, even if the horn was sounded correctly when the locomotives first approached the crossing. This seems to occur when the last railcar is going over the crossing, almost like the game expects the horn to be blown again at the end of the train.
It's a small bug, but it impacts the realism and penalizes players unfairly for following the rules properly. If there’s any chance this could be patched in a small update, I’m sure many fans, myself included, would really appreciate it.
Thank you again for your work and for continuing to support simulation fans over the years!
Best regards, JellyJam91
Great but could be better
Wed Nov 10 2021 FreeldogI love the way you have to earn your stuff on here by completing missions for money. Makes the game very fun.
Please update to have more train models and expand the map more west. This game has so much potential if you was to add the west coast us and connect it to what is already in the game, it would make this game so much cooler. Plus adding a few newer train locomotive types would be cool as well. For example, taking an Amtrak type locomotive passenger train from New York to LA or Chicago to LA would be an interesting mission on the game. That and delivering freight coast to coast would be fun as well and imagine the different scenery’s you could add if you included the desert and Rocky Mountains. Just the thought of it makes me excited.
Please update this game!!! The ability to choose the colors of your locomotives would be a neat feature as well and maybe a logo… I’m just throwing ideas out there but please consider that coast to coast map at least… that would make it so much more fun.
Brilliant!
Mon Nov 06 2017 B199|\|473D099TRAINZ finally has competition. Once you get into proactive rather than reactive gameplay and understand the relationship between hard braking and brake damage & comfort and also over speeding and engine damage it is a great game model. All I can say is more, more, more. Trains, cargo, cities. The ability to sell your old trains off would be nice even at a lower price. Complete control of consist layout, engines wherever you want them front, mid, end. Ability to zoom out more. Environment change with state, desert, mountain, etc. Along with appropriate weather. And more lighting effects on trains not just engines either and on buildings and at stops, street lights, cars etc. Change paint color so cars match engines at least for passenger? This might be a bit much but an interactive train yard here and there to perform shunting missions and load unload freight? That would be fricken awesome! Well done Mageeks, well done. So when does the ship sim come out? (Wink, wink)
Could be better!
Tue Jan 02 2018 Dillian_foster1This game is a great game but It would be a whole lot better if there weren’t as many speed zones throughout the game. It gets really annoying to have to start and stop every five minutes because you have a 45mph zone and a 30mph zone coming up every five minutes. Another bad thing about this game is the comfort level of you passengers which decides how much money you make after each mission. That’s all good but even when you are going the speed limit coming into a station and you have to stop to unload you passengers your comfort level drops which is ridiculous because how can you unload your passengers if you don’t stop? Yes I understand that if you stop to quick this would be a problem but we’re talking about stopping slowly and it still hurts your comfort level. I’ll give this game two stars only because the rules are horrible. Engines cost way to much and get damaged too easily. This game could be wonderful and fun but it’s not because of the rules of the game.
Accurate simulator....great
Mon Dec 31 2018 panna-26Very accurate & fun....hats off to the developers of this sim. Had it for a year now and its still fun. Great graphics and realistic overall. Endless possibilities of train types and consist. For the price its a bargain! You can make the trains as long as you like.
A few changes i would make: (1) the tracks go through some hilly landscape that is too steep to be realistic even for a car, let alone a train. (2) long trains get the famous “horn failure” alert along with paying the penalty - telling you the sim does not recognize long trains at grade crossings. (3) Night time running is boring since you cannot see much except 50 ft in front of you.
Rainy weather ditto. No its not a perfect sim, But overall its alot of fun if you really like trains.
Scam 💰
Mon Dec 16 2024 Lego ModeCOMPLETE SCAM. This is a very cheap and useless game and is not worth the price at all. Don’t fall for the pictures and videos, they are just false advertisements. First of all, you cannot even let you change the weather you drive in. Secondly, the game doesn’t let you choose your starting location on the map. Thirdly, the graphics are pretty trash. I don’t expect the graphics to be anything crazy good as this is just for phones and tablets but it doesn’t match the photos on the App Store. And lastly, the stupidest part, it has a RIDICULOUS in-game currency that takes you forever to earn and for just ONE Amtrak locomotive, it is 610 diamonds 💎!! WE ARE ALREADY PAYING GOOD MONEY FOR THIS GAME and you STILL have to collect and earn stupid coins and diamonds to get locomotives and train cars and do missions! Absolutely insane. This is a complete scam and waste of your money. Don’t learn the hard way and the make the mistake I did! There are so many better Train Sims to choose from. Some are free too!
Obvious cash grab, requesting refund
Mon Nov 20 2017 Edubsled“You must stop for emergency repairs, pay 4000 gold.” You need fuel? Give us gold. You should really upgrade the durability of your engine so it doesn’t break down every 10 minutes, spend some gold sucker. This GAME is built around IAPs, gems and gold and stupid upgrades only added in to milk your wallets. There isn’t a route map of any kind, which makes changing switches totally pointless yet the game allows you to change them. The screen shots in the App Store are not true to the game you will end up downloading. There are only 2 camera options, cab view and a close up aerial view, definitely NOT a distant aerial view like what is shown the screen shots. Why do no oncoming trains have their lights on? Why do all trains in this app pull exactly three cars? This game does absolutely nothing original and there are better train based sim/games on the App Store. The PRO in the title must refer to professional IAP implementation because there is nothing pro about the gameplay.
Really Good
Sun Oct 29 2017 Shay twilightThis is a huge step forward for IOS train simulators. Graphics are really great. Game concept is really good and well thought out. Most previous train sims for IOS have been garbage. You may have to spend some additional money to do the things you want, particularly at the beginning, but that is a common format for a lot of other good sim games; World of Tanks, etc. After 1st run, I had it figured out and have very few penalty points. BTW...to another commenter; all end cities have balloon tracks to turn your train around, so you don’t have to run backward. Great job on this!
