1. Introduction
Welcome to the Service Pack 2 - Passenger Pack (SP2) update. This update brings a huge amount of new functionality to TRS2004 and gives you, the user, much more freedom to create your own working railroad. With these new features we are expecting lots of new content to be developed and we will be helping to distribute much of this content via our Download Station and the in-game Trainz Exchange. Please check out the Exchange for new Tutorials on how to take advantage of the new Service Pack 2 features.

Our goal with SP2 was to broaden your railroad experience, and we're sure we've achieved this goal. We've added the ability to carry out passenger runs to a timetable, and improved the ease of use in getting sessions up and running (by saving your Driver Orders in Surveyor). We also added a huge amount of flexibility in managing your Drivers through inserting, deleting and moving orders "on the fly" - you now really do get the feeling of operating your very own railroad. The Driver AI has been given a huge boost with better prediction, smoother driving skills, enhanced pathfinding and allowing more trains onto each track segment. And, on a busy railroad when your Drivers are competing for the same track segment or same junction, they now report back to you which junction is causing problems or why they are stopped. (Of course there will still be occasions when you are required to help out to solve any conflicts between Drivers).

There are three important new features that we'd like to take some time to tell you about. Firstly is the portal - think of this asset as an "off map" resource pool that supplies trains to your operations on a regular basis and takes them away when you've finished with them. Using the portal you can deliver a wide variety of freight or passenger trains to your railroad at a frequency of your choosing, and with multiple portals you can program some to generate new consists and others to consume them.

The second asset of importance is the new interactive multi-industry. This industry has a completely new interface that lets you totally customize your industry. You can set up how many products it consumes and produces, the rate of production, even the re-order percentage (i.e. when a waybill is generated to request more goods at a certain location).

The third asset group added for SP2 is of course the Passenger Stations. You can set up stations to generate people at a specific rate, and also decide what percentage of passengers alight at each station. We have created several animated items of rolling stock, plus enabled the other passenger cars to accept "invisible" passengers. These assets will be updated over time and released for download via Trainz Exchange. If you haven't visited Trainz Exchange (you will find a link on your Trainz Launcher Menu) please do so. We will be adding Tutorials and more free content over the coming months. Also please visit our website (www.railroadsimulator.com) for further updates and tutorials and register for our regular newsletter. There will be loads more new maps and SP2 compatible content available for download in the coming weeks and months.