JB BAHN - Simulation of Railway and Streetcar Networks

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(I took some text from the BAHNTE.TXT file, an English translation of the BAHN short documentation made by Frank Ostrander, USA.)

• BAHN is a program for the simulation of train systems. It's predecessor was made for streetcar nets only, but today you can built railway lines, too.
• If you are interested in Model Railroading, but you don't have a Layout, then BAHN can help. Even of you do have a Layout, it is often useful to model changes before you make them. With this program several hundred kilometers of track and over 1000 trains (simultaneous running) can be modeled on the PC, even in a laptop.
• If you have been disappointed that your city's public transportation system doesn't run often enough, or doesn't run at all, BAHN lets you see how things could be if you were in charge!
• With this program train systems of quite respectable size can be built up and put into motion (eg the metro of London, Paris or New York, the Streetcar systems of Dresden or Leipzig, or of the entire rail system of Saxony).
• You can assemble trains from a rolling stock of more than 14,500 different vehicles in a bright array of colors. There are many types of streetcars available (among others: Gotha, ČKD, Duewag, Konstal, ABB Henschel, Siemens, Alstom). Representing the German railways are a choice of several Locomotives and other rolling stock. Equipment from other railways is available from DB, SBB, ÖBB, SNCB, SNCF, Amtrak and others; including passenger and freight trains from the days Steam to today's fast trains. The (elevated) S-Bahn and (subway/metro) U-Bahn are also represented.
• It is possible to manually operate a train while other trains continue to operate automatically.
• A big advantage of this program over traditional model railroad layouts is its ability to run over 1000 trains simultaneously; all this while you are laying new track! On the other hand one should proceed with caution when influencing the traffic flow. Otherwise interruptions in traffic flow could occur.
• BAHN has been published first in 1993 but there have been some small predecessors since 1985.
• The current version is BAHN 3.89r5 (05/2023).
• BAHN 3.89 requires MS-Windows 32bit (at least Win Vista SP1) or a compatible operating system. There exist no special versions for OS/2, UNIX, Mac.... In the Software museum there are predecessors for DOS and Windows 3.1.
• Currently a complete BAHN is available in English and German only.
• You can download BAHN from some different places, click here for Addresses. Otherwise you can order BAHN on CDROM directly from the Program's author (conditions see Registration / Conditions of use).
• Hardware requirements:
  • CPU Pentium or higher (or compatible)
  • at least 1GB main memory
  • about 400MB free disk space
• The BAHN Standard version is Shareware: After an evaluation period of 92 days you should delete it or you need to Register for the further use. In difference, the Viewer version is Freeware and can be used for free without limitation of time. The installation package contains both versions.
• There is service via E-Mail or letter mail (see Author's address )
• There is no service via phone or fax.
• Sometimes my one-man-company will be closed for some weeks for holidays, sickness or other reasons. Then no service will be available, unfortunately.
• Suggestions that make sense for improvement are welcomed, but see the List of new features (may be your suggestion already has been made) and the FAQ (may be someone else had the same idea). Many ideas may be discussed in the message boards first.

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