Internationally, Train Simulator received a 'Silver' sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. At the time, this led Edge to rank it as the country's 54th-best-selling computer game released since January 2000.
These numbers rose to 330,000 copies ($11.6 million) in the United States alone by August 2006.
Train Simulator achieved sold 191,952 units in the United States by the end of 2001, which drew revenues of $8.7 million. Players need to stop and start the train, couple wagons, using the computer mouse, keyboard or a hardware addition such as Raildriver to operate the controls.
The simulation allows players to operate a train on various routes in Europe, Asia, and North America. It sold one million units worldwide by 2005.
Microsoft Train Simulator is a train simulator for Microsoft Windows, released in May 2001 and developed by UK-based Kuju Entertainment.
