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Today it is open to train enthusiasts to indulge their love of railways.               But to survive it needs an update...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN\u003cbr/\u003e              Germany's first train simulator, trained thousands of drivers from 1969 to 1995. \u003cbr/\u003e              Today it is open to train enthusiasts to indulge their love of railways. \u003cbr/\u003e              But to survive it needs an update and volunteers hope to raise funds to keep it safe for the future.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE\u003cbr/\u003e              This large metal box  is a piece of German railway history.\u003cbr/\u003e              Fitted out like the cockpit in an old German train and hung from a metal construction, it was Germany's first train simulator, used to test train drivers in scenarios such as a faulty brake or a loss of electricity.\u003cbr/\u003e              The system is based on a train simulator in the UK. East German railway officials visited London in the mid 1960s and came back with the idea to build their own simulator to train drivers of the diesel-trains used at the time. \u003cbr/\u003e              In 1988 it was moved to East Berlin where it was used to train the drivers of the city's commuter train service, the S-Bahn.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It is really amazing that they had the technology back then to build something like this, with films rather than with 3D graphics that simulators use today,\" says Tobias Hirsch, one of the volunteers that is now working to maintain the simulator.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And I think it is great that this technology from 1969 still works today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              In 1995, as the city was updating its trains, the simulator was finally taken out of service, and would have been deconstructed and thrown away if it wasn't for the final technician that worked with the simulator.\u003cbr/\u003e              Lutz Tannigel, a teacher at the school for train drivers, had became the main person in charge of the simulator just the year before.\u003cbr/\u003e              But he could not see the system being simply discarded. There was just too much history to throw it away.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This was a huge innovation back then in the 1960s. That you could use a simulator in the training of train drivers, that was indeed very advanced,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003e              Since then he and a group of volunteers have maintained a small museum in the industrial hall where the simulators stands.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It has quite a historical importance. It was the first simulator that the Deutsche Bahn (German train operator) had. And we still have it and it still works so it is absolutely imperative to maintain it for the future,\" says Tannigel.\u003cbr/\u003e              A few hundred people visit every year. Entry is free but the volunteers ask for a donation for the upkeep of the system.\u003cbr/\u003e              But, it is not enough money to preserve the system for the future.\u003cbr/\u003e              The whole simulator is running on an old Commodore Amiga 3000 computer.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The computer is 27 years old,\" says Tannigel\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It could break any day. We have to get new hardware and a software that works for the system. We have to get that and it costs quite a lot of money and that's why we are starting now a fundraising campaign and advertising and we hope that a lot of people want to support us.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              In addition to the computer, the volunteers need new software and will need to convert the videos that are now held on large data disks to a digital format.\u003cbr/\u003e              In total they are hoping to raise 10,000 Euros (11857.54 US Dollars)\u003cbr/\u003e              Linus Leissner and Tobias Hirsch are both studying to become train drivers themselves, and that's how they came in contact with Tannigel and the museum.\u003cbr/\u003e              They now spend most of their afternoons with the simulator.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I really like working here. It is a lot of fun but at the same time I think it is really important to preserve the S-Bahn (Berlin train system) history for the future,\" says Leissner.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I simply think it is great to do something that is fun but at the same time help preserve this. It is simply great,\" says Hirsch.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Berlin, Germany - 27 March 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Linus Leissner (left) and Tobias Hirsch (right) in the historical train simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Close of screen showing video from the 1990s of train going through Berlin \u003cbr/\u003e              3. Close of dials \u003cbr/\u003e              4. Close of hand on brake \u003cbr/\u003e              5. Wide of Leissner and Hirsch \u003cbr/\u003e              6. Exterior of simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              7. Tilt down of simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              8. Low shot of simulator moving \u003cbr/\u003e              9. Leissner, pretending to be controller/ trainer announcing over radio that Hirsch as the driver can drive \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Hirsch driving simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              11. Close of brake button \u003cbr/\u003e              12. Close of brake pressure dial \u003cbr/\u003e              13. Hirsch announcing the next station \u003cbr/\u003e              14. Close of Hirsch's hand on accelerator \u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE: (German) Tobias Hirsch, volunteer \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The simulator was built in 1969 in the GDR. It was the first simulator of its kind in East Germany and as far as I know there was also nothing like it at the rail service in West Germany. So, the first in Germany. It is really amazing that they had the technology back then to build something like this, with films rather than with 3D graphics which simulators use today. And I think it is great that this technology from 1969 still works today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various exterior of simulator\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Lutz Tannigel walking up to computer and taking out data disk containing simulations\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Close of data disk, Tannigel puts the disk in the computer \u003cbr/\u003e              19. Close of data disk\u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lutz Tannigel, volunteer and previously a trainer at the simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              \"This was a huge innovation back then in the 1960s. That you could use a simulator in the training of train drivers, that was indeed very advanced.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various exteriors of train simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lutz Tannigel, volunteer and previously a trainer at the simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It has quite a historical importance. It was the first simulator that the Deutsche Bahn (German Train operator) had. And we still have it and it still works so it is absolutely imperative to maintain it for the future.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Various of computers operating the simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              24. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lutz Tannigel, volunteer and previously a trainer at the simulator \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The computer is 27 years old. It could break any day. We have to get new hardware and a software that works for the system. We have to get that and it costs quite a lot of money and that's why we are starting now a fundraising campaign and advertising and we hope that a lot of people want to support us.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              25. Low shot of simulator moving\u003cbr/\u003e              26. Leissner and Hirsch in simulator\u003cbr/\u003e              27. Close of dials\u003cbr/\u003e              28. Tilt from control panel to screen\u003cbr/\u003e              29. Hirsch making announcement\u003cbr/\u003e              30. SOUNDBITE: (German) Linus Leissner, volunteer \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I really like working here. It is a lot of fun but at the same time I think it is really important to preserve the S-Bahn (Berlin train system) history for the future.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              31. SOUNDBITE: (German) Tobias Hirsch, volunteer \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I simply think it is great to do something that is fun but at the same time help preserve this. It is simply great.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              32. Leissner making announcement, pan from Leissner to Hirsch\u003cbr/\u003e              33. Close of hand on accelerator\u003cbr/\u003e              34. 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