What are the differences between Train Director and Train Dispatcher?
Train Director is free. You can even download its sources, so that you can extend its capabilities. Train Director is available for Windows and Linux/Unix. It is possible to port the program to other operating systems — and if you tell me I’ll made the binaries available on this site. The file formats used by the two programs to store the layouts are different. Train Director does not support the visualization of Windows bitmaps, but it can load pixmaps, i.e. images defined by text files. A train travels in terms of meters, while in Train Dispatcher trains travel in terms of line blocks.
