FreeRails is worth to be rescued

While collecting information about open source games and storing these in a Github repository, I stumbled on the FreeRails project. It was thought as a railroad simulation/strategy game based on the RailRoad Tycoon and RailRoad Tycoon II games. It was written in Java and main development took place between the years 2000 and 2005 with this Sourceforge project and some side and continuation projects. The game was in an intermediate stage, far from completed but already much more than just a tech demo. I wrote a small article about the history of FreeRails so far.

One major drawback was that the original FreeRails project used CVS as versioning system, which is now very much outdated. I decided to import the project (and some of its history) to Github and Git. Since 15th of December 2017 there is a Github page for FreeRails. There was already another import by lukeyj13, one of the original developers, but I preserved more of the history (all of the releases I could find on Sourceforge and the final CVS state and the Railz sister project).

I hope that this will facilitate further development. It would be nice if development of FreeRails could continue with the help of modern development systems like Git, Gradle, IntelliJ code inspections and others.