RCT2 dead? Do you ever checked out New Element Forum?
http://www.nedesigns.com/
Than you see that RC2 and RCt1 with Addons aren't dead.
There are still players out there they play RCT1 and 2.
On this forum, most of us play RCT3, and only a few plays RCT 1 & 2, or creating stuff with it.
The reason why is, that most of the members are way to young for RCT 1 & 2 and haven't the talent to create things with the limitations that RCT 1 & 2 has.
So most things here are build with RCT3, NL1 & 2.
And on youtube are still some players active with the older RCT-Series:
"Damage" mades RCT 1 + Addon Let's Play Series
"RCT2Germany" do different things with RCT2
So the only thing you should do, open your eyes and search around, than you will find people that plays RCT 1 & 2.
And yeah, "NieSch" here is one of them too
BtW, welcome on RCTgo
Lg Cheleste