Shg's Update Of Their Us Content Is Minimal.....

wipe your mouth when you’re done

 

Let's be honest. Does anyone care? Only 4 US routes are worth existing, 2 of them are electrified, which is probably 0.001% of US's massive but horrible railway network.

MBTA Commuter, Boston-Providence, San Bernadino, New York- Trenton

No one wants 6 hours of driving a 3 mile long train at 15 mph that takes 40 minutes for the brakes to release!

It's a shame we don't get some surfliner content.

 

I want P42DC so much
btw, I remember a third party project (through the PC editor) where they were creating the p42dc, I don't know what happened to it...

 

Still a WIP.
https://youtube.com/shorts/cLCW3dbSD3s?si=CFdVqFgzrq1JBOKQ

 

The complaints about lack of historic US content, and requests of US freight routes from well known routes from other sims invalidate this comment.

 

Indeed.
Feather River Canyon, Denver to Granby, North Vancouver to Lillooet (and beyond), Kicking Horse Pass, Fraser River Canyons around Kamloops all send a great big, "Hi".

 

Not many people here care because this game just doesn’t simulate freight operations particularly well at all. You don’t really get to service industries/work locals, switching/shunting often has no purpose, etc. The bulk of the freight services in TSW are just A-B mainline running… no wonder people find it boring. Derail Valley and Run8 are a much more entertaining simulation of freight.

That said, this game is great for timetabled A-B commuter services as well as a few fleshed out commuter networks here and there.

 

Yeah no. "On other sims" exactly, because in this sim freight sucks with some exceptions. And once again, driving at 25mph for 8 hours isn't fun. American passenger is fun, but there are limited passenger services in America because the american railway sucks due to bad political decisions and the fact that a government only lasts 4 years but i won't go into that hole

 

From my observations US players do seem to get short changed in this game and I can understand their annoyance at that.

 

Yet for some reason people keep asking for those routes in TSW, even if US freight operations in TSW arn't good, which AGAIN. Goes against your original statement.

Just because it isn't fun for you DOESN'T MEAN it isn't fun for other people.

 

Sorry, but the USA has the greatest freight rail system in the world, and freight is what counts.

Intercity passenger rail is not economically viable here and has not been since the advent of affordable air travel. The distances are too great and the population density too low to support a European style rail network.

 

I can never understand people who say US freight is boring. Even slow speed limits can take some managing because of inclines and declines which can turn out to be a little game all on its own to keep the speed up and get max score. The scenery can be breathtaking too.
Personally I am not one for rushing from A to B in the quickest possible time. The routes I find the most boring are the fast express type services such as those run by ICE, Azuma, Acela etc. When it comes to passenger I much prefer something like Cardiff City Network, San Bernardino, S Bahn and MildMay for example.
But each to their own and we should all respect other people’s preferences. I respect people who enjoy rushing from one end of the WCMLS to the other in 30 minutes without essentially doing much in the cab, it’s their choice. Likewise with slow US freight.