PC Tsw Historic Weather Explorer & Community Log (winzarten App)

Hey all,
I’ve put together a community spreadsheet to collect and organize all of our interesting historic weather runs in TSW. Share any runs you personally enjoyed that really stood out with Winzarten’s Live/Historic Weather tool (ex: unique or extreme conditions like suddenly shifting weather patterns, challenging driving conditions, or unusual lighting that made that particular run feel special).

• Region(s) - pre-set list for all currently announced TSW regions (multiple choice for routes with territory overlap & color-coded for easy recognition)
• Route, Service Name/ID, & Loco/Train - to make each run/service easy to find
• Historic Weather Date & Start Time - use the route’s local time, not UTC
• Weather Summary - a short description of what made the weather unique or memorable (optional if you’d rather keep it a surprise)
  
• Weather Acceleration Speed - note your chosen speed; default is 1x (blank assumes default value)

• Difficulty - Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme, or Mystery (blank assumes mystery)
• Submitted By - optional if you’d like to include your username!

Due to some entries being deleted or altered by other users, new submissions will be locked after they are added. If you need to update the details of your entry, please reply in this thread or contact me via PM.


Attribution
This project is inspired by JustWentSouth’s “Awesome TSW Service Mode Runs” thread with additional credit to the other folks mentioned in the OP there.

Winzarten’s Route Annotations and Live/Historic Weather App can be found on Train Sim Community, GitLab, and DTG Forums. You can support Winzarten here. Full credit to everyone Involved in these projects for their creativity & hard work supporting the TSW community!

Cheers,
Matt

 

I've added a run I've discovered yesterday, and will most likely use for snow progression tuning...
Semmeringbahn, with no snow at Wiener Neustadt, but with almost 30cm at Semmering, mostly clear weather, at sunset. A nice scenic run through the alps

 

Update: Due to some entries being deleted or altered by other users, new submissions will be locked after they are added. If you need to update the details of your entry, please reply in this thread or contact me via PM. If you don't want to add new entries yourself, you may submit them as a post reply, and I'll add them manually.

 

Okay I've got one. But I don't think I can add it, as its not a service.

You have to spawn on foot on the Cajon Pass at San Bernardino Yard and then place a train.

What I did was, place a C40-8W. (I used the one that's 1.9km in length)
Spawn in on December 26th at about 2.45PM and be ready to drive at 3pm.

I've set my destination to Barstow East Departures, this will give you a 58 Mile run.

If you set the annotations app to historical weather with the year at 2019, you'll start your run at about 10 degrees celsius,
with about 50% cloud cover.

Enjoy the scenery in nice and sunny weather, but don't get used to it
After about an hours drive, it will start to rain, slowly at first, but increasing in intensity.

As you continue to climb it will get colder, and the rain will turn to snow at some point.
After about 15 minutes or so, you'll be enjoying a merry snowy Christmas. Or so you think at that point

The higher you'll get, the lower the visibility gets, did I mention there was a snow storm that day?
Once you get to Summit, and you start your descent the visibility drops to 300 feet and even less at some point!
Depending on your bravery with your speed down the mountain, your day will look more like a scary Christmas

Eventually, once you descent far enough, visibility improves, and you'll be driving in a rainy evening.

I was cautious during the descent, so it took me nearly 4 hours to get to Barstow.

 

That actually looks like a ton of fun, especially with the added challenge of managing speed down grades! I’ll add that one for you tonight!

 

Didn't think about this when I drove it, but visibility might be better if you set the headlights to dimmed. (Less reflection)