Here's a Morristown Service I found today, might be one of my favorites so far. 6431, NY Penn Station - Gladstone in the ALP-46. Plenty of traffic on the NEC Between New York Penn and the interchange (granted, you have all the layers). if you time it just right, you can race an Arrow III down the line section right after jumping onto the Morristown Line, although the Arrow III gets a red light before the draw bridge. you run a semi-express service to Summit, but the traffic does quiet down a bit on the Morristown Line. Spoiler There's a hard red before Portal Bridge, in which you'll sit at quite a bit while you get taken over a couple times
Dresden Leipzig TEE Dresden Hbf to Köln at 09:58 with the DB 103. Rattling the 103 up to 200 kph is a blast! Also, handling the 103 on the gently changing grades is challenging with the slow acceleration and slow wind down of the transformer. You can use the transformer switch on your left to boost the power a bit, but leaving it on too long with blow the transformer. I also loved the satisfying clunk of the MCB as I flipped it off for the neutral section. There is a little PZB action at the start and a routing that surprised me a bit. I encountered some LZB action at the end, but I was running about 4 minutes early.
I am linking a really cool spreadsheet in the lead post of this thread: Train Sim Society has created a spreadsheet for Awesome Weather Runs based on historic weather from the excellent Route Annotation and Live/Historical Weather app by Winzarten : https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...mmunity-log-winzarten-app.95265/#post-1065559 I am looking forward to seeing what people come up with, especially if it involved historic snow on North American routes!
I can't get this one to actually run. If I try it through the menu I end up despoited at a random station. If I hang around Wilmslow at the appropriate time, no train. Odd.
Oh wow, thanks! I'm gonna be adding a bunch of runs from huge US snowstorms that occurred within the past decade pretty soon.
Yeah I have been getting that bug on MAC but if you use fast travel to Wilmslow you can take it over from AI. It's frustrating an old bug from previous routes has come back.
If I remember right that bug is caused by the player being spawned at the same time the service starts instead of a few minutes before. At least that's what I remember Matt saying in a live stream ages ago. Still annoying that it's happening on the 6th literation of the game though!
Rivieira Line: Class 66 6L12 from Riverside Yard to Burngullow. A rare start at Riverside Yard, with yellow signals along the sea wall, and really good AI traffic. Play it in May - and don't forget to set the junction at the beginning!
My all time favorite NA Freight Run: L-SBDHES3-04c Hesperia to Barstow at 11:19 on the original Cajon Pass timetable with the BNSF SD40-2 All the action is at the start on the way to Victorville. Lots of flashing yellows, single yellows, and SPAD potential. I don't know if it affects the run, but I do have the Santa Fe F7. Potentially a GOAT - for NA freight.
I started this, but then I was reminded about the still-unfixed 66 bug with the needles of the brake reservoirs being the wrong way around. I can't deal with how pathetic some of these long-standing bugs are.
Had a really good run from Carlisle to Preston - 1M34 14:33 GLC-EUS, set to 5th December with some light clouds and Snow and just a hint of fog for the distant hills. The lighting was stunning and a nice non stop working straight down to Preston.
South Eastern High Speed. Train: Class 700. Service: 9P27 Luton to Rainham. Ran this in November - superb passing traffic from start to finish (the more layers the better, of course).
