Was/is Bremen - Oldenburg irl also so quiet as in TSW? Today I did a trip from Bremen with the BR425, I only saw one BR363 with some coaches on a siding and at the last station only a BR110 with N-wagen. Around Bremen it is busy, but the route itself feels to quiet, it was around 10 AM, no freight trains, IC, ICE or regional trains.
Today I did two other trips on this route, the first one towards Bremen and I saw one regional passenger train and a few freight trains close to eachother. After this, I drove another trip from Bremen and only saw one regional train leaving my end station. So it looks like there is AI traffic heading towards Oldenburg but almost none towards Bremen. It makes the route feels almost dead, atleast around 9 to 10 AM.
I was driving service there yesterday and seen 3 110 services and a 425. Make sure you don't have any layers off. Also, sometimes the 101 expert timetable has less services fir some reason. Its the same on Pfälzische ludwigsbahn
The layers I have are all on, I'm only not owning Tharandter Rampe and also not the BR101 expert. I did some other trips, now with the BR110 instead of the BR425 and I saw already more AI traffic. It looks like, it's just quiet on the route when driving the BR425 from Bremen, so some gab in the timetable.
Another question about this route, in the article about this route there is the following layer mentioned: DB BR 101 + MRCE BR 182 from Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr and Hamburg-Lübeck. Does this mean you can drive the MRCE BR 182 together with IC coaches on this route? I don't own Hamburg-Lubeck, but would love to drive this combination. https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-sim-world/articles/article/tsw3-master-the-electric
I am not entirely sure what that layer is, honestly, nor why it specifically mentions a locomotive that is part of a DLC instead of the entire DLC as is more usual. That leads me, too, to believe the combination we're meant to see is the actual 182 with IC coaches (because 101+182 would be a bit weird) but after looking I am not sure what that could be ingame. There also doesn't really seem to be a deactivable layer in the menu that corresponds to specifically that combination. The only thing I could find is you can indeed use the 182 on runs that deliver a set of empty cars among which n-, dostos and yes, IC ones....but I am not sure if those are related at all to owning the 182 DLC and may as well be available anyway too. They're among the runs classified as T. ...a nice unrelated hidden bit of lore if you own both the Dispolok and MRCE 182 is you can take the former to be repainted into the latter as they were actually doing during those years, although the pre-and-post units probably don't really match. Each of them will have a specific timetable run for that, also classified as T, and the description will actually tell you.
So you cannot drive the MRCE with IC coaches in timetable mode, like an alternative to the BR101? Those articles only give more confusions then it clears something. Watching youtube footage, this combination was quite common and I don't get why this isn't possible in game. Only on Voralberg you can drive the MRCE + IC coaches and I believe on Tharandter Rampe you can see it as AI. The empty coaches move is also available for the Dispolok, but the Dispolok can't be used for IC runs or regional trains, like they did IRL.
Yeah, honestly I wish there were a feature (if there already isn't, I really don't know!) that's a player-only substitution basically, where you could for example use a BR 182 for IC services everywhere you feel like (kinda how freight locos are already largely interchangeable, sometimes moreso ingame than would be realistic IRL) but won't see the AI doing the same where unrealistic. The locomotive is certainly equipped for it. This way it'll likely appease both people who only wish to see time and place and service accurate stock but also those who wish to experiment a bit without resorting to making your own scenario (which, let's be honest, sucks) or squeezing yourself into a timetable forcibly by spawning trains.
