As a beginner to tsw2 at its launch, I found learning how to drive and the various controls... bewildering. Many controls and the things needed to know aren't documented. The forums have been a life-saver soo many times in that regard and thanks to everyone's collective knowledge here I'm up and running! That got me thinking... there's a huge amount of know-how here, but hunting for it in the forums is sometimes quite hard work. As TSW documentation is ... quite scant, would the community be interested in setting up a wiki page for tsw and tsw2? It could catalog control schemes, loco info and know-how (braking character, where that darn switch is, and so on), routes with maps, how those routes might relate to one another geographically, interesting scenario ideas people have put together that other folk might want to give a try, and so on. If such a project were possible, I would imagine it would take the place of a manual, and its quality could only be top-notch because it would be community driven; by people who might know a thing or two about coming to this simulator as an outsider and and as an end-user. I've only ever been a user of wikis before now, so if there was interest I don't have the know-how to get started, but I'd be keen to be a part of such a project. I know other games (Minecraft and so on) have built amazing wikis full of everything one could possibly ever need to know, all cross referenced and indexed, and perhaps most importantly easily update-able, and even more importantly: the community did it.
It is a little basic, but Routes Diagrams are very useful EDIT DTG decided to hide it a bit and replace it with a short TSW2 brochure, but it is: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-sim-world/articles/article/tsw-help I consider your idea to be very good - a lot of work