After playing several freight timetables from the great Hamburg Lubeck route, I noticed most of the ones departing Lubeck, do it from the HBF passenger station, when there is a specific freight yard there! So why most of them does not depart from there? Even I made timetables with the BR187 on Koln-Aachen, where there are some yards too, but the train ends on a passenger station, being a freight yard near by? So no big differences with passenger timetables about the path! It is an important route, being one of the 3 core ones of the game, so please change this. At least to have different driving experience.
Most freight on Hamburg-Lübeck runs through Lübeck Hbf towards yards north of it (like Lübeck Skandinavienkai). Köln-Aachen actually has no real freight yard (except for that small one at Stolberg for local industries). Just like on Hamburg-Lübeck, freight trains on SKA run to freight yards outside the map (like Antwerp, Köln Gremberg, Köln Eifeltor and further through Europe) So it is actually realistic that most trains leave the map after a crew change (otherwise we couldn't play freight at all) and that can happen in passenger and freight stations
Thanks Higgybaby for your reply So then most ofl the yards on Koln - Aachen are for passenger trains? That is the part of TSW2 which I will prefer to be "less" realistic. Due to you always goes from the same point A to B, on most timetables. That is boring!. At least DTG might allow us to use those yards on Scenario Planner! Where we can do whatever you want. Frankly speaking, I mostly enjoy the ones I created than any timetable. Some of the Scenarios on the routes are interesting too. But they are just few ones available
As freight trains does not starts on Lübeck, Hbf on real life either, then to start the driving of that kind of trains, I prefers to do it from a different point. One which is more related to that kind of trains, at the corresponding yard near the station. This at least provides different experience of the driving, as it is on a lower terrain, so you will have to go up, to the main line with heavy freight cars.. Most timetables are of passenger trains - which is natural - so at least the freight ones do it form a different one! Just a suggestion on providing more different driving experience. As most route it have more than 100 timetables, but frankly speaking the main difference is the time of the day. Just going from point A to B 100 times, with mostly nothing changing, it has not much sense.
