Rules: - Screenshot should be in some way (can be very tenuous) linked to the theme. Otherwise anything goes. - You can enter up to 3 screenshots, posted as separate posts. You can delete and replace if you wish. - 3rd party content / Reshades / Reskins etc. are welcomed but are not mandatory. - Previous week's winner to decide winner (can't enter themselves). - The winner chooses the new theme for next week (and becomes the new judge). Entries will close at 5:00 PM PST on Friday, April 8th and will be judged by me - Buynot In the event of this weeks winner not responding by 5 PM Sunday, April 10th a new thread will be created using the theme with the highest votes in this weeks poll. This weeks theme will be: "Railroad Rivalries"
A Union Pacific freight train and a BNSF freight train are having a race to see who can reach the summit of the Cajon Pass first! (The BNSF freight train can be seen in the distance) Locos: GE ES44AC, EMD SD70ACe Route: Cajon Pass
These two Santa Fe freight trains are having a race through the desert of the Arizona Divide. Locos: GE Dash 8-40BW, EMD SD40-2 Route: Arizona Divide: Winslow - Williams
The British Rail Class 43 HST vs the British Rail Class 321 on the East Coast Main Line! Locos: British Rail Class 43 HST, British Rail Class 321 Route: East Coast Main Line London-Peterborough
Great Northern & LNER competing for passengers at London King's Cross. Locos:- LNER 801, Great Northern 387, Great Northern Ex - Gatwick Express 387 Route:- ECML London - Leeds - York
An EWS freight train is held in the loop to allow the RFD mail train to pass by. Locos:- EWS Class 56, Railfreight Distribution Class 90
A trio of 66s. DB Schenker 66 041 with a rake of empty JHA wagons & GBRF 66 755 with a Network Rail engineering train cross under the watchful eye of Freightliner 66 549. Loco:- AP Class 66 Route:- JT Midland Mainline
In the great rivalry of freight over Passenger, freight is yet to win. LNER Class 91, EWSClass 66 on the ECML Peterborough - York
Although the rivalry over freight versus Passenger traffic does have it's moments. EWS 67 021 rescues an East Coast Class 91 service and completes the journey to London Kings Cross.
Alright, the deadline for submissions has come and gone, which means its time for me to decide the winners! In third place, we have Blazin, with their shot from Cajon Pass. In second, there's cscarpenter with a shot of a Class 56 and a Class 90. And finally, the winner for this week is joerg.kuenscher with a fantastic shot from Horseshoe curve! Side note: I really like the use of updated foliage around the route. Did you do that yourself or is there an updated HSC out there for download? Thanks to those of you that participated this week. Amazing entries from everybody as usual. I look forward to seeing what next week's theme will be!
Although not many screenshots were submitted, there were brilliant submissions this week, thank you for 3rd place and congratulations to cscarpenter for 2nd and joerg.kuenscher for 1st.
Wow, thank you so much for 1st place this week and of course congratulations to the others. Regarding your question Buynot . I change or add the vegetation myself. I do some of it with RW tools, and then it's a case of walking or driving along the route and doing it step by step. Most of the vegetation I take from Thomsen's Bernina Pass Route and a lot from Radiomaster, his vegetation is freeware.... It's a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun for me. So, and now it continues, the theme this time is "By the water", have fun. https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/unofficial-screenshot-contest-2022-week-14.53739/ One more question, how can I copy or paste the upper part, see screen, of the competition?
To make a poll like that what you have to do is go to the top of your thread and you should see a "Thread Tools" option, hover over it with your mouse and a dropdown menu will appear, now what you have to do is press the "Add Poll" button. Then you just write the question, write in the option boxes or add more option boxes if you want as well as selecting some extra options if you want to turn them on or off. Then just click on "Save Changes" and your poll will be created.
Just my 2 cents... I did like these threads, but at some point the forums stopped giving me notifications (despite maintaining a very short list) and it's a bit clumsy to subscribe to a new thread each week. Combined with the pins and it's a bit overwhelming, too. I never really figured whether adding a post or two to the official threads is worth the effort, namely, being enjoyed. On top of that, most of the forums is a hostile, stupid place, so I simply exist in the 2022 screenies thread, occasionally venturing out to see a few pretties and hand out a few likes. These thematic ones are nice but it's fine if you just join the megathreads, earn and give the likes, one big happy community. Also a bit down today so please subtract the depressive tone.
