Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: Freestyle You can vote for next week's theme in the poll attached to this thread. What is your choice? Follow us on Instagram (instagram.com/trainsim) to see your screenshots featured on our feed! How does it work? You can submit your screenshot to the thread, and every Friday we will choose which screenshots will go to the loading screens. Shortly after, we will open a new thread and announce the winners. Each week has its own theme which is voted for by the community. Competition Rules: Limit is 2 screenshots per person; 1 screenshot per post. Include in your post the route the screenshot was taken on as well as the name of the train (if applicable). Screenshots must be in a 16:9 resolution, at least 1920x1080 pixels. Screenshots must fit the theme of the week, as stated at the beginning of this post. In order to qualify for the competition, screenshots must be taken from products published by Dovetail Games that are currently on sale. Other Rules: Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam Store or Dovetail Store is not shown in the screenshot. - This means no reshade, repaint mods, track upgrades or workshop routes. View excluded content: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/screenshot-contest-excluded-routes-and-locomotives.31092/ Your entry may be disqualified if it is deemed to not follow these rules. Please limit chat to only when absolutely necessary. Competition closes at mid-day Friday (UK time). The winner will be chosen every Friday. Winner's Prize: The winning screenshot will appear in the game as a loading screen for 1 week! (Please Note since the new update which changes loading times we have decided to change it to 1 week) T&C: Please refer the terms and conditions for this competition here: https://dovetailgames.com/competition-terms-and-conditions/ Note that by submitting an entry to this contest, you are consenting to us using your screenshot as a loading screen and showing it on our social media channels (such as Instagram)
Route: Semmeringbahn Train: OBB 1116. Two trains passing each other at the entrance of many of the tunnels on the line.
ROUTE: Norddeutsche-Bahn: Kiel - Lübeck LOCO: DB BR 218 and DB 261 DB BR 218 at its final destination in Lubeck.
A Rio Grande L-97 Class Challenger makes its way eastbound up Soldier Summit, meeting a quartet of F3's running an extra service westbound towards Salt Lake City. Route: Soldier Summit Locomotives: DRGW L-97 Challenger, EMD F3
An Alaska Railroad S160 leads a freight train northbound towards Anchorage, sometime in the 50's. Route: Alaska Railroad Locomotive: USATC S160
SAR 6E1 passes through a station carrying a long train of coal on the Pietermaritzburg to Ladysmith route.
Happy 150th birthday to the little Terrier, seen exiting the Clayton Tunnel on a run from Brighton to London. Loco:- A1 Stroudley Terrier Route:- London to Brighton
Route: Leipzig- Riesa Train: DB BR 1442. A S1 service heading for Lepizig Hbf spotted at Leipzig- Engelsdorf.
Decided to change my picture to this as we have never had any winning picture from Slovenia so I hope for some luck. Slovenske železnice 363 006-4 arriving at the last station before Austria. Loco: SZ 363 006-4 Route: Südbahn: Bruck An Der Mur - Maribor
A Big Boy, a Challenger, and a Northern pose for a nighttime photo op near the Ogden Roundhouse. These locomotives were part of UP's Big Three, and in many respects acted as the pinnacle of North American steam power. Route Used: Union Pacific's Wasatch Grade Locomotives Used: Union Pacific Big Boy, Union Pacific Challenger, Union Pacific FEF-3
Flying across the plains of Utah, a UP Challenger gets ready to knock down a signal on its way to Ogden. Behind it is a string of reefers bound for California. Route Used: Union Pacific's Wasatch Grade Locomotive Used: Union Pacific Challenger
Isle Of Wight Steam Railway - Isle Of Wight A1/A1X Terriers (Fishbourne & Stepney) Chugging Up To Ashey
Route: WCML South-London Euston to Birmingham New Street Train: Intercity APT-P Class 370 The preserved APT-P units 006 & 003 have been restored to working condition, and are mainline certified. Now they're on their way to London Euston to commemorate their new lease of life on the network.
A U4 set accelerates out of Ginnheim with a U1 service for the Suedbahnhof Route: Frankfurt U-Bahn Train: Siemens Duewag U4
It's the summer of 2023 and at long last the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust have been able to take up DB's long standing invitation to take Tornado through the channel tunnel and on to Germany to stretch its legs. A1 Tornado on the Munich - Garmisch-Partenkirchen Route.
"Never mind looking at your watch...... we still have to collect the passengers from Arosa." A combined passenger & freight run starts at Arosa Aggregate Terninal which will then collect the passenger cars from Arosa Station and take them all to Chur. Loco:- GE 4/4 ii RHB Route:- Arosa Line
It's the summer of 2023 and at long last the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust have been able to take up DB's long standing invitation to take Tornado through the channel tunnel and on to Germany to stretch her legs. Here she approaches Munich's main station. A1 Tornado on the Munich - Garmisch-Partenkirchen Route.
Some really great Freestyle shots. Well done Everyone. This weeks winner with this awesome shot of Tornado In Germany is IronBladder , Congratulations! Have a great weekend everyone. Next Weeks Contest : https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/tsc-screenshot-contest-week-30-august-2022.57041/
No, not yet, but read the caption in post #26. It's something that might happen in the future. Thanks for your congratulations folks. As it was 'freestyle' I thought I'd try something that hasn't happened yet and I'm pleased it was liked by DTG. That's the beauty of simulation, you can experiment with 'what ifs'.
I don't know if you're serious in the fist place, but I highly doubt that. Germany's got very srtict rules regarding what locos they let run on the mainline, and unless the NRM is willing to pay tousends of punds to equip Tornado with the requirwd PZB safety system just for the sake of a one-time trip, it's not gonna happen.
Who said it will be PZB? Tornado is having European Train Control System (ETCS) equipment installed later this year for testing in 2023 and the Germans are slowly introducing it to their network.
ETCS is very sensitive and still have many bugs. If there are much snow on/between the tracks you will get speeding error(2629).
There are currently 340 out of 38.400 km equipped with ETCS. That's less then 1%. Germany is very reluctant to "upgrade" to ETCS, on one hand, because it's expensive, on the other, because PZB and LZB are considdered better then ETCS. And again, just because the loco's equipped with it, doesn't mean the German authoroties would let it run on the network at all. They're stupidly picky in these regards.