What Route Should Dtg Extend?

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  1. Coppo

    Coppo Well-Known Member

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    What would be nice is for DTG to actually upgrade the existing routes and allow access to the sidings that we can't use at the moment (e.g. TVL and Oakville). TVL could also be extended beyond Saltburn, to the cement works, making proper use of the cement trucks.
     
  2. FredElliott

    FredElliott Well-Known Member

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    32.1 degrees
    At least 3 performance
    Wicker baskets will definitely reduce performance
     
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  3. trainsimplayer

    trainsimplayer Well-Known Member

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    So, you infer that the forums is a space where the enjoyers of short routes come to hang out?

    No. The poll wasn't something like 'Do you like Train Sim World'

    In which case asking on the forums would give a totally different answer to, say, Steam.
    In this case, it's called taking a sample.
    Very different examples.

    There's no such thing as a "Short Route Driver" or a "Branch Driver", they're all TSW players.
    One (the bikes) is a totally different style, the other is a preference.

    And again, the entire point of a poll is to take a sample. It's not 100% accurate (never will be), but it's not invalid either.
     
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  4. Fawx

    Fawx Well-Known Member

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    As has been pointed out several times now. It is invalid. The dataset is flawed.
     
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  5. trainsimplayer

    trainsimplayer Well-Known Member

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    Tell that to every scientific poll and opinion poll ever taken then.
     
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  6. Fawx

    Fawx Well-Known Member

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    Considering I work with using and creating datasets every single day at my job, in a scientific field, I think I'm good. Your dataset isn't scientific, it's flawed for what you're trying to make it show.
    Your dataset shows what a percentage of the forum wants, nothing more. (It's useful for that.) It's not capable of being used to infer wider opinions in the community due to the nature of the forum.
     
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  7. solicitr

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    Scientific polls endeavor to use a representative sample and avoid selection bias.
     
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  8. 1dart Mart

    1dart Mart Well-Known Member

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    Definitely with you on this one buddy. :)
     
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  9. chieflongshin

    chieflongshin Well-Known Member

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    Just stopping back in to see what routes people would like extended.....

    All I can see is more poll talk.

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    Anyone want swerve back to a route they would like to extend?

    Shall we set a poll up to see if we can stay on topic? :D
     
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  10. pessitheghost

    pessitheghost Well-Known Member

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    GWE and BML 100%
     
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  11. Fawx

    Fawx Well-Known Member

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    GWE, MML, Harlem Line and LIRR.
     
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  12. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    Out of ideas.

    Already mentioned Clinchfield and Cajon Pass.

    -Believe Sherman Hill was already mentioned.
    -Makes no sense from an operation standpoint to do Peninsula Corridor.
    -SPG doesn't have a close point to extend to.
    -Cant really extend Boston Providence.
    -NYC-Trenton cant extend due to potential SEPTA license issues.
    -LIRR needs a complete rebuild.
    -No knowledge on Harlem.
    -We dont talk about Oakville.
     
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  13. matt245621#2075

    matt245621#2075 Well-Known Member

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    SouthEastern extension to Dover priory 100%.
     
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  14. Class156

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    Extend SEHS, Folkestone or Dover, then it’s done, end to end(ish). I’d extend NTP through to York and modernise, it’s a great route but could be so much better. Glossop, makes sense to head down to Sheffield way but they won’t do that. All pie in the sky ideas though, I doubt it’ll happen.
     
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  15. bobbobberdd

    bobbobberdd Well-Known Member

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    Easy answer for me Nahverkehr Dresden not only because it's my favorite Route but also because the branch to the Airport is already half built.

    And why not extend the longest of all Routes kassel-Würzburg. You could extend the Route from Würzburg to Gemünden/Lohr(Main-Spessart Bahn).
     
  16. matt#4801

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    Yes, yes, yes!
    No, no, no.
     
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  17. Jon from Rhode Island

    Jon from Rhode Island Well-Known Member

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    Instead of extending, focus on hub-and-spoke services that increase traffic and variety at major stations.
    Example: rather than extend Munich-Augsburg, add services to Rosenheim to the east and Garmisch to the south, and some S-bahn lines. Maybe even some scenarios where you dispatch trains in and out of Munchen Hbf.

    Or even better, add the necessary links to combine the Ruhr lines into a single playground (e.g. Koln-Dusseldorf-Essen)

    Going back and forth along the same route gets old after a while.
     
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  18. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    ScotRail Express, GWE, Midland Mainline
     
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  19. 1dart Mart

    1dart Mart Well-Known Member

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    Definitely like the idea of GWE and/or MML. Not tried the Scottish routes yet, but have the DLC’s, I’m saving them for a rainy day lol :)
     
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  20. chieflongshin

    chieflongshin Well-Known Member

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    Id be interested to know e whst else couos bw added to sherman hill.
     
  21. Blacknred81

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    The missing track 3, SD70M as a new loco, improve the quarry (it looks bad) AI BNSF trains in Cheyenne subbing from Cajon pass
     
  22. mooredean1978

    mooredean1978 Active Member

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    Definitely agree with your post London Bridge and Cannon Street or if possible London Charing X to Dover Priory Via Folkstone West and Folkestone Central would be a definite buy for me
     
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  23. Krazy

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    While I'm not typically a lover of long routes, I would absolutely love to see what it's like doing a fairly long Amtrak run. Providence-New Haven would be really interesting to have, just for the experience of what a realistic run could look like for an Amtrak driver (Is New Haven a popular crew change point? I'm not sure. It's 2 and a half hours from Boston, so surely).

    And then if we had that, it's inevitable that DTG will do New York-New Haven some day. And hopefully by that point, they'll have learned route mergers and we could have freaking Boston to Trenton!

    I can dream...
     
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  24. Ferrovipathe67

    Ferrovipathe67 Well-Known Member

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    Yes and with the S2 branch
     
  25. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    If that were to happen you have Northeast Corridor Trenton to Boston. By the way it's popular for College students because when you book 3 weeks in Advance you only pay $20-50 for a ticket. $28 Newark, NJ to Providence Brown University Station while $31 Newark, NJ to Baltimore and Boston South Station
     
  26. jj-6688

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    Oakville subdivision has tons of potential for an extension
     
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