Traingeek08's Creators Club Releases & Updates Thread

That livery on the BR182 isn't required for it to work, it's just the wagon that is required .

TG08 .

 

Hello all, I'm here to announce my next scenario from my Creators Club Roadmap, 2A21 MAT-NOT on Peak Forest .


Scenario Name: 2A21 MAT-NOT
Route: Peak Forest
Train: Class 170 ScR
Route covered: Matlock to Ambergate
Duration: 20mins
Difficulty: 1
Scenario Storyline: Drive 2-Alpha-21, the 10:10 East Midlands Railway service from Matlock to Nottingham as far as Ambergate, calling at all stations along the way on this wet, spring day.


Anyway, WIP shots await...





Here is our service awaiting departure from Matlock bound for Nottingham .





"Some might say, Oasis film-ed he-re!"





Leaving Cromford behind, we continue our journey towards the next station of...





...Whatstandwell, meaning there's one stop to go until the next driver takes over for the run towards Nottingham (via Derby) .


Scenario Link: Creators Club - (TG08) 2A21 MAT-NOT (170)
Required Livery Link: Creators Club - East Midlands Railway 170 by JasonPFC



I hope you are all looking forward to this release. I've been TG08 as usual, and I'll see you next time for another CC release announcement. Until then, it's goodbye from me .

 

Hello all, I'm here to announce my next scenario from my Creators Club Roadmap, Freight: 101 on Main-Spessart Bahn .

THE FORMATION(S):

Formation Name: BR 101 + Freight (MSB)
Route: Expert DB BR 101 Loco Add-On/Main-Spessart Bahn
Train: DB BR 101 Expert





Formation Link: Creators Club - (TG08) BR 101 + Freight (MSB)


THE SCENARIO:

Scenario Name: Freight: 101
Route: Main-Spessart Bahn
Train: DB BR 101 Expert
Route covered: Aschaffenburg Gbf to Gemunden Gbf (full route)
Duration: 50mins
Difficulty: 3
Scenario Storyline: Drive this freight train from Aschaffenburg to Gemunden with a DB BR 101 as traction in place of the regular TRAXX locomotive. You will be following a delayed RE service bound for Bamberg, so watch the signals throughout the journey.


Anyway, WIP shots await...





Here is our freight train at Aschaffenburg Gbf, awaiting departure to Gemunden Gbf (via the Main-Spessart Bahn) .





A beautiful shot of our train after passing through Hosbach station .





We meet with an ICE T (DB BR 411) between Wiesthal and Partenstein. It does have its headlights on, even if it doesn't look like it...





A nice shot of us running alongside the river here having left Lohr Bahnhof behind on our way to Gemunden am Main.


Scenario Link: Creators Club - (TG08) Freight: 101 (Exp. BR 101)


I hope you are all looking forward to this release. I've been TG08 as usual, and I'll see you next time for another CC release announcement. Until then, it's goodbye from me .

 

Hello all, I'm here to announce my 300th mod (and next scenario) from my Creators Club Roadmap, Down the TRAXX on Tharandter Rampe .


Scenario Name: Down the TRAXX
Route: Tharandter Rampe
Train: RP BR 185
Route covered: Dresden Hbf to Freiberg (Sachs) Gbf
Duration: 40mins
Difficulty: 2
Scenario Storyline: Drive this light freight train from Dresden to Freiberg (Sachs) whilst following an IC service out of Dresden up the Tharandter Rampe.


Anyway, WIP shots await...





Here is our service passing Dresden Altstadt Gbf having been held up by an IC service out of the Hauptbahnhof.





Now up the Rampe, we can pick up some speed to head towards our layover stop .





We seem to have caught up to that IC service again...





We've arrived at Freiberg (Sachs) Gbf to end the scenario (and the 300th mod that I've released on CC).


Scenario Link:
Required Livery Link: Creators Club - (TG08) HectorRail (BR 185) by TrainGeek08



I hope you are all looking forward to this release. I've been TG08 as usual, and I'll see you next time for another CC release announcement. Until then, it's goodbye from me .

 

Year In Review (so far) - April to June 2025:

Hello all, TrainGeek08 here, and today I'm going to review how well I think my creations have done throughout the last few months. This is going to be a long one, and this post is a true representation of how I feel the mods I have released so far have done.

WARNING: I may sound harsh/critical at times, either to myself or to subscribers of my content. If this is the case, this is not against any of you individually, but instead as a general consensus. Think about it as me being harsh to myself for thinking you all would like particular scenarios or liveries. It is not designed to blame the subscribers of my content but myself as the creator. Thank you. (In other words, it's just me being open with you all for once .)

NOTE: All subscriber counts are as of the creation of this post, so they may have changed if you view this post in the future.
SECOND NOTE: Formations are not being included in the list (for obvious reasons).


LIVERIES:
APRIL:
TRI - 55 subscribers
Midland Mainline - 22 subscribers

MAY:
FCC - 27 subscribers
Strathclyde - 10 subscribers

JUNE:
Metronom - 10 subscribers

TrainGeek08: From what we see here, my liveries have done well within reason for the last few months...

Let's start in April. The TRI livery has done really well, probably as a continuation of the momentum I had throughout March with liveries doing better on CC. The Midland Mainline livery though... What happened? Why is it looking likely to be a repeat of February all over again? Any responsibility for lower subscriber counts will be mine, but after the TRI livery did fantastic, I thought that Midland Mainline would do as good, if not better...

May though, is seeing a continuation of this downward spiral in terms of subscriber counts on my liveries... the FCC one was okay, I could've done better, but it's okay. The Strathclyde one. 10 subscribers!?! What? I did do it unbranded, but I think the colours were pretty spot on to be fair. For comparison, my 101 in the same livery has received 64 subscribers (as of today). I mean, there's nothing stopping the livery getting more subscribers with time, but I thought this one would be at around 30 subscribers at least.

June. Don't get me started with June. The Metronom livery, even if it released last week, has the same amount of subscribers as the Strathclyde 314 I did weeks prior. I think I know why it has done so poorly though. When I did the weathering on the livery, I overdid it. So, instead of the cab ends being white as in reality, they are now in a grey-ish tone. That's a slap on the wrist for me there. Apologies everyone. Hopefully I can do better in July and into August for you all .


SCENARIOS: (Railfan scenarios will be covered separately)
APRIL:
Double Header - 36 subscribers
Overground Capital - 14 subscribers
Diesel Mover - 36 subscribers

MAY:
Depot Tour - 15 subscribers
The Mildmay Blues - 21 subscribers
Leaving Leven - 23 subscribers
Late Night Pendo - 14 subscribers

JUNE:
Delayed IC - 58 subscribers
2A21 MAT-NOT - 7 subscribers
Freight: 101 - N/A (not released yet)
Down the TRAXX - N/A (not released yet)

TrainGeek08: Now we are talking. Onto my forte...

April was a better month for scenarios. Judging how February and March went, I was super delighted when I had two of my better creations within April. I think what helped a bit, was that they were on two of TSW5's core routes, so most people would have access to at least one of them when they got TSW5. Was May okay?

Into May now then, once again, less subscribers... Ringing any bells anyone? February redux on the scenario side too it seems... It seems that May was one of my worst months for content across the board really (in the last few months anyway). I will take my side of the blame for not having them up to your standards, but again, what happened? It just wasn't there unfortunately.

How well has June been? I'm glad you asked, because I'm quite happy with how June is doing so far (on the scenario side anyway). Delayed IC! What a showing!?! I'm so happy that it has a higher subscriber count . Even if 2A21 MAT-NOT has 7 subscribers, I think June will be a good month for scenarios. Freight: 101 and Down the TRAXX both have moments of PZB action in them, so you may have to keep on your toes in those two scenarios... Don't let me down everyone .


RAILFAN SCENARIOS:
Now, for a little bit of backstory before I review subscriber counts.

I thought about the idea of doing Railfan scenarios, after seeing how well BlueSpec's examples were doing on Creators Club. So I thought, why not do it myself? That's how they came into being, it was going to be one scenario on the first day of each month, so it would kick off the month with some different content from the usual livery/scenario. When you look at these subscriber counts, you can imagine what I'm going to say...

APRIL:
Salzburg Hbf - 32 subscribers

MAY:
LA Union - 4 subscribers

JUNE:
Newark Penn - 5 subscribers

I think after I announced that I was discontinuing the Railfan scenarios, you all seem to have got the memo (uncoincidentally)... other than Salzburg Hbf (which was announced prior to the announcement), the results are what I expected. To be honest, after I announced the discontinuation of the RF scenarios, when I was creating them, even I was fed up of them. If the creator is saying this, then you all have done the right thing, and steered away from them (like I now have after Newark Penn's release). The concept started off really well, but it isn't what it lived up to be unfortunately. However, it does mean that I can make better scenarios and liveries for you all.


Anyway, thanks all for reading this rather different post today. I really appreciate it .

TrainGeek08.

 

Hello all, TrainGeek08 here and today I am going to review my best 5 (and worst 5) releases in 2025 so far and discuss why they are the best/worst in my opinion. Let's get into it shall we?

Before we start, I will say that these ratings are purely based on subscriber count on Creators Club (as of today) and not the best/worst releases based off of the talent showcased in each mod.

Best 5 releases in 2025:

1st - NJ Wien (BR 1116)

Released: Thursday 16th January 2025
Subscribers: 265



Nice to see a scenario in top spot after last year was very livery-orientated! I love making scenarios on S-Bahn Vorarlberg, just because I know that you all like them too, which I would put down to the amount of effort I put in for trying to make the AI services run as accurately to real-life as possible. S-Bahn Vorarlberg is one of my favourite routes to make scenarios for because there is so much service and destination variety, that it is destined to be busy throughout any scenario you create.

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) NJ Wien (BR 1116)


2nd - GBRf '66301' (66)

Released: Sunday 12th January 2025
Subscribers: 117



Following in the footsteps of 66789 is 66301. My best livery of the year (at the moment, 3rd place is closing in at a fast rate of knots), but I love how I got the colours so accurate as well. I learnt about making sure that the colours were correct after making 66789, and transferred it across to 301. It's my only GBRf livery this year so far, but there is one due to release in August (check HERE for more information)...

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) GBRf '66301' (66)


3rd - BWEGT (BR 612)

Released: Sunday 9th March 2025
Subscribers: 113



Now onto 66301's rival for best livery of the year... I spent a lot of time on this one to make sure the BWEGT logo was correct, and I wanted to make it as detailed as I could. Well, it seems to have worked! I'm happy that my best European livery isn't a locomotive this year, mind that of a Vectron . It does look not only smart, but the part too!

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) BWEGT (BR 612)

4th - Old MBTA (F40PH-3C)

Released: Friday 14th March 2025
Subscribers: 92



From my best European livery to my best American livery this year. What a livery! I think I know what's done it though. See the weathering under the cab window? That is a new weathering technique I tried out for this livery. I haven't used it ever since, but I can see why you all love this livery, and probably want me to do something similar again in the future (with that technique) .

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) Old MBTA (F40PH-3C)

5th - ES9411 Koln (Duplex)

Released: Tuesday 21st January 2025
Subscribers: 83



Now, onto my second-best scenario this year! I didn't know you all love a stormy run in a TGV Duplex along a Schnellfahrstrecke? Jokes aside, this scenario captures everything about what SKA is all about. High-speed services from Eurostar (ex-Thalys) and DB Fernverkehr, regional services from DB Regio, S-Bahn services from S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr and also some freight services going to/from Belgium or further afield (Netherlands/France?).

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) ES9411 Köln (Duplex)


Now onto the other end of the scale. For this one I will exclude recently released mods as it is not fair on those because they have came out fairly recently so people may still be giving them a go .

Worst 5 releases in 2025:

5th - Farewell Budd-y P4 (M3)

Released: Thursday 20th March 2025
Subscribers: 10



You will see a common theme with my worst releases this year (so far)... they are all from the same scenario pack. Even though it is the best performing scenario of the pack, I'm going to suggest that it is the scenario length that is the problem. I try and make scenarios between 30 and 60 minutes in length. This scenario was 65 minutes in length, and it probably didn't have enough AI to cover that time period. That's on me as the creator, so apologies everyone for that.

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) Farewell Budd-y P4 (M3)

4th - Farewell Budd-y P5 (M3)

Released: Thursday 20th March 2025
Subscribers: 8



This scenario is definitely about the length again, but there's a story behind this one. So, there was supposed to be six scenarios in this pack, not five. Where did that sixth scenario go? Well, when I made the sixth scenario, it didn't save properly, so it deleted itself. The scenario had around 40 AI services in it, so I didn't want to risk the problem happening again. So, I combined the journeys from Scenarios 5 and 6 into just one scenario. Upon reflection, this was (definitely) the wrong direction to head in, as there was not enough AI to cover a scenario length twice as long as it should've been. What was a 40 minute scenario became a 90 minute scenario, just because one scenario didn't save. Moral of the story? Make sure any livery or scenario you do saves properly before you test it. I learnt that the hard way on this occasion...

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) Farewell Budd-y P5 (M3)

3rd - Farewell Budd-y P1 (M3)

Released: Thursday 20th March 2025
Subscribers: 6



This one is probably due to the lack of difficulty within the scenario. You don't encounter any red signals (that you have to slow down/stop for) until you pass Floral Park heading to Hicksville, or if there are any before that, they don't have as much of an effect on your service. If it was a bit harder, then I might be reaping in the rewards a bit.

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) Farewell Budd-y P1 (M3)


2nd - Farewell Budd-y P3 (M3)

Released: Thursday 20th March 2025
Subscribers: 5



Scenario 3 is about the amount of AI featured. My counter-argument to that is; it's off-peak. Of course it isn't going to be as busy as Scenario 1 is for example. The Long Beach branch has 1tph off-peak, compared to 2tph in the peak (IIRC). I even used a realistic LIRR service schedule for each branch to try and get the AI frequency as accurately as possible for all five (supposed to be six) scenarios.

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) Farewell Budd-y P3 (M3)


1st - Farewell Budd-y P2 (M3)

Released: Thursday 20th March 2025
Subscribers: 4



I am quite shocked to see Farewell Budd-y P2 as my worst scenario in 2025 so far being three months since release. I have a strong feeling this is down to two factors; the lack of difficulty discussed for Scenario 1, and also the lack of AI discussed for Scenario 3. These two factors congregate into one, making a fairly boring scenario, hence the lower subscriber count .

Also, I remember that I had to rush the CC release of this scenario pack, so had the release process been smoother, I think it would've done a bit better. This is something I have rectified prior to the release of the WCML South SP at the end of July (by releasing one scenario per day, instead of all six scenarios at once).

Creators Club: Creators Club - (TG08) Farewell Budd-y P2 (M3)


Overall Round-Up and Conclusion:
So, a scenario pack in the bottom 5 and three liveries + two scenarios in the top 5, very strange but also really interesting at the same time. I do need to improve on how I go around doing scenario packs in future, to make sure that I have enough time to release them in a proper manner.

I hope you enjoyed this one, let me know if I should do one later in the year to see if anything changes .

I've been TG08 as always, enjoy the rest of your day and I'll see you in mid-July after I return from my holiday. Until then, it's goodbye from me .