Out Now Br 194 / E94 Railtour Pack – Out Now!

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Absolutely. When I had your livery spawn in, I had to check up close to figure out if I was looking at TSGs’ or yours.

 

The easy marker is the roof weathering; TSG’s is reddish, mine gray. And of course red vs green seats

 

There are other differences looking at it, black underframe and numbering instead of blue, fewer dropping windows, Bnrz instead of Bnb, disc brake bogies instead of block brake etc

 

I'm really enjoying this DLC pack so far. The 1984 timetable is great and it's so good to see all the older stuff around. If you walk around Koblenz at certain times of the day, the number of train movements in and out is so cool. It does make LKR feel way longer at 56mph compared to 90+ in the 103s & 111s thats for sure!
But overall I think its pretty neat.

 

I'm having a wonderful time driving these crocodiles, even though I find myself getting into situations that can only be escaped by starting over, sometimes resuming from a saved session, others just starting all over again & hoping to have learned enough to get the job done, which, surprisingly, leads to ultimate success. I especially appreciate the engine setup instructions that begin almost every mission.
With some activities still left to explore, I'm very much looking forward to the next release of new driving challenges, but no matter how many times I check the Steam announcement, they just haven't appeared yet!
Keep 'em comin'. folks!!!!!!

 

I might have just discovered a little easter egg in the BR194. If you look at the little Zugfunk device (I believe?), you'll se that your train number is "085 007". Now, you might not think much of it, but I did some research and found out the following thing:
The BR 85 was a steam locomotive built in 1932 and 1933. And the only one surviving to this day is... BR 85 007, just like our train number!
Do I think this is signs of TSG doing a BR 85 steam loco DLC? Maybe, but right now, I doubt it. Especially as our 85 007 seems to not operate and rather just sit under a roof in Freiburg. Just shows you how much effort TSG puts into their DLC.

 

But this Loco was operating in the 1950s. There is this Teaser on Mittenwaldbahn: "Don´t smoke Kids, unless it´s a steam engine" and "Next Stop BaWü (again)". That together makes me think one thing, is TSG maybe developing the Höllentalbahn in the 50s? Don´t now, how likely that is but it matches with the Easter-Eggs.

 

This is interesting. There are further conspiracy theories in this discussion:

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...el-railway-mittenwaldbahn.93640/#post-1039278

 

I would love it- but adapting Simugraph to steam has been described as Mission Impossible.

 

Given people describe the curious noise on Mittenwaldbahn as a hiss and a hum, this would make perfect sense. The Höllentalbahn was electrified at 50 Hz back in the day, so we could see a mixture of 85er (hiss) and E244er (hum). The latter would be a pain to develop properly, however, as no two examples were alike.