Expert Db Br 145 Discussion

Good news and it turns out this can also operate with the doppelstockwagen

 

Preview Livestream will be March 5!!!
https://www.youtube.com/live/yIxOaRR0TWU?si=Fj3YZB7tMYNJaU5T

 

Unfortunately, the livestream says it's on 12 March.

dtg_jan
You write in the announcement that the livestream is on 5 March 2026, but YouTube says it's live on 12 March 2026.

 

Right now it is saying 5th March.

 

Yes, because DTG changed it on YouTube afterwards, but before that it said the live stream would be on 12 March 2026.

 

This is gonna be so good. Very much looking forward to this!!

 

Hopefully one of the German routes this will run on, is high up the list of routes to receive the texture fix.

Really want to drive this but there’s no way it’s going to be a smooth console experience.

 

In addition to having a dedicated layer on "Bahnstrecke Leipzig - Dresden" the BR 145 Expert substitutes on freight services for the following German routes in TSW:

- Nahverkehr Dresden
- Ludwigsbahn: Mannheim - Kaiserslautern
- Tharandter Rampe: Dresden - Chemnitz
- Schnellfahrstrecke: Kassel - Würzburg
- Frankfurt - Fulda: Kinzigtalbahn
- Bahnstrecke Bremen - Oldenburg
- Schnellfahrstrecke Köln
- Bahnstrecke Salzburg - Rosenheim
- Frankfurt S-Bahn: S1, S8 & S9
- Hauptstrecke Hamburg - Lübeck
- Hauptstrecke München - Augsburg
- Hauptstrecke Rhein - Ruhr
- Main-Spessart Bahn
- Rhein-Ruhr Osten
- Ruhr-Sieg Nord

For Nahverkehr services the "NV" variant of the 145 substitutes on Dresden-Riesa and Leipzig-Dresden (but player only), on RE50 and most of the S-bahn services that use Dosto coaches.

As for the Expert wagons, these are only used on the Leipzig-Dresden Expert timetable currently, but my goal is to swap out wagons for their Expert counter-parts on the other Expert timetables* over time, as well as enabling substitution on the Dosto services.

*Don't expect to see any changes on the Dresden-Riesa Expert timetable.

 

Surely not Niddertal and Mittenwald?

 

Hopefully Ludwigsbahn and Bremen Oldenburg get a 145 timetable first. Fingers crossed.

 

You're of course correct. I edited the post to list all the routes rather than try to figure out which are excluded.

 

Sorry for the indiscreet question, but how quickly can this be done? If, say, it's done quickly enough (a couple of months), I'd suspend my personal freight transport within Germany until the carriages will not be replaced with expert ones. And if it takes a year, then okay, I'll play with the regular ones.

And one more question. The BR 101 Expert will also be added to the schedule on the Leipzig-Dresden route, right? I think that was the plan.

 

The 101 will be part of the Expert timetable on DLG.

 

I can't make any promise as to when any of my changes will be made public, since I don't control when a patch is actually released (that is fully up to DTG). What I will say is that I have already started working on the Bremen-Oldenburg Expert timetable, and I'm hopeful that I will have finished all the changes to that, and to the Salzburg-Rosenheim timetable within a month (I'm giving some room here for any bug fixes that are needed on the BR 145, since that obviously takes priority, the changes probably won't take more than a week or two effective time).

More than that I really can't say at this time, but I will try my best to keep you all updated on both the status of the changes (as I did with the BR 101 Expert bug fixes and feature additions) and whenever it is confirmed that a patch is being released.

 

Thank you so much. You answered all my questions even before the official stream.

 

Will the new wagons also be a part of the new Expert timetables as well?

 

At release they are only used on the Leipzig-Dresden Expert timetable, but the changes I mentioned in the comment you quoted will include swapping out standard wagons for their Expert counterparts. So for example, formations that use Habbiins wagons will get the Expert version of the Habbiins, and so on. Also, I'm fortunate enough to have access to much of the freight service data that the original timetables were based on, so wherever applicable I will change the intermodal trains to carry semi-trailers with the Sdggmrss 738.0 pocket wagon as prototypical.

 

Just to clarify (didn’t want to clog up the Q+A), the 145 won’t have suspension upon release?

Is there a timeframe for when it will get it?

 

Yeah ok..... then i'm gonna be waiting until there's suspension to buy it.

How can a TSW6 DLC be missing a TSW4 core feature? Let alone on a premium expert product.

Shame this DLC got caught in DTG's annual March madness release rush because clearly it's not finished yet! Gotta make those quarterly numbers look good for daddy Focus, right?

 

Yeah this pack had a lot of good things going for it & nearly brought me back into German content, which I’ve strayed heavily away from, but they’re not going to be selling me an ‘expert’ loco that excludes one the most immersive features in the game.

I’ve been trying really hard lately to keep a more positive outlook on TSW, but there’s just been blunders and huge caveats every other day lately.

 

I honestly thought you were joking with your post and then i looked at the Q&A thread and it's just really shocking!

TSG has always produced such high quality stuff- can't believe they agreed to release it in this condition. It's sad.

 

I’m surprised they only just told us. You’d think it would have been said before now there were issues with it.

I get not wanting to say so until it’s confirmed, but I’d rather be told it won’t be there & then does end up there, than being left to assume it’s there & told it isn’t right before release.

 

Does the 101 have even suspension? As i can remember only the cabcar.

It doesnt ruin my experience at all, even if i hope they will add the core feature at some point. Day one purchais will remain, we finally get the second expert loco!!

Just use those as replacement: