I've thought about posting this one a few times but seen as we may lose our discussion forums it's now or never apparently. People are rightly upset, but let's try and focus some positivity in the meantime? So my question to everyone is: What have been your favourite TSW moments? This can be a livestream moment, a route, even a thread. Anything TSW based! Devs/DTG jump in too! Some of mine are: Just Trains first ever preview stream of BPO, but specifically arriving into Preston hearing the Guards whistles blowing as the diesel services left the platform and seeing the chat go mental just for that! The old 4-up challenges were great with Sam blasting through the London Underground speeding the whole way because he'd figured out that you got more points from being late than you lost from speeding! JD not knowing how to turn the bell off on another 4-up challenge and then the big American shunting one where he just ended up quitting! Steam - Despite the state it was left in, that first preview where we saw the reveals and the locomotives for the first time still stands out as a great moment! Hearing Matt talk about how none of the controls did anything but he still sat there pretending they did! Verns obsession with us getting a buffet car and 80% of the TSW community being in on the joke to a point Matt mentioned it on stream What are everyone else's? Keep this one positive please!
Well i had some fun when visiting Arosa in Switzerland, and was looking how close to reality Rivet Games rebuilt the route in Tsw backthen. To be fair they made a good job, and the route looks even better in winter. My fun moment was remembering a rant here in the forums i made about rivet botched the PIS at Arosa. So being up there and noticed the PIS on the route in reality wasnt working either lol.
Christmas 2024: Thomasgate Watching a smiling blue tank engine somehow become the most controversial locomotive in Train Sim World history was something I never expected to witness. The backlash that followed provided some of the best Christmas entertainment I had that year. Honestly, it was more entertaining than anything that was on TV! A legendary forum moment.
Honestly I don't really know. I know I really enjoyed the Flying Scotsman scenario on ECML based around mimicking the 100mph achievement I don't often say I enjoy scenarios
I think for me it was doing a morning run on WCMLoS for the first time using Winzarten's weather app. It was light rain the whole way from Preston as the sun rose up and about 15 miles out of Carlisle the clouds dissipated slightly. Was proper magical and took me back to my first day as a Driver in real life (different country, though), as I had a similar experience. I also think of the time I downloaded a mod timetable for WCMLS. I stood at Harrow & Wealdstone in peak hour and was proper in awe at the amount of traffic. Really felt like I was there.
Every time I worry about passengers who get stuck and skid into fences, benches, and other passengers. Every time I'm happy when they get out of this situation without falling on the tracks or pushing someone else into it. It's a funny entertainment when you just stand at the platform with nothing else to do, waiting for departure time, and rooting for that poor guy who can't share the road with a pole.
for me it would be the announcement of tsw2, i remember choosing a service one day and as it was loading a graphic showed up with the ICE and 72 stock and i could hardly believe it. those were simpler times when i could enjoy a dlc announcement for more than 2 seconds before remembering that it would likely be hindered by blurriness and crashing. where did it all go wrong?
Lots of good memories. I agree, the old 4-up challenges with Sam at the helm were great. SPG finally coming to consoles. Good shoutout with Vern’s buffet car! LFR/NID as the first pushes into proper vintage German routes. Finally getting my 140 with Stuttgart! JTs’ tap changers. On a more personal note: Planning my stay abroad in Brighton with the help of you all on the forums. The realistic steam challenge thread, all of it
One of my own favourite memories was the preview to Riveria Line, given the previous years quite frankly disgraceful quality, I think we had all lost hope with DTGs in-house branded content... And the sense of relief when Rivet had really shown they'd bucked their ideas up and saved the day. I remember watching it sort of expecting disappointment and come away with quite the opposite. A route that still stands as a brilliant route today! The sense of relief and excitement all in one.
I obviously don't think that leaking things is right, but before TSW5 when the 390 and WCML South were leaked was quite an exciting time. There hadn't ever been a WCML route and the Southern section of that line was a route I'd wanted for ages. Ultimately however the route wasn't anywhere near the standard that it should've been, but oh well...
First time I loaded up Carlisle-Preston and took a walk around Carlisle station back to my old spot at the end of platform 1 overlooking the old freight lines - I could almost hear the roarers and taste the Wimpy half pounders again. Very special. First time I even played the game and opened the throttle of the 45 out of Leeds - grinned from ear to ear, even though on reflection the sounds aren’t all that now Walking through the door at the back of Springs Branch into the shed. Just WOW.
Matching time and date in game to IRL and shunting at Preston in the 08 in the middle of winter in the middle of the night while freezing my arse off.
Love that! I think that's definitely part of the magic! Even if sounds or iterations of something aren't perfect that's still a place you've been too or an era you saw! Especially if it's a local station! I never got to see any of the Steam or BR blue era so seeing it recreated in TSW has been amazing! And seeing everyone's reactions to it!
Seeing Blackpool Branches for the first time. This was the quality I wanted to see from a TSW route and the standard that I would hold others to. That Christmas due to an unfortunate situation I spent a few days alone. I played this route all the time. I fell in love with the Pacer, a unit I had hated in real life! With the recent new timetable, I'm playing this route a lot right now. And then Just Trains did it again with Preston-Carlisle, giving me an electric loco at last! Getting to learn how to master the 87 (and now 86) has been a lot of fun and unlike some more modern trains, it's a great challenge to drive. Away from JT, the addition of the 380 timetable for Cathcart Circle. My favourite station in real-life, sometimes I would load up the game on the second screen while working and position myself at the end of a Glasgow Central platform, like a TSW-version of a web cam, and leave it playing.
Ha ha, me too - usually it's my old haunts at Carlisle or Preston (and now Crewe, and hopefully someday soon Workington!) - fun to just watch the to & fro isn't it!
I originally started looking at train sims because i wanted to try driving our giant freights, and settled on TSW2. My favorite memory is thus that first run on Sand Patch Grade, starting the train moving, juggling the different brakes down the inclines, and pulling to a stop at the end. I think I did several of those runs before I even tried the other routes.
So my favorite moments with TSW: First ... starting on the f*ing platform (sorry but after decades starting in the cab, it blew me completly out of the park) It is still awesome but unfortunately not used much. Maybe on Dresden in Meißen, or on Arosa, where you could take a nice walk. The first time I setup the TGV, when this thing started to make noises, wow I was emersed into the train and its power. 4up challenges - what a treat! The Bremen Oldenburg route, though not that accurate but I could put my self into the window of the DB-Building where my granddad had his workshop and I as a kid watched the action on Bremen HBF. Still one of my favorite place in the whole game And charity streams with Matt, seeing that there is still good in the world.
For me, getting Riviera Line in TSW (even if it is too modern). Driving a train through Newton Abbot on the Platform I used to train spot on as a kid in the eighties was brilliant. Also a highlight were a couple of mods which made a big difference to my enjoyment of the game. First Jetwash's Ini mods + God Mode. Second Live Weather and Route Annotations by Winzarten. Without those I probably wouldn't still be playing. In general anything by Just Trains. While the area isn't one I know well, it's my era and the details they put into their products are a real nostalgia trip for me. TSW is frustrating at times. But there are a lot of good things as well.
The first Class 170 service I loaded on the Birmingham to Crewe. After playing the Edinburgh to Glasgow and Birmingham Cross City, seeing New Street like that made me smile and genuinely speechless. In a similar vein, my first service on the Medway with the 375/3. I got to about 25mph and there was the really satisfying grumble from the traction motors. And the fog paired with the glow off the signal, didn't even notice it was red I was just in awe. Best spad ever. TSW still can make you just go..... *Insert Jeff Boomhauer sounds here*
The time I sat down on a Glasgow-bound train out of Waverley on Fife Circle, and then it just kept on going past the edge of the map, the whole way, across unfinished blasted moors lashed with rain, eventually dipping through the formless void on its way to "Queen Street".
I remember when DTG were branching out into the 1980s BR era with the release of North Transpennine and then Tees Valley. When they were released they were my most played routes, I loved that with NTP you didn't know what loco was going to produce on a freight or passenger working if you spawned on foot somewhere. I'd spend a bit of time on Batley station and you could hear the locomotive working hard climbing the gradient long before you saw it. Fantastic.
The joy of building a new route on the old one! Before an update takes it away, I suggest you run 5R29 for the Class 385 . It's off-map but you get points and a medal for it!
I think it has to be NTP too. Driving a class 45 (one of my favourite diesels) out of Leeds for the first time. Absolute highlight would be the 101 on NTP. It seemed so well made and detailed and first generation DMUs are my favourite trains. It seems such a long time ago when many were moaning at all these old trains which were being released and where were the modern routes and trains! I guess they aren't moaning now.
It's rare for us to see eye to eye, so it's nice when it happens lol, even now I enjoy thrashing a 45 up miles platting bank. Even better when it's on a heavy freight.
Thank you and i know it is a cliche but we are all united by a love for trains and driving them virtually. We aren't always going to agree and as long as we can agree to disagree then it's fine. Maybe one day we will see NTP bought up to TSW6 standards and we try tackling Miles Platting with better lighting and maybe a pair of class 31's.
The thing first came in mind, was the moment SKA had the new timetable and I stood on Koln HBf for the first time. Everywhere trains arriving and leaving, just like at a busy station irl.
What a nice thread and question! Really a shame we are not allowed to share these kind of stuff in here any longer… Anyway, many positive memories around this franchise, hard to remember, especially the older once. A couple of things come to mind, though: - There was an epic „German fright“ thread on here around the launch of DRA. For me the point I really started to dive into real life operations of German railways (again: this will not happen in this form any more with the general forum gone). - first time driving with the automatic conductor on the updated expert 101 - really strange one: sitting on a siding on KWG in the middle of the night with my freight train and being overtaken by other trains. It just felt so random, yet so realistic and it made me realise how a real driver must feel in these instances… - pretty recent one was first time manually coupling a train with the expert 145 DLC. There are probably lots more, however, those came to mind first. Thanks again for this thread, was fun thinking back
I really appreciate SKA more than I used to now that I have so many of the layers. Not a fan of the station in real-life, I'm often stuck there due to late trains and missed connections!
That'd be my wish too! Still love NTP and the 45 especially! I remember my first diesel route was TVL along with all of the DLC and I spent a good hour just trying to figure out how to use the 101! The braking was great fun to figure out! Hoping with JTs next route the 31 will get some love!
