For those of you who have not seen this over at Steam Community. I recall someone posting this years ago over there, actually thought it was a Train Sim member...can't recall, anyhoo….this runs in Standard as well. Just make sure you have line of sight to the AI loco/consist and click on it. Easy peasy. broomwagon 11 Sep, 2019 @ 7:40am Great News - you really can freeroam! You're a freeroamer right? You build your own freeroams? You run layout style? You're one of the select group that really knows the scope of TS? But heck isn't it so frustrating - how on earth could it be that you can't move to locos beyond that 2km line of sight? Well all along it's been possible - courtesy of 'BeenTrain' for this info, but you can cycle to any loco on your set up, in scenario - anywhere. This is how you do it. 1) Go to your TS game icon in Steam 2) right click 3) Select properties and start up options 4) type -followaitrain 5) and save. Now start up TS and your freeroam scenario as normal. To get to the loco you want from the one you're in go to the external view (key 2) and press the page up or page down to cycle between locos. As soon as you get into a loco near the one you want to be in you can get to it by line of sight in the normal way. By going to the external view then page up or page down you can now get to any loco as you wish whilst in scenario.
Well, that's the problem though. Once you've clicked on one train, you're tethered to a 2km radius permanently. Let's say you're at a station wanting to go down a branch. There's a train parked at the other end, but it's outside of that tether. Before this little trick, your only other option would have been to commandeer a loco and drive down the branch to meet the train at the other end, but you can now just teleport there instead. Much faster and easier, and doesn't involve having to stash the loco somewhere.
