Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: Reproduce a photo This weeks contest will end early and the winner will be announced on the 24th December. We will continue the competition again in the new year. Follow us on Instagram (instagram.com/trainsim) to see your screenshots featured on our feed! How does it work? You can submit your screenshot to the thread, and every Friday we will choose which screenshots will go to the loading screens. Shortly after, we will open a new thread and announce the winners. Each week has its own theme which is voted for by the community. Competition Rules: Limit is 2 screenshots per person; 1 screenshot per post. Include in your post the route the screenshot was taken on as well as the name of the train (if applicable). Screenshots must be in a 16:9 resolution, at least 1920x1080 pixels. Screenshots must fit the theme of the week, as stated at the beginning of this post. Other Rules: Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam Store or Dovetail Store is not shown in the screenshot. - This means no reshade, repaint mods, track upgrades or workshop routes. View excluded content: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/screenshot-contest-excluded-routes-and-locomotives.31092/ Your entry may be disqualified if it is deemed to not follow these rules. Please limit chat to only when absolutely necessary. Competition closes at Thursday 24th (UK time). The winner will be chosen every Friday. Winner's Prize: The winning screenshot will appear in the game as a loading screen for 4 weeks! T&C: Please refer the terms and conditions for this competition here: https://dovetailgames.com/competition-terms-and-conditions/ Note that by submitting an entry to this contest, you are consenting to us using your screenshot as a loading screen and showing it on our social media channels (such as Instagram)
New Haven train 76 crossing the Warehouse Point bridge, Roger Puta. Route: Springfield Line Locomotive: New Haven FL9
IER "Red Car" departs San Francisco's Transbay Terminal, 1939 Route: Sacramento Northern Loco: IER Red Car
One of O. Winston Link's classic night time photographs on the N&W re-created on the Union Pacific. - A trio of locomotives sit under the coaling tower between runs one late night in the mid 1950's. Route Used: Union Pacific's Wasatch Grade Locomotives Used: Union Pacific Big Boy, Union Pacific Challenger, Union Pacific FEF-3
A railroading event for the ages! - To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1989, a number of vintage railroading equipment was brought in to the station for display. The main stars of this event were Union Pacific 8444, and Southern Pacific 4449. The two locomotives made their entrance in style as they arrived at the station running side-by-side. Route Used: Pacific Surfliner Locomotives Used: Southern Pacific GS-4, Union Pacific FEF-3
A 2nd Generation Veranda GTEL with B-Unit helpers heads west, passing by 1st Generation GTEL heading east on the lower track at Curvo, Utah. Route: Wasatch Grade Locomotives: Union Pacific "Standard" GTEL, Union Pacific "Veranda" GTEL, EMD GP30B
Southern Railway Class N15 "Sir Lamiel" crosses Ribblehead Viaduct in 1982. Due to unavailability of white green mk1 coaches I replaced them with BR blue coaches. These coaches come from Woodhead Line DT MK1 coaches. Loco: N15 King Arthur Class ‘Sir Lamiel’ Route: Settle to Carlisle
Crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct. Loco:- LMS Stanier Class 5 (Black 5) 45157 Route:- West Highland Line Extension
"Ticket to Ryde" a Reproduction of a photo printed in the times (Link to original article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...vintage-trains-on-the-isle-of-wight-knfhbr95d) Loco:- Class 483 Route:- Isle of Wight
A recreation of a recreation. Original photo (1995 Train Magazine) taken of PRR Alcos, next photo of Conrail Geeps. Due to the lack of Conrail content in TS, I set the recreated photo in modern times, continuing the trend of the photos in the article. ES44AC, C44-9W Horseshoe Curve
Yes, my shot has a P42 because I don't have a F40PH in my arsenal yet. Also since the articles pictures were from 1995 when Conrail roamed the line, and there isn't any Conrail content (besides the NS heritage unit) I decided to modernize all my recreations.
I found this photo on https://www.railpictures.net/photo/400065/: It is not exactly the same train but here we go Route: Salt Lake City Route Extension Train: GP40-2 in D&RGW livery + Piggyback trailers
Norfolk Southern #1066, the New York Central Heritage Unit, leads #1065, the Savahnnah & Atlanta Heritage unit, and a empty coal train down Main Street in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. US 40 crosses on the bridge in the background. Route: Norfolk Southern Coal District Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe "Norfolk Southern Heritage Units"
Two UP ES44AC (i dunno if it's the exact same loco) with mixed freight cars crossing the Pulga Bridges. Route: Feather River Canyon Locomotive: GE ES44AC Original picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Feather_River_Route_bridges.jpg
This is taken on the route Tadami Line: Aizu-Wakamatsu - Tadami, with the included KiHa 140 DMU, the first Japanese DMU in the game. Hope for more Japanese content in the future! The original pic was from: http://kam-r.sub.jp/saruru/gamoeki.html
The KiHa 130 was 1st, as it was released in 2017. Also the DMU for the Tadami Line is a KiHa 40, not 140.
Where did you get that GWR 158, if it's a 3rd party that it's not allowed in the contests according to DTG Jamie's post
Some amazing recreations of photos well done all. And thank you all who entered the contest this year, have been some great screenshots. This weeks winner is Blacknred81 with the brilliant recreation of the GTEL on the Wasatch Grade. Have a great Christmas and have a great holiday everyone. The Screenshot contest will return next year.
A particularly high standard this week- congratulations to Blacknred81. When I suggested this as a topic I said reproduce a photo' or film still (though it might be tricky to post a still for comparison). Can painting be added to that? Cuneo on his own would provide plenty of inspiration. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and be well everyone.
How did you manage to get the same picture in the same second? It is amazing. Must be the best picture of the year
Congrats BlacknRed81 once again, real life vs virtual shot looks awesome and quite similar minus the real life photo having a different train that looks like GP9 instead of GP30B.
Yeah, they look like GP9Bs. But I'm not complaining. The shot still looks absolutely stunning Blacknred81
Yes, I believe the original photos had GP9Bs, but we don't have those in game anywhere, and I didn't want to use the UP GP9 in the GP9 pack, so I went with the GP30B's instead.