The Train Simulator Screenshot Contest has returned! This is the first week of 2021. This week's theme is: Freestyle You can vote for next week's theme in the poll attached to this thread. What is your choice? 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 mid-day Friday (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)
Loco: BR101 (out of shot), Route: Mittenwaldbahn. This is the Olympic Ski Jump at Garmisch Partenkirchen.
And to bring some warmth into our lives I present some summer sun. Class 450 and Class 455 on the Portsmouth Direct Line, London Waterloo to Portsmouth.
My first screenshot in this first 2021 contest. RhB GE 4/4 III Glacier Express departing Filisur for St Moritz in a pleasant summer afternoon in the Albula Line.
A pack of "Jaffa Cakes" cross the River Thames on the Grosvenor Bridge in front of the Battersea Power Station. Locos:- Class 421 (4CIG) with the Marketplace Jaffa Cake add on livery. Route:- South London - Brighton
A group of the PRR's finest motive power pose for a publicity photo one late night during the spring of 1952. Route Used: Horseshoe Curve Locomotives Used: PRR K4, EMD GP7, EMD F7, Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose, Baldwin DR-12-8-1500/2 Centipede
It's the Fall of 1972 and Amtrak's Rainbow Era is in full swing, as is apparent by the rolling stock seen in this screenshot. Here, the California Zephyr pulls into Chicago Union Station after a long journey from California, adorned with a rear-end observation car, originally built for the Western Pacific. An icon of a now bygone era. Route Used: The Racetrack - Aurora to Chicago Locomotive Used: N/A
"Climbing out of London Victoria" The 05:00 double headed Class 73 Newspaper train weaves its way through a duo of Class 421 Slam door commuter EMUs Circa 1970s Locos:- Class 73, Class 421 4-CIG Route:- Chatham Main Line
It's the beginning of another hard days work for 4 class 33s awaiting their first duties in the mid 1990s. Route: Portsmouth Direct Line Loco: BR Class 33
COVID 19 takes it's toll on train services, as a passenger waits at an empty Gatwick Airport Route: London to Brighton Loco: Class 377.
A winters day on the Arosa line, as the daily train waits at Lüen-Castiel. Route: Arosa Line. Loco:RhB ABe 8/12 Allegra
A pair of GP7s (Nos. 908/912) wait for the road as a loaded coal train hauled by F7 A+B+B+A combo passes by on the main lead by No. 810. Route: Clinchfield Railroad - Elkhorn City to St. Paul Locos: EMD GP7, EMD F7
Small clarification: there are never freight cars hooked up behind a Glacier Express (but sometimes a second GEX train or a regional train). Don't believe everything Thomson Interactive (now Rivet Games) has to offer ... lol
On one of the Britain's most scenic and remote routes: West Highland Line, WHL Class 37 loco, "Loch Eil Outward Bound" at Rannoch Station
A BR 111 runs through the beautiful Black Forest in southern Germany on the Villingen - Hausach extension.
Small airplane taking off close to West of Scotland Lines - The Port Road. Route: West of Scotland Lines - The Port Road
A Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 departs Baltimore towards Washington DC during an early spring morning. Route: Northeast Corridor: Washington DC - Baltimore Locomotive: PRR GG1
Some great screenshots, well done to all who entered. This weeks winner of the first week of 2021 is lord_raccoon with this great shot of a EWS Class 08. Congratulations. Have a good weekend everyone. Here is next weeks contest : https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/ts21-screenshot-contest-week-2-january-2021.33665/
Congrats Lord raccoon. Amazing screen. With a great sense of passion. The environment speaks for itself. Marvelous job. Well done.
Congrats Lord Racoon, i really liked to see the gronk my fav loco i bought recently in my loading screens.