Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: Main lines 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. In order to qualify for the competition, screenshots must be taken from products published by Dovetail Games that are currently on sale. 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)
A southbound BR Class 450 meeting a northbound BR Class 377 on the south part of the Portsmouth Direct Line (2018 Revamp)
Route - Midland Line, New Zealand A trio of NZR EO class electric locomotives get underway from Arthur's Pass with a freight train bound for Otira. .
Oh I'm liking these entries so far. I've spotted about three or four I'd peg as winners. Good luck to all of y'all.
It's a busy morning on Donner Pass in the Summer of 1992. Here, we see an intermodal freight, headed up by a set of SD40T-2's, pass over Amtrak's California Zephyr, headed up by a pair of F40PH units near Bowman. Route Used: Donner Pass Southern Pacific Locomotives Used: Amtrak F40PH, Southern Pacific SD40T-2
Heading up a passenger train, a Pennsy K4 overtakes an RF-16 on the head end of a merchandise freight one sunny afternoon in 1956. Route Used: Horseshoe Curve Locomotives Used: PRR K4, Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose
Don't like being the bearer of bad news but if those are G-Trax's lightweights behind those F units, that disqualifies the screenshot due to those not being available through Steam.
It's alright. And it just disqualifies the screenshot itself. From how I understand the rules, you can put as many entries into a contest as you want, just so long as overall, you only you have two entries, meaning you can take down entries and replace them with new ones you view as better, or, as in this case, are within the limits of the rules.
A pair of Canadian Pacific AC4400's lead a loaded oil train eastbound across BNSF's Northern Transcon, during an early winter morning. Route: Montana Hi-Line Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Just delete your post with the screenshot you don't want, then post another. There's no point including a dud in your two screenshot limit.
I like to call this the 'smiley' train, for obvious reasons. Route: ECML London - Peterborough Loco: Class 365 Networker Express.
From Carlisle to Glasgow with headlights ablaze on a dull overcast day. Loco:- Class 86 Route:- West Coast Mainline North
I felt that Clapham Junction encapsulated a busy mainline scene. A sort of modern recreation of the famous steam era image. Route: PDL - Waterloo to Portsmouth Loco: (444, 450, 455 and 377 that came with route), Class 378, Freightliner Class 66 v2.0, Class 159, Class 442, Southern Class 455/8
Most of the entries so far seem modern so I thought I'd do a scene from the early 1960s. A Rebuilt Bullied Light Pacific brings a Southern Region service from Waterloo into Exeter St David's as a GWR King class brings in a Western Region express for Paddington. In the distance you will notice an N15 piloting another Bulleid Light Pacific up the 1-in-37 climb towards Exeter Central. Route: Riveria Line in the Fifties Locos: (King from Riveria Line in the Fifties), Rebuilt Light Pacific and N15 30777 Sir Lamiel.
DTG provides class E18 with Bm and Am coaches. The coaches in the screenshot would have been better in olive green and Berlin blue livery. That should fit the red livery of the V200
It is the career scenario the picture is taken from. I'll have a look later and see about the other wagons.
Summer holiday (vacation) memories! A Class 35 Hymek works a summer excursion along the Great Western main line on the Riviera route.
A Class 158 Scotrail DMU on the Fife Circle Line. Love the way it looks so tiny within the mighty frames of the Forth Bridge.
Since a lot of the shots are more modern, I've gone retro with a BR Green Class 27 and rake of five maroon coaches pulling out of Durham on its way to Darlington, on the Weardale and Teesdale Rail Network. No OHLE to spoil the nostalgic feel!
The view from the road bridge over Lancaster Station on a busy morning on the West Coast Mainline (Over Shap) Class 390 Pendolino x 2, Class 70 Freightliner, Class 325 Mail Train, Class 158
A conductor on a local working at Morgan watches from his caboose as a manifest rolls by on the mainline of the Wasatch Grade. Loco: F7 Route: Wasatch Grade
If there's a little icon next to the IMG, just right click it, and you'll see the option to either load the image or load it in a new tab. I've had the same thing happen to me a number of times.
Thank you to those of you that liked my previous offering. Sadly I have had to make a choice and decided to go with this shot of Milton Keynes Station on the West Coast Mainline South instead. I lived in Milton Keynes for 7 years and this image evokes memories. From left to right - Avanti Class 221 Super Voyager, London Midland Class 350 x2, Avanti Class 390 Pendolino, DRS Class 66
Looking for a bit of education. I am not fluent in US Railway but are Mainlines single track? Please correct me if I am in the wrong, but was of the understanding that Mainlines had trains running past each other in opposite directions.
Some mainlines are, yes. In this instance, the mainline is double tracked for a good chunk of the route, but the East and Westbound tracks separate and pass over each other at several points along the way. This is done as a result of the grade and is meant to reduce the steepness for certain trains. It's very common to see on most mountain passes.
Thanks for that, it is fascinating how different countrys differ when it comes to rail infrastructure