I’ve heard a lovely rumour that there is a donkey hidden in every TSW route. I have looked for them but I haven’t found any. Has anyone found them all? Or any of them? Do they really exist? Any hints would be most appreciated. Maybe not exact locations so as not to completely spoil the fun or maybe just a link to an external guide if revealing the locations on here would be against the spirit of their existence.
That’s Anthony’s video. I probably would never have found that one. I have been going down little alleys and such on a few routes and there are some great little spaces but no donkeys.
On Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr when you´re driving towards Bochum: It´s right behind Mülheim (Ruhr) Styrum. It´s a drawing on a wall on the left side.
I found the donkey in West Somerset, and another one somewhere else, I don't remember where though or which route.
Yeah I’ve seen the one in WSR now but I read in another thread that some routes have more than one donkey, and I don’t know if that’s better or worse. More chance of finding one but no chance of knowing if you’ve found them all. I’m usually too busy driving the trains to go searching, but I find myself wanting to find them now and I haven’t managed to stumble on any by myself. More walking around and driving with external cameras from now on I think.
"Terrible things are happening to donkeys. Donkeys are often treated badly and over-worked..... until thier bodies then become broken* ... but that isn't the worst thing to happen to a donkey....... Donkeys are kind.... loy-al and trust-ing, and the thing that hurts a donkey the most.... is when you break a donkey's heart....." I heard the above in a rich Welsh accent from the TV in the background..... and this was followed by something like: "....And you can make everything perfectly okay again and bring joy and happiness to a donkey's heart.... just simply give £5 per month to the person that created this charity, and a small amount of your donation will be used to buy food for the donkey that we have imprisoned in our basement, which we sometimes use for our adverts, which we sometimes feed between periods of starving it so that it looks like it is nearly dead.... to make you feel as guilty as possible and encourage you to give us your cash....... ooops, did I say that last bit out loud.....?". *(and even more broken than the Class 89 on TS1, and that's saying something....!)
That’s why they run away and hide near railways. Not because they are badly treated, it’s because they don’t want to be associated with the charity scamverts. Give them £5 a month and they’ll be phoning you up every week asking for £10, then £20. The donkeys are above all that, and they love nothing more than seeing trains go by.
The would rather be in GWR 1st Class on a 43 but the children on-board would hassle it So it would rather look at it so it doesn't get hassled
...and this one is hilarious too- one funny post deserves another, huh? You and LastTrain are quite the pair this morning.
I was having a computer issue due to a Microsoft update, I have managed to fix the issue and have gained back access to my computer.
Found one a while ago on Long Island Railroad, located somewhere between Forest Hills and Jamaica (somewhere around Kew Gardens station): at some location you'll see a parked maintenance car beside the tracks. There is a secret path that goes down along the tracks and you'll see the donkey under the tracks behind a fence, just by a small body of water. It's also the only place where you can go into the water (spoiler: you don't swim, the water is basically just a texture). The location where the donkey is could be a drain since there's a fence and water right next to it.
I’ve looked all around Chatham on foot so maybe the donkey is one that you can only see from an external train camera so you can get high up enough, like the one in WSR. I’ll try that when I get a chance. I’ve been failing miserably in finding donkeys on routes.
I doubt they'll be anywhere near as obvious as on Phorum Peninsula on Train Simulator (or it might have been the LT Heritage Collection, I can't remember).
I've spent quite some time trying to find the donkey at Chatham. No luck unfortunately. It's either extremely well hidden, or its somewhere else and Matt mentioned the wrong station name
There are a pair of them, in bronze and on plinths, in SKA at the entrance to the Hohenzollernbrucke. (In real life those are equestrian statues of German emperors- DTG's little in-joke.)
Yes it's the LOD on console and the free cams limitation in movement. On PS4 Console you can't see it. Managed to glitch the free cam further out by changing to classic controls and near the London end of Chatham station above the tunnel entrance the camera can occasionally glitch free of its usual limits and you can get right up to the donkey. I'm wondering if other donkeys are also not visible on console because of the same issue. It's a small thing but it's quite fun hunting for them. Was quite fed up to discover PS4 can't even get to see the animal normally.
So, do I take it that you can walk out of the station on PC versions, because that’s not possible on PS4? Or is that the external camera in passenger mode? I escaped the normal bounds of the external cameras to take a good look around Chatham after not having any luck inside the normal playing area, and I still didn’t find it. I have now because of this post, but I’m not happy about the fact that it can’t be found without breaking out of bounds. I somehow feel cheated. Never mind, game over on searching for donkeys now.
There are ways and means it seems. I always try to glitch the external camera out of bounds if there’s something I want to have a closer look at but it only works in certain places. I managed to escape near Paddington to go and have a look at the front of the model of the station.
I managed to find an easy(ish) way around this. Stop a train at Rochester, select the free cam, then head towards the tunnel leading to Chatham. Head to the left of the tunnel entrance and you can force the camera up the side of the tunnel entrance. Then, you're out of any restrictions, so you can fly the camera over to Chatham to explore as much as you want.
Reminds me of the 'Equestrian Statue of the Duke of Wellington' in Glasgow - always has a cone on its head. (Albeit it's the Duke not the horse but it's iconic so it counts)