Really!???!

I just looked at the latest DTG sale e-mail to hit my computer & had to laugh at this sales pitch for the TS (yes, I know this is the wrong forum) Chatham route: "Soak in the sights, sounds and smells of a venerable route with almost 200 years of history". Obviously, a sop to the "immersion"-ists.

{I just edited my OP to emphasize its point -- which only I have understood, apparently.)

 

I'm flabbergasted the DTG store is not showing me any TSW2 DLC or anything to buy at all the whole Saturday

 

Doesn't matter if you don't have a credit card anyway.

 

They don't accept debit cards? I got my first one around 14.

 

The DTG store accepts debit cards. It tends to get confused and not deliver codes when using paypal, it seems.

 

I've used PayPal with the store, no dramas.

 

Oh where, oh where, has my little thread gone?
Oh where, oh where can it be?
With its CC cut short and its DC cut long,
Oh where, oh where can it be?

A brief ode to those too poor to have their own threads.

 

Yeah, i've no idea why it went to complainign about the dtg store.

 

Okay, this thread/strange conversation made me giggle.

I'm glad there's no smell feature implemented (not yet?!) , especially when I think about tees valley.

 

Me too, imagine a four hour run on SPG with your conductor in a closed heated cab in the snow...

 

And it just keeps getting weirder . . .

 

Does anyone dress up as a train driver for immersion I wonder??? This is the thread for those people to come clean…

 

No. I do have orange high-vis clothing though, hmm. Only joking, I don't want track lubricant all over my room

 

I don't but I do wave at other trains coming the other way (I also do it in TS1 and OMSI and have done so for a really long time)

 

I also do this

 

haha chatham smells?! I'm sure it does

I like the smell of trians though

 

Afraid I only wear my hi vis when I'm working on the real railway

On the footplate I don't wear hi vis, when I'm working on track I do. Here are a few photos of my narrow gauge fun and my On30 models largely of the same railway.

It's kind of funny, I'll trundle up and down our 26km track at 15mph all day long back and forth but slow freight runs in train simulation bug me. Maybe I need a moving chair and a fan blowing hot air at me...



Paul

 

Glad I'm not the only one

 

Is that your own model collection, Paul? I used to have a Mamod steam traction engine, fifty-something years ago. I wonder what happened to it?

 

I still have two of them, both from ca. 1970. Had to adapt them to liquid spirit fuel, since the old fuel tabs can't be had any more.

 

Yes it is. I have rather a lot of steam engines ranging from simple wobblers up to a Stuart Beam Engine (the big one). I've got two Mamods - the traction engine and trailer you see in the photo and the roller. I've got a bunch of Wilesco engines too. They don't get run all that often but they all get checked and lubricated every year and they are totally stored dry. I've built up my collection over about 30 years .

Sadly the railway was built in a purpose built shed at our old house and it stayed there but all the buildings and rolling stock and trees came with me.

Paul