Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: United States 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 1 week! (Please Note since the new update which changes loading times we have decided to change it to 1 week) 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)
Jumpstarting by reposting two shots of the EMD SD40-2 UP Independence / United Way. The first is from its Sherman Hill scenario, Second Section Stack:
... and this second is my favorite type of screenshot, colorful train and lots of green. Norfolk Southern Coal District is a great, lush route for such runs. Behind the United Way engine is an EMD GP35 in standard UP livery, from the DD35 pack.
Route: Clinchfield Railroad Train: GE P42 DC Phase I 50 year anniversary/ Phase V. A unique service passing on the clinchfield railroad not far from Elkhorn.
Amtrak's Train #97, the Southbound Silver Meteor, makes its way southbound towards Washington DC, on a late fall afternoon. There, the electric ACS-64 will be swapped for Amtrak's venerable P42's for its continued journey south to Florida. Route: Northeast Corridor: Washington DC - Baltimore Locomotives: Siemens ACS-64
Here we are back in the 1960s on Penn Central and Pennsylvania Railroad with triple traction of EMD GP9 locos with a heavy freight train passing Longmeadow station. Locos: EMD GP9 Route: VNHRR Springfield Line I am happy we got Penn Central and Pennsylvania Railroad DLC because I love that epoch
December 22nd, 1975. Southern Pacific 4449 leads the American Freeedom Train with the help of 3 tunnel motors up and over the Tehachapi Mountains en-route to Southern California, where the train would be on display in multiple cities, before continuing its tour of the US east. The AFT toured the US starting on April 1st, 1975 in Wilmington Deleware, and ended December 31st 1976 in Miami Florida. The train toured the country to celebrate the US's Bicentennial, SP 4449 was the 2nd loco to pull the consist. Route: Tehachapi Pass Locomotives: Southern Pacific GS-4, EMD SD45T-2
A Rio Grande F9 haulded California Zephyr passes a D&RGW GP9 road switcher on the Soldier Summit Route
I've used this picture from Soldier Summit in a previous competition- didn't win obviously but I quite like so giving it another chance.
Another picture, this time from Sherman Hill, that I made for a previous competition and like enough to offer again.
Thank you very much. I like your pic's too although I wonder if the first one is strictly eligible- it looks as if you've done some post-processing on it and the contest rules say no third part content or modifications including reshaders. I know that doesn't explicitly rule out zhuzhing up a picture in Photoshop or WHY but I think the idea here is to show what TS itself can do in its basic form. I suggest you check with the referee. For your second pic' I think you just had the sepia filter on in the camera options which should be fine.
It was only that I liked that picture how it is now but I also have it on the computer in normal black and white. So maybe better change it to that instead. Now have changed the picture.
Amtrak's California Zephyr heading across Soldier Summit. Locomotive: EMD F40 Route: Soldier Summit- Provo to Helper
Amtrak's Southwest Chief leaves Chicago Union Station heading towards it's first stop at Naperville. Locomotive: P42DC Amtrak Route: The Racetrack-Aroura to Chicago
This was only up for a short time last week, so I think it deserves another try. It's a hot summer afternoon at San Clemente Beach and a F59PHI heads south on the Pacific Surfliner® LA - San Diego route.
Locomotive:Csx Ac6000cw Route:Norfolk Southern N-Line Csx 638 Leads A Manifest Through A Forest On The Norfolk Southern N-Line
Some awesome shots of the US everyone, well done all. This weeks winner with fantastic shot of a Southern Pacific GS-4 is Blacknred81, congratulations. Have a great weekend everyone. Next Weeks Contest : https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/tsc-screenshot-contest-week-26-july-2022.56397/
