Something From Twitter + Undisclosed Location Countdown Stream

How are those new features?

 

Sparks from the third rail and OHLe were supposed to be new features for TSW according to JD's infamous teams message on the IOW preview stream a few weeks back.

Hentis

 

It’s quite telling that a simple lighting effect is considered a ‘feature’ for this release. The dynamic sky / moving clouds is nice, but also not really innovative or gameplay enhancing.

 

The tunnel entrance is very swiss like, according to photos on google. I think therefore this is an upcoming swiss route.

 

Ah, the tweets were all made up, They are only figuratively flying to the location of the live stream, into which they will be green screened tomorrow, and the camera equipment they were supposedly lugging is represented by that viewfinder overlay superimposed over the location which is just an in-game scene but is supposedly so much more realistic than previously we ‘could’ mistake it for live camera footage. Excellent trolling from DTG.

 

And the mystery continues!

(Which means this might be the longest route ever made for TSW, if so)

 

Any of the speculative routes 90 miles?

 

They sure take their announcements serious...​

 

It would be. To date the longest are Sherman Hill (76 total of both tracks), Clinchfield (63 with all spurs) and LGV (58).

 

The scene in the video looks pretty. Haven’t heard the sounds yet. Will have a listen shortly.

EDIT: Have now heard the sounds. I’m excited.

 

Well, DTG tries to build the hype with these teasers in the past (except for Rush Hour, someone accidentally published the webpage on the TSW site before it was announced), before it hits a disappointed wall for many peoples in the community.

 

Blues Clues, anybody?

(aka, this thread that was recently made)

 

Can anyone discern if the imagery in the video is UE5?

 

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/a-tiny-clue.57108/


I think someone guessed it

 

90miles is the next clue so that puts it in either US or UK. But what 90 mile US route is alpine with over head gantry? Unless it's a pre 1970s route where US lines experimented with electric wires.

Could we be seeing an Electric historic US fright line?

 

I would be surprised if they did a Great Northern or a Milwaukee Road route, as those are two with some mountain terrains in the northwest with some electric power back in their heydays, more so with MILW than GN.

 

The Pennsylvania was electrified

 

I will be highly annoyed if it's another Northeast US. I will swear to that.

However, been looking at the stream and there is this one rock formation that looks eerie familiar for some reason.


And yet, I can't even ponder on where it's from. (either that or it's just the lighting or the textures they used to make it look different)

 

pfft, not interested in the Penn. Conrail or no sale! :P

 

Lol!!! I'd love an 80's Conrail route though.

Afaik, there's never been any official Conrail content- i know the licensing might be tricky because the company still exists in zombie form.

I'd quit complaining about TSW for at least a year of they could pull it off!

 

CSAO have licensed out the livery in the past though, right? Like to Norfolk Southern for heritage units?

 

Uh...

Turtle?

(Just pooped in very randomly before disappearing)

 

"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"

 

Yeah that's true.....maybe there's hope!

 

To me it means something like Rosenheim Brenner line ÖBB Baureihe 1216 1116 4024 4124 4758 1293. Innsbruck has Vbf Hall in Tirol it's equivalent to Dresden Friedrichstadt. Own Rosenheim Brenner route. You will find that your train got an ÖBB 1216 1116 1016 instead of a 146.2 143.

Spoiler: ÖBB 1016 1116 achievements

1016 shares the Leipzig 182 achievements while 1116 gets the Hamburg achievement tracker. Basically another pathway to get the True Taurus 1820km by running ÖBB 1016. Hamburg Runs 1116

 

Meh. Rosenheim-Kufstein is the boring route into Austria

 

More Easter Eggs pooped up from the stream (may not be much, but eh, why not):



Just recently, after posting this:

 

JD is wanted lol.

The marketing is done very well

 

Don't know if I'm imagining this or not, but whenever the train sound plays it looks like something starts coming out of tunnel, but you can't really see the train that well.

 

Yeah, some are speculating that there is indeed a train hiding in that tunnel. I'm assuming that train will be the grand finally once the stream reaches 0 tomorrow.

 

There was a change when the countdown hit 18 hours, so after 6 hours, this would suggest 4 parts, maybe seasons? Hard to see difference other than the clouds changed direction but maybe is spring and summer so far, will see if trees change leaves after 12 hours of stream...

Actually maybe the wind changing direction was the whole point?

 

Major league trolling from DTG and just about everybody is feeding it. Fun, though, isn't it, even though I'm mostly just a spectator.

 

A umbrella just came past, possibly hinting that passengers might have umbrellas.

 

Surprised someone would lose their umbrella, let alone be flying near the tracks. I smell something hazardous from that.

 

I'm waiting to see of we get any night shots.

 

I Think its a European route those mountains are on the boarder of switzland and germany

 

hang on a tick, at the beginning of the stream there was a third (3rd) rail and now later on there isnt... something is rather odd here

 

Great point, it’s definitely missing now.

 

It's because the camera height is lower it's obscuring it:

 

This post might speak for itself (But might brace myself for what's included then)

 

Desert landscape 85 miles

 

90 miles, uk countryside? Preston to Carlisle?

 

A 90 mile British route, a 85 mile US route (based on the desert landscape), and presumably another one of a similar length, no wonder DTG hasn't been doing releasing routes that often.

 

BNSF Cajon Subdivision is 81 miles, but an extra 4 could be a branchline...

Edit: BNSF Mojave sub would also fit the biome, but is much longer.

 

who here thinks J D is adorable

 

Second Clue:

(Feels like I should put in Riddler's punchline just for gags, but nah)

 

WCML Over Shap Present Day Class 390 Freight Class 70 92 Sleeper Train with Mk5 Carriages. TPE Class 397.
The 1970s-1980s WCML Over Shap APT Class 370 Max Speed 125 mph C-APT Activated Max Speed 155 mph 250 kmh.
Jaimie Played the WCML Over Shap Class 370 APT on a Workshop Stream on 16 June 2021

 

I think I may have solved the code. I used an atbash decipher and rail fence decipher and got "pop_open_the_brolly" as the result

1. Input original code into this decipher https://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/atbash/
2. Input that result into this rail fence decipher (use 3 rails) https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/rail-fence-cipher
3. Input the result of that back into atbash decipher
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3

 

What on earth is that supposed to mean?

 

Apparently, a UK term for, get this, "Umbrella."

Not sure if this is right, but it is the closest to have an answer with real words from the code. (instead of more scrambled words, to be frank)