Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: Major Mainlines 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 Monday 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 Monday (UK time). The winner will be chosen every Monday. 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)
A Southern Pacific Merchandise train meets a Santa Fe Stack train near the Monolith Cement Plant on a clear morning, sometime in the mid 1990's. Route: Tehachapi Pass: Mojave - Bakersfield Locomotives: EMD SD45-2, GE B40-8W, GE C40-8W, EMD SD70M, EMD SD40T-2
The eastbound Southwest Chief meets a Westbound Santa Fe piggyback train on a spring morning in the mid 90's, just east of Flagstaff on the Southern Transcon. Route: Arizona Divide: Winslow - Williams Locomotives: GE P40DC, GE Dash 8-32BWH
The Black Butte Subdivision is part of UP's main north-south transcon line on the west coast. Here, train OCAAC, an oil train from the Alberta Oil Fields in Canada to Bakersfield, CA, roars northward behind 4 CP units, a fairly common occurrence for this train. Route: Mount Shasta Line Loco: SS AC4400CW
What is a major mainline? Is it an electrified, at least four track section of a route that is seeing ten to thirty minutes per direction per hour, no cheating with passing sidings (Edinburgh-Glasgow) or station entrance situations (Hagen North), and the shot ideally including an at least three way meet. I know it's like overthinking, but it's not just "main line".
I thought that an important part of a screenshot should be that it is able to be seen. It’s Saturday and 50% plus are not.
At the moment all seems ok for me. I can see rhe images. No worries. Typically if you come back later and try again all will be fine.
Either commenting on the thumbnails, or he got bitten by the bug I often experience - the forum doesn't load the pic and all you can see is the short filename. F5 usually helps, it's likelier to break when you navigate to a # link, meaning a post. I mostly get it in the screenie megathreads.
90011 passes 360109 with a service into London Liverpool Street Route: Great Eastern Main Line: London - Ipswich Locos: GEML Class 90, Class 360 EMU
90011 passes Marks Tey with 1P21 Norwich to London Liverpool Street Route: Great Eastern Main Line: London - Ipswich Locos: GEML Class 90
Some brilliant shots of Major Mainlines, well done everyone! This weeks winner with this lovely shot of New York, New Haven is malikrthr, Congratulations! Have a great week everyone. Next weeks contest : https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/tsc-screenshot-contest-october-2023-week-41.75481/
