Train Simulator Classic Screenshots

Late evening service on Köln-Koblenz:

The Eastbound Zephyr meets a scrap train on Soldier Summit:

Alco RS-11 brings merchandise across the NS Coal District:

Autumn view on the North Jersey Coast Line:

A different autumn view - Grey All Around - on the East Coast Main Line:

 

Installment 6 in a multipart chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger service QuickDrive on Golden Age Developments' freeware West of England Mainline route, recently updated to "phase 2", which extends tracks further eastward to Yeovil Town. Our journey begins there, stopping at all stations until the drive terminates at Exeter. I considered using an official standard scenario for this first complete run on the extended route, but didn't want the hassle of keeping to a possibly tight timetable that might impede screenshot capture. That being the case, I elected to power the train with Caledonia Works' rendering of the LSWR 415/0415 class 4-4-2T steam locomotive, commonly known as the Adams Radial Tank. It is seen in Adams Brown Livery, pulling six LSWR coaches. The loco proved insufficient for the task at hand, though we finish the run, by means I'll divulge at the appropriate time.



Chard Junction Station:

Chard Junction Station:

Chard Junction Station:



ADDENDUM: My prior posting, featuring an LNWR Webb Coal Tank, has been updated, adding a new opening image and replacing three doctored images I ultimately decided were a bit garish with tamer doctorings of those same captures. (link) Click here to revisit that post (link)

RW Enhancer 2 (gimped due to serz.exe error), AP S&W2+Clouds

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

 

Talyllyn Railway Tattoo Class '4' 'Peter Sam' arrives west into Abergynolywn, Wales in the United Kingdom with 4 coaches operating a night time service originating from Tywyn Wharf stopping only at the signal boxes of Pendre, Brynglas, the station of Dolgoch for water and then finally at another signal box at the Quarry Siding before arrival at Abergynolywn travelling 6 miles. Usually; this locomotive is known as '4' 'Edward Thomas' but has been repainted into a Skarloey Railway 'Peter Sam' livery from the fictional Thomas & Friends TV Series to entertain children traveling on the railway at the time of this stormy Summer night service!

Loco: Kerr Stuart & Co. Tattoo Class
Route: Talyllyn Adventure
Scenario: PeterSam - Night Run to Abergynolwyn
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Don't know if the problem is on my end or yours, but I can't see your image(s).

 

A random thing, something with scripts... right click what seems to be the image file name and choose Reload Image.

 

Guess what I have been up to, for the last few days (in real life). You get one clue:

 

Hmm that's strange; it's a single screenshot as I didn't get any others from this run and it appears fine on my own computer but fails to appear on my mobile phone. I don't really know how to fix it; I have tried re-adding the screenshot a few times but doesn't seem to work.

 

Load the capture in an image editor and save it in another website-acceptable format. Use that to replace the original. I don't know that that will work, but don't know that it won't.

 

It is a JPG.
It works fine on my end.
This is the raw link, not sure what it will do: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/attachments/kerr-stuart-tattoo-class-36-jpg.157931/

Are you saying that the right click method doesn't work?
These forums have scripts or something to avoid loading pictures in posts not visible, and it sometimes fails. It affects everyone, including decrepitts, Blazin and myself.
I have no idea how to fix that on a phone.
Case in point, if your browser can show the image on that link, there is no problem with the picture.

Note, there is a funny character at the beginning of it: ...nts/%7Fk...

 

On the fictional Granfield Branch Line located in the United Kingdom; a hypothetical situation is seen depicting what the services would be like if this made up branch line wasn't to be closed by the infamous Beeching Act! On a dark summers night of 1992; Network SouthEast Class 166 '166204' forms a single set of 3 coaches and is seen illuminated by the light of a waiting freight train as '166204' pulls north into Granfield soon to head back south on a journey of 7 miles to Setterfield stopping in between 4 times at Culford Halt, Thenhill, Inchcombe and Elmtree Halt.

Loco: British Rail Class 166
Route: Granfield Branch Line
Scenario: Who Shot Dr. Beeching?
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Quick Drive on the route Newcastle-Edinburgh. LMS Coronation Duchess of Hamilton.

 

DB Schenker Class 37 '37703' departs northbound from Havant, England located in the United Kingdom on the Portsmouth Direct Line with 24 TTA tank wagons on a weekly fuel delivery service to Holybourne where the train will travel nonstop 36 miles to Guildford where it will be held to wait for trains to pass before it can continue onto the North Downs Line and the Alton Line to deliver the fuel to Holybourne during a wet Autumnal morning.


Loco: British Rail Class 37
Route: Portsmouth Direct Line
Scenario: Holybourne Tanks [Career]
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Signal Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

British Railways 5700 Class '5786' departs northbound from Perranwell, England located in the United Kingdom on the Falmouth Branch Line (now the modern day Maritime Line) with a short train of 4 empty wagons and a brake van for a return delivery of the wagons to Newham; on a short branch line nearby Truro traveling 5 miles on a lovely 1952 Summers afternoon.

Loco: GWR 5700 Class
Route: Falmouth Branch
Scenario: Newham Goods
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Black & White Versions to Suit the Era

 

London Underground District Line train arrives at Kew Gardens as the train forms the 12:52 Upminster to Richmond service:

 

Installment 8 in a multipart chronological depiction of a mid-summer stopping passenger service QD, from Carlisle to Settle, on DTG Settle to Carlisle route. Prime motivation for the run was to check out the then recently installed AP Veggie Pack. It also came to me that I've never featured Donington's Midland Rwy reskin for CW's GERT26 2-4-0 tendered steam locomotive. According to Rail Map Online, Settle to Carlisle was, in pre-grouping days, part of MidRwy. That, plus an absence of bona fide MR steam locos in my roundhouse, makes the reskin a logical choice.

Appleby Station. A series favorite, this image graces my Win10 Desktop Background folder:


By this stage of the drive, we have entered territory where scenery becomes uncomfortably sparse (for screen capture purposes). That said, it remains reasonably robust near the tracks, thanks partly to AP's vegetation pack:


RWE2 (gimped due to serz error), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

 

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe GE U28CGs '353', '350' and '358' find themselves in a unique position being the lead locomotives of the El Capitan passenger service heading westbound with 13 coaches over the Raton Pass in the United States of America. The train begins by departing from Trinidad, Colorado and heads through the mountains of the Raton Subdivision and crosses the state border into New Mexico into a stop at Raton after traveling around 24 miles on a lovely Summers day of 1967.

Loco: GE U28CG
Route: Raton Pass: Trinidad - Raton
Scenario: [SFC 1.03] El Capitan Westbound
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Hudson Line Semi Express M7A just left Yonkers. Here we are cruising by the Domino Sugar Factory just south of Yonkers. Next stop is Harlem-125th Street



Equipment: Metro North M7A
Route: Hudson Line

 

I have played and screenshotted this scenario already some time ago now but thought I would play it again to get some better screenshots since I last played the scenario a long time ago!
With the EMD GP9s beginning to become out performed by newer diesel locomotives; BNSF has chosen to take some of their leftover EMD GP9 stock from fallen flag railroads for scrap. BNSF EMD GP9 '1614' is the leader of this unique service with 5 EMD GP9s being coupled behind. The train departs northwards from Victorville on the Cajon Subdivision on a clear Summers afternoon and travels 32 miles without issue to Barstow where the locomotives will be taken apart for scrap with only a stop at Helendale in between to wait for a passing freight train.

Loco: EMD GP9
Route: Cajon Pass
Scenario: Switch Off
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

I took 2 screenshots on this run here that were similar to the ones I took from when I first did this scenario. It provides an interesting comparison on how my screenshot style and skills have progressed since a long time ago (maybe even just over a year ago now, I can't remember!) as well as the graphics improvements and changes I have made to the game since then with various external DLC and programs.

Old

New


Old

New

 

North Somerset Railway - 'The Mendip Line'
Spring Steam Gala Weekend

 

A lovely Summers morning during the 2010s sees Southeastern Class 375s '375610' and '375622' form an 8 coach train departing from London Victoria in England, United Kingdom operating eastbound service 1S24 to Ramsgate utilising the Chatham Main Line. The train is seen operating the 35 mile long portion of the journey to Gillingham where the train will be making 5 stops in between at Bromley South, Longfield, Meopham, Rochester and Chatham.

Loco: British Rail Class 375
Route: Chatham Main Line - London-Gillingham
Scenario: [375] 01. 1S24 0937 London Victoria to Ramsgate
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack + Alan Thomson Sim AP Track Enhancement Textures Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Signal Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Vegetation Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Installment 6 in a multipart chronological depiction of a mid-autumn morning stopping passenger service Heritage Railtour QD, from London to Peterborough, on ECML London - Peterborough route. Motive power is Caledonia Works' GER T69 4-6-0 tendered steam loco, seen in LNER B12 Lined Black Livery. It hauls what QD terms the 1936 Queen of Scotland Coach Set. As such, I selected Queen of Scots for the loco's headboard. We travel the "slow" track, allowing stops at all stations en route.

Hadley Wood station:

Hadley Wood:

Station detail:

Departing Hadley Wood:


RWE2 (gimped due to serz error), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

 

Early morning stock move from Koblenz to Köln:

A Class 5MT (Black Five) in passenger / express colors brings maroon Mk1s up from London to Peterborough

A Baldwin RF16 duo assembles a train at South Fork (no Ewings in sight), just off the main (Horseshoe Curve)

EMD F7s lead on the main:

A Cheyenne view with some hopper silos (it's all about the bottom, although for wagons I distinguish between open and closed top):

 

Metro-North Railroad GE P32AC-DM '213' has completed maintenance inspections and servicing at Metro-North's workshops at New Haven, Conneticut in the United States of America and is now ready to head out again for service on a 2017 Spring night. '213' begins by shunting together a consist of 3 Shoreliner III coaches and departs on an empty stock service southbound from New Haven traveling 30 miles to South Norwalk on the New Haven Line integrated into the Northeast Corridor where the train will be stowed overnight before tomorrows service on the Danbury Branch Line.

Locos: GE P32AC-DM, Bombardier Shoreliner III Cab Car
Route: NEC: New York-New Haven
Scenario: [NYNH 2.09] MCNR Danbury Deadhead
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Transwa Prospector departs Bonnie Vale with the 14:05 East Perth to Kalgoorlie service on a Sunday evening:

 

National Railway Museum Gresley Class A3 '103' 'Flying Scotsman' departs from Brighton, England in the United Kingdom hauling 6 British Rail Mark 1 coaches operating a Brighton Main Line rail tour headed north for London Victoria on a rather gloomy Summers afternoon. The train will be making 3 stops in between Brighton and London Victoria stopping at Three Bridges, East Croydon and Clapham Junction to pick up additional passengers and to please railfans with photo opportunities! The train traveled mostly without issue; only having to face adverse signals from Brighton to Three Bridges while following a regular Southern passenger service and traveled approximately 50 miles on the journey from Brighton to London Victoria.

Loco: LNER Gresley Class A3
Route: London to Brighton
Scenario: Seaside Tour
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack + Alan Thomson Sim AP Track Enhancement Textures Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Vegetation Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Signal Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Here's a one-shot preview from a still-ongoing drive chronicling a passenger run from Bristol to Swansea, the train headed by CW's take on the GWR class 43xx "Mogul", seen in Brunswick Green (Brunswick Sepia?). We see the train pulling out of Llandhara station, well into the run:

I've amassed such a large stockpile of not-yet-posted multi-installment image sets that this capture will likely not see the light of day again for half a year or more.

RWE2 (gimped due to serz error), APS&W2+Clouds+Veggies. Image doctored in Paint.net.

 

London Midland Class 323 '323211' forms a 3 coach southbound service on the Cross-City Line beginning at Lichfield Trent Valley, England located in the United Kingdom departing just after midday on a stopping service to Bromsgrove. The train will be making 21 stops in between; one of which being at Birmingham New Street where '323211' will couple up to the rear of London Midland Class 323 '323244' also consisting of 3 coaches resulting in a 6 coach long consist for the rest of the journey south to Bromsgrove covering around 31 miles over the journey on this lovely Summers day.

Loco: British Rail Class 323
Route: Birmingham Cross City Line: Lichfield - Bromsgrove & Redditch
Scenario: 4. [323] Across the City
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack + Alan Thomson Sim AP Track Enhancement Textures Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Vegetation Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Signal Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Installment 7 in a multi-set chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger Heritage Rail Tour QD, from Newport to Shrewsbury, on Welsh Marches Line - Newport to Shrewsbury. Motive power is provided by a Caledonia Works GWR 3031 Achilles class 4-2-2 tendered steam loco, commonly known as a Dean Single.




Leominster station detail:

Departing Leominster:


RWE2 (gimped due to serz error), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

 

CSX manifest on the B&O Mountain Sub.

 

Part 1 of 2
The Pennsylvania Railroad is hoping to win passengers back from the ever developing automobile and highway industry with this latest offering of a light-weight streamlined train from General Motors. This results in the extremely unusual looking Pennsylvania Railroad EMD LWT12 '1001' operating a westbound Aerotrain passenger service headed for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States of America with 9 of the specialised Aerotrain coaches converted to rail use from bus bodies and is seen departing Altoona just before midday and travels 14 miles on the Pittsburgh Line to Cresson where it will stop for passengers during a clear Winters day of 1956.


Loco: EMD LWT12
Route: Horseshoe Curve
Scenario: 01. Aerotrain to Pittsburg Part 1
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Autumn Quick drive scenario with diesel Class 37/4 + 3x MK1 Couches West Highland on West Highland Fort William - Mallaig route.

 

2) Caledonian Canal from Neptun Staircase
3-5) Neptun Staircase on Caledonian Canal

 

II
Autumn Quick drive scenario with diesel Class 37/4 + 3x MK1 Couches West Highland on West Highland Fort William - Mallaig route.
1) Scenic view of Loch Eil
2) Along the coast of Loch Eil
3) Climb to Glenfinnan
4) Glenfinnan Viaduct - Hogwarts Express

 

After having to reinstall my game and all my mods (still in the process of doing), I ended up with a bit
more space on my PC, so naturally the first thing I did, was grab the AP cloud pack.

Threw it onto a few US routes, with the original Feather River Canyon line being one of them. Coupled with my reshade preset, this was the result.

 

Installment seven in a multipart series chronologically documenting a mid-Autumn morning stopping passenger service Heritage Rail Tour QuickDrive, from Crewe to Holyhead, on North Wales Coast Line route, acquired during Steam's Winter 2023/24 sale. Having belonged to LNWR in pre-grouping days, I power the train with a favorite steam-era loco, Caledonia Works' LNWR "Greater Britain", No.3435 "Queen Empress" to be exact, seen in Lilac & Cream livery. Though Greater Britain looks to be a conventional 2-4-2 tendered locomotive it is, in actuality, a 2-2-2-2 compound loco. It pulls four LNWR coaches, the last of them an observation coach, which I fail to get a decent capture of.

Y Fflint station:

Y Fflint:

Y Fflint:



RWE2 (gimped due to serz error), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

 

BR 101 with a short but heavy consist soon approaching Andernach:

The dice decided - theme of the week is Donner Pass. Here is an EMD SD45 entering Reno:

A black widow EMD F7 set eastbound on a spring day:

SP keeps stacks on the move all seasons long, here with EMD SD40-2 variants:
(SP didn't have non-T SD40s, mistake aside the pretence might be it's a GP40 or SD50)

Look, lots of grass! - said me when taking this I guess. The GP35 was struggling with the 30 TOFC flats, but made it to Truckee:

 

Part 2 of 2
Pennsylvania Railroad EMD LWT12 '1001' departs westbound from Cresson, Pennsylvania located in the United States of America with the 9 specialised Aerotrain coaches just before midday and continues the journey to Pittsburgh seen traveling approximately 22 miles without issue to Johnstown on the Pittsburgh Line to pick up a further set of passengers on a cold Winters run of 1956 where the Pennsylvania Railroad is trying out this interesting experiment, if you would call it that, to see if they can win back passengers from the automobile!

Loco: EMD LWT12
Route: Horseshoe Curve
Scenario: 02. Aerotrain to Pittsburg Part 2
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

6M49 Mossend - Carlisle Kingmoor with the awesome 92....

No Pics at Mossend but here we are stopped at Abington Up loop



Nice GBRf repait! 92 looking good!



Pendolino passing at about 100....



Sadly 2 miles further south I get a message that an AI service has an incident somewhere and the scenario ends prematurely, I have no idea how to fix it!

Different Mossend run that works to follow.....

 

Here we join 6O60 at Mossend for a complete run to Carlisle.....

92025 looking good at just gone 5am with a rake of ICA`s



I love this shot of the loco in the morning light!



Continued.....

 

Stopped at Beattock up loop for some morning services to pass heading south,,,,,




Continued......

 

I love the ICA`s, the colours of the NACCO logo and the details of the wagon!



A voyager zipps by....

Metal Bridge just north of Carlisle....

I walked under the above bridge and over the below footbridge a few weekends ago walking the Coastal Path from Gretna Green

92025 Oscar Wilde has a break at Kingmoor Departure siding Carlisle

 

Talyllyn Railway Tattoo Class '4' 'Edward Thomas' with 4 coaches begins at Brynglas, Wales located in the United Kingdom receiving a token for continuation east on an Autumnal midday 3 mile run to Abergynolwyn with two stops in between at Dolgoch for passengers and the Quarry Siding for another token allowing procedure eastwards on the Talyllyn Railway.

Loco: Kerr Stuart & Co. Tattoo Class
Route: Talyllyn Adventure
Scenario: Brynglas to Abergynolwyn
Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade

 

Another one-capture preview from me, one of the final views in an upcoming four-installment documentation of an evening/night passenger service on Wherry Lines - Norwich to Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft. The train consists of a (CW) GER P43 single-wheeler pulling (SSS-MT) GER coaches. We see a dark and moody closeup of the train as it enters Great Yarmouth Station, its terminus:


RWE2, AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies+AP's enhancement pack for the route (which looks phenomenal when you can see past the end of your nose).

 

An early morning scene in summer 1989. The (in)famous 07.12 Newton Abbot-Exeter St Davids rounds the curve into its booked stop at Starcross, hauled by two of Laira's finest. It's going to be a long hot summer's day.

 

Winter evening service with a 455 to Guildford - love the sky!

 

An Amtrak Vermonter headed towards Stamford on a nice partly cloudy afternoon

Route: New Haven Line
Equipment: Amtrak ACS-64