Train Simulator Classic Screenshots

ScotRail 318264 and 318261 takes charge of the 14:43 Airdrie to Balloch service as the train passes through Bowling, 2nd January 2025:

 

Installment 16 in a multipart chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger QuickDrive on Golden Age Developments' freeware West of England Mainline, phase 2, which extends tracks further eastward to Yeovil Town. Our journey begins there, stopping at all stations until the drive terminates at Exeter. Our train is powered by 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.

This installment. sees us depart Sidmouth Junction and travel toward Whimple.

Departing Sidmouth Junction Station:

En route to Whimple:

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i did a little funny lmao.
This is using a 377/2 dressing up as a /5 (They are kinda the same on the outside) and if /5s have went to Southern haha.

 

More for the laughs this one/ Yeah she really likes watching TS classic.

 

It's all about the puddle.

Winter on Horseshoe Curve:

Reflections:

Containers on a standard UK mainline:

Leaving Castle Rock:

 

Veteran train on the Trollhattan route.

 

Installment 9 in a multiset chronological depiction of a cloudy Autumn morning passenger run QD between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Picadilly (via Warrington Central). The train consists of Caledonia Works' LNWR Webb Coal Tank No. 1054, in preservation livery, pulling AP MK1 coaches.

All images are manipulated via Paint.NET (freeware image editor), Wondershare Filmora (payware video creator/editor), or both.

This installment sees us en route to and stopped at Warrington Central.

En route to Warrington Central:

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Stopped at Warrington Central:

Warrington Central station platform scene:


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This time I gave the Maerdy line a coke oven...so far this has been created

 

ScotRail 320304 and 318267 departs Dumbarton East while forming the 13:08 Balloch to Airdrie train on 8th January 2025:

 

Installment 8 in a chronological pictorial depiction of a stopping passenger service faux heritage rail-tour QuickDrive on AP's Wherry Lines - Norwich to Greater Yarmouth & Lowestoft, a somewhat recent purchase when these images were captured. To it is added AP's route enhancement pack. This is the most consistently visually appealing primarily rural route in my possession. So pleasing that I drove and captured images of four passenger runs in rapid succession. This series showcases the first of those runs, from Norwich to Lowestoft.

Motive power is Caledonia Works' "Single-Wheeler" GER P43 4-2-2 tendered steam loco, another recent acquisition when this run was driven, seen in its super-heated coal-burning variant. The train is, admittedly, not ideally suited for stopping passenger duty; the P43 primarily an express locomotive, the train overlong for the route's often small station/halt platforms. (Coach count is reduced for the remaining three runs.)

This installment sees us between Cantley and Reedham.

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A Cycle of Seasons
Usually I share pictures by newest first, but this one tells a little story of going through the seasons.

West Highland Line Extension
I feel like this is a good route for those sticking to Steam. The Class 37 gets boring inevitably, maybe one shouldn't play all scenarios at once but keep returning every once in a while. I ended up showing Mk1s thus far, which are essentially the same as before, however it supplies an updated, weathered version of several new wagons (OTA, PCA, TTA) and a couple new ones (lumber bulkhead flats). Makes sense to use these in place of the Kuju ones in custom scenarios. The DLC isn't perfect, though.

West Highland in Winter

EMD SD70 from Nevada towards Truckee:

Union Pacific Coal District:

How do you tell an engineer to keep going? Grain, grain, grain!

Class 47 railtour on the ECML:

 

The Orient Express in Bergensbanen Norway

 

150km/h...1222 meters above sea level

 

Installment 17 in a seemingly endless multipart chronological depiction of a mid-autumn morning stopping passenger service faux 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.

This installment sees us en route to, at, and just departed from Sandy.

En route to Sandy:

Stopped at Sandy:

Sandy platform detail:

Departing Sandy station:

We're likely still within Sandy, en route to Neots, which we don't arrive at until installment 19:


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An RJ Corman Leaser moving some empties.

 

Hellgate bridge approach with the NYC skyline in the background. This Amtrak Northeast Regional is preparing to leave Queens on it's way to the Bronx

 

AC44C6M:

 

Morning on the West Highland:

Passing a pond on Pacific Surfliner:

Perspective of an RF-16 on Horseshoe Curve:

How would the blue boxes look on Sherman? Never mind, these are the brown ones:

On the outskirts of the NJCL:

 

This being the beginning of another bout of nasty winter weather here in mid-south USA, it seems an appropriate time to begin posting images of a QuickDrive driven during late June of 2024, depicting a faux British stopping passenger service from Carlisle P3 to Castle Kennedy on a snowy winter day. Our train consists of two Caledonian coaches pulled by Caledonia Works 2023 remake of its CR123 4-2-2 single-wheeler steam locomotive with tender. To my happy surprise, the use of Winter cloudy-snow transformed the route's visually dated landscape into a thing of beauty. The result is possibly my largest screenshot series yet, and a personal favorite.

Carlisle Station, UK, platform 3. It is 0655 on a snowy winter morning. We await a 0700 departure:

Within Carlisle, not far beyond the station:

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An odd capture, but I like the lighting of the loco's body seen through a cab window, from a source hidden by the cab's walls:

En route to Gretna Green:

Stop 1 - Gretna (not so) Green:

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The late 1980s - the brief window between introduction of refurbished Class 37/4 to provide ETH supply on passenger services (and removal of steam-heat) and abolition of the traditional semaphore signalling to be replaced by Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB).

The southbound Fort William sleeper is seen wending its way across Rannoch Moor and descending towards Rannoch station, where it meets the afternoon Glasgow-Fort William passenger service. The crew will exchange trains here and work back to their respective bases. Of the southbound service, only the rear 4 vehicles will make it through to Euston. The restaurant car will be removed at Glasgow and attached to the northbound sleeper tomorrow morning for breakfast service, as will the leading passenger vehicles.








Route: West Highland Line (South)
Stock: AP Class 37 Pack 01 (37/4), AP Mk1 & Mk2A/B/C, WCML South (Mk3 SLEP)
Enhancements: AP Sky & Weather Packs

(This is a route that would benefit from application of AP's Vegetation Upgrade pack but this is probably beyond my capability.

 

Awaiting departure at San Martin station (zone 6 territory) along the Peninsula Corridor. Here we have a gallery bilevel cab car

 

Installment 16 in a multipart pictorial depiction of a mid-Autumn morning stopping passenger service Heritage Rail Tour QuickDrive, from Crewe to Holyhead, on North Wales Coast Line, 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 failed to capture adequately.

This installment sees us at Conwy and Penmaenmawr.

Departing Conwy:

En route to Penmaenmawr:

A glimpse of the coastline from whence the route aquires its name:

Stopped at Penmaenmawr:

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A couple more shots at Rannoch, approximately 2hrs and 30 years earlier than the previous set.
The 4.45pm Glasgow Queen Street to Fort William, which included a portion from Edinburgh Waverley with dining and observation car (although in reality not the Devon Belle Pullman vehicle!) restarts from the station and commences the final climb of the day, 1:54 towards Corrour. The train engine is a brand new BR Standard 5 recently allocated to Cowlairs Shed, and it is piloted by a very grimy Fort William K1 class which appears to be doing most of the work.




I really like the various LNER coaches from Matrix Trains, particularly in BR Carmine & Cream livery. It is a great pity that so few Thompson vehicles have survived in real life into preservation; a consequence of steel construction and resultant severe corrosion that they suffered in their lifetimes compared to the earlier Teak panelled stock of Gresley design.



Route: West Highland Line (South)
Locos: Peppercorn K1 (Steam Sounds Supreme), BR Standard 5 (Just Trains)
Stock: AP Mk1, Matrix Trains Thompson & Gresley coaches, SSS Gresley coaches (Stainmore)
Enhancements: AP Sky & Lighting upgrades

 

Express to Grand Central Terminal, calling at Stamford

 

Heading out to New Haven. Next stop, East Norwalk

 

The West Highland Line session was great, but it's time to Stop and move on to the next experience.

BR 189 duo howls to the moon:

BR 101 approaches Hagen Hbf:

Class 33 during BR Green times in the Wear Valley:

Not far from the above shot, a Class 101 on the ECML:

 

Marsdonshire Railways 166309 with the 11:00 Anstone to Marsdon Central train is about to call at Skelthwaite on Sunday 26 January 2025:

 

Experimenting with different lights. Interestingly, with the NJT headlights mod, the ditchlights changed but the top lights are default

 

A favourite CD diesel class (and it's most numerous) Cargo loco no. 742 077-1 trundles down the grade making its way from Horni Lipova to Hanusovice with 3 EAS wagons (log loads) and an empty tank car. The 742 class has an 883kW engine as standard but there are variants (rebuilds) with 1000kW. The standard 883kW version has similar duties to its BR equivalents (classes 24 and 26) but has no heating and a lower top speed (90kph). It is very similar in appearance to the American GP7s and runs long hood forward, some rebuilds even have a GP looking chop nose.

 

Installment 4 in a multipart chronological pictorial depiction of a faux "heritage" stopping passenger run QuickDrive, from Southampton to Bournemouth, on Dovetail's South Western Main Line: Southampton - Bournemouth. Motive power is Caledonia Works' LSWR 700 class 0-6-0 tendered steam locomotive. It pulls a short rake of LSWR coaches which, if memory serves, are from GAD's LSWR 6-wheel Carriage Pack 1, sold through CW (but don't quote me).

This installment sees us en route to, at, and departing Totton.

En route to Totton:

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The sign says it all:

Totton:

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Totton platform detal:

En route to our next stop, Ashurs New Forest:


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This train was preparing to climb the hillside in front of it.

 

Slightly unusual Pacific Surfliner Train 564 with a Dash-8 on point and two Phase 5 Superliners leaves San Juan Capistrano

Yard crew observes a worn SD40-2 leaving Massillon to Dover long hood forward

Very British Autumn with a gray Class 33 on the North London Line

NSE service with a revised paint scheme (horizontal stripes) Class 47 on the Portsmouth Direct Line

Prototypical Settle-Carlisle with a matching Class 33 in charge

 

Grand Central Class 180 on a 10:17 Sunderland to London Kings Cross working speeds past Sessay, south of Thirsk, on 5th February 2025:

 

BR 155 passes through Koblenz with a rake of Habbillns vans

EMD SD70M duo with a bloody nose climbs westbound from Reno towards Truckee

Class 33 on the North London Line - another grey loco pulling containers

EMD DD35 lashup on Sherman Hill
Kaiser Steel unit coal begins its descent from Cajon Pass to... San Bernardino or Barstow

 

NY Waterway ferry leaving Hoboken, on it's way to 39th St along Chelsea Piers

 

A few years back when NJT Comet IV Cab cars were leading NJT trains. Here is an express train headed to Hoboken Terminal, at Newark-Broad Street

 

Railfanning a trio of Northern Pacific SD45 and capturing a great view of the distant mountains miles away

 

Installment 17 in a multipart chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger QuickDrive on Golden Age Developments' freeware West of England Mainline, phase 2, which extends tracks further eastward to Yeovil Town. Our journey begins there, stopping at all stations until the drive terminates at Exeter. Our train is powered by 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.

This installment. sees us at Whimple.

En route to Whimple:

At Whimple:

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Whimple platform detail:

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TO BE CONTINUED . . .

 

At SoNo on the Danbury branch, waiting for the danbury shuttle to clear the tracks

 

Hudson line Local terminating at Greystone, waiting for indication to proceed as a semi express back down to Grand Central Terminal



Route: Hudson Line
Equipment: Metro North M7A

 

High Speed Freight vs High Speed Passenger - a 75mph intermodal Freightliner is no match for a 125mph High Speed Train. This is the ECML somewhere near St Neots, on a warm summer's evening. The WCML is shut overnight for engineering work so this Felixstowe-Coatbridge service is diverted via the ECML.

 

BR 155 with mixed cargo from Andernach to Bonn. This weather yielded better results than cloudy:

Dash-8 meet in Florida. Interesting to compare the front of each, like those "spot the differences" games:

EMD SD9 heads out of Provo to pick up the local (on the right edge):

Sister unit gets ready to distribute loaded gondolas to their respective facilities. Practical case study of the two weathers:

Class 33 with freight towards Faversham: