anyway, if you own Frankfurt Fulda, then you can check out my Ukrainian themed livery for its version of 146.2 loco ... quite proud of it, actually... if I somehow manage to get Ukrainian script in there, it might get even better Waaaaagh (yes, I am also a fan of WH40K, the lore, the merch, the video games and such, not much into the books or tabletop cos I suck at painting lol - and my fav chapter is Ultrasmurfs, ehm, Ultramarines, cos they are one of the few almost good guys kinda bros... but yeah, Orks are hilarious )
I am not a railway enthusiast, and I didn't pay attention to railway games in the early days. I started playing from TSW2. I don't know why I particularly like American Heavy Freight. Now I really hate TSW's route development. After years of accumulation, it still takes an immeasurable amount of time to develop long-distance routes. After the release of TSW's route editor, enthusiasts can also develop the routes they want, but for one person, this is a difficult process. I have always wanted to ask DTG, why after so many years of accumulation, the difficulty and time of development are still insurmountable, is there no development tool that can greatly reduce the difficulty and time of route development? In terms of development difficulty, the surrounding landscape often takes up a lot of time for developers. Is there a more direct auxiliary plug-in that "directly uses existing resources" to automatically generate realistic scenery?
Now is the AI era, why don't we have AI-assisted tools? It can give lonely developers a head start in time. I have been waiting for DTG to make a breakthrough in the reload route. DTG has been trying to get players to spend more money to buy DLC with shorter threads.
Hi all The names James, I'm from Wales and work for a wee preserved railway ( and I'll only ever drop hints about which one it is) I know too much about Icky pacers, sprinters and dream of the day my little line gets our steamer back form the flower mill!! ( just need a lottery win to finish it off!/ curse you llangollen!! you know what you did ) my life currently revolves around the rail preservation world ( and mad family lol) but I love flying and shooting as well. love the idea of saying a dream DLC! mine would be to see all the narrow gauge steam railways in Wales done in the beautiful TSW, but if I had too pick one it would be the Welsh Highland. I'd love to see the garrets thundering around Snowdonia in the game, it would make for some amazing screenshots! (I've been looking into it myself and turns out I vastly underestimated the work needed to do it lol) a wee note to the Devs if they look at this. Keep up the good work, I'm not interested in non British lines but I get that international interest is there. but being selfish I want more British locos, more STEAM! and routes set further back in time than the 1950s TSW could be such a wonderful tool for the rail preservation space. also give me more shunters, more interesting complex yards, long runs with heavy goods trains and failures during services. I'd love to randomly have to deal with losing half my power, vacuum leaks, trains ahead running late or failing and doing thunderbird duties. The possibilities are ENDLESS!! in short more variety
Don’t post in these forums very much anymore but my name is Ben, from South Yorkshire, I’ve been playing TSW since it came to console. Ended up switching from PlayStation to Xbox and have been an Xbox beta tester for the past few years after it was advertised via these forums,
Oi Oi, Sorry I’m late to the party everybody. I’m Jack, I’m a Autistic lad from Wallsend near Newcastle Upon Tyne UK (obviously), I’m 20 in July and like most other people here, I like trains. My passion started from the very beginning, with classics like Thomas the Tank Engine and Chuggington, ah the nostalgia. Growing up, I didn’t get a iPhone until High-school, an old 4S (old by 2017 at least). We had strict rules growing up on technology, I had classics like the PS2, Wii, 3DS and the PS3. So iPhones and the Internet didn’t really become available until High-school. I was never a social butterfly, Autism gives you communication difficulties (not lemons unfortunately). Through it does mean I become hyperactively focused on not tripping the TPWS… I’ve always been the odd one out, interest wise, Fortnite, Call of Duty and FIFA, no thanks. Primary School was nice, High-school, not so much. After High-school I did Sixth Form there (the school failed us all), so after two years I went on to Newcastle College, where I am currently enrolled on a Level 3 Rail Engineering Course (due to start a Level 4 Uni degree in September). My TSW story begins on a Christmas when among the usual horde of presents, there it was, my first realistic train sim, TSW … 1, it was literally called TSW, it wasn’t until 2020, did it become TSW 2020. Over the years my collection of UK content has grown, as has my knowledge and techniques for train control. I have owned every single piece of UK TSW content up to 4’s Fife Circle. My other interests are in series such as Star Wars, Kane Pixels Backrooms (and others), Cars, Terraria, Minecraft, and my most recent, streetlights. As for my favourite TV show, it’s got to be Top Gear(S2-22)/The Grand Tour. As for trains I have been on in real life, there is the Tyne and Wear Metro, which I have covered rather throughly and I believe I have been on every Metro-car, and the 555’s currently in service. I currently use that to commute to College. The ECML between York and Edinburgh is another section of railway I have travelled on many times over the years, whether to Edinburgh, Berwick, or the NRM. I recently travelled on the Border Union Railway as far as Newtongrange on a Turbo. I’ve been on old school InterCity 125’s and 225’s, to modern Voyagers and Azumas. We also have a short Heritage Railway close by which was originally a Waggonway, then became a test track for the Metro in 70s. Oh, and heres a still of one our veteran Metrocars at my local Metro Station, Hadrian Road.
I ain't revealing my name lol I'm an Italian person from the city of Turin, and have been a train enthusiast pretty much since I can remember. I started my TSW journey in the long gone year of 2021, when I bought TSW2 for 85% off during a March Madness sale. However, I quickly got bored of just being on the main three routes, and the laptop I had at the time was a potato laptop, so I stopped playing it after a while. Eventually, I got back to the scene by getting TSW5's free starter pack, and since then, I actually bought a few DLC (mainly German/Austrian, though I did pick up Sherman Hill when it was free). And btw, now I have an actually good gaming laptop that handles TSW like a dream (but the usual stuttering is there anyway). I just hope that one day, DTG will obtain a license for RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) which will finally make it possible to have an Italian route in TSW. Italy's landscape is very scenic, and we have a lot of famous railways (Brenner line, Pontebbana, Direttissima, Adriatic line, Cinque Terre, and so on). For now, the closest we can get to that is the Berninalinie at Tirano, and the DB Vectron from Kinzigtalbahn with SCMT modeled (but not functional!)
Owen, obviously, from Worcestershire UK. Love the mechanical side of trains hence why I’m a big fan of 70/80’s locomotives. Used to be a train spotter from about 2018 - 2020 but Covid largely killed it off. Been playing TSW on and off since its launch on console in 2018. There’s no particular DLC I want to see right now because I’m skeptical about the future of TSW, but either way Woodhead with a properly done class 76 would be very cool.
Hi, I'm Victor, friends call me Vix. I remember my first computer game very well. Christmas 1972, my first console. "The Magnavox Odyssey". I was 5 years old then. Later, as a teenager, I discovered the internet, but my mother was not a fan of it because she also wanted to use the telephone line sometimes. When I no longer lived with my parents and therefore had to pay the bills myself, the penny dropped. In the nineties of the last century, everything revolved around unreal tournament. However, online gaming with friends got out of hand because of the high telephone costs, at least ten times the price I now pay for a fiber optic, always online connection to the internet. Gaming on the PC became my thing, but when I eventually had 6 of them and not one that really did what I wanted, I switched to the Playstation. I have not regretted that to this day. Now, fifty-seven years young and single, I am still addicted to playing games on a console. Above all, the two well-known games from Rockstargames. But TrainSimWorld, where I have spent the most hours by far, is in a solid second place. I also have an exuberant, almost complete collection of expansions. I have been playing TSW since 2020, but only really got into it when TSW2 came out. Now really enjoying the Krokodile, but I can't really name a favorite. That will probably change soon when the Zwolle - Groningen route is finally released.
I so often post mad as heck, this seems like a great idea: a friendly thread. I have had parkinsonism worsening this past many years and now at 72 my fingers and hands and often arms are as unreliable ad my legs. PS5 was a godsend: bluetooth mousecand keyboard, only TSW does not recognize the mouse and will not let me move Q key to being NumPad Enter ... just that one thing ... or let me have AWS or PZB ack different from deadman activity. Oops. I will try again: i await real accessibility effort from DTG for PS5. As late ad TSW4 i was buying everything for Epic and Xbox in addition to Steam ( for the community ) but once i moved from PS4 to PS5, i see no point in a new PC just for this train sim. My PC is great for the other subway and track sims ... except a certain silly tram sim. Subway Sim Hamburg is a fave of mine, but now i run JR East in Japanese only, and i think itbis pricey but great. It just got a loco DLC ! And that lok is Very challenging. If war ends, i have hopes for Train Planet. Biggest dissappointment: Train Life. Inof course have non-Steam PC train sims but on Steam have spent way too mch on TSC for how little i run it now, My big mistake a few years back was spending too much time and money with Trainz crashing to desktop. I uninstalled that. Hope this intro is taken as friendly ... i am an old Mėtis multilingual guy in Canada, 15 years in USA as a software engineering consultant. My programming languages span PROLOG, SNOBOL, COBOL, Pascal, C, and MIT Curl ( now STSC Curl in Tokyo, not cURL, Curl ) Icon, Oz, Mercury, APL but as a consultant, all things Smalltalk, but chiefly VisualWorks, VisualAge and personally, Dolphin Smalltalk and what Squeak became: Pharo. Yes, PROLOG, as it has evolved in France to Constraint Logic Programming. Visual Prolog from Denmark is still a thing. It was once Borland Prolog. Best short-lived UI was MS Quick Pascal. Built in itself with a live open help facility to update as you went, yourself. I am most at home in French and German, but get by in others. Japanese kanji are a hobby. I stopped using Russian in February 2022 as i had spent 2 years in a Ukrainian community ... and my American dad grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, with its huge Ukrainian community. So, me in friendly mode, still married, father of three, grandfather to three. Hugh Shiplett is our son. We are France-expat Chifflet, not English Shipley ( sheep lea ) and Métis Mackay of that huge family, including a Poitras founder of Manitoba and Mackay founders of two NW USA states. A HUGE clan from Brora's Gordonbush in the NE Highlands and native Canadian aboriginal stock, chiefly Cree, and early French families in Canada. To complicate my life, i had a Brit grandparent on each side, maternal and paternal. Oy.
cannot fix typos ... red on black screen says i am creating Spam. Dang. AI. Sooo smart. AI needs to be modest, except at Chess, GO and the like.
Hello, I'm Jaiden, or Jay(i) as some people call me. I live in Washington D.C and enjoy viewing the beautiful iconic Amtrak trains that come along with this city. The person in my profile picture is not me, but my favorite artist: Juice WRLD. Juice WRLD was an amazing artist in his little time of being here. Reaching his prime in 2018. One of his top hits being 'Lucid Dreams'. I love Juice WRLD but man that song is very overplayed now haha. You may have noticed I used the word was and this is because he sadly passed away on December 8th, 2019 at the age of just 21 years old. I wont say the cause of death as it may not be appropriate. Despite me not knowing the guy personally whatsoever, he's been a big part of my life when I discovered him in 2018. I still listen to him today, because he has over 3000 of unreleased songs that have been leaked by people to help keep his legacy alive. He died a legend and could've been HUGE today. For my 18th birthday, my most recent one at that, I got 999 tattooed on my right forearm just for him. He always went by these three numbers as "taking any negative situation or struggle and transforming it into something positive, pushing oneself forward." Now, enough of that, let's talk trains! I first became interested in trains not too long ago actually, 2 years officially. Now, 2 years might sound like a lot, but people I know and majority of people on this forum have been into trains since Thomas the Tank Engine. I have my fair share of watching Thomas as well, but as a child I was more into superheroes and cartoons, so I wasn't too fond of trains at the time. Anyways, this is what really got me into trains: It's funny to think a silly roblox game like Stepford County Railway would spark up such an interest I would've never thought of myself. I was very fascinated to find out about different trains around the world and easily picked the Electrostar family of trains being my favorite. I then discovered Train Sim World 3 on my barely alive Playstation 4 Pro not too far after searching "Train Simulator" in the search bar and that was the first game to pop up. At the time, I wasn't working and couldn't afford the game. Conveniently, my birthday was not too far off. (October 29th) So, after I received my birthday money, I purchased Train Sim World 3 and couldn't wait to hop into the driver's seat. And I was very happy to see the Class 375 as it is an Electrostar and enjoyed the other trains as well. Southeastern Highspeed Extended easily became my favorite route and fun fact, it is actually my most played route when I view 'My profile' in game to this day! (If you want to know, my most driven train is the Class 377) After I found myself a job and started saving up for a bit, I bought myself a PS5, started getting myself into buying DLC's, and the next iteration of the game, Train Sim World 4. And it has only grew from there to today. And that ladies and gentlemen, is how I got into trains.
