Happy to be agreed with, Matt, but what does "SPG" stand for?
Matt: it seems to me that in railroad simulation, as in railroading itself, sometimes tedium is the point. When I first played TS, more than...
Do not miss this one! You're driving an F7 and it's nerve racking -- at least until you get used to the method of loading coal -- which is much...
One of my musical favorites since I was first introduced to their music in Canada -- many years ago.
Thanks to CowBoyWolf and breblimator for your information! That's a DLC I'll be looking forward to.
After increasing magnification, I can see that this is a TSW loco that didn't make it into the preserved collection, but I still don't recognize...
Noxious fumes, perhaps? Or just air-borne dirt?
We really need to see a screenshot of this!?!
Finally, a post that adds a modicum of sense to this thread. One could just as well try to calculate the amount of money spent on any hobby or...
Could be ... if so, I'm still puzzled about its identity.
As Monty Python used to say: "And now for something completely different!"
I don't have a solution to offer, but I am wondering how you manage to get the activity instructions overlay to appear.
That's an impressive piece of work! I don't recognize that "GB Freight" engine that didn't make it into the preserved collection.
Encouraged by the excellent treatment of freight, especially in regard to switching work, I'm strongly in favor of your predictions.
Thanks for discussing this, but I'll save my $150 or so to buy more DLC.
While I can understand your point, I find "immersion" highly over-rated and much prefer imagination or even just ignoring the sim's limitations.
Yours is a fascinating discovery! I'm not sure about trying it just yet, but you may have opened a door to TSW developments that have yet to be...
What I find interesting (and all too often frustrating) is that sometimes switches change automatically, while at other times they have to be...
Which is why I prefer freight to passenger traffic and switching to through freight.
After initially being frustrated by discovering that brake releases only exist on one side of a freight car in the Clinchfield route, I further...
Doesn't interest me much, but I'm happy for those who love passenger trains.
So . . . why would one want to try to sit in the driver's seat while crouched, anyway?
What DTG suggested to Dave Badger is pretty much what I did on my third attempt to start this session and, as Dave notes, it did "trip the PCS" --...
As the McClure Shifter Part 1 (F7 version) session begins, the F7 you're driving hasn't been set up yet and is sitting on a 1.2% downgrade. Of...
I just completed the first scenario, "The Setup", on the Clinchfield RR, earning 21,235 points and a Gold Medal. The former, of course, I could...
Thanks for the reply, and I'll give that a try; but let me point out that while all trains have cabooses (or is that "cabeese"?), many of...
Lacking a users' manual, I'm puzzled about how to ride in the caboose. I'm guessing that doing so would first require identifying a train that...
By "in front of", do you mean beyond? In other words, is it necessary to pass the red signal to reach the stop marker?
It's interesting that only one of this thread's complainers mentions contacting the dispatcher, and that one claims that, "3-4 yards isn't enough...
Thanks! I'll give that a try!
This service, which features the SD-40 engine, involves assembling a long coal train over a considerable distance on steep slopes. The "tutorial"...
I might be in favor of that if switching were included, but freight on this route would probably come only in the form of through trains that...
When I first read about the journey-linked series of timetabled activities (which I still tend to think about as "services" as differentiated from...
Lose-lose situation for DTG? Some want maximum realism and "immersion" while others want easy "play" and what might be called "submersion" (in...
Thanks to some help from others in this thread, I tried this but didn't see a worthwhile improvement. I will note that even without DX12, my fps...
I haven't tried the scenario mentioned in the OP yet, but just have to ask what may be a stupid question: what about sanding?
I can only add that in TS the usual turntable speed is 5 mph, so I've stuck to that in TSW as well, but Silencer is correct in stating that this...
I've successfully completed Parts 1 and 2 of the "Nora Turn" sequence of timetable activities for the SD40 CRR. The next available activity in...
I find these images quite natural, beautiful, and fascinating. I'm looking forward to encountering them as I drive.
Honestly, you haven't played TSW enough! And who are "we" anyway? I, for one, have seen work-folk on numerous occasions in both scenarios and...
Excellent question, which would not be necessary if DTG had issued a users' manual with this otherwise great DLC. Come to think of it, this entire...
An interesting notion, but leaning that far beyond the engineer's seat would probably result in falling to the floor. Still, there's that...
Here's another example of contradictory instructions, this one occurring in the SD-40 tutorial: Instructions 1 & 2: climb aboard and sit in the...
Eh! Another piece of DLC I won't be buying -- but I sure do appreciate the Clinchfield route!
In the tutorials (much better than average, I think), we're told that switches are manually operated, meaning, of course, get off your duff, climb...
Just curious -- have you run the tutorial?
I sometimes think of the 2D map, which I also consult frequently while driving, as a partial substitute for a real-life engineer's knowledge of...
I'm really enjoying this route, even though I've only completed the tutorials and started driving one of the scenarios so far. Among many other...
One reason why a manual is a must!!!
Is there a users' manual yet? If so, please provide a link. Thanks!
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