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There's a live webcam (two actually) of Bailey Yard, here: Live Cam - Golden Spike Tower except it seems to be broken at the moment :(

There are potential engineering difficulties with multiple pantographs when running at high speeds. The first contact with the wire creates a...

Bill Gates* didn't become a billionaire by building stuff for $100 and selling it for $50. * insert your least favourite billionaire here

I'm not sure what basis you have for claiming that. North America and Europe are very different beasts when it comes to rail freight. For a...

If you can forgive a little pedantry, the first 10 built (D1-D10, actually Class 44s, with slightly lower power engines) were all named after...

Opinion polling companies use something called stratified sampling. They question a few thousand people, but they're very carefully chosen to be...

I'm sure many will be aware, but there's a free Spectrum emulator for PCs (possibly more than one :)) with the Southern Belle 'tape' available:...

The magic words are: [/Script/Engine.UserInterfaceSettings] ApplicationScale=0.500 inserted into engine.ini. Replace 0.500 with whatever...

It would be easy to recreate currently as there are no trains between Didcot and Oxford until at least June, because the bridge over the Thames at...

The Midland Main Line was built by the Midland Railway Company (cf Great Western Main Line), with headquarters at Derby. It was merged with the...

Should the command be: -USEALLAVAILABLECORES that's what I found on Steam.

Very interesting tips. I'll just add my usual caveat about DX12, which is that it transfers work from the CPU to the GPU. So if you have a...

Pro versions of Windows have many more configuration options than Home versions. For example, they have Group Policy Editor, for business use...

No, Princess (or should I call you Your Highness :)) paging is also on C. I should have added that Memory was also in the red on Task Manager,...

There's no overlap between the routes, just the locos (which were widespread across Germany during this period).

They mentioned in the stream that, because there's so much detailed foliage, changing the default LOD parameters (as I and many other PC users do,...

No, they said at the end of the stream that they'd run out of time to add the ES50 as a layer on Linke Rheinstrecke (it would probably be out of...

I agree - a nice route and great fun. It's quite demanding of computer power, although my mid-range (2070) system delivered 30-40fps most of the...

But trains on the far bank would appear as little more than moving dots, while taking up significant CPU/GPU cycles on what is likely to be a...

Quite right, Ruscoe - minor brain fart on my part :o

At least AWS takes account of any adjustments you make to the controls (which prove you're still alive and conscious) and resets its timer. The...

They really need boat traffic on the Rhine, it's incredibly busy IRL, mostly freight barges but some pleasure craft, too.

Good point, but remember this is all WIP.

You should have some great opportunities for 'polishing', LM! Looking forward to it.

It's in Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet) as 'coz' for 'cousin'.

[IMG] Alex have some cool paint jobs as well! :)

To be pedantic, the Deltics* were replaced on the ECML by HSTs in the late 70s, electrification came along a decade or so later. * mine (and many...

As a Brit with some experience of US trains, I understand where you're coming from, but I still think that's a bit unfair. Many large US metro...

If you're on PC, you can tweak the HUD size using Engine.ini: [/Script/Engine.UserInterfaceSettings] ApplicationScale=0.500 (or whatever suits...

true, but my PC is used for 1,001 other purposes, which a PS5 can't do (or, at best, would struggle with). It's a bit like saying that a...

If you'd like to know more, you can read all about these unusual control cars here:...

It looks lovely, but the TMS screen in the video has "diggerent" for "different". [/nitpick]

You can 'zoom in' the view, which may help, and there may be PC mods to give a different driving position, but I haven't tried them. I just...

Warships were a DB V200 that had been put on a diet. But the original Warships (D600) were indeed ugly.

Happy birthday Arpadiam! Remember, you're only 29 in hexadecimal :)

A 28" screen three feet from your nose subtends almost the same angles as a 55" screen six feet away.

I have Matt's authority to say*: "We hear what you're saying, and agree with much of it. It's on the list to do, but no timescales." Happy now?...

I picked up the 187 in the sales and (with the mods) found it to be a fun drive on SKA. But some of the 'journey' activities start by telling you...

I doubt many people go from Berlin to Marbella by train who don't fall into one of my three categories. You can go London-Berlin by train in a...

Outside the NEC, passengers on Amtrak tend to fall into one of three categories: Railfans (like us). Those unable to fly for medical or religious...

I'm sure you would be, and I (and no doubt many others who post here) would join you. But the question is "are there enough like us to make it a...

Kaleb (Clarkson's Farm) will give you an argument about that! :)

SKW also has several freight services (at night) and you can stretch the legs of the 101 (if you own it).

Good survey. Assuming we can get to a point at which saved games can be reliably resumed, I'd like to see (easy) the ability to have separate...

Yes, that's happened to me on several of the freight runs (particularly when it's 'snowy'). The trick to get around it is: when the PZB tells you...

It's the same in journey mode, too.

There was a programme on C5 (UK) yesterday (Thursday) showing a rail journey from Helsinki to Kemijärvi in Lapland during winter. Arcing was...

Add-ons have been £24.99 since the first release of TSW, so it's a 20% increase since 2018, which is equivalent to ~4.5% pa.

It's weird, when I go to 'My Profile' on the TSW3 page, I can see my correct Logbook, but the Railfan Shots are someone else's (all of Oakville...