It is relatively normal that "beginner" players who only have a handful of german DLCs have some runs easier than expected, as they may be missing lot of traffic around. The german content is overall extremely linked through, and I can imagine that to get some mixed trains to show up, you may easily have a requirement for like 5 different DLCs to have all the wagons unlocked. But then there are people like me who own all the content, have all the layers universally unlocked, and then it's rather uncommon that somebody would have more traffic than me, that's why I was so surprised It is probably linked to some delays in the beginning of the run (I am suspecting the PZB starting mode, which on the ingame 442 lasts rather long and keeps you limited to 40 km/h, where I would release from it once the train passed end of junctions and speed up to 100 km/h line speed). It's okay when that happens, but if we manage to track down how to start the nicer and more challenging experience, it's better for all, specially if it just cost you 30 seconds of waiting somewhere to get to it
I think this was the reason as I slowed down quite a lot to about 40 KPH when approaching Priestwitz due to that freight train waiting for me. I think I thought that I would have to wait for it but it turned out that I had priority and it was waiting for me. However slowing down for it caused me to miss my platform slot as Coswig and made for an enjoyable and busy run.
But what made you think that? You should have had a flashing green with a yellow 6 underneath, which tells you you need to be doing 60km/h from the next signal, and the fact it's flashing green means that next signal will be showing at least some kind of proceed aspect so you wouldn't need to slow down any further than 60km/h.
I have one that could get into the GOAT list... IC 2054 on Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn. It's busy, varied, fun, and a great experience if you want to drive in the snow, enjoy a sunset, AND enjoy the new adhesion physics! At Mannheim Hbf, you'll pass through the heritage run with the 103, then do some wrong way running at Böhl-Iggelheim. You should pass around 14 services in total (it feels really busy, trust me). If anyone has 50 minutes to spare, do this service. It's nothing short of amazing.
I just ran this, to check I had same experience as you the challenge is coming from it unusually being greens all the way so train needing gradient management right?
1S53 in the 86 in Shap is a good run. Only stops at Oxenholme and Carlisle, but follows 1P05 which stops at all stations. Plenty of yellows. You may even be held outside Oxenholme as 1P05 is scheduled to depart there two minutes before you.
Got round to trying this one. Definitely revealed some pathing and signalling issues 5km from Kaiserslautern. I had to remove an S1 that was stuck at a red to get everyone moving again. There also seemed to be little PZB approach control before reds in that area, but I'm not enough of a German expert to tell if this is prototypical.
I found a good one. Service: 5G73: Manchester Piccadilly to Oxley Car. M.D Loco: Class 390 Spoiler This is an ECS run from Manchester to Alderley Edge. There are lots of interesting bits here, you will be running quite a lot on yellows, so AWS will be a constant factor here. There is also a section where you are overtaking a freight service on the oncoming track just before Stockton. You catch up to a local stopping service before reaching Alderley Edge, there is quite a bit of waiting for reds and SPAD potential. Oh, and the whole thing is at night, so visibility is a challenge.
Before I add it to the spreadsheet, can anyone else confirm/deny that if they run LIRR (v2) 1631 in an M9 Huntingdon - NY Penn with date 5 Septemeber they end up with a reasonably routine journey until they enter the tunnels approaching Penn, at which point one needs to delete a service in Penn and then there's an awesome (genuinely) 10 minutes or so following the train in front in the ensuing jam which I really enjoyed as you don't get to drive on line of sight like that for that long usually and doing it in a tunnel makes judging distance harder. I'm not sure if something idiosyncratic went wrong and this isn't replicable, or if others will experience it in which case I will stick it in. Occurs to me that either way this probably won't work with the new random delay feature of TSW6 bt that is what it is
Just tried on PS5 and happened exactly as described 2 miles out from NY Penn once you get into the tunnel. It's a train from West Hempstead that needs deleting. Probably needs all the layers too.
This has also happened to me on other LIRR services as well as one time at Grand Central on the Harlem Line.
