happy 2024 TSW family! I hope you all had great holiday vacation. After being hospitalized for the whole month of December I'm happy to announce I am finally back home And catching up with everything related to TSW. I have been playing around with free roam as I really didn't get a chance to check it out or even go into full depth of what you can and cannot do in this new feature. to make a long story short I have spawned in Midland mainline and basically try to couple as many American trains with the same couplers together. I have literally spent days putting together many different combinations At my favorite point/station in Midland Mainline alongside what I thought to be nuclear reactors Or from what I was told to be a gas plant. this was very tedious and found myself yard shunting for literally three days straight before burning myself all of the different Consists lol. I had so much fun messing around with this new feature that I had to make a video showing off my Frankenstein consist is what I'm going to call it and also would like to know if anyone else has tried this with UK or German locomotives. Keep in mind most trains as long as they have the same coupler can pair together but in some cases cannot couple or even move once coupled together due to incompatibility. I do not own all of UK's content and the same could be said for some German routes I still need to get Which is why I mainly focused on what I owned most of. I do want to add that you can couple the class 66 and the class 43 with American consist Due to the fact they share the same knuckle coupler. hope you guys enjoy the video and if has a UK version or a German version please share video and pictures down below I would like to see as I think it's really cool
Nice to see a video on trying various things in free roam .. You can access that power station in free roam iv e done it just spawn engines or train on the spur to power station near where you cant go any further just line yourself route in once you in can go around the baloon track where coal unloader is ..etc since it a coal fired power station ... Ive used the class 66 and US locomotives and coal hoppers ..that be a idea for you to do a video if not tried it already ..
back in the day it was coal fired think in more recent they may have switched to gas bio fuels or may still burn some coal ..with all the clean green energy pushed nowadays lot s of coal fired power stations being closed demolished or converted to natural gas bio fuels etc ..in the game when i went back into unloading loop there a big pile of coal ..i wish they would do a cargo pack for services to power station but free roam will let you do that
I ve also in free roam tried the class 66 with the buckeye coupler in US routes on horseshoe curve i spawned a class 66 on the Southfork branch coupled some US coal cars to it and tested some other types of freight cars it ran well for me i made short trains due to 1 class 66 cant pull a lot of cars due to fairly steep grades up and down hill and no dynamic brakes for extra braking for down grades like US locos have that in heavy haul services ...but that what makes free roam fun for me messing around to see what works or dont
