The division of Germany is an interesting time in the country's history - railways included - and a route set in this era would be an interesting twist on a historical German route. Berlin is of course one of the more interesting places to focus on, with the city's division, so, I'd suggest the line to Angermunde, on the Stettiner Bahn, in the north east. The line starts at Berlin Lichtenberg, one of East Berlin's major stations, and then joins the Berlin outer ring at a convoluted junction. It then heads north, followed by an S-Bahn route for much of its way, then at another junction, where it joins the traditional Stettiner Bahn, then closed to mainline traffic. Another S-Bahn runs in paralell as far as Bernau, then the line continues to Eberswalde and Angermunde, where it splits to either Szczecin in Poland or Stralsund on the Baltic Sea. The route provides historical interest, varied scenery, and different service patterns, and if set in the late-80s could adapt current stock. Rolling stock could be: DR 243 (the DB 143) DR 250 (the DB 250) DR V100 (the DB 204) DR long distance coaches and Halberstadt regional wagons Freight wagons DR Class 167 for the Berlin S-Bahn. There is also scope for DLC, with diesel locos, double decker coaches and other Berlin-S-Bahn units. Services would include longer distance services to Szczecin and Stralsund, regional services to Angermunde, sections of S-Bahn services and freight. Small branches could include the short S-Bahn stub from Springpfuhl, on the Aussenring, to Ahrensfelde, and the branch from Eberswalde to Schwedt. Images
Bring It On and we need East German trains apart from the existing DR Baureihe 110-112 Main Spessart Bahn DR Baureihe 250 Ruhr-Sieg Nord & Wunderline Bremen Oldenburg Groningen DR Baureihe 243 Ruhr Sieg Nord Tharandter Rampe Nahverkehr Dresden DR Baureihe 132 Ruhr Sieg Nord. speaking of German speakers have a tendency to use the German name whenever they can't pronounce a Polish city name this one is spelt as Stettin in German language. If you want to go even further might as well make it Berlin Danzig
It's more that these places used to be part of Germany - Stettin always was I think (i.e. it wasn't an occupation) until the post-WW2 negotiations. There is a Berlin - Gdansk service but it goes via Frankfurt/Oder and Poznan and is, as you say, a very long way. I'd forgotten the 232 is coming, that would fit in too.
Love to see this but this is very complicate to produce this! The lack of reference and how the trains looks like is the bottleneck here i think!
You are correct furthermore we can have the East German version of 363 & 365 DR Baureihe 104-106 Goldbroiler V60 Ost in this route you can see them inside the freight yards in Berlin. However Berlin uses Rangierbahnhof Potsdam Seddin for this purpose.
I don't think that was DTG and what you see in MSTS is way beyond the scalebase quality that now days is create in TSW
I still reckon it's doable. Records, photos and many of the trains still exist. As I say, no harder than any heritage route, and with the advantage of some of the trains built.
Seddin would be too far away, but there would be plenty of other goods yards along the route, plus passenger shunting opportunities
Thanks for telling me about that because I usually go for the major yards which is Rbf Seddin for Berlin.
We absolutely need some pre-unification German routes! Having one that overlaps with each other would be very cool!
