I know we have the Isle of Wight why not add the Isle of Wight Steam Railway route and add one steam locomotive the Adams O2 Tank Calbourne with the Victorian coaches including the four wheelers and the long bodied non corridor stock I hope that could be possible for you guys to do
IOW is a nice route. Could be remastered with the steam railway included. Although given DTG's stance on steam in TSW, there's near zero chance of it happening.
DTG have said no more steam. However, IoW is are both Rivet Games products and I don't know their stance on steam. Rivet really should give this serious consideration. Great suggestion.
I honestly think a shorter steam railway with smaller tank engines would have been a better introduction to steam for most players, rather than diving head first into a period route with full-size mainline monsters (and no accompanying early diesel alternatives for people who wanted the route but were intimidated by steam). A steam DLC for the WSR would have been perfect to gauge peoples' interest in the motive power and to see what bugs would need to be worked out with minimal investment. A GWR tank engine with possibly an autocoach on a pre-existing, low speed route would have given folks unfamiliar/intimidated by steam a chance to float around the shallow end of the pool at their own pace rather than sink or swim into the deep end of fast, heavy, mainline power. That said, if steam is ever to be explored again, I think a small heritage line is the way to go. I know a lot of people don't like the slow speeds and isolated nature of heritage lines, but I certainly think there is a market for it.
The steam railway should have its own route not as an extension to one of the Island Line routes. Smallbrook is not accurate to how Smallbrook is in real life forgetting that the former signal box has be rebuild now. Yes it will be a short route but a heritage railway maybe the best way to get steam back in to tsw. And it's a southern route so no complaints! The locos; W24 Calbourne (Adams o2) 198 Royal engineer and 192 Waggoner (Hunslet austerity) coaching SECR bogies, 4 wheelers, no mk1s in sight.
I thought it would have been included as the to Wooton branch was included in the route when it was released for TSC 12 years ago.
