Speaking of "Classic" Screenshots, does anyone else have issues with the F4-HUD screenshot button since the 'classic update'? Pressing the button no longer results in a crisp CLICK. Nor can I see the captures I took (or assumed I took) either in the Windows Steam App or in my C-drive USERS\<MyName>\Pictures directory.
My inability to take screenshots via the F4-HUD button or Cntrl-S, which began following the "classic" update, at last sorted itself out. Here are three captures from this evening's QD on Settle to Carlisle route, featuring a CW LNWR 2-2-2-2 Greater Britain in Lavender & Cream livery hauling five MT LNWR carriages:
Indeed I was. However, I discovered that doing it that way doesn't automatically remove F4 / F5 HUDs, limiting its usefulness since the majority of my captures are made spur-of-the-moment on-the-fly.
When all around is quiet the Flying Banana takes to the rails, seen here charging through Birchwood Station on it's way from Manchester to Liverpool.
Oil train on the CSX Miami - West Palm Beach. Several foreign power on the head end with Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
Misc recent station-themed captures from a variety of British routes. Two views of a (CW) L&Y class 5 at Carlisle Station, Settle to Carlisle route: Captures of a (CW) SECR class C in SR Olive livery hauling passengers on (GAD) West of England Mainline: A (CW) CR 812 in BR livery backs to couple with passenger coaches on West of Scotland Lines:
1) A Siemens ES64 sprints through an open field on Koblenz-Trier 2) A Class 47 with Mk2s during the Network Southeast era on the Portsmouth Direct Line 3) A Baldwin Cab Forward begins its climb from Colfax on its home line, Southern Pacific's Donner Pass 4) Class 67 029 in EWS executive livery taking football fans towards London on the Great Western Mainline 5) The claret Class 67 005 takes a rake of guarded FGW Mk3 coaches to Old Oak for refurbishment
Yesterday, Caledonia Works announced (via Facebook) four locomotive updates, three for locos I own. I DL'd them, but have so far installed only one . . . the LSWR 700 class. I gave it a quick test drive on (GAD) West of England Mainline. I did not intend to capture images. When I saw how nice the 700 looks in LSWR (Urie) Goods Green, I simply couldn't resist. Exeter Central: An Exeter Stop, a short-platform Station little more than a stone's throw from Central: Carriages are by Digital Traction, one of the LSWR 700's pre-configured QD options:
You should enter these pics into this weeks Unnoficial Screenshot comp. https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/unofficial-screenshot-contest-2022-week-16.54214/ They fit the brief perfectly.
Thanks that was the aim of these shots! I set out from Crewe last night & completed the whole North Wales coast taking lots of rain filled shots on the way, imagine my dismay when I checked the pic folder to find it contained no new shots! Thanks TS Classic update!! fixed now, I`ll do some more later on with no doubt another freight working
Norfolk Southern on the Bedford Junction Branch (Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899109248 )
We're back on (GAD) West of England Mainline, with images captured further down the line those seen in my previous post. I reverted to the (CW) SECR class C, this time in Wartime Gray livery. It pulls (MT) birdcage coaches. Three at Whimple. (Note the couple holding hands in shots 1&2. A nice touch, that. Is the dog theirs, you think?)
A peaceful run on the Riviera Line in the Fifties: Exeter - Kingswear. (I am trying a bit of UK & European routes)
A Heritage run on the Blackwood Creek with the ALCo S-2 in New Haven livery. (Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=675813061&searchtext=blackwood+creek )
Some years ago, the 101 093 is arriving at Riesa carrying the EuroCity "Hungaria" Budapest - Hamburg Haltona via Prague, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin. Yes, I love so much these international trains with non-orthodox carriages and colour schemes.
Thanks for posting these shots, I wasn't even aware of the GAD Western Mainline route, I am now LOL. Cheers. Just had a blast down the line with this BMG Light Pacific with a rake of Bulleid coaches. What a stunning route, just perfect for Southern Steamers.
A stunning route indeed. What's more, assuming all goes as planned it will be expanded over time, making it even better suited to heavy-duty steam such as the Light Pacific seen in your captures. As for me, I too drove what I assume is the entire mainline (as of now) yesterday, from Exeter Central to Axminister. As for motive power, I chose a loco about as under-powered as one can get that scales the route's sometimes steep gradients while maintaining 'decent' speed, a (CW) LB&SCR D1 class 0-4-2T, in Maunsell Southern Green. It pulls four rather spiffy looking Maunsell carriages. I utilized CW's 'Auto-fireman' function the entire way, which led to occasional worries when boiler water dropped lower than I am comfortable with before Otto decided to replenish it. But replenish it he did. By sheer coincidence, my first capture shows the train approaching, from the opposite direction, what looks to be the road crossing seen in Craigie-C's second image:
The loco pictured below is freeware, available at The Marshaling Yard Discord Server. Created by Pembrokeshire Works, it depicts an 1860s British steam locomotive, a design apparently sold to a number of railways. It comes in quite a variety of liveries, most unnamed. This variant, however, sports Cambrian Railways in striped black. It is the only variant featuring a 'half-cab' (the partial roof atop the wind/exhaust guard they all sport). I mated it to four GWR 6-wheel carriages (themselves BLS reskins), the Cambrian having been absorbed into the GWR. The loco, as you might image, is no speed demon, best suited to slow branch-line duty (or a full-fledged 1860s British railway, which I believe to be nonexistent in TS.) It is seen on (SSS) Riviera Lines - GWR Era, the short Heathfield to Newton Abbot Branch Platform Quick-Drive. Three captures at Heathfield: Out in the wilds: A hint of cab 'interior':