A question for the more knowledgeable among us, of which I do not belong. I have created a "Screenshot Compilation" video of a recently driven TSC passenger run. This is a logical place to post it, except for a statement in Dovetail's "Code of Conduct", which I do not want to run afoul of. It reads: "No self-promotion or advertising. This includes selling, buying or promotion of personal businesses. If you're a streamer and would like to promote your channel, please create a dedicated thread in the Off-Topic section of the forum, or add a link to your signature." I am not a "steamer," but merely post occasional videos to my YouTube channel. I neither monetize nor earn money from the channel by other means. Nor have I plans to do so. In other words, I am not promoting a personal business. It's a hobby for me, pure and simple. All this said I feel uncomfortable embedding the video here without knowing that my interpretation is correct. What say you????
My 2 cents - You do not breach the code of conduct - not self promoting and no financial gain. Others have posted short pieces of video.
I wouldn't like to see the video embedded here, simply because it tends to be slow. Signature is fine and also a mention before / after your shots, that there are more in this and that video. I recall a video thread from not terribly long ago (meaning a few years).
Exploring the huge 't Hart van Nederland route with the iconic ICM (I've chosen to use the unmodernised 4000 version here with its double door passage), now having all assets finally. Westbound "Koploper" (engl. "Headwalker)" leaving Zutphen My favourite shot at Apeldoorn
Installment 15 in a seemingly endless multipart chronological depiction of a mid-autumn morning stopping passenger service Heritage Railtour QD, from London to Peterborough, on ECML London - Peterborough route. Motive power is Caledonia Works' GER T69 4-6-0 tendered steam loco, seen in LNER B12 Lined Black Livery. It hauls what QD terms the 1936 Queen of Scotland Coach Set. As such, I selected Queen of Scots for the loco's headboard. We travel the "slow" track, allowing stops at all stations en route. This short installment sees us at Knebworth and Hitchen (none of my few captures between stations proved post-worthy). Knebworth: Knebworth platform detail: Hitchen: Departing Hitchen: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies ANNOUNCEMENT: SCREENSHOT COMPILATION VIDEO proof of concept. I recently drove a "heritage" stopping passenger service from Richmond to Stratford on North London & Goblin Lines, with a three-coach train pulled by GWR preserved Terrier No. 9466. I used the better of its screen capture to create a video equivalent to the multi-part chronological route series posted here. It can be viewed by clicking my "signature", and is the most recent video on the page (as of early Nov 2024). (You can safely ignore earlier TS videos, which I nowadays consider subpar.) TO BE CONTINUED . . .
ScotRail 334030 and 334015 forms the 13:55 Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh train, seen at Ardoch, near Dumbarton, on 5th November 2024:
AP 37 112 on a summer morning trip to Inverness on JT's beautiful Kyle Line in 1986... Weather: AP High Cloud
6E86 between Newark and Lincoln (TSRollingStock IZA wagons) - nice spring atmosphere with gorgeous AP season based cloudscape. Photorealistic.
Installment 2 in a three-installment series chronologically documenting a stopping passenger heritage run from Sittingbourne to Sheerness-on-Sea. The route is Chatham Main Line - London Victoria to Dover + Ramsgate. Motive power is supplied by a Victory Works A1X Terrier, seen in the appropriate SECR Green, acquired from Steam Sounds Supreme, not Dovetail/Steam. To it is added Golden Age Developments' "VW Terrier Enhancement Pack", which "corrects colors (both locos and coach stock), adds specular highlights and improves texture look". Coaches, if memory serves, are freeware from Wayside Works. Departing Kemsley: En route to Swale: Stopped at Swale: Swale halt: Crossing Swale Tidal Channel just beyond Swale halt as we enter Sheppey Island, en route to Queenborough: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies. Several images are manipulated with Paint.NET, Wondershare Filmora, or both. TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Commuter service 5566 from Den Haag to Amsterdam, 1985. Stock: ChrisTrains NS Mat 64 + ICM, DutchClassics Mat 54 - Route: De Oude Lijn
I am really hooked on the stuff the dutch community is offering... A 186 sandwich hauling a belgian HVI11 DVT and coaches. Scenario description: Since the introduction of the new 2023 timetable, the Benelux train has been completely overhauled. Among other things, it will no longer travel via the HSL and the vast majority of the train will consist of SNCB material, meaning NS will no longer physically participate in the train. You are en route with BNL 9240 from Amsterdam to Brussels South and will pass Leiden Centraal in a few minutes, not stopping here. The journey will then continue via The Hague HS and Roosendaal to Brussels, Belgium. Have fun and good luck!
Preserved Gresley A4 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' hauling the SLOA BR Mk1 Pullman rake from the mid-1980s, seen on an autumnal run along the Hope Valley line. Emerging from the 3.5 mile Totley Tunnel into Grindleford station: Making a good old racket on the 1-in-100 climb between Earles Sidings and Edale and looking fabulous while doing it: From the Up platform at Edale, as SNG storms through on the Down with speed around 50mph despite the long climb. And the going-away shot. Cowburn Tunnel is just about visible in the distance ahead... As the sound dies away, I couldn't help photting the station signage, which really adds to the atmosphere of this wonderful route. Route: Just Trains - Midland Main Line (Hope Valley Extension) Stock: Just Trains A4 Class, PLD Mk 1 Pullmans, AP Mk1 Various lighting, vegetation, track and signalling upgrade packs
I would like to recommend a German scenario: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=707787188 The pic below is from it. Nice drive, dense but smart AI / stationary, some traffic congestion / more than just clear signals. Supposedly there were messages, maybe those won't show unless the language is German. Fun enough, there are several AI trains using the double deck coaches without a loco, and they move just fine. Who needs a KISS? MRCE Dispolok BR 189 passing through Bonn: BR 101 in DB Metropolitan livery leaving Hamburg with an IC: Rio Grande serves facilities around Provo with an EMD SD9: Fictional scenario of a Southern Pacific long distance train over the Surf Line, powered by a Cab Forward: Autumn scene on London-Faversham with MEA wagons filled with ballast (power is a 33):
As a result of my recent asset collecting activities to open up more fantastic freeware routes, I've made a small diorama on my sandbox test route using PierreG's beach people. These are especially fine for spicing up your Pacific Surfliner scenarios.
Installment 14 in a multipart pictorial depiction of a mid-Autumn morning stopping passenger service Heritage Rail Tour QuickDrive, from Crewe to Holyhead, on North Wales Coast Line, acquired during Steam's Winter 2023/24 sale. Having belonged to LNWR in pre-grouping days, I power the train with a favorite steam-era loco, Caledonia Works' LNWR "Greater Britain", No.3435 "Queen Empress" to be exact, seen in Lilac & Cream livery. Though Greater Britain looks to be a conventional 2-4-2 tendered locomotive it is, in actuality, a 2-2-2-2 compound loco. It pulls four LNWR coaches, the last of them an observation coach, which I fail to adequately capture. This installment sees us at Colwyn Bay and Llandudno Junction. Fireman's lean-out view of the coastline from which the route derives its name, as we approach Colwyn Bay station: Driver's lean-out view departing Colwyn Bay Station, where I apparently took no post-worthy captures: Approaching Llandudno Junction station: Stopped at Llandudno Junction station: The station: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies TO BE CONTINUED . . .
An unusual sight caught in San Francisco. A former DB BR 612 tilting DMU was leased by CalTrain to conduct high speed testing between San Francisco and Gilroy. While the trial proved successful, the plan for running tilting DMU trains since had been abandoned in favour of electrification. A newly upgraded Acela zooms along the NEC between Washington and Baltimore.
Busy Maastricht on a lovely autumn morning on Spoorlijnen Zuid Limburg A Traxx on the HSL Zuid Antwerpen - Amsterdam
Le Triangle du Cantal - french freeware route using PierreG's freeware stock. A nice little gem. We have unlimited things to discover in TSC... BLXT have also made a 10-scenarios pack for this route. http://www.railsim-fr.com/forum/index.php?/files/file/1060-le-triangle-du-cantal/
To provide light relief from my current project I reverted to an old favourite Zawal's "Small Slope" which I have anglicised (all of the markers etc were in French) and added a few bits (e.g. turntable one end, a Wye the other plus a couple of spurs - just tinkering). Now known as North Stratford with the Colebrook Branch up the Connecticut River, I used CN stock for the job. Here are a few shots of MT Bulkhead Flats heading upriver to Columbia Logging for loading and some loaded cars on the way back. It might be January but there are still a few hardy aviators and the bears are late hibernating this year. Diesel Workshop M420 and C424 plus Great Northerner's GNRy 65ft Bulkhead Flats. The scenery is untouched Zawal handiwork. It's only 25 miles but an interesting line with some tricky grade changes catching out the inattentive scenery watching engineer/driver (me!). Zawal's Small Slope is in the RWA library.
Installment 2 in a multipart chronological pictorial depiction of a faux "heritage" stopping passenger run QuickDrive, from Southampton to Bournemouth, on Dovetail's South Western Main Line: Southampton - Bournemouth. Motive power is Caledonia Works' LSWR 700 class 0-6-0 tendered steam locomotive. It pulls a short rake of LSWR coaches which, if memory serves, are from GAD's LSWR 6-wheel Carriage Pack 1, sold through CW (but don't quote me). This installment sees us travel from Millbrook to Redbridge. Departing Millbrook: as above (same camera location, swiveled): En route to Redbridge, driver's cab lean-out view: En route to Redbridge: as above: Approaching Redbridge: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Next up - The GE Dash 8-32BWH, occasionally mentioned as the P32-8WH. That's not the only interesting aspect of the manual, possibly connecting it with the P32AC-DM. While the DLC is for the Floridian route, some of its manual is captured using the most basic classic assets. Sounds are different, combined brakes are instant and it allows partial release. Smells like old spice all around. Furthermore, while it has the Phase 5, it is clearly a DLC for collectors. It includes a Phase 3 livery (used once in a yard) and a set of Superliners in Phase 5, ideally combined with the P30CH, F40PH (Donner, later Soldier) and the Empire Builder P42DC. On an overcast autumn day, an Amtrak Meteor with a GE 8-32BWH leading approaches Fort Lauderdale: Summer time on Ohio Steel: Pre-electrification East Coast Main Line with a 47 pulling some maroon-cream Mk1s: Despite summer heat, there is ICE on this picture: Class 55 recently arrived at Kings Cross with an express from the north:
Danish DSB IC3 leaving the ferry from Rødby to Puttgarden heading to Lübeck This is the "Vogelfluglinie" from notorious low quality developer GBE (aka Vizzart/Blue Sky Interactive in MSTS/ProTrain days). I initially didn't want to buy this route, but as it's a place I know well and have travelled a lot of times myself on my Scandinavia journeys, I took the plunge. Actually most was done by danish devs, and the included IC3 by "Heavyeagle" was a must have for me (original announcements included). It needs rework, I have already fixed lights, cab occlusion and applied Gainmaster's audio fix on the IC3. It's fun actually and the route is beautiful, some vegetation flaws I am already tackling (changing some foliage colours from nintendo green to more natural tones).
The trip across the whole island begins... considering the size of the route, this freeroam trip will take me days.
The current decline of our leisure spend has resulted in only having seven containers onboard, as Freightliner Class 70 passes over Bank Street at Coatbridge while working the 12:50 Coatbridge F.L.T to Port of Keane (Marsdonshire):
Combined installments 14 & 15 in a multipart chronological depiction of an Autumn morning stopping passenger QuickDrive on Golden Age Developments' freeware West of England Mainline, phase 2, which extends tracks further eastward to Yeovil Town. Our journey begins there, stopping at all stations until the drive terminates at Exeter. Our train is powered by Caledonia Works' rendering of the LSWR 415/0415 class 4-4-2T steam locomotive, commonly known as the Adams Radial Tank. It is seen in Adams Brown livery, pulling six LSWR coaches. These combined installments see us travel through a rural landscape from Honiton to Sidmouth Junction. (Installment 14) Pulling out of Honiton, its station not far behind: En route to Sidmouth Junction: (Installment 15, still en route to Sidmouth.) Stopped at Sidmouth Junction, cab lean-out view: Sidmouth Junction: Sidmouth Junction: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Corris Railway Kerr, Stuart and Company Tattoo Class 'No 7' returns to the Corris Railway after a time spent at the nearby Talyllyn Railway where it shortly afterwards takes a test run from Maspoeth to Corris and return traveling 1.5 miles over the narrow gauge railway during a lovely Summers morning in Wales of the United Kingdom. Motive Power: Kerr, Stuart and Company Tattoo Class Route: Corris Railway Scenario: 1. [Corris] Unloading No.7 Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Vegetation Enhancement Pack, ReShade
Just another appreciation of the AP Sky and Weather plus Clouds EP. Couldn't be more beautiful. Clouds clearing up while at Tiverton station running AP's new MTU HST.
South Western Railway Class 159s '159003' and '159001' form a double set of 6 coaches beginning at Exeter St Davids in England of the United Kingdom where it sets off eastbound over the West of England Line heading for London Waterloo. The train is driven as far as Axminster after traveling 27 miles with the train stopping 5 times for passenger stops in between at Exeter Central, Pinhoe, Cranbrook, Feniton and Honiton during a lovely but hazy Summers morning. Motive Power: British Rail Class 159 Route: Berks and Hants to Bristol and Penzance Scenario: [SS] 1025 SWR 159 EXD to AXM Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack + Train Sim Community AP Track EP Updated Textures, Armstrong Powerhouse Vegetation Enhancement Pack, ReShade I set the Destination Board to display "Special" with code 127 on the Vultron Destination Indicator Controller since I couldn't find the code for "London Waterloo" which I simply just missed and turns out it was code 110 so that slightly annoys me in hindsight!
Famously among railway photographers in the north-west, the month of March 1999 had four consecutive weekends of Settle & Carlisle diversions, during which time the WCML over Shap was closed for engineering works. Now referred to as the 'S&C Diesel Gala' it saw Virgin Trains loco-hauled services being dragged between Preston and Carlisle via Blackburn and Appleby, by a variety of diesel locomotives, hired-in or otherwise. Led by 43184, 1V52 1110 Glasgow Central-Penzance awaits departure from Carlisle platform 4. On the centre roads, hired-in Deltic no.D9000 'Royal Scots Grey' and a RES Class 47 wait to take charge of a later departure. In platform 3, 1S12 0725 London Euston-Glasgow Central has just arrived behind a hastily-borrowed LoadHaul Class 56 which is now being exchanged for a Class 90. About 45 minutes later, 1V52 is captured crossing Smardale Viaduct, between Appleby and Kirkby Stephen, under leaden skies... ...and then shortly thereafter passing Kirkby Stephen. In the Up Siding, the hapless unit 156489 is stabled awaiting recovery by road - having come to grief at Crosby Garrett only a few days beforehand when it was derailed by a landslip and subsequently collided head-on with a southbound freight train. A few miles further south (and a few hundred feet higher) our HST approaches the summit at Ais Gill... ... sweeping past a line of rather wet photographers and away over the summit. Bringing up the rear is buffer-fitted 43065. Route: Settle & Carlisle Line 1975 (Carlisle-Skipton) Stock: Armstrong Powerhouse HST Valenta Pack, with additional mods for the Mk3 trailers Various lighting, vegetation, track and signalling upgrade packs
The rusty colours of the Settle-Carlisle 66 fit in well with a rainy autumn scene: Dispolok BR 189 on Hamburg-Hannover: Class 158 on Weardale: Autumn scene on the Portsmouth Direct Line, showing some differences between the two 158 models: Stopping at Norden for a quick inspection before the descent to madness, I mean Truckee and Reno:
Railfreight Class 56s '56083' and '56066' hauling 31 HAA wagons loaded with coal pull into Lockerbie, Scotland in the United Kingdom to be stabled in the sidings for a further hour to allow passenger trains to flow through after having departed earlier in the morning from the sidings at Carstairs followed by the 48 mile journey southwards to Lockerbie over the West Coast Main Line during the Summer of 1993. Motive Power: British Rail Class 56 Route: West Coast Main Line North Scenario: [56] Heavy Going Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, ReShade
Doing some switching on Allaboard's Fort Smith - Heavener using the freeware ALCo S2. I've bought the route as it's a requirement for mindenjohn's South Kaiser & Trent Mountain, and I'm not disappointed. Probably Allaboard's best route. Got the links and passwords an hour after Paypal transaction. Usual fixes (template pointing to my US AP seasons, adding RSDL\IslandLine to providers to avoid Black Wall (non-preloaded moving GeoPcDx's) bug due to ScaleRoads traffic) applied.
British Railways Brush Type 2 'D5515' sees itself preserved and running a railtour in the 1990s during the TOPs classification era where the type has since been reclassified as the British Rail Class 31. The train begins just south of Settle Junction with 6 British Railways Mark 1 coaches and head northwards to Settle, England in the United Kingdom for their first passenger stop and afterwards set off for Carlisle stopping 6 times in between for passengers at Ribblehead, Dent, Garsdale, Kirkby Stephen, Appleby and Lazonby & Kirkoswald having traveled 74 miles over the Settle-Carlisle Line upon reaching Carlisle during a wet and slightly misty morning. Motive Power: British Rail Class 31 Route: Settle to Carlisle Scenario: CL31 - Carlisle Special Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Armstrong Powerhouse Track Enhancement Pack + Train Sim Community AP Track EP Updated Textures, Armstrong Powerhouse Vegetation Enhancement Pack, ReShade
Dogmouse's Freeware Alco S2 is one of the best freeware locos, runs beautifully and is easy to repaint (unlike some payware).
Again I'd like to present lesser known (unfortunately) content for our beloved Train Simulator. This is mindenjohn's Pogwassek 60-70's using Michael Stephan's Budd RDC in a repaint and scenario of John's.
Union Pacific Railroad EMD SW1500 '1025' is started up at the sidings of Hesperia, California in the United States of America on the Cajon Subdivision section of the Southern Transcon. Union Pacific Railroad EMD SW1500 '1111' has broken down in the yard at Victorville and '1025' is needed as a switcher replacement immediately. '1025' hitches a ride on the rear of a manifest train headed northwards to Victorville led by Union Pacific Railroad EMD ES44ACs '5468', '5361' and '7707'. Upon reaching Victrorville '1025' quickly gets to work by shunting portions of the freight hauled in by the manifest freight service and afterwards puts the caboose back on the rear of the train so the train can later continue further onwards. '1025' later is parked up in a nearby siding at Victorville during this morning switching operation taking place during the Summer. Motive Power: EMD SW1500 Route: Cajon Pass Scenario: Mobile Switcher (Career) Enhancements: Armstrong Powerhouse Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack 2.0 + Armstrong Powerhouse Cloud Enhancement Pack, Searchlight Simulations GE GEVO-12 Enhancement Pack + UTS Creations GEVO Improvements, ReShade
