Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: Goods Yards You can vote for next week's theme in the poll attached to this thread. What is your choice? Follow us on Instagram (instagram.com/trainsim) to see your screenshots featured on our feed! How does it work? You can submit your screenshot to the thread, and every Friday we will choose which screenshots will go to the loading screens. Shortly after, we will open a new thread and announce the winners. Each week has its own theme which is voted for by the community. Competition Rules: Limit is 2 screenshots per person; 1 screenshot per post. Include in your post the route the screenshot was taken on as well as the name of the train (if applicable). Screenshots must be in a 16:9 resolution, at least 1920x1080 pixels. Screenshots must fit the theme of the week, as stated at the beginning of this post. In order to qualify for the competition, screenshots must be taken from products published by Dovetail Games that are currently on sale. Other Rules: Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam Store or Dovetail Store is not shown in the screenshot. - This means no reshade, repaint mods, track upgrades or workshop routes. View excluded content: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/screenshot-contest-excluded-routes-and-locomotives.31092/ Your entry may be disqualified if it is deemed to not follow these rules. Please limit chat to only when absolutely necessary. Competition closes at mid-day Friday (UK time). The winner will be chosen every Friday. Winner's Prize: The winning screenshot will appear in the game as a loading screen for 1 week! (Please Note since the new update which changes loading times we have decided to change it to 1 week) T&C: Please refer the terms and conditions for this competition here: https://dovetailgames.com/competition-terms-and-conditions/ Note that by submitting an entry to this contest, you are consenting to us using your screenshot as a loading screen and showing it on our social media channels (such as Instagram)
"Bakersfield Yard" Loco: CSX ES44AC, BNSF ES44DC, UP ES44AC + AC4400CW + GP38-2 Route: Tehachapi Pass: Mojave - Bakersfield
"Newhall Yard" Loco: UP SD70ACe & AC4400CW, Caltrain F40PH-2CAT Route: Peninsula Corridor: San Francisco - Gilroy
Checking Wiki, looks like its more refined than just "any" freightyard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods_station
Route ~ Donner Pass Southern Pacific Locomotives ~ Union Pacific 'GTELs' (1st, 2nd and 3rd generations)
In Europe what is known as a freight yard in North America is called a Marshalling Yard. Goods yards are the sidings and or spurs at individual stations ( sorry, depots) large, medium or small for transshipment or holding of goods for collection or onward shipment. This is rarely seen in North America or Europe these days.
Route: West Rhine Koln-Koblenz. Trains: DB BR 101, DB BR 294. Koln Eifeltor at its finest. Shunting and a lot of freight.
Yeah, seems like a Goods Shed and yard in the US is a Freight House and House Track, which were only common way back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_house Wonder if team track counts or not....
A Sacramento Northern Steeple Cab shoves a short string of boxcars into the Freight House at the very cramped Shafter Yard in Oakland, California. Route: Sacramento Northern: Suisun Bay – San Francisco Locomotives: GE 650-Class Steeple Cab, Holman 1003-Class Interurban Car
A New Haven ALCO switcher pushes a pair of Boxcars towards the Winsor Locks Freight Shed, on a spring morning in the 50's Route: Springfield Line: Springfield – New Haven Locomotive: ALCO S-2
08 886 organises the containers for the intermodal freight trains at Felixstowe. Loco:- EWS Class 08 Route:- GEML London - Ipswich
The winner this week is Mortu5 for this side angle shot of Bakersfield Yard - wonderful leading lines of the tracks in this shot, Congratulations! Have a great weekend everyone! Next Weeks Contest: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/tsc-screenshot-contest-week-33-august-2022.57730/
I'm going a little away from main topic but has ANYONE seen the winning picture from the last week? I haven't seen it once.
I checked this morning and last week's shot finally showed up, sucks for last week's winner for barely getting any exposure though...
Nor do I recall. For me the standard is to see one picture, which is the ICE 1 for about two weeks now. Occasionally two, mostly just when the editor is involved. Opportunity - there is time to show some pictures during the initial game load (when the logo would show, but full screen it's just big black nothing). That's about a minute for me. Maybe half. Long.