Thank you! As a matter of fact, after four attempts I made it to Köln without emergency stop. The forum gave me how to get the systems work, even "Beleuchtung". The forum also helped me to find the AWS lever under the extra seat of the Class 101. Why not in the manual? It took my entire TSW time to find that out. Would be fun if the they had it as an option to the enthusiast train in East Coastway.
I am not happy about the growing tendency to regard manuals as an afterthought. In my opinion they should be produced to coincide with the release of the item. As far as I am aware the class 20 manual is still not available and TSW 2 only has a quick start guide?
To rub the tears http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/222628/manuals/BR Class 20 Manual.pdf?t=1418307692
The guy that does the manuals had a thing, was washing his hair, could swear he had something he was supposed to do in August but couldn’t for the life of him remember what it was, did it but the dog ate it, lost it down the side of the sofa, is withholding the manual until he gets a pay rise, has retired but forgot to tell anyone, is still checking the spelling of all the German stations, is hillwalking in Tibet and will do it the minute he gets back (promise), left it on a train while heading to Kent ?.?.?.? who knows?
In the stream today someone mentioned having the manuals be like a physical thing in-game or in-cab like in derail derail valley. I think that's a fantastic idea. I noticed a lot of the locos actually have clipboard built into the operators desk which i think would be a very convenient place to store a manual.