Us, Uk, De And Other Steam

Am wondering were the community stands on steam and

if steam were to come back which of the big 3 should get it next and

If there any other countries you would like to see what are they

 

Uk with the A4 and a tank engine but I would like to see the US big boy steam locomotive too

 

I'm still hoping that Steam is coming back someday, a Train Simulator should include every type of traction. Since the UK already got 4, I would like a german loco next, probably a BR 52 or a BR 01 with some historic coaches for Steam Railtours.

 

If (and it’s a big if), DTG did dust off steam traction then for the UK something GWR (or BR Western) with the Riviera Line from Exeter to Kingswear would be an iconic project.

But I fear the money men at DTG and Focus HQ’s have decreed steam is dead for all time, Just churn out generic UK and German electric routes either in house or docile third parties.

 

I'll throw in the german class 99.77-79 (750 mm gauge 2-10-2T built in the 1950s) and the Lößnitzgrundbahn (Radebeul Ost-Radeburg) or Weißeritztalbahn (Freital Hainsberg-Kurort Kipsdorf) to go alongside the already existing saxon narrow gauge infrastructure and rolling stock in the game.

 

I wonder if there's more scope for steam on mixed traffic routes? For example I know a lot of the southern region was electrified but there were still steam engines running the light branch line services relatively late and doing other work so you could easily have Thumpers running alongside some steam locomotives? I wonder if that'd scratch more of an itch. But then I suppose the issue with that is that you'd have to have more than one loco and it'd be a totally new region.

 

I would like to see

UK
LNER A1, LNER A4, SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, BR Standard Class 4, BR Standard Class 5, LMS Garratt, BR ex-WD Austerity

US
2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone", UP FEF Series, UP 9000 Class, UP Challenger, UP Big Boy, UP TTT Class, NYC Judson, N&W J Class, SP GS-4, SP AC-1 - AC-8, AC-10 - AC-12, SP AC-9

DE
DGR Class 01, DBR Class 1.10, DRG Class 03, DRB Class 42, DRG Class 44, DRB Class 50, DRB Class 52, DRG Class 64, DR Class 65.10, DB Class 82, DRG Class 86

SA
Class A, Class H, Class 6, Class 7, Class 8, Class 12A, Class 14, Class 25 & 25NC, Class GEA, Class GF, Class GMA

AU
QR 6D16, QR A12, QR AC16, QR B18¼, QR BB18¼, QR Beyer-Garratt, QR C16, QR C17, QR D17, QR DD17, QR PB15
NSW Z19, NSW Z29, NSW C30, NSW C30T, NSW C32, NSW C36, NSW C38, NSW AD60

 

DTG need to crawl before they try to walk, and walk before they run. A big articulated monster (with late-steam systems like superheat, economizers and helper engines) is way, way too complicated for a first effort. Something like a USRA Mikado would be far more realistic

 

Having seen the player stats on the steam platform this evening and noticing more people still play TSC than TSW, I wonder if that’s because that sim has a wonderful selection of steam locos to choose from.

 

Its more likely because TSC is older and therefore had an established playerbase before TSW was conceived.

 

Tsc also has the advantage that it has a much wider selection on routes and Rollingstock.