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Tweed Valley line (Borders railway) dropping in a while on the workshop :)

Now driveable between Galashiels and Tweedbank!

Help creating a scenario in TS Classic.

Hello, I am in the process of trying to create a scenario for the WCML South route from Alan Thomson. In the scenario, I want to drive a single Class 92 loco from the area of the Willesden Mail Depot and then couple to some passenger carriages at Euston. In the editor, I used the marshall order for the cars at the station, but when I approached the station, I got a red signal that I couldn't pass, even with pressing TAB. Is there a way to make it so I stop at the red signal and then get clearance to proceed past the signal while seeing the appropriate indications on the signal? I have some basic experience with the editor as I have been making simple scenarios for years, but I haven't done anything like this that I can remember.

Thanks

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u/767man — 2 days ago
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Beginner DLC Advice

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all doing well.

Hope it's ok to ask, I've had a search around but a lot of opinions online are already 2-3 years old.

I bought run8 recently and have had a great time learning the basics in the base game. I'm mostly interested in single player and thought it might be a good idea to purchase a DLC route which is a bit smaller in order to really learn the game well.

I like freight operations, and am a derail valley player, so a lot of my enjoyment comes from shunting and delivering to industry. I'm not really in it for the long haul drives - each to their own.

So far, Roseville and AGS South have stood out as a good DLC to pick up with a good world save and AI out of the box.

Please can I ask if you would recommend one over the other, or indeed another route?

Many thanks, and have a great afternoon.

Chris

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u/tleilax7 — 3 days ago

Best train sim for PS5 w/ American Steam & Diesels

My grandson age 11 just received a PS5 for his birthday. He’s a very serious train enthusiast. We go riding and watching all over Eastern PA where we just had the Big Boy visit and Reading & Northern has the 2102 T1 and 425 locomotives. He’s been using Trainz 2 & 3 but PS5 doesn’t support it. He’s not really into Euro Trains. So is there something he may like that will run on the PS5? Thank You in advance for any help.

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u/Photo-Dave — 3 days ago
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With the introduction of trains to Genshin Impact in patch 7.0, I decided it was time to do some railfanning.

u/abigailwatson83 — 3 days ago
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2 CSX trains wait near the 27th street diamonds for a BNSF train to pass

Route: NS AGS South Phase 1

u/Kerbo1 — 3 days ago
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Train Tycoon game on Nokia C5

I remembered playing this game a decade ago. Good game to pass time.

u/GewonP — 5 days ago

Where should I start?

So long story short my "I LIKE TRAINS" neurons got reactivated when I turned 41 and because childhood nostalgia is weird I picked up Wonders of Sodor. Yes the Thomas train game and found it an incredibly enjoyable assumedly simplified and streamline train sim (in fairness it is basically Train Sim World 5 with a license as I understand). I dunno why but the shunting, timetable keeping, and managing of the throttle really got me into it (it'll be the autism). I was looking at maybe getting another train sim and the amount on offer terrifies me.

So what title would people recommend for a newcomer? If possible I wouldn't mind something that let me control the train relatively easily with a controller as it's my preferred method or gaming, but open to anything.

Thanks for the opinions.

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u/LotharHex — 4 days ago

Any train simulators with good throttle support?

I've tried playing train sim world 5&6 but i really want Hotas support for it, i've tried all the guides and apps but idk man it's always taking me up the ass with how difficult it is to get it to work properly.

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u/Build_Blox — 3 days ago

Technical help with this call on signal plz? (Train Sim Editor)

Hello,

Having a little confusion with this signal in the editor. I believe the signal is from Fife Circle (I think it's called 2A TH S or similar), but it's a 2 aspect theatre with shunt aspect.

This signal appears before a station with two platforms. I'd simply like it to display 'Green, 1, no shunt lights lit' for the straight ahead Platform. And, 'Green, 2, Shunt lights showing diverging left route' for Platform 2 on the left hand side.

Link 0 is working correctly and dangers the signal when the train passes. But the rest is completely wrong, there's never a shunt aspect showing, and I can only get either 1 or 2 to show on the top, no matter what platform I route into.

I set up link 1 for the straight ahead platform and link 2 for the leftwards one. Are my links wrong? I also assigned '1' and '2' respectively in 'character' field. In trial and error I also swapped links one and two and left character field blank, but no difference it seems.

Any ideas?

u/Unable-Afternoon3773 — 5 days ago

Announcing my route: Borders Railway: Tweedbank - Stow (Scotrail)

I can't believe DTG didn't release this beautiful railway yet, so I'm making it myself. The whole route is beyond the scope of my ability, but this is the best section of the line anyway. Will be released on Steam workshop in three parts: An Alpha demo (coming, I hope around next weekend) running from Tweedbank to Galashiels. Then a full provisional Beta extending the line to Stow, and including the passing loop you enter on approach into Gala. Once bugs/suggestions are ironed out it would get the full release.

Currently the line is functional from Tweedbank - Gala with SRTM terrain data imported, & track and platforms laid down. Next is to complete the track infrastructure and add scenery.

I may need to use quite alot of DLC's, but most of these will be common, such as E-G, Fife Circle and the West Highland Lines.

Look out on 22nd August on the workshop :)

u/Unable-Afternoon3773 — 6 days ago

Small JR East Simulator setup

Got the ZUIKI Mascon + found this Prechen secondary screen on aliexpress. It works great, it was plug and play and the aspect ratio is basically perfect for the driver console.

u/Baly94 — 9 days ago