DB BR 44 Steam Loco out on Steam.

[Trev123]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/8344 ... HUAUYJI8sk
By Romantic Railways.

[smarty2]

Tis a beauty Trev and no mistake!

[IronBidder]

From the photos it looks like it's got a nice smoke simulation; not the smoke caterpillar that many add-ons give. I'll have to look on Youtube.

[Trev123]

I have purchased it but the scenario I'm trying to run I am having trouble with the turntable. You have to turn the loco round before you can couple to the coal wagons. I put the loco onto the turntable and turn the loco around which sort of jerks its way around but cannot stop it at the right place. Gave up after a while and shut down TS. Had a go later on but the turntable wouldn't turn. Time for a

[TransportSteve]

Is this any different to the Just Trains DLC offering, which also has a German & Czech Railways Ucx Coal Dust wagon, and has snowploughs, but, the scenarios are for the Hamburg-Hannover route instead?

Cheerz. Steve.

[tnleeuw01]

Is this any different to the Just Trains DLC offering, which also has a German & Czech Railways Ucx Coal Dust wagon, and has snowploughs, but, the scenarios are for the Hamburg-Hannover route instead?

Cheerz. Steve.

I don't know about the scenarios but it's otherwise the very same engine Steve! Done by RomanticRailRoads.

. physics simulation and textures worthy of MSTS. :-/

Certainly not one of my favourite locos in my collection.

--Tim

[marcusboon]

I don't know about the scenarios but it's otherwise the very same engine Steve! Done by RomanticRailRoads.

. physics simulation and textures worthy of MSTS. :-/

Certainly not one of my favourite locos in my collection.

--Tim

With all the extra gimmicks that were added to the engine the 44 remains, as Tim rightly said, an MSTS engine. And adding to that, the DB version at least just doesn’t look right (and I’ve seen plenty of DB 44’s in my time), with an oversized tender and wrongly shaped smoke deflectors.

However, now for the good news: there are some repaints available on rail-sim.de https://rail-sim.de/forum/wsif/index.ph ... 348-BR-44/ ,

and there are a few new (East) German steam locomotives in the pipeline to be released through Just Trains, some shots (scroll down), 01.5 and 50.35 Reko:

https://rail-sim.de/forum/index.php/Thr ... post578384

https://rail-sim.de/forum/index.php/Thr ... post586831

Marcus

[roballen555]

This loco is also on Just Trains site for £11.99,,with the extra snow plough and 3 scenario's for Hamburg-Hannover. Its been out over 2 years and it shows,not my cup of tea,but if you like German steamers,its ok,,don't know if it will stay at £11.99,the RRP is £19.99,,so if you want it,go to JT site,and not many scenario's for it on any site,but maybe somewhere you may find some.

[tnleeuw01]

This loco is also on Just Trains site for £11.99,,with the extra snow plough and 3 scenario's for Hamburg-Hannover. Its been out over 2 years and it shows,not my cup of tea,but if you like German steamers,its ok,,don't know if it will stay at £11.99,the RRP is £19.99,,so if you want it,go to JT site,and not many scenario's for it on any site,but maybe somewhere you may find some.

I love German steamers just not the ones from Romantic RailRoads - they have consistently been a disappointment. (Only the BR03 from them I like).

And you said "extra snowplough" - well you're right, the rotary snowplough which makes this pack at least somewhat special, from JT, doesn't seem to be included in the Steam version!!

So if you really want this engine, better buy it from JT instead for less money! (It's €15 from JT and €20 from Steam....)

--Tim

[TransportSteve]

I don't know about the scenarios but it's otherwise the very same engine Steve! Done by RomanticRailRoads.
. physics simulation and textures worthy of MSTS. :-/
Certainly not one of my favourite locos in my collection.
--Tim

Oh, OK, thanks for that Tim, bit of a pity really, we don't have many German Steam loco developers around, apart from Eisenbahnwerk and BeeKay (Romantic Railroads), the JT one does offer the rotary snowplough, and with my accrued points I could get it at a good price.

Cheerz. Steve.

[tnleeuw01]

There's a new developer of German steam engines though, the BR50.35 looks very promising!

From the same guy who did the German narrow gauge steam engine that JT sells.

--Tim

[Trev123]

So if you really want this engine, better buy it from JT instead for less money! (It's €15 from JT and €20 from Steam....)

--Tim

Depends what currency you are using. For me, the Steam one is cheaper. JTs prices for me are in US $ when converted to NZ $ the price is about $4 NZ dearer.

[tnleeuw01]

So if you really want this engine, better buy it from JT instead for less money! (It's €15 from JT and €20 from Steam....)

--Tim

Depends what currency you are using. For me, the Steam one is cheaper. JTs prices for me are in US $ when converted to NZ $ the price is about $4 NZ dearer.

Good point, still the JT package gives you extra content.

--Tim