Dovetail Games has been pretty good about releasing a steady stream of content for Train Simulator 2015. There are dozens and dozens of locomotives of all shapes, sizes and time periods to buy for the rail enthusiast in all of us.
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But we have to admit, we understand the need for realism, but can we get a little more fun? The recent Count of Monster Disco Halloween-themed DLC put a smile on our faces. Let's do more with that! The Thomas the Tank Engine skin is a welcome addition (and I believe also legally required for anything involving trains, and dragons for that matter).
Here are some ideas for some more special DLC trains or tracks the folks over at Dovetail should consider adding to Train Simulator 2015:
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5. The Orient Express - perhaps the most famous train and train line in the world. Immortalized by Agatha Christie, and home to many a murder, there is something just wonderfully romantic about the now defunct train line. For over 120 years, the eponymous train and route shuttled passengers across Europe from Paris to Istanbul (and many other places) in supreme style. The official Orient Express ended in 2009, but you can still piece your way along the original tracks if you're savvy enough. Drive trains, solve mysteries. All in a day's playtime.
4. The Ghost Train from Ghostbusters II - an easy no brainer. A train that is not bound to the conventional laws of physics, that can presumably travel as fast as it wants. Heck, it can be a simple add-on that players encounter only at night under certain conditions. Imagine driving along one dark and stormy evening and you hear the approach of an oncoming train, but you see no lights. Suddenly, a terrifying voice growls your name and you're surrounded by severed heads and then, whoosh! A ghostly apparition barrels down on your train and passes right through, as if it were not there.
3. The EMD SD40-2 - yeah, getting a little technical here. This train was the one Denzel and Captain Kirk had to stop in that movie, Unstoppable (also known as Speed 3: The Train That Wouldn't Slow Down). The whole film was inspired by an actual 2001 incident during which a train was unmanned and running away for 66 miles in Ohio. Introduce the Walbridge to Kenton line, the points where the incident occurred. Imagine having to be on the second team responsible for trying to slow this thing down. Don't tell me a) that wouldn't be a lot of fun and b) you've never imagined being Denzel. Because I know you're lying on both counts.
2. Blaine the Mono - this is the psychotic train featured in Stephen King's Dark Tower series (specifically The Waste Lands and Wizards and Glass). Imagine a derelict train with a mind of its own that asks you a series of increasingly difficult riddles that you have to answer. Failing to do so, the train runs aground, blows up and releases a toxic gas cloud that kills everyone in the surrounding countryside. Grim? Yes. Would it add an even greater sense of danger to an already tricky process? Hell yeah it would.
1. Astrotrain - the Transformer who transform into a Train! Well, more specifically he is a Decepticon and he can transform into a train, a robot, and a space shuttle, hence the term 'Triple Changer'. Now, trains are great. I love trains. But a train that can change into a space shuttle? Gentlemen, you had my attention, now you have my curiosity. A flying ship obviously wrecks the physics of the game but I'm sure an agreement can be reached to allow Astrotrain's likeness to be used in Train Simulator 2015.
So, what trains or tracks do you want to see added to Train Simulator 2015?