Train Simulator: The Rhine Railway: Mannheim - Karlsruhe Route Add-On DLC

Great Route. Very well optimized LZB PZB no Problem. With Frankfurt High Speed extension you can drive all the way From Mannheim to Frankfurt. Win 10 16 GB Ram 1650 GTX TS2022 64 Bit.

Superb detail covering Mannheim running down past the factories and industrial areas into the lovely German countryside, You can run an ICE at top speed or a slow freight train, very smooth trackwork, all the towns and villages beautifully laid out. Lots of scope for freight consists and passenger trains of all descriptions, probably the best German route DTG have built so far, you won't be disappointed.

Nice looking route with a nice selection of locos and an intricate network of railways and sidings, but too unpolished. Don't buy unless on big discount, I'd say. Sometimes you get sudden speed change without any signs indicating it along the road. Track monitor is broken and sometimes speed limits shown on it will be duplicated next to each other so you can't tell what they say. In the route-included locos, saving your progress while moving will result in PZB locking itself on disabled once you start over from the saved point and you will have to stop your train to enable it again. Also, why won't somebody finally build a route set in the past in germany? Every new german route is modern DB and most of the stock looks and feels very similar.

Bought recently and downloaded the Add on "Mannheim to Karlrue" to my T.S 2017..Thought it seemed to be an interesting and a good one.. Must say I'm very disappointed with this add on! As many others reported, it has also caused me problems..If I using a "Quick Drive" and traveling from Karlsrue Gbf..( I am a freight train fan) with the final destination Mannheim Rbf.. happens the following: about 3 km before the final destination. A Game Over Error occurs. The reason is said to be an train collision !!? Does not matter what kind of train I use.. Has tested with both long freight trains, to single, so-called "light engine" + all times of the day and different seasons. Can not understand why this happens ?? Must be a another big bug !! Where can I find any available update that corrects this annoying error ?? If not exist? ..I can not recommend this add on :-( apart from this...otherwise a very good add on! Update 2017-04-28: tonight I tried to drive an IC train from Mannheim Hbf to Karlsrue Hbf..when I came to the High Speed section..What happened? Yes, once again a "game over" Occurred..caused by a train collision. Do not ask me where .. NOT with my train at least This add on is complete full of errors !!! To Dovetail Games: withdraw this add on from the market .. make a complete renovation of it .. or scrap it completely!

Wisely make up your mind before you take up this route. I safely drove the ICE3 from Mannheim to Karlsruhe and from Karlsruhe to Mannheim without problem in QD. The AI crash which mentioned by the other players does not occur in my QD at all. Maybe DTG has managed to solve the QD problem. But there could be another explanation. I purchased the MRCE Dispolok loco pack, and it could do some effect to the QD. Maybe with this additional dlc could the QD be fixed. (Just Maybe) The laggy problem do occur around the dense area near Mannheim and Kralsruhe, but not that bad that crash the game. Compared to the North Jersey Coast line with the horrible ALP45DP, it is quite fine. (While ALP45DP do slow everything down as it appears, it makes the dense Penn Station become a suffering.) Outside the city the QD gets as smooth as babyoil. The scenarios runs smoothly as well. Generally speaking, the route is a combination of Munich-Augsburg and Hamburg-Hannover. It has fast dedicated track that runs at 280kph, it also has slower mix-traffic track that runs at 200kph. But it is way far more better than those two. It shows better landscape than them in low profile, which add the fun in driving. (In fact I have already driven 3 round trips without getting bored.) Its high speed track is also very friendly. The 280kph section (actually part of the Mannheim-Stuttgart HSL) is adequate for you to get up to such speed and enjoy the sense of speed, unlike the short sections on Munich-Augsburg that forces you to slow down before you reach the top speed. The freight yard is attractive as well. A lot of static consists fill up the enormous yard, makes up a spectacular view. The trains are fine as well. It has message boxes pop out when you come into the LZB section, giving you essential information for driving. The BR425 is also excellent. It has AFB! The BR423 of Munich Rosenheim, BR426 of Munich Garmisch and BR424 of Hamburg Hannover somehow lose this essential equipment which makes them driver-unfriendly. But not for the BR425 of here, which is enjoyable. So, why do I still give a bad rank to it? Because I need to remind you before you finally made up your decision. Despite it has so many advantages, its shortcomings are obvious too. Firstly, it has so many speed restriction sign that overlap with each other, which could be confusing and even deadly in career scenario. Secondly, there are some missing textures, for example, catenary near Mannheim. It could be a little confusing. Thirdly, I am still not sure if the QD is fine in everyone's copy. In a word, if you could not stand with these problems, avoid. If you are dying to get a brilliant German route, get it with the Frankfurt Highspeed bundle during a discount!

Okay, for once, this actually LOOKS kinda decent, which can't be said for all German TS routes. Buuuuuut. If almost your entire route is LZB signalled (which is fine by me) - how did nobody catch that the LZB distance bar in the ICE3 cab is completely incapable of correctly displaying a distance, jumping from 4000m directly to 3000m, and showing 1000m when the actual distance to the signal is ~1500m? Making a couple of friggin' LEDs light up correctly isn't rocket science, guys. Oh, and the rest of the signalling is really weird, too (as usual).

Complete and fast. It's not like the other routes where in ICEs have to slow down again in some parts of the route, instead it takes you straight to the speed line for these trains with non stop 200kmh action straight from the stations. The route is nicely optimized too.

Today I've downloaded this DLC and drove from Mannheim to Karlsruhe with a BR120 EL ( VRailroad origin ) with max speed 160. Close to Karlsruhe a collision (?) with Quick Drive on the High Speed part. Tried the other direction and again a collision a few km before the end in Mannheim. All the AI traffic was driving very slow I realised ( to me a warning ) . It is sometimes nice te have AI traffic during QD. But not if it ends your game. So the High Speed part of Mannheim - Karlsruhe is not playable with the AI traffic. And a play via the old track ( the low speed one ) Again a SNAFU. In my public cloud a picture of the collision . So out of three drives, all three ended with a collision with some AI traffic......

the german routes such as this is always scenic to say the least.the main problem is speed changes which are not displayed on the hud.the trackside signalling is accurate though.so learn the route and signals and dont rely on the hud so much.i concur with growlers review.a german route worth picking up but as with all trainsim product wait for sales,unless its smokeboxs creations then get his releases straight away.

All in all an excellent route that I very much enjoyed playing, thx DTG. It's rare for me to complete all career scenarios for a route, but got much pleasure driving all 10 over just a couple of days; which says it all! :) The included rolling stock is IMHO generous and a distinct improvement on previous versions of same locos, especially the supplied ICE 3. The route comprises a nice mix of a super fast Inter City line, together with a slower more winding line for local stop-start commuter traffic and freight runs. The huge Mannheim yard offers ample potential opportunity for creating some very involved freight scenarios. Surely one of the best German routes for the game!