TTDX railways and other stuff

Contents

This page lists all the vehicles available in v0.82 of DBSetXL. The links lead to separate pages for the various vehicles.

The technical specifications are taken from the readme file of the set. The values may be different from what you see in the game (e.g. due to rounding). This is especially true for EMUs and DMUs, where the values are aggregated from multiple part values.

Steam engines

The selection of steam engines is limited to a small number of important types, starting with state railway types from the early 20th century and concluding with some standard types of the Federal railways. The selection is based on gameplay and balance issues and was limited by what TTDPatch allowed back when the set was developed. That also means that some very well-known types like class 50 or class 44 are missing.

name	image	availability
pr. T 13 / BR 92.0		1920-1945
wü. T 5 / BR 75.0		1922-1950
pr. P 8 / BR 38		1923-1950
bay. S 3/6 / BR 18		1925-1954
BR 01		1931-1965
BR 85		1932-1955
BR 05		1936-1965
BR 45		1937-1954

Diesel engines

DBSetXL offers rather few diesel engines. The reason is simply that in the real world there were not many types in service either - the Bundesbahn focused on electric engines already in the 1950s. Development of heavy diesel engines had only little importance, so only a couple of medium engines based on hydraulic transmission were developed. For better game balance, the class 232 was added, which was introduced in 1973 in East Germany, being a design from the Soviet Union. It was then used throughout Germany after German reunification in 1990. The second exception from the real world is the so-called Blue Tiger, which was only used by Deutsche Bahn in trial services in the late 1990s. Only a few engines of the type are in use with private companies, it never saw widespread usage.

name	image	availability
V 140		1936-1953
V 200 / BR 220		1954-1982
V 100 / BR 212		1962-2000
V 160 / BR 218		1968-2002
BR 132 / BR 232		1973-2002
ADtranz DE-AC33C		1997-

Electric engines

Electric engines form the biggest part of the DBSetXL by far. They include some very early state railway types from about 1920, some of the well-known heavy pre-war types, some of the standardized engine types of the 1950s and finally the modern and almost universally usable types.

As in reality, starting the electrification will be useful mostly for difficult lines in the mountains. Once the strong and heavy types E95 and E94 become available, running freight services with electric engines becomes feasible in just about all situations. By the 1950s, electrification of the main lines becomes more or less unavoidable, as now the electric engines are far more powerful than what the steam and diesel engines can offer. So, just like what happened in the real world, you will most likely end up electrifying most parts of the network.

name	image	availability
bay. EP 1 / E 62		1920-1950
E 52		1924-1960
E 16		1926-1962
E 75		1928-1970
E 95		1930-1955
E 44 / BR 144		1935-1970
E 94 / BR 194		1940-1975
E 40 / BR 140		1956-
E 10 / BR 110		1956-1992
E 50 / BR 150		1957-
BR 103		1969-1995
BR 250 / BR 155		1974-2005
BR 181		1974-2005
BR 111		1975-2010
BR 120		1979-2000
BR 112		1990-
BR 101		1996-
BR 182		2001-

Multi-units

Multi unit consists are an interesting alternative to traditional trains with an engine and coaches. This dates back to the fast DMUs of the 1930s such as the famous "Hamburg flyer". By the 1950s, DMUs and EMUs are introduced for just about any sort of passenger service: For express trains there is the famous TEE VT-11 class, or decades later the ICE trains, for local services one can use the famous "eggheads" in the 1950s, while later a variety of types become available.

name	image	availability
Diesel
VT-137		1935-1955
VT-08		1952-1975
VT-95 / BR 795		1952-1980
VT-11.5 / BR 601 (TEE)		1957-1975
BR 614		1972-2000
BR 605 (ICE TD)		1998-2018
BR 612		1998-
Elektrisch
pr. 501-506 / ET 87		1927-1954
ET 11		1935-1954
ETA 150 / BR 515		1954-1988
ET 30		1956-1978
BR 420		1971-2005
BR 401 (ICE 1)		1990-
BR 403 (ICE 3)		1999-

Passenger cars

There are quite a number of different coaches for transporting passengers and mail. Most of them come in different color schemes, but while the looks may be vastly different, they are all pretty similar in their characteristics. The readme file lists all the types and variants, as some of them are only available or usable in certain combinations with specific engine types. That includes e.g. dining cars. When working through that list, it actually boils down to only a few base types, with all the special ones being derivations.

The pages for the different coaches show the different liveries and typical trains using them.

The columns for capacity and loading speed contain the values for passengers and mail.

name	image	available by
Nahverkehr
DRG two-axle		1920
DRG local service		1925
Silverling coach		1960
x-coach		1975
y-coach		1987
Fernverkehr
DRG express service		1925
DB express service		1950
DB intercity service		1987

Freight cars

DBSetXL provides 22 different freight wagons, some of which can be refitted to carry different goods. So all in all there is about 50 different wagons, and some of them add random color schemes or random loads to the mix.

When the DBSetXL was developed, support for custom goods or freight types was in very early development stages. That means that this set is most likely not compatible with additional freights available via NewGRF sets, meaning you might not have wagons to transport these freights. The table below only notes the freights that are available in the base game.

The links lead to extra pages with information on the corresponding wagons and the historic original models. The ordering of the wagons to the different types is based in principle on the rather complex classification system of the UIC, or for early types on the classification scheme used by the Federal railways. In any case, the wagons were grouped into four sets.

A short introduction to the classification scheme history might be relevant here: Already in the late 19th century Prussia started laying down technical specifications for rail cars and many other pieces of equipment to ensure interoperability across the different state railway networks. These regulations and specifications in turn formed the base for technical standards of the "Deutscher Staatsbahnwagenverband" (DWV, German state railway wagon association) in 1909 and the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920, both of which updated the standards as needed. After World War 2, standardization efforts continued, resulting in the general UIC classification scheme. The classification of wagons changed considerably for some of the types, as the UIC classification is quite different compared to the previous standards.

name	image	available by
DRG low board wagon		1920
DRG tank wagon		1920
DRG closed wagon		1920
DRG low board wagon		1930
DRG stake wagon		1930
DRG closed wagon		1930
DRG high board wagon		1935
DRG tank wagon		1940
DB self-discharging wagon		1950
DB closed wagon		1950
DB flat wagon		1950
DB refrigerated wagon		1950
DB high board wagon		1970
DB stake wagon		1970
DB refrigerated wagon		1970
DB flat car for containers		1975
DB sliding wall wagon		1975
DB car transport wagon		1980
DB tank wagon		1980
DB flat wagon		1990
DB Selbstentladewagen		1990
DB tarpaulin wagon		1997