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## About This Content
Clinging to the Swiss border, the Wutach Valley Railway is perhaps the most
unique and splendid in all of Germany. Packed with higher and lower speed
running, stunning scenery and spectacular viaducts, the Wutachtalbahn,
complete with fantastic steam action, is yours to experience in this stunning
add-on for Train Simulator!

Despite plans for a railway to run south of the Black Forest that were drawn
up as early as the 1860s, the Franco-Prussian war twisted Germany’s hand into
building a strategic railway that could support military traffic, and remain
on the local side of the Swiss border. Such a railway would give Germany a key
advantage over any retaliatory strikes, allowing a swift delivery of supplies
throughout Baden-Wurttemberg.

The line would diverge off the Black Forest Railway to Konstanz at
Immendingen, and take a general south-westerly descent towards Lauchringen,
where it joined with the Upper Rhine Railway. Either side of the line proved
little construction or operational challenges; track layout was conventional,
and line speeds were on par and other standard rural railways. A problem
however did lie within the planned route’s central section.

Trains would need to fall roughly 250m in 9 km between Blumburg and Weizen,
but with military, heavy military traffic the key focus of the entire line,
gradients were not to exceed 1:100, and the connection was impossible through
normal means. Instead engineers devised a similar strategy as seen on many
mountain railways, they crossed the valley with multiple hairpin turns, grand
viaducts and a complete 360° loop encased in a tunnel, a unique example of
such a structure in Germany.

The line finally opened in the 1890s, and was home to mainly passenger traffic
when its purpose as a military line needn’t be fulfilled. The winding nature
of the central section saw the line adopt the nickname Sauschwanzlebahn
(pigtail line), and its popularity among travelers was two-faced; yes, the
scenery on offer was fantastic, but it came at a price, fares were calculated
by route distance, and the pigtail took over 26 km to travel about 9 km.

The line was actually built with the provision of track-doubling in mind, but
the line never proved busy enough to warrant such an upgrade. In fact, after
the Second World War, the line’s use began to decline and passenger services
began to fade away, until they were stopped in 1974 (with freight continuing
up the southern section until 2001). Despite it all, the line’s lifespan would
not be spent just yet.

In 1976, a voluntary organisation came together in an effort to re-open the
line as a museum for steam locomotives, and the line’s popularity quickly grew
as a tourist attraction. The preserved line drew such a crowd in fact, that
the northern section of the line was also introduced as part of the ‘3er-
Ringzug’, a passenger network linking the local areas of southern Germany
together.

With the Wutachtalbahn, you can try something truly unique within Germany,
operating along a heritage railway on the footplate of steam-era traction, all
while taking in the spectacular sights!
## Included Scenarios
The Wutachtalbahn: Lauchringen – Immendingen Route Add-on includes seven
challenging career scenarios for Route:

* Steaming Through: Part 1
* Steaming Through: Part 2
* Having a Freight Day: Part 1
* Having a Freight Day : Part 2
* Doing the School Run
* Running on Fumes
* The Show’s Over

More scenarios are available on Steam Workshop online and in-game. Train
Simulator’s Steam Workshop scenarios are free and easy to download, adding
many more hours of gameplay. With scenarios being added daily, why don’t you
check it out now!

Click here for Steam Workshop scenarios.
## Key Features
* DR BR 86 Steam locomotive with advanced functionality
* Advanced Steam Chest Simulation, Injector control, blower control, firebox operation and more!
* Interactive Smokebox
* Driver Assist
* Period DR Donnerbuchse ‘Thunderbox’ vehicles with unique passenger view
* Includes Ucs and Shimmns wagons
* 40 Mile preserved route, featuring challenging grades and stunning vistas
* Seven challenging career scenarios for the route
* Quick Drive compatible
* Download Size: 688.4 MB

Train Simulator: Wutachtalbahn: Lauchringen – Immendingen Route Add-On