You may or may not have noticed that on some routes in train simulator, there is no image for scenarios and quick drive. I think that this looked un-neat and decided that i should write a guide on how to fix this so you can drive happy.

This problem occurs with a lot of Just Trains and DTG routes. These include
*London Faversham
*Hamburg Hannover
*Scottish ECML
*Mardonshire
*Bristol Avonmouth
And many more.

If you are interested at customizing your routes then feel free to use this guide to help you. So lets get going shall we.

HOW TO ADD CUSTOM ROUTE IMAGES TO TS2016

For this tutorial, i am going to use the London To Faversham Route as my example.

First you will need to load up TS2016 and click on build and then routes

Select the route that you wanna edit, click the name and in the right hand side, click the Open to open up the route directory.

From here, a folder will appear which should look like this...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242413710/C4DAB201EF2E9041A2405C751825058505084A69/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

From here you will create a new folder and you must name it RouteInformation and open it.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242422502/B06283D2C307534ED3E3D7C7E60561B10747DF62/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

Ok so now you have the route directory open, leave that for later. Now you need to find an image off the internet for your route.

So into google and type in Train Sim <Route Name> Images. and a load of results should appear like this.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242440595/B23CA861C7AD6E49B19AC8A287CDA0393F674C07/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

I decided to use this one as my route image...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242451815/01AB22846A4793B7B0472647E32676D22A5D51C1/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

THE IMAGE MUST BE AT LEAST 600 X 337 or it will not fit into the route information file properly.

Now we are gonna save as picture into the folder we made which (for london faversham) should be
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RailWorks\Content\Routes\00000034-c000-0000-0000-000000002013\RouteInformation.

When saving this image, copy and paste the route information link on the top of your OTHER file (the one you opened earlier) and paste that into where you are planning on saving the new image. Now we have to name it before we save it.

When about to save you MUST change it to all files and name it image.png like this...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242469502/C6A71F6E98C74B517CCA8D2B8E59900865887EE3/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

Now, once you have done that, copy and paste the route information URL into the top box and click enter and then save! Now when we look at the file we made at the start you should notice your image in there like this...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242478312/9A267D1C24E4FAF9EAEED7A5231CD469444FA6F3/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

Once the image is in the file all you need to do is close and reset train sim...

And open quick drive which should now look like this when selecting your route...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/394426869242490215/836162CFA99F10BC05647A27E30B6B411F354273/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|256:*

and you are DONE. You can use this trick on any route, even ones with images already. Customize your train sim. Thats all from me. If you enjoyed reading and if this worked to your favour, leave a comment below.

Thanks