11:00 "Welcome to... That.." I love how you knew you weren't gonna do it so you just went the safe route, made me chuckle

I used to live outside of Aachen (where you started) and traveled regularly to Cologne/Koln. If you pause at @30:31 you'll see Autobahn 4, which runs without a speed limit for about two miles next to the ICE tracks. There are few things more amazing than clipping along at 130mph/210kph on the Autobahn and then getting passed up by an ICE train doing 250.

Jeff, some funzies to turn on are PZB, LZB, Sifa, and AFB. PZB and LZB are very useful for high-speed running, and read 14km ahead of you and tell you about red signals, and speed restrictions so you can slow down form 250 km/h. Sifa is a safety system to make sure you are 1) there and 2) alive and alert. AFB is a speed restrictor and will essentially drive the train for you. To turn it on fully (no restrictions), press 9 and 6 on the screen in-game (left display). Use R and F to control the setting of the speed limit of your train. AFB works with PZB and LZB to follow a braking curve to slow down or stop smoothly, and will use the train brake to stop if you tell it to. Some warnings about PZB and LZB: If you turn them on in the wrong spot, your train will activate the emergency brakes and you must turn them and Sifa off (if it wasn't already) to move again. With Sifa, if you don't acnowledge the warning (Q), the emergency brakes will come on. On AFB, on non-PZB/LZB territory it WILL NOT slow down for you since it doesn't have the data to tell it to.

Fun fact: HBF stands for HauptBahnHof, which means main station, just in case you were wondering! greetings from Austria :)

ICE's passing little station at full speed is quite terrifying. They have such a drag of air, you always have to watch, to not get sucked onto the rails xD

We have a variant of this train here in Russia going between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and a couple of other places. It's called Sapsan here. The difference is that they are adopted for the wider track, have better insulation, and the trains are longer - in fact, the worlds longest high speed train (20 cars, 500 meters long) is a Sapsan currently running between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. I frequently use this train, and even though it's max speed is 250 kmh on this track it's still amazing. It goes these 700 km in a little under 4 hours, and it's actually faster than going by plane considering you go from and arrive to the city centre and don't have to go through all the security stuff. And considering trains in Russia are running on time schedule to the minute you can get to the train station 10 minutes before departure instead of a few hours. And yeah, no matter how many times I go on this train, it's an amazing experience every time.

15:54 the sound that game is putting out sounds like a default jet engine in msFSX lol

I’ve been on one of these ICE trains before and they are very quiet in the cabin and ride very smooth.

When you clicked that button & the sound was like dramatic build up music haha. Love the ICE train, Seen a lot of videos of it & might go there one day while traveling to see it & ride on the train. Loved the video Jeff, Always learning more than I know.

I've been in a High-speed Rail in China going 300km/h. It's incredible how stable it was.

In Germany the Train Horns are only used when the Train Driver see's People near the Tracks or whene there is a Railway Crossing without Barriers. Und to "Köln" you can just say "Cologne" The Talent 2 with the "RE9" (Wich Runs the Route from Siegen over Cologne Main Station to Aachen Main Station) is the Train I use to Travel to my Work Place. The Talent 2 is famouse for their not so comfortable Passanger Seats. Other common used Trains as Replacement for the Talent 2 are the BR 145 with Bi-Level Passanger Cars. The S-Bahn (Schnelstadt Bahn i.e. Fast City Train) are the BR 420 and BR 423 The go as "S12, S13 and S19) From Horrem trough Cologne Main Station to Au (Sieg) [S12 and S19], Hennef (Sieg) [S19] and Troisdorf [S13] If the game wants to be Ultra Realistic, ever Train had to be Delayed and must be overcrowded AF. Well that are some Fun Facts over the Track I know Like my pocket :D

that was an epic run, an I love your commentary style Jeff, been watching and lurking for a while now, but great content

I have actually ridden the ICE 3M lots of times. It’s a fast connection between Amsterdam, Utrecht and Arnhem within the Netherlands and in Germany it goes to Cologne, Frankfurt and Basel SBB (Switzerland) and they are really nice trains and the seats are very comfortable

Jeff, when switching directions you do not have to go through every door 😂 you can just get out to the platform till you get to the first car, saves more time!

My commuting route actually takes me along this route (from Cologne Hbf to Aachen Rothe Erde). Generally I'm impressed by this route (the station buildings are accurate), and for a simulator this stretch of track is a good choice, featuring lots of International freight (the Thameslink trains were shipped over this route, and were a rather unusual sight for months) as well as ICE, national IC and 2 different Regional Express lines (with different rolling stock), and S-Bahn services (normally to Düren, in the early morning and after midnight all the way to Aachen). There is also a regional diesel line that runs from Düren, splitting into a circular line around Aachen at Stolberg (wasn't included though). Unfortunately there are several small and some larger issues, the station underpass at Cologne looks absolutely nothing like the original, RE trains don't stop at Eilendorf and platforms 43 and 44 at Stolberg don't have a catenary (they're for diesel services only), yet a Talent 2 is parked there. Some more recognizable buildings like the Aachen Arkaden at Rothe Erde are represented by a single block. And whilst the tunnel lighting is nice, they aren't lit at all IRL (and also have a different profile). My biggest issue with this route however is the fact that the catenary outside of the two track parts is completely inaccurate. From Ehrenfeld to Langerwehe, as well as at Eschweiler the catenary IRL is exclusively made of single masts, being a recently refurbished high speed line. The setup of gantries in the game allows a speed of only 160kph. Add to that the fact that the catenary at Cologne central station is also inaccurate, even though all necessary assets are in the game, it does look like a developer simply couldn't be bothered. If editing catenaries is similar to that of the original Train Simulator, making that accurate would incur less than a day of additional work. Edit: though unlikely, an extension of this route to Frankfurt would be nice. That would add 45 minutes of ICE running at max speed over some insane grades of up to 4%, the section is quite long at over 200 kilometres. There'd be some spectacular views and a roller coaster feel at 300 kph (320 if the train is late).

I ride an ICE 3 times a week from Frankfurt to Cologne for university. They sure are amazing. Some ICEs can reach up to 330km/h on longer routes. The only issue we have with our trains are massive delays. We are known for being on time in Germany but every train I take is atleast 5-15mins late, sometimes even hours due to poor infrastructure. DB has a monopoly in Germany and they can basically do whatever they want. Let me know if you have any more questions about German railways or trains!

The cathedral you mentioned upon arriving at Köln HBF, is Kölner Dom (cologne's cathedral), one of the most famous sites in all of germany, probably even of europe

Oh wow, I just did this exact thing you did around the time you posted this. It is extremely fast. Fastest I’ve ever gone in the game. I can’t even get far enough from the train to do a fly by. Haha

ICE is one of my favourite high speed train in Europe alongside with TGV, Eurostar, AVE and Frecciarossa.

"Welcome to... That." Lol Aachen is pronounced "ah", followed by the classic German attempt to hack up a lung, and ends with "en". Hbf is short for Hauptbahnhof, pronounced "hopped-ban-hoff" and means "main train station".

ive been waiting for this!! Im getting this game just cuz of Jeff

ICE ICE baby

Was on one of those yesterday, went from Munchen hbf to Koln Messe/Deutz

I am straight-up loving this one💕

7:02 Jeff, that's the ghost from the movie "Ghost"! Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Hey Jeff, for the cruise control, you need to go to the Left Computer Display, hit the 9 key, then hit the 6 key to enable AFB (cruise control basically) then use the lever to the left of the throttle to set speed. Basically set the afb, and slam throttle to max, and the train drives itself. It's even cooler with LZB enabled. But that's something Alex needs to explain lol. Great video tho! Such a beautiful train. And fun to drive.

31:54 Electric trains are by far usually faster than diesel or other type of trains. Not sure what you meant by that.

Jeff,you always do a great job on all your videos.I'm especially drawn to MSFS 2020.:)

Hello Jeff thank you for all the video content that you share with us. The question you had about the timer on why you had to wait as theres time points just like a actual bus service where you should hit the next stop at a certain time. If you go over your speed you'll have to make up by waiting otherwise you'll blow through all your time points and make customers not happy lol.

This is literally TSW with a prettier UI and A route planner . Shouldve been a DLC. But hey, $25 for 3 routes aint bad at all

Jeff you play all the games I love thx for making quarantine better ❤️ 🤟🏻

Hello there,I hope everyone seeing this has a amazing and great day 😁

That train is awesome, I’ve only been on the high speed train to Manchester nm but that was incredible!😊

I remember seeing one for the first time in the central station of munich (germany) when i was 7/8? and i remember going crazy for that thing :D For me now they look pretty cool but kind of normal, but seeing Jeff's reaction reminded me of this hahaha They are really cool trains after all :)

I’m gonna live off your TSW and MSFS videos Jeff. Best thing to do while I let my g1000 fly me around the planet lol.

Love the video Jeff

I’ve been on these countless times, a 300km stretch of railroad with Ice trains running on it is included in my free student ticket so when I want to visit one of my friends living in another city 100 km away I can just catch one of these. Rare to see them arriving on time tho.

I just love your video's they are joy to watch action-packed i'm a fan of good no great video's and you sir have a lot of them 💯👏

When the "via location" says Wait it means you got there before it expected. You don't actually have to stop. Also, no motion blur=less glitches

Love your vids keep up the good work

Hello Jeff I love Trian World Sim makes my night. Stay safe take care

That train is a unit

if i was sitting in the front of a train and the engineer stops turns around leans right at me and say HI! then whips around and jumps into the seat I would be jumping off that train lmao!

The weekend did go by kind of quick hope you enjoyed yours Jeff, just waiting to get my VR headset tomorrow, been waiting to get onto the VR scene for a minute now. also got TrackIR TrackClip PRO because you use TrackIR, still waiting on the infrared camera though.

Karlsruhe to Munich what a journey. My hometown doesn't get served by these so we gotta make due with regular service ;)

Now he is REALLY Jeffin it 😄😄😄

I used to live in Munchen and my family was in Switzerland, so i rode one to Berlin then to Geneva then to Zurich through Olten. Its a real bad ass experience. Just like TGV's.

Love it jeff

I've ridden the ICE a few times, but I go to school right next to the train track close to Arnhem in the Netherlands where the ICE cruises by 2/3 times a day.

The ICE 3M is a fantastic train. Hbf stands for hauptbahnhof in English that is central station. This train has a cruise control, it’s called “AFB” and you can turn it on by clicking on the left display. Also you choose the destination boards from the train. On the high speed tracks, this is using a safety system called “LZB”. If you turn that on with AFB, the train will brake and accelerate automatically. When LZB is going to stop, you will a yellow light in the cab with “Ende”. Then you need to hold the befehl button on your desk, what’s on the left side. When you don’t driving on the high speed line, you are using the safety system called “PZB”. That system is difficult. When you see a signal with a green and yellow light you are required to hold the “wachsam” button and then the PZB light are starting flashing and moving from left to the right. Speed changes from 90 km/h and lower you are required to hold the wachsam button. If you don’t do that, you will get a emergency brake. A LZB Ende signal needs to accepted within 10 seconds.

I ride these every other weekend. Its really comfortable and quite.

speed and power!

Speeeeeeed

Every time I come to Germany to visit my family, I take this train from Frankfurt down to Freiburg! I love this train!

In some places (including the US), a train does not need to blow the horn before a crossing if it has 4 gates, instead of the typical 2 gates like we have in the US. This is usually because that particular city wants to obtain "quiet zone" status. My hometown is trying to accomplish this status since about 14 freight trains and 2 Amtrak trains pass through daily, six of them during the night.

That was wonderful!

Hey jeff love the vids

Love your videos

cool. i love that train

15:48 that sound - it’s very similar to X-Planes default turbine engine sound.

We have AVE in Catalonia and they go at 350 km/h.They are cool to ride. I love fast speed trains.

TGV in France goes 300+ km/h, some stretches are 320 km/h so 250 km/h is slow. Youc an drive that on TGV route in Train Sim 2020.

I love train's 💯

They have nice trains over there

Hi Jeff, make sure your game is installed on a SSD with some decent read/write speeds. I know this helped with train sim 2020 for me. Also do not set your fps to unlimited but to something reasonable as 100 for example. Apart from that it is Dovetails first attempt using a new graphics engine. It is clear this game needs some updates.

I live in Germany .. and these train fast . I been in one which did 330 km/h..

The ICE 3 actually goes up to 300km/h on that route, was on it once.

Hey Jeff, since you enjoy this train so much, I recommend trying to drive it with all the safety system (IFA, PZB, LZB) and a well a try out AFB!

Tnis was my favorite train when I was a kid

I've been on the ICE four times so far, two return trips to Hamburg to visit Miniatur Wunderland.

When i did ice to meet you the train fully stopped im the middle on a bridge and i coulden atrt again

Please do more of Train Sim World 2. I love these vids!

Looks fun still finishing up sand patch dose any one know if you are able to get the steam in in the American one

Hey, could you think about using AFB & LZB/PZB for the next time? DTG made a tutorial Video for it its also in the handbook

I really want them to bring in the tgv and more French routes overall as their signaling is super complex. Also, could you attempt to run with Pzb and Lzb running?

love this game

I'm getting the same game stuttering as Jeff, though I'm playing the Bakerloo route. I have virtually the same hardware as Jeff. I'm even using a lower resolution, 1080p @ 60fps. I think the stuttering is a little less noticeable on the Bakerloo line because most of it is underground.

Like these places

When are u going to do a commercial flight in MSFS??

155mph? Holy moly 😮🚄💨

I ridden on the N700 Shinkansen in Japan and the ICE 1in Germany.

I only wish TSW has routes that takes 3, 4 hours with more simulated red lights. All green is really a simple drive.

i hope to see trains what can go from 300 to 500 kmh

Very cool!

Try turning the foliage down. I had to do that in American Truck Simulator when my game started stuttering. It fixed the problem.

jeff if you like going fast try the tgv route. you usually get up to 320kph

The first screen on the ice train press the next to last button for AFB or speed control then u can choose button 6 and control the speed using the lever by the throttle of the train on the left

Hey Jeff, You have turn on the LZB and the AFB, then you have the automatic mode. Best Wishes from Germany

If only the US had high speed rail trains. You'd think we would've had a coast to coast bullet train by now.

Hey Jeff I use 1920x1080 screen resolution & 62 max FPS seems to work smooth for me just left everything as tsw2 original settings

Whatupp Jeff?? Hey quick question 1st where is the sat map to view? And also do you have to steer on this game? Love the videos bro I'm thinking about getting it. X Box S head!!! Peace Stay Up

It's just a train, it's a nicer one, but just a train, been riding these many times. Good video, Jeff. Keep it up.

I do hope they'll add routes to Belgium, France and The Netherlands as the ICE lines serves those lines as well!

That is good to know that they are porting? Do you have to repurchase? DoveTail are crooks when it comes to the DLCs?

ICE 3 was made by Siemens and ICE 3 has int’l counterparts. I was in a ICE train from Cologne to Berlin in July, 2018. I don’t remember what train-set I was on/in but I knew it at the time. EDIT: I believe I was on either ICE 1 or ICE 2.

try to force dx 12 -dx12 in launch options in properties

I wonder if you can paint the csx dash 9 engine to look like 777 form unstoppable

You have to turn on afb for the train to manage the speed on it's own which should be a lever

I have and I said that the train is like a castle . Big Powerful. Hey from Germany. And the ICE red line is now partly green

Hey, I saw that bullet train from crash time 2.