DB BR 101 - Standard to Expert Replacement

This mod replaces the standard (DTG) version of the DB BR 101 by the Expert DB BR 101 from Train-Sim Germany. It also replaces the Avmmz and Bpmmz coaches of the standard DB BR 101 addon by the ones of the Expert DB BR 101 DLC.

In comparison to my previous substitution mod for the Expert DB BR 101 by TSG, this mod is different in replacing the standard DB BR 101 in regard to the following aspects:

1.) This one here is a replacement and not a substitution mod. While the substitution mod allows you to drive the Expert 101 on services of the standard 101 and let the Expert version only sub in at AI traffic due to set substitution probability (which usually is small), this mod will let the Expert DB BR 101 spawn with a probability rate of 100%, in other words for all services and all routes where the standard DB BR 101 is used.

2.) The substitution mod only subbed the Expert DB BR 101 in, but not the Expert Avmmz and Bpmmz coaches. Formations will be identical to the ones with the standard DB BR 101, timetable services will be identical to the ones with the standard DB BR 101. Just the vehicles will be swapped with the Expert version.

3.) You don't get any unrealistic substitutions for other services of the Expert 101 as a byproduct of the mod. All what the replacement mod is doing is changing the standard with the expert version of the BR 101 and its coaches. No extra services, no subs, just a pure replacement and nothing else.

4.) The standard (DTG) DB BR 101 and Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr addons are NOT needed for this mod except for Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr itself which needs the DB BR 101 addon and a separate version of the mod. More to that under installation instructions.

The Bpmmbdzf 286.1 cab car of the TSG Expert 101 addon cannot be used since for a replacement I would have needed it to be in the standard version. Adding the cab car, would need me to alter individual formations for each route indepenently since most timetable creators use custom-created formations or formations copied in the route's respective plugin for their timetables. So unfortunately, the cab car will not be added with this mod. All formations keep as they are with the standard 101 addon.

Short overview:
This mod will give you services with the Expert DB BR 101 by Train-Sim Germany on the following routes:

1.) Nahverkehr Dresden-Riesa (DRA) - Standard timetable
2.) Bahnstrecke Bremen-Oldenburg (BRO) - Standard timetable
3.) Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel-Würzburg (KWG)
4.) Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn (MKN)
5.) Hauptstrecke Hamburg-Lübeck (HBK)
6.) Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr (HRR)
7.) Bahnstrecke Salzburg-Rosenheim (SRM) - Standard timetable
8.) Kinzigtalbahn Frankfurt-Fulda (FTF) - Standard timetable
9.) Frankfurt S-Bahn (FSN)

This mod will work for all future routes and timetables which use the standard DB BR 101 (to be more precise the RVDs of DB BR 101 and coaches in the TS2Prototype-WindowsNoEditor-NRMBR101.pak)

This mod should work with TSW4.

Requirements

Train Sim World® 5: DB BR 101 Loco Add-On on Steam

This is the standard (DTG) version of the DB BR 101. Not required for normal version. But required for HRR-Version.

Train Sim World® 5: Expert DB BR 101 & IC Steuerwagen Loco Add-On on Steam

Required for both versions of the mod.

Train Sim World® 5: Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr: Duisburg - Bochum Route Add-On on Steam

Not required for normal version. In theory, not even required for HRR-Version but well you take the HRR version for HRR services, right? :-)

Installation Instructions

Choose your version:
There are two versions of the mod. This is because the route Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr requires the standard DB BR 101 addon and a separate version of the mod to work properly.

The HRR-Version has the benefit that it works for Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr as well. The downside is that you need to have the standard DB BR 101 addon installed to use it.

The normal version has the benefit that you don't need to own HRR and the standard DB BR 101 addon at all , with the downside that you don't have the HRR services available at all (even not for the standard DB BR 101).

So if you own HRR and the standard DB BR 101, download the HRR version. If you don't have both or any of those, use the normal version.

It's important to not have both mods installed and only chose one because they are not compatible with each other - basically the normal will take priority if you do so. I wasted a good amount of time to create one version that also works for HRR but still up to find a solution. I hope that I can bring you a version that doesn't require to own the standard DB BR 101 at all and gives you all services on HRR at once.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Installation:

After downloading, copy or move the pak file "!101wAvmmzBpmmz_StandardToExpert_Replacement.pak" or "!101wAvmmzBpmmz_StandardToExpert_Replacement_HRRVersion.pak" into the DLC folder under

(Train Sim World)\WindowsNoEditor\TS2Prototype\Content\DLC

For Steam, this is
(path to your steam library)\steamapps\common\Train Sim World 5\WindowsNoEditor\TS2Prototype\Content\DLC

Uninstalling just by deleting the pak file or moving it to a different folder or subfolder. You can use TaskPlays's Mod Manager to enable/disable the mod easily.

Tags: br-101 br-101-expert db-br-101 tsg