Hey guys, So I wanted to throw out a couple of my long list of requests. I have also posted to the workshop discussion as well, but I'm sure not everyone watched them. So I figured that to post them here they would get more widespread thought. With the scaling of time changing, and I intend to slow my month/date/year time line down with the most already on the workshop.. it gives us more time to enjoy our train routes. To me this is like a model railroad with added bonus of a world, and sounds.. that is until I have a massive basement and a massive layout of my own. Cant wait for they day, but TF has been awesome so far.. any way I digress.
My first thought is making the 1800's a with a tad more variety. The 4-4-0. Not specifically the Union Pacific 119, but locomotives like it. I name that one in particular because of being at promontory point for the transcontinental railroad. plus beautiful pics of it for reference. Images are below of the 119
119-
http://www.fortogden.com/119-1.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w…ns/c/cb/UP_steam_loco.jpg
Now it does look super similar to "The General" 4-4-0 in TPF/TF.
Comparison Image of both the Jupiter( essentially The General in TPF/TF) and the 119 at promontory point.
Image-
https://sites.google.com/site/…to1_Promontory_Summit.jpg
Is it a possibility of taking the current 4-4-0 General model in game and perhaps deleting the smoke stake, remodeling it, and also move the headlamp back onto the boiler as does the 119? Wouldn't particularly need to be different in terms of power, or speed, but as I said it's more for variety in the early days of the game. I honestly like the 119 better than "The General".
The original 119 was built by Roger Locomotive and Machine works in 1868 I'm trying to find schematics for it, so far I'm only getting ones that look similar to "The General" or another design which is also super similar,, just the smoke stack is thin at the bottom and get big at the top.
http://cprr.org/Museum/Books/I…iter-119_Appleman_NPS.pdf Schematics are towards the middle and bottom of this pdf. (not of 119 but of the General and the different 4-4-0 I'm referencing above. which also would be a nice change too! All that looks to be is a different smoke stack with the headlamp staying in place)
The Thatcher Perkins-
This is a 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler. This locomotive was built by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad (B&O) To take on the mountains of what is now West Virginia, and the first Ten Wheeler introduced in 1853. This class was used well on during the American Civil War with increased traffic on the tracks of both freight and passengers. The railroad applied the name "Thatcher Perkins" to the engine during the B&O's 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse centennial celebration as it was designed by Master of Machinery Thatcher Perkins. The colorized photos of the Thatcher Perkins is of Locomotive 147 that sits at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
Railroad of Record: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Locomotive Number: B&O No. 117
Type of Locomotive: 4-6-0 Perkins Ten Wheeler
Class: B
Date Built: 1863
Manufactured By: B&O Railroad
Locomotive Weight: 90,700 lbs
Driver Diameter: 60 inches (original)
Cylinders: 18 x 26 inches (original)
Tractive Effort: 10,350 lbs (present)
You would think with the power of the internets it would be easyish to find schematics for said locomotives.. but it's not.. I'm still searching..
Looks like it uses the same tender that the 4-4-0's use.
Images -
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1007/bo117.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/…87415439_bc98305c95_b.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/…8/sets/72157646956023857/
With these 2 Loco's the experience of watching the rails in the 1800's would be much nicer. I love eye candy, as does anyone else. Now that I've somewhat figured out how to change sounds of trains I am going to be hopefully implementing my own whistles, brakes, bells and so on in TPF.. assuming that the file structure is the same lol.
Any who I do have some more thoughts for some other 4-4-0's like the Empire State Express but I'll save that for later.
