Frisco 1522 in TS2010

[sniper297]

Some friends were fiddling with the old 1522 trying to get it working in TS12, I got interested and did some tinkering.

Original runs only in DCC mode so I changed to the C-41 engine spec, original did not have a cabview so I added my infamous 297 lighted big steam interior.

While fiddling with the attachment trying to get it in the right place, I added a kind of generic boiler to the cab shell.

After that added some a.outsideview attachments to the 1522 mesh.

Little less trial and error than the freightcar brakeman's view project, I placed the loco on the tracks, then added a standing man figure, moving it around and up and down to get an idea of where the eye level would be before creating the attachment points.

 

[N5VAV]

This is great! I always enjoyed running that loco before.
I'm looking forward to seeing it on the DLS.

Will you be doing any other road names? Like the WMSR steamer ?

Great job on updating this TRAINZ classic piece.
Thank you !

 

[sniper297]

I don't really have any talent for reskinning, only reason I do it at all is because everyone else seems to be reluctant to do it. Which means if you want it in WMSR (gotta google that to find out what it is, never heard of it) you need to roll up your sleeves and start skinning! :wave: The guys who actually do my reskins while I supervise are the famous Three Blind Mice, and they invariably pick the wrong colors and get more paint on each other than the model.

 

[haddock56]

Will this engine be on the DLS by any chance? I had this one back in TRS 2006 and liked it from the first. Of course there are a bunch of other mountain type engines there too.

 

[Euphod]

I made most of the mountain reskins at that time. If Sniper makes his version available I will see about downloading it and then releasing the skins I made for it, if he is agreeable to that arrangement.

 

[sniper297]

That shouldn't be hard, clone the updated engine and tender, then copy all the BMP and TGA files from yours into the clone;

That took about 10 minutes for the engine and tender. Only sticking point at the moment is this is an oil burner, I had to convert the tender to burn invisible coal instead because the C-41 engine spec is STILL the only steam loco spec I can find that works with Raildriver. I once tried cloning the C-41 spec to see if I could change the fizzix, but just cloning it even without making changes makes it like all the others, no response to the Raildriver throttle or reverser.

 

[sniper297]

Shop that rolling junkyard!

Road foreman wants to shop this contraption for a leaky smokebox, looks to me like they didn't get the little culprit bolted on tight enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljjeSEixwKE

That's the original, I'm gonna take a shot at using attachment maker to replace the attachment points so the smoke looks like it's coming out of the stack instead of leaking out of the seams. :hehe:

 

[sniper297]

Still gotta figure out how to tweak the smoke effects, but here she is in TS2010 native mode;

 

[sniper297]

Played with assorted cutoff setting between 20% and 35%, looks like 77mph is max speed on level track.

 

[Euphod]

Since you're doing all the heavy lifting, feel free to convert any of my reskins and release them as your own. It's only right. I'm happy you've taken the original under your wing, as I'm sure many others are as well. I think SubPar put out models of any of the engines that I did originally, and generally became the standard, but it can't hurt to have a couple more! Well done.

 

[SuperFudd]

I have a birthday coming up next year. For those of you wondering what to get me, please reskin the tender for Western Pacific. Perhaps half of WP steam were oil burners. I believe all WP steam in California was and I am not aware of any WP oil tenders in Trainz. Not important but deleting the center railing would be nice. Also, no need to wait for my birthday to do this. :hehe:

 

[sniper297]

Couple items;
1. Deleting center rail is out, you'd need the source files for that, plus someone who knows how to 3D CAD which I don't.
2. Until another workaround is found, this oil tender will look like an oil tender, but it has invisible coal in it since that's the only way I can get it to work.
3. I'd be delighted to reskin for one of my fellow Naval Aviators, but I'd need a pic of what a Western Pacific tender looks like.

 

[sniper297]

Almost ready for prime time (well, good enough for freeware anyway);

 

[SuperFudd]

Well, thank you very much. The easiest and perhaps best way would be to modify the SP tender. Just remove the SP lettering and aply the WP logo.

There are many locos close enough to WP types with only a number, no logo, on them. Hanging a WP logoed tender behind them is good enough for me.
If you have trouble finding the logo, let me know.
Here are a few more to look at.

http://gelwood.railfan.net/wp/wp-s331afm.jpg
http://gelwood.railfan.net/wp/wp-s0334csa.jpg
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=192316
http://brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/033627/HO-PFM-WP-Western-Pacific-2-8-2-CUSTOM-331

Thanks again, from a former VAW-11 Super Fudd radar tech.

 

[sniper297]

Welcome, from a former HS-75 Sea King ASW tech.

Something like this?

 

[SuperFudd]

That's IT!
If you are inclined to make it a WP loco / tender set, WP Mountains were numbered 171-180 . They were
formerly Florida East Coast locos.
Thank you BIG bunches.

 

[sniper297]

Huh! Looking at your pics I saw a 19, a 331, and a 334, didn't see any 171-180. Easily rectified tho, change the number in the 3 BMP files (possibly I should convert all these old BMPs to TGAs? I know I asked what was preferred at one time, forgot what the answer was) that make up the numbers. You know offhand if the tenders had numbers on the aft bulkhead or not?

 

[SuperFudd]

Yeah. None of those photos were of Mountains. I don't know if there were numbers on the back of the tender. I would rather there were none so I could more easily use the tender with any loco.

 

[sniper297]

On the DLS now;

Western Pacific 4-8-2 Mountain Tender,<kuid:522774:100483>
Western Pacific 4-8-2 Mountain Type,<kuid:522774:100482>
297 Frisco 1522 Mountain Tender,<kuid:522774:100441>
297 Frisco 1522 4-8-2 Mountain Type,<kuid:522774:100445>

 

[jordon412]

Since you're working on getting the Frisco 1522 to work in Trainz 12, could you go ahead and make a model of a Florida East Coast 4-8-2? According to a picture of Florida East Coast #809, all that is needed is to remove the 'Western Pacific' and any other lettering on the tender, and replace the number with a number between 801 to 823. Here's a link to the picture of #809: http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?//june98/06-17-98/fec809.jpg