So I'm working on 'upgrading' a route I've already made and I have a locomotive repair shop and I'm looking for parts of locomotives that you would find laying around a repair shop, such as engines, trucks (bogeys), etc. I'd like to have some help so that I can make the repair shop more realistic. The route is set in the present day, so it can't have parts found on steam locomotives, and is set in the USA, which means buffers are not needed. So, any advice?
Help finding locomotive parts for a repair shop
- Thread starter jordon412
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The only repair shop that I've been around is the Soule Shops at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, which is where they restore their equipment. I normally see one or two old diesel engines sitting outside, plus several wheels, and a few trucks laying around. I've found two sets of trucks and a few wheels, but the one I really would like help finding is an engine. I've done searching for 'engine' and 'loco' in the description or name of an object in both the 'building/scenery' and 'terrain features' categories, and could not find any. If I did 'loco' or 'engine' in the 'miscellaneous' category, I would get numerous enginesounds and enginespecs.
nfitzsimmons
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I seem to remember downloading some engines from the DSL. As I recall they were by alien3. And as I recall they were done for TS2004 or earlier. I can check when I get home, but for now I'd suggest looking through his assets on the DLS.
You can always create your own scenery objects such as bogeys by cloning them and changing them to scenery type objects. You will have to fiddle with the config.txt of course to do this, but it's quite easy to do. I did it with the Peter Witt trolley and a couple of old steam locomotives I setup as stuffed tourist exhibits on route. On another route, located on an abandoned rail branch, I placed a locomotive and couple of freight cars on a piece of track to represent a walking trail with an exhibit. These are typical where I live where the NIMBYs will have an active rail line converted to a trail then someone will come along and place a stuffed locomotive for them to climb on while the former station has become an ice cream stand.
Unfortunately, I can't find the tourist railroad, but here is the small setup at the end of the abandoned branch on my now dormant version of my big Enfield and Eastern route. This was still a WIP when I stopped working on it.
John
Unfortunately, I can't find the tourist railroad, but here is the small setup at the end of the abandoned branch on my now dormant version of my big Enfield and Eastern route. This was still a WIP when I stopped working on it.
John