I have just found a reference that states that John B Jervis created the first 4-2-0 "Experiment" in 1832 which seems to predate the Norris.
Norris 4-2-0 - The Grandpa of Steam Locomotives
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Sid Meier's Railroads is such a Poorly Programmed Game. It should have Stayed in Production for another Month, and it'd have Half the bugs it does now...
It doesn't help that they abandoned support/updates for the game after only 6 months.
I have 2 retail copies here, I should really get them installed (if it's Vista compatible) and give the game one more go. The missus and I always had a lot of fun with that game.
Cheers,
Craig.
i had sid meirs trainz for a while, it is a pretty good game, exept it would crash my computer at random times were i would have to restart. with that said it is a great game, but not as great trainz...
. and i would love to see a norris in trainz, along with the 0-4-0 that came before it.
. and i would love to see a norris in trainz, along with the 0-4-0 that came before it.i had sid meirs trainz for a while, it is a pretty good game, exept it would crash my computer at random times were i would have to restart. with that said it is a great game, but not as great trainz...
THAT would be one Ugly Duckling.
springtransit
What are you looking at?
I don't think it was their intention to do so, but they got caught up in other projects. Maybe they should have waited until Vista was out before finishing it...
But like I said, we'll talk about that elsewhere. There is a model of the York in Trainz, as well as the Rocket and plenty more of the Norris's predecessors at Trainz Pro Routes and the DLS.
magickmaker
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There's a mod that's been released by a third party which adds tenders back into the game.
Note I said BACK into the game. I forget the details how this came to be, but someone at Firaxs decided to pull the tenders for some reason. They kept most of the models, and after some pleading from a modeler, released them to this person. They've been modified and placed back in the game, as well as rescaled all the locomotives to more closely fit the trains.
This mod can be found at:
http://hawkdawg.com/rrt/smrr/smrr.htm
Note I said BACK into the game. I forget the details how this came to be, but someone at Firaxs decided to pull the tenders for some reason. They kept most of the models, and after some pleading from a modeler, released them to this person. They've been modified and placed back in the game, as well as rescaled all the locomotives to more closely fit the trains.
This mod can be found at:
http://hawkdawg.com/rrt/smrr/smrr.htm
trainboypat
Filthy Casual
does trainz have a model of this engine anywhere???? because if it doesnt, bad stuff will happen
trainboypat
Filthy Casual
the rescaling ruined it, THE TRAINS WOULDNT STAY ON THE RAILS
This is very interesting stuff.
What's interesting is the railroads in my area, the Boston and Lowell, and Boston and Maine, imported their locomotives from England. The B&L even went as far as to import the rails and use the English design for the ROW. This proved to be too rough and they lost business even though they could go more than 60 mph in the early 1840s! Their competitor, the Boston and Maine, which outlived the B&L and bought them up eventually, used a conventional style ROW.
After the locomotives were initially imported from England, they were then made right here in New England. Mason Bogie came from Taunton, MA. They were a licensed Fairlie-patent holder, and incorporated the Fairlie design into their locomotives. Others came from Manchester, NH, Lowell, and Lawrence. It's interesting to note that all of these cities were early manufacturing cities.
Here's a list of US locomotive manufacturers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locomotive_builders#United_States
John
What's interesting is the railroads in my area, the Boston and Lowell, and Boston and Maine, imported their locomotives from England. The B&L even went as far as to import the rails and use the English design for the ROW. This proved to be too rough and they lost business even though they could go more than 60 mph in the early 1840s! Their competitor, the Boston and Maine, which outlived the B&L and bought them up eventually, used a conventional style ROW.
After the locomotives were initially imported from England, they were then made right here in New England. Mason Bogie came from Taunton, MA. They were a licensed Fairlie-patent holder, and incorporated the Fairlie design into their locomotives. Others came from Manchester, NH, Lowell, and Lawrence. It's interesting to note that all of these cities were early manufacturing cities.
Here's a list of US locomotive manufacturers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locomotive_builders#United_States
John
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