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[UP5521]

The Southern- based Tidewater Western Railroad thought that the 2-10-0 was so successful that they have decided to order several 2-10-0 steam engines such as the 8428 from the Philadelphia- Based Baldwin Locomotive Works to help keep the heavy load off of the older types such as the 4-6-0 and 2-6-0 types, of course it is not uncommon to have one of these decapod steamers work on passenger trains when the pacific type is either on freight assignments, in the shop for repairs or working other types of trains, typically, steamers of this type with 10 drivers work on branch lines but there have been other circumstances that changed that rule.

 

[Trainz_12_fan_100]

Wow. Nice reskin.

 

[Thai1On]

Great back story on that new decapod.

 

[UP5521]

Thanks thai1on your back story is interesting as well.

 

[Saturnr]

The year is 1977, and the Southern Railway was badly in need of more motive power. Enter T&P "Southern" 610, Canadian Pacific "Southern" 2839, and Frisco "Southern" 1610. The locomotive was given the designation Is-1, and rebuilt at Irondale shops, into a Southern beauty. I chose the number based on Southern running 630, and Frisco having 1630, hence T&P 610+Frisco loco=1610.

 

[misterb11]

Here are some Iowa Interstate QJs I reskinned from the QJ I downloaded!

 

[Trainz_12_fan_100]

The year is 1977, and the Southern Railway was badly in need of more motive power. Enter T&P "Southern" 610, Canadian Pacific "Southern" 2839, and Frisco "Southern" 1610. The locomotive was given the designation Is-1, and rebuilt at Irondale shops, into a Southern beauty. I chose the number based on Southern running 630, and Frisco having 1630, hence T&P 610+Frisco loco=1610.
snippy dippy

Wow nice backstory as well!

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

Just a small little thing




Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14

 

[ekankal]

TrainzPlayer14@ To be a novice, you are doing very well, your work looks far far better than my first reskins .

// Erik from Sweden

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

TrainzPlayer14@ To be a novice, you are doing very well, your work looks far far better than my first reskins .

// Erik from Sweden

Thanks, I can tell you though that my actual first attempts were so bad I didn't even save the changes - although I was only remotely familiar with the term re-skin at the time I've got a lot to learn, I am still very new

Just another one for today, I took Brandon's idea and adapted this more or less to a MILW scheme - a ton of work to do still. Let me know if there's anything I can improve




Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14

 

[Trainz_12_fan_100]

Amazing work TP14!

EDIT: Just needs "The" and "Road" and it should be good!

 

[Saturnr]

Another livery is done. The year is 1921, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western has just been reorganised from the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, and is standard gauging numerous lines. To take over the new standard gauge tonnage, the D&RGW took possession of several Baldwin "Russian" Decapods, diverted after Russia became the USSR. Here we see D-42 (42,180 lb of tractive effort, D for Decapod) No 1107 being tested at on a WIP route. The loco wears 1928-1931 D&RGW "Moffat Tunnel" livery, paired with a tender off of a wreck D&RGW 2-8-0.

 

[gtasa]

Oh no not the green boiler DRGW. My eyes! D:

A simple black version of K&L Trainz SP 745.

 

[Saturnr]

Oh no not the green boiler DRGW. My eyes! D:

A simple black version of K&L Trainz SP 745.

Yup. The green boiler. I love it, until it fades like 346's did when they used her as a "billboard" and didn't put her away after use, and it turned nearly lime green, then I hated it. But 478 wore it well when I was at Durango, as did 18 (LS&I) at SLRG, and now 491 is wearing it, as well as LS&I 22 wearing a similar livery), and it looks so nice and fresh.

 

[Saturnr]

Bell clanging, D&RGW 1107 (done in the style of ex-LS&I 18 in SLRG Rio Grande Paint) prepares to enter Tunnel No 3 on the former Southern Pacific Branchline, bringing up the rear are two ex-Boonton Coaches, redone in San Diego & Arizona Eastern Lettering in a Maroon Livery (SP Subsidiary), the first coach, No 12, with faux wood sheathing, and the second, 151 "Esmeralda" with plenty of gold leaf. The LS&I loco was rebuilt with a front mount bell and centred headlight along with 18, 19, 20, and 29.

Authentic L&SI Livery with swinging bell.

This reskin is now complete.

Saturnr

 

[JohnnyC1]

Pioneer's Linwood hump power RS-18u

 

[trainboi1]

Another livery is done. The year is 1921, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western has just been reorganised from the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, and is standard gauging numerous lines. To take over the new standard gauge tonnage, the D&RGW took possession of several Baldwin "Russian" Decapods, diverted after Russia became the USSR. Here we see D-42 (42,180 lb of tractive effort, D for Decapod) No 1107 being tested at on a WIP route. The loco wears 1928-1931 D&RGW "Moffat Tunnel" livery, paired with a tender off of a wreck D&RGW 2-8-0.

Nice skin, but I do take issue with one part:
In a word, green. It is not the correct shade; D&RGW used something called "Russian Black Locomotive Enamel" which was designed to imitate Russian Iron. A lot of official sources call it "dark olive green" would be much less saturated than what you have, but other railroads, notably the Northern Pacific and Erie, used paints that were also called something along the lines of "Russian enamel." See this early color photo of an Erie USRA heavy pacific from near the end of this paint's usage:

Note how it seems to be blue, fading to grey! Now, here is a possibility, given the fact that Russian Enamel, much like its basis, Russian Iron, was more reflective than regular locomotive paint: Accounts in the Plains States of Russian Iron describe jackets as being "blue," which fits the Erie enamel very well. The Northern Pacific, in the rather more gloomy Pacific Northwest, was said to have used a "grey" enamel. But accounts from heavily forested roads such as the D&RGW (for Enamel) and the C&TL&F (for Russia Iron) describe jackets as being "green." This all seems to indicate that just like Russian Iron itself, Russian Enamel is very much a grey color, simply reflecting the area around it. For Trainz purposes, it'd probably be most correct to use a very dim grey-green similar to the C-48, or a mid-grey such as you'll find in the 30-inch-gauge 4-4-0. But now matter how you slice it, it would not have been that lush, saturated shade of green.

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

So far so indecisive...






To be honest I feel like the orange and maybe even the black is horribly off, if anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.


Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14

 

[logybear]

Correction, NP Never tried pulling a Russian Iron Look. They use a simple Grey Boiler scheme for there North Coast Limited in the 1940's.

 

[n8phu]

Nice to see the RS-18U getting some love. Nice work guys.