T:ANE (in development) screenshots...

[kajnos]

 

[trainboi1]

You sure Chris Van Allsburg imagined it as a K4? In a documentary he makes reference to PM 1225 sitting in the park and him playing on it as a kid. To me the cover image was always of a 4-8-2 instead of a 2-8-4 lol

If you look at the book cover, it's a high-drivered Pacific:

Comparing an identical angle...

Being an artist's rendering, of course there are other bases, but the running board and equipment is the same...Regardless of how Allsburg reminisced, I find it seriously hard to believe that he would so royally screw up the detail from a Berkshire until he had something with four pony wheels and a K4's running boards! Additionally, I have seen at least one photo of a K4s with a center headlight:

Note it also has a vertical bar pilot, and a very blocky sand outlet, giving it a look much closer to that of the Polar Express engine...at this point, the only "artist's liberty" is pushing the headlight backwards into the smokebox and rounding off the firebox.

 

[zues]

Man, that k4 with the centered headlight is just bizarre looking haha

 

[KenRuof]

If you look at the book cover, it's a high-drivered Pacific:

Comparing an identical angle...

Being an artist's rendering, of course there are other bases, but the running board and equipment is the same...Regardless of how Allsburg reminisced, I find it seriously hard to believe that he would so royally screw up the detail from a Berkshire until he had something with four pony wheels and a K4's running boards! Additionally, I have seen at least one photo of a K4s with a center headlight:

Note it also has a vertical bar pilot, and a very blocky sand outlet, giving it a look much closer to that of the Polar Express engine...at this point, the only "artist's liberty" is pushing the headlight backwards into the smokebox and rounding off the firebox.

I never did like the "Lines West" look with the center headlight, bar pilot and raised coal bunker on the tender.

 

[Matt3985]

Just a quick one before I head off for work. (don't get the chance to run stuff that much now that Ive taken on my IRM route project).

 

[DON49PLM]

 

[S301]

DD 658 sits in 2 road at Lilydale before departure with a heavy goods.

With a V class banking the train, DD 658 storms up the hill out of Lilydale.

Baldwin V499 working hard at the rear as pushes the train up the hill.

Cresting the hill, DD 658 passes the stop board where V499 will be stopped before returning to Lilydale.

Having shut off steam and applied the brakes, V499 comes to a stop at the top of the hill, whilst the goods steams onward to Melbourne.

Having completed it's banking duties, V499 drifts back into Lilydale.

Regards
Zec

 

[Matt3985]

Testing out a winter route and this one is so good that I just had to run the "Polar Express"

"Well You Coming?"
"Where?"
"Why to the North Pole Of Course... THIS IS THE POLAR EXPRESS!!!"

 

[Matt3985]

Done some more testing on Jango's upcoming Winter Route

 

[Matt3985]

Here are some more screenshots.

 

[epa]

I can't remember if I've posted this before...



Matt

 

[trainman7616]

 

[benjaminw]

Hmmmmmm,

Looks like my Pacific will need an update, the Centenary Pacific should only be able to display 4620. Also of note is that the CA&L green engine should only be able to display 4623.

This is because of the history that I've come up with (with much assistance) for this engine class:

The first locomotive was completed just in time for the 1927 B&O Centenary celebration fair, and was sent to the fair painted in a special paint scheme. When it returned it was painted in Faux Russian iron to match the rest of the class, and the engines wore this livery until WWII. During the war all the engines were painted black and remained as such until retirement, with the exception of 4623 which was trialed in CA&L Coach green, this was removed after only six months.

-Ben

 

[trainman7616]

 

[epa]

@Trainman7616:

Those are some great pics. I'd hate to be "That Guy", but where did you get that signal bridge in post #2272?

Thanks
Matt

 

[trainman7616]

I honestly dont know. Its shows as JR PRR Gantry Bridge in splines.

 

[applegathc]

Impressive, Chance.

 

[trainman7616]

Thanks

 

[epa]

I honestly dont know. Its shows as JR PRR Gantry Bridge in splines.

It may have come as a dependency in one of their routes. I'll do some searching around.

Thanks Chance.

Matt

 

[trainman7616]

I can give ya the asset kuid if ya like.

<kuid2:45324:39200:1>

It shows as being used on C&O Hinton and the Legacy of the BN.