(W.I.P) ALCo RS-3

[ryan9550]

I've updated the non-EMD rebuilt Chop Noses to the current version of the RS-3:

The new version

ALCo RS-3m Chop Nose V2 1.1.jpg

The old version

ALCo RS-3m Chop Nose Render #1.jpg

The fictional chop nose:

New

ALCo RS-3m Chop Nose V2 1.2.jpg

Old

ALCo RS-3m Newer RS Nose Render #1.jpg

The old versions are from 2016

Thanks for Reading!!

[DieselMatt75]

Awesome work!

[Mikeov1985]

Looking Great!

[mindenjohn]

Will be very welcome, looks great.

[ryan9550]

This is just a post showing the differences of the three Phase 1 variations: Phase's 1, 1a & 1b

ALCo RS-3 V2 (Phase 1).jpg

ALCo RS-3 V2 (Phase 1a).jpg

ALCo RS-3 V2 (Phase 1b).jpg

The main differences between Phases 1 & 1a is the engine access doors not having louvers on Phase 1. The only difference between Phases 1a & 1b are the vertical louvers on the battery boxes on Phases 1 & 1a, while 1b has horizontal louvers.

All three were originally built with the GE RD3 Turbo. That's the reason for the exhaust stack being oriented lengthwise on the body. Phase 1b's were also built with ALCO 510 Water-Cooled Turbo-Supercharger, which had the crosswise stack. I believe all three eventually had their exhaust stacks changed to be oriented crosswise after 9/54 (to reflect the upgrade to the ALCO 510 Water-Cooled Turbo-Supercharger), which I'll also include.

ALCo RS-3 V2 5.1.jpg

ALCo RS-3 V2 5.2.jpg

Thanks for Reading!!

[Hajmola]

Making it since 2016, how more years to finish it?
!*roll-laugh*!

[goddrauG]

We can't focus everything we do towards building stuff for Train Simulator.

These things take time, and life definitely hops in the way on more than one occasion. Patience is key.

[mindenjohn]

Good things are worth waiting for, great things take a little longer.

[ryan9550]

Making it since 2016, how more years to finish it?

Excuse me, but I don't see you going through the process of making something for this game without any prior knowledge of how to do it.

The past 5 & 1/2 years have been filled with: practically minimal modeling skills, improving those skills slowly over those years, doing TONS of research, figuring out how to get things into the game, redoing parts of the models multiple times & completely redoing the models to be more accurate, general life things, taking breaks from modeling, getting burnt out multiple times on this project, and working on other projects.

So please go and look through the 17 pages of this project that shows my progress from being a novice to being able to get things into the game and where I am now with my modelling skills.

I may have gone overboard with the sheer amount of variations that I'm working on, but a project of this size takes a lot of work to accomplish; especially since there's still a lot I need to work out when it comes to texturing, animation and scripting.

So please take all of this into consideration before making a joke about the amount of time it's taking me to finish this project.

Thanks for Reading...

[Chacal]

Making it since 2016, how more years to finish it?

Was that supposed to be funny?
I see nothing in your long history of 12 posts that says you can have an informed opinion on engine building.

[mindenjohn]

Making it since 2016, how more years to finish it?

That is an insult.
Ryan9550 has done and is doing a remarkable job and I thank him for it.

[ryan9550]

Making it since 2016, how more years to finish it?

That is an insult.
Ryan9550 has done and is doing a remarkable job and I thank him for it.

Good things are worth waiting for, great things take a little longer.

We can't focus everything we do towards building stuff for Train Simulator.

These things take time, and life definitely hops in the way on more than one occasion. Patience is key.

Thank you!

[goddrauG]

To sort of steer us back towards the topic here...

I understand chopping the nose of a locomotive was done to improve visibility, but were there any drawbacks in doing so? Seems to me like it would be wise to simply keep them chopped from the factory floor altogether. I ask in the sense of the RS3 since I've seen a good few of them like this (or I just spend too much time looking at the Lamoille Valley's locos)

[mindenjohn]

Steam generators were often fitted from new in the short hood in the days of passenger steam heat trains. When passenger services diminished the need for steam heat reduced and main steam generators were removed. The fashion for long hood forward changed and when engines were converted to short hood forward, the short hood being redundant for its original purpose, some locos received chopped noses Alcos RS series and EMD GPs. New locos started to be delivered with "chop" noses, GP30 onwards and Alco Century series plus most GE although UP had some high hood SHF U25B. N&W and Southern were long time LHF operators with High hoods as standing orders.

[ryan9550]

To sort of steer us back towards the topic here...

I understand chopping the nose of a locomotive was done to improve visibility, but were there any drawbacks in doing so? Seems to me like it would be wise to simply keep them chopped from the factory floor altogether. I ask in the sense of the RS3 since I've seen a good few of them like this (or I just spend too much time looking at the Lamoille Valley's locos)

The only drawbacks I can think of are the cost of doing it and maybe less crash protection.