Railworks America

Announcement article at Dovetail Live: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-simulator/articles/article/accolades-to-an-alco

Now, despite my reputation with Elphaba...

I am actually looking forward to this one.

FYI I have been told by them that the PRR antenna will be a child object so It can be easily removed for other roads.

These look pretty good. Hopefully they pan out to be a good release.

Yea... maybe we'll get New Haven FA's for the Springfield route?!?

F7s, FAs, RF-16s competing on the Horeshoe Curve.
Which will survive?
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Chacal wrote:F7s, FAs, RF-16s competing on the Horeshoe Curve.
Which will survive?
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

I think history has declared a pretty clear winner

3000+ f7a's and f3a's, and 1400-ish of all FA variants. But the FA's motor has more character, something the EMD's don't have...

Just as the f3 and f7 are essentially gp7's in disguise, the FA-1 and FA-2 are essentially rs2's and rs3's in disguise as well.

ALCO FA across the pond - WDM1 from India.
Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_locomotive_class_WDM-1

Sorry to disappoint you but the Indian locos are on 3 axle trucks, the FAs were on 2 axle.

mindenjohn wrote:Sorry to disappoint you but the Indian locos are on 3 axle trucks, the FAs were on 2 axle.

Also Indian Loco was designed for 1676 mm gauge.

cnwfan wrote:Yea... maybe we'll get New Haven FA's for the Springfield route?!?

Howard,
If you had gotten the early direct New Haven you would already have one.

I'm sure we'll have one on the new model.

buzz456 wrote:

cnwfan wrote:Yea... maybe we'll get New Haven FA's for the Springfield route?!?

Howard,
If you had gotten the early direct New Haven you would already have one.
I'm sure we'll have one on the new model.

I suspect there'll be plenty of mapping changes, or maybe it's a completely new model Cesar has built here, but I'll try to port my four old NH reskins over to the new version if that turns out to be possible. I think I had covered them all (or almost all, I never quite know with the NH), gold pinstriped Hunter Green, Hunter Green & orange, McGinnis, Alpert.

GreatNortherner wrote:... I think I had covered them all (or almost all, I never quite know with the NH), gold pinstriped Hunter Green, Hunter Green & orange, McGinnis, Alpert.

For the FA1s, you have almost all of them. Only the 401 Green and Yellow, which was the identical pattern to the Hunter Green and Gold, and the Reverse McGinnis, which does not appear to have been applied to the FAs, are left. In addition to the FA-1s and FB-1s, the New Haven also bought FB-2s in order to turn their three-unit sets into four-unit sets. These were delivered in the 401 Green scheme, some of which also got the Alpert/Trustee scheme in the later days. At least a couple of them got the McGinnis scheme, but this wasn't common: the time between their delivery and the beginning of the Alpert administration was short enough that their paint typically lasted through the McGinnis years.

E-mail me if you need anything related to this. My back has improved enough that I'm back on the computer in a limited basis by now, and I'm looking forward to more.

Thank you for looking into the New Haven versions. I had the early version of the Springfield route installed at one point, but had to reinstall everything due to a hard drive change a few years back. I think I just installed the v2 version from Steam at that point. I know the PA is considered the "legend" locomotive from Alco among railfans, but I've always had a liking to the smaller FA / FB. I consider those units to be the smaller scrappier brother of the PA. And there is just something about the FA in the NH McGinnis scheme. It just screams "I mean business... stay out of my way".

I may have to start this over from scratch when this is released but this is just one of my tribute locomotives to the incredible work done by Minerman.