B&M GE 44 tonner

[Griphos]

Looks like RSC is about to release the latest version of this wonderful little shunter. There's a new video on their website (and youtube channel).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFUQgt8SCTY

Don't see it on Steam yet. Looks like it will include scenarios for the Portland Terminal route.

[NDORFN]

It's just a repaint?

[bpetit]

Yep but its sexy in that repaint.

[OldProf]

Now available on Steam: engine and four scenarios for Portland Terminal route (but only three named, so fourth is probably just a free-roam) for $7.99, which is the same price as the earlier versions. http://store.steampowered.com/app/222548/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

[fraserm]

Downloaded it last night. Very cool loco. There are four scenarios, three easy and one hard. They are all standard scenarios. Completed all three easy ones. Those three are all programmed with rainy weather. Don't know why, this is Portland Maine, not Portland Oregon... We have sunny weather quite often in New England!
All in all a very worthwhile asset!

Best,
Marc

[OldProf]

Downloaded it last night. Very cool loco. There are four scenarios, three easy and one hard. They are all standard scenarios. Completed all three easy ones. Those three are all programmed with rainy weather. Don't know why, this is Portland Maine, not Portland Oregon... We have sunny weather quite often in New England!
All in all a very worthwhile asset!

Best,
Marc

I apologize for being misled earlier into miscounting the scenarios by RSC's Steam Store plug for this add-on. I've only played one so far: "Here comes the storm!", in which the storm never really arrived and the GE 44 BM with its train brake set at 94% rolled downhill on a 0.8% grade, which strikes me as more than a bit peculiar. As to confusing Maine with Oregon, what can you expect from Brits who don't know that in both states we have tracks and sidings, not "roads"? RSC should hire both a geographer and a translator!

[buzz456]

I love anything Boston and Maine- wish we had more of it..

my only gripe (so far) is that the bridge repair scenario uses those silly pan am engines, instead of MEC units...

they have them available, why not use them and attempt to make a realistic "looking" scenario?

That's what RW Tools is for.

[robbit]

I love anything Boston and Maine- wish we had more of it..

my only gripe (so far) is that the bridge repair scenario uses those silly pan am engines, instead of MEC units...

they have them available, why not use them and attempt to make a realistic "looking" scenario?

It is the Pan AM Line that they are on and the Pan Am engines are always seen there. I live about 2 hours away from Rigby Yard and I see them every day

[robbit]

Yes I can understand that. I thought of it that way after I had posted my post. but chose to leave it any how.

[buzz456]

@ Phil
I just don't understand why you think everyone else should do the work to make it perfect for you. If you want to customize things to your taste then go ahead, but no one else is supposed to make it perfect for you. Only you can do that. That is what this 'do it yourself' sim is all about.

[OldProf]

*!greengrin!* True- but why should i do their job for them! :lol:

Maybe, Phil, it's only their job in your opinion? What I mean is that scenario writers select rolling stock based on their own preferences, as they certainly have the right to do. If their choices don't appeal to you, you certainly have the right to change them. It's a free market for everyone that way.

[Griphos]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he talking about the scenarios packaged with the DLC? That seems to me a different ballgame than what "scenario writers" outside of RSC do. Certainly, 3rd party writers are free to do whatever they like. But if RSC is going to release scenarios with the DLC, and I certainly wouldn't buy much DLC if they didn't, then I agree they should take some care to make it realistic and immersive, which includes other stock and rolling stock in the scenarios consistent with the time frame of the DLC, particularly when available through them.

It's hard for me to see why people are taking exception to that request. It's basically the same as asking for the routes to be correct for the time period in which they are set (signals, yards, etc), which strikes me a quite reasonable and certainly frequently lamented around here when not done.

[johnmckenzie]

Agreed totally, Phil