Railworks America

The New York Central Hudsons were a series of 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Works from 1927 to 1938 for the New York Central Railroad, and designated J3 with variants. This package created by DSGDDR (Darlan Gomes) has been under construction for several years and with the help of his friend RailWanderer (John Williams) the Hudsons came to life. The package includes both the J3a and the Dreyfus streamline versions, both included working valve gear, physics, detailed cabs, which LoganTMT helped with the information to build the cabs,. The package is offered by DSGDDR for the enjoyment of the Train Simulator community as freeware, as intended by the original organizer jpetersjr (Jonathan Burton Peters Jr) .

Please read the "Copyrights_README" within the RailWorks\Assets\DSGDDR\RailSimulatorUS\RailVehicles\Steam\NYC J-3a folder of the DSGDDR assets. This is a freeware asset product which allows the user to do as they wish with these assets as long as no money is made from the use of this product. The product can not be uploaded to other file archival libraries without the express written consent of DSGDDR(Darlan Gomes), and no storage of these files of the product may be loaded to any other type of media, whether storage media or web clouds and web servers. Distribution by any other means, whether commercial or private, electronic, or mechanical, are prohibited without the express written consent of DSGDDR(Darlan Gomes) Darlan Gomes.

Thanks Darlan, John, Jon & Logan. The Hudsons will get a lot of work here.

I just downloaded these wonderful locomotives. First,the installation itself was flawless. I am very impressed by the detail and the operation characteristics of the Hudsons. Physics are great,in the 10 minutes of running time I have used them. These are now some of my favorite steamers in any train simulator. Great work!

Sorry but I just have to ask...

Any chance we can get a PT-6 tender to run with these things in the future? It's essentially a UP centipede tender with the water scoop and a much longer coal bunker.

Can't wait to try out the updated engines! I'll be looking forward to these when I get home later this afternoon!

Did the cab sound issue get resolved on this or is the fix still to edit the engine file?

Overshoe wrote:Thanks Darlan, John, Jon & Logan. The Hudsons will get a lot of work here.

Hey Tom, I hope you enjoy the Hudsons. That area is real close to home for you.

RAILSOHIO wrote:I just downloaded these wonderful locomotives. First,the installation itself was flawless. I am very impressed by the detail and the operation characteristics of the Hudsons. Physics are great,in the 10 minutes of running time I have used them. These are now some of my favorite steamers in any train simulator. Great work!

Again, its great to see you guys enjoying the Hudsons.

EngineerJohn wrote:Sorry but I just have to ask...

Any chance we can get a PT-6 tender to run with these things in the future? It's essentially a UP centipede tender with the water scoop and a much longer coal bunker.

John that's one hell of a tender, the PT-6 was considered at one time, but eventually got the axe as this is a freeware project and Darlan had already moved on to his own projects. Thanks for the suggestion.

AmericanSteam wrote:Did the cab sound issue get resolved on this or is the fix still to edit the engine file?

I guess you'll have to download the files and find out.

AmericanSteam wrote:Did the cab sound issue get resolved on this or is the fix still to edit the engine file?

I apologize for our friend John. He just can’t help himself.

I did a clean install of the updated files and unfortunately I do not have cab sounds. I did a clean install, cleared cache, restarted game and have DSGDDR and KUJU enabled. Any help would be appreciated. I do have lever clicks but no outside engine sounds, chuffs ect.

Just downloaded them, unfortunately they aren't quick-drive compatible...if you want I can cook up QuickDrive consists as .bin files

OpenRailer90 wrote:Just downloaded them, unfortunately they aren't quick-drive compatible...if you want I can cook up QuickDrive consists as .bin files

Thank's appreciated.

AmericanSteam wrote:I did a clean install of the updated files and unfortunately I do not have cab sounds. I did a clean install, cleared cache, restarted game and have DSGDDR and KUJU enabled. Any help would be appreciated. I do have lever clicks but no outside engine sounds, chuffs ect.

Eu peço desculpas pelo inconveniente,mas infeliz emente não consigo reproduzir esse erro que você esta relatando, nessa atualização eu coloquei os sons da cabine do Dreyfuss e corrigi o problema do freio independente e mesmo usando os sons do black 5 ainda, não precisaria mais ativar a pasta Kuju.

De toda maneira eu fiz arquivos de sons de Chuffs completos para o J3a e não usará mais os sons do Black 5, John esta testando para ver se encontra algum problema.
Talvez a próxima atualização seu problema seja resolvido, mas não posso garantir e estarei procurando por algo errado.

Google:
I apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately I can not reproduce this error that you are reporting, in this update I put the sounds of the Dreyfuss cabin and corrected the problem of the independent brake and even using the sounds of black 5 still, it would not need to activate anymore the Kuju folder.

Anyway I made files of complete Chuffs sounds for the J3a and will no longer use the sounds of Black 5, John is testing to see if there is any problem.
Maybe the next update your issue will be solved, but I can not guarantee and I'll be looking for something wrong.

Thank you for your efforts.

AmericanSteam wrote:I did a clean install of the updated files and unfortunately I do not have cab sounds. I did a clean install, cleared cache, restarted game and have DSGDDR and KUJU enabled. Any help would be appreciated. I do have lever clicks but no outside engine sounds, chuffs ect.

You will need to edit the cab occlusion reference as mentioned previously. I just put a 1 in the file name reference so there was nothing for it to find... There is so much work in getting these things working, even something as simple as a reskin, so hats off to Darlan & John for getting these out, it is an amazing feat



ps: just drop the attached bin into the NYC J3a / Default / Engine and the NYC j3a / Def2 / Engine folders and overwrite the original. Hopefully this should fix the issue; it fixed mine
(the system didnt like an unzipped bin )

Unfortunately, the cabview still did not have sounds. But it's okay because I used my fix and all is well. I'm not too worried anyways since most steam engine cabs don't dampen the sound at all in real life. Great job on everything else. This is my new favorite engine!