Smokebox: Central Pacific Railroad #60 "Jupiter" 4-4-0

[dtrainBNSF1]

A water car! Neat

[buzz456]

Mike,
Are we just waiting on DTG at this point?

[mrennie]

Mike,
Are we just waiting on DTG at this point?

It's waiting on me finishing various small details on the locomotive and doing some more items of rolling stock (a coach-caboose, for example). Brian and I also need to do a short route on which to run Jupiter.

[buzz456]

. for asking. Just looking forward to this. C&P route works just fine for me for this little gem.

[mrennie]

*!!thnx!!* . for asking. Just looking forward to this. C&P route works just fine for me for this little gem.

I did wonder about releasing it on its own, without a route, because I know there are people such as yourself who would have no problem finding routes for it. However, I don't think it would do well enough without a route and scenarios in the package.

Personally, I like running it anywhere there's nice scenery. It looks great on the Feather River Canyon, for example, where I simply ignore the electricity pylons

[buzz456]

There is always excursion runs but yeah a little route would be nice if you think it would help sales. We all want you to be successful.

[mrennie]

The finished CPRR "emigrant" car.

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[buzz456]

[mrennie]

Thanks Buzz

[ZekTheKid]

[hertsbob]

Central Pacific. Bringing the Red Light District to Your Door.

Looking lovely, as always, Mike. Keep up the great work!

Cheers

Bob

[ElphabaWS]

Magnificent work, Mike. Truly superb!

[trainboi1]

Mike,
Created an account just to compliment you. I'm a regular at the NSRM and am very familiar with a similar car, specifically V&T No. 17, the car that (as far as we're aware) carried the Golden Spike. The construction is perfect - or near-perfect, as I am not exactly the ultimate authority here - but there's only one problem I've seen on it: couplers. Both the freight and passenger cars appear to have a tender coupler casting instead of their proper drawheads. The best page I've found on them is here: http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Link-Pin_Couplers.html Note the diagrams lower down - no need to make your job any harder than it has to be!

Also, is this pack going to include Jupiter's brethren, Storm, Whirlwind and Leviathan, or will it only be the one engine? Considering they were all painted identically, it shouldn't be hard to do all four if you want.

[Logan20131]

Hey Trainboi1, It's me Logan who you gave the Source files for the SP P10. What's up man! Welcome to Railworks America.

[mrennie]

Mike,
Created an account just to compliment you. I'm a regular at the NSRM and am very familiar with a similar car, specifically V&T No. 17, the car that (as far as we're aware) carried the Golden Spike. The construction is perfect - or near-perfect, as I am not exactly the ultimate authority here - but there's only one problem I've seen on it: couplers. Both the freight and passenger cars appear to have a tender coupler casting instead of their proper drawheads. The best page I've found on them is here: http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Link-Pin_Couplers.html Note the diagrams lower down - no need to make your job any harder than it has to be!

Also, is this pack going to include Jupiter's brethren, Storm, Whirlwind and Leviathan, or will it only be the one engine? Considering they were all painted identically, it shouldn't be hard to do all four if you want.

Thanks, those diagrams are exactly what I needed! Tomorrow I'll work on making new drawheads for the rolling stock.

I based on the emigrant cars on a hybrid of V&T no. 4 and the V&T coach/caboose no. 8, but today I made a rolled-roof (non-clerestory) version with squared-off windows. If I could get the exact measurements for no, 17, I might (some time in the future) be able to make a more exact model of that particular car, for the "Golden Spike" package I'd like to develop next year.

The current pack might include Storm and Whirlwind, although a lot of artistic license would have to be applied, given that nobody really knows how they were painted and decorated - what I read was that the historians reckon that each one was done very differently. I'm keeping away from Leviathan just to avoid any danger of infringing any copyrights Dave Kloke might have on the livery that he's applied to his replica of the loco (I don't know if he does, but just in case).