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trainboi
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[2010-08-29 02:12:01 +0000 UTC]
"Random Porter!"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 946; Deviations: 774; Watchers: 262
Watching: 23; Pageviews: 53818; Comments Made: 2884; Friends: 23
# Interests
Favorite bands / musical artists: Lindsey Stirling, Dropkick Murphys, and the Vitamin String Quartet, among othersFavorite writers: Terry Pratchett
Favorite games: Sid Meier's Railroads!, Railroad Tycoon 3, Trainz Simulator(if that counts)
Tools of the Trade: Blender 2.69, Trainz 2012
Other Interests: RRing, Modeling, Kits
# About me
Blender modeler and all around shortline fan.Photo by
# Comments
Comments: 386
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Mind if I ask why do you put an enginespec in tenders?
Specifically the D41 and the V2.
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If you haven't got the update to that, you should. I put an enginespec in the tenders of my UK stuff for a while because I was working with Brian Snook's general script library, which is very nice but the tender script doesn't support mesh toggles, so I had to make them a locomotive with a 0hp spec to make tender headlamps work. In the update, I retrofitted the insert for his script library to include the RCH headcode setup, so now they can work in tandem, admittedly at the cost of a little bit of weirdness in the properties window as the two scripts struggle with each other to put together a single property window.
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Oh thanks for telling me.
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...I'm not sure how to respond to that.
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Hm.
Are you on Discord?
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That probably explains it. You might be in some servers I am also in.
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ZOMGWAT. XD
Thanks dude, I've been doing some model railroading stuff today and not much else! XD
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model railroading ey? What scale?
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HO. I was fortunate enough to run across three Yosemite Valley moguls recently which I have been working to fit DCC in (currently 29 is the only one fully converted) so I've been fixing up appropriate stock for them, including UTLX Type V "Frameless" tank cars and a few Pullmans, as well as smoother trackwork to accommodate the tighter tolerances used on brass engines.
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nice
I only got a few bachmann thomas HO scale models, I haven't used my HO layout it years, which makes me sad
BUT, later down the line, when I move out, I'm planning on building a better layout, and with more scales than just HO
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You're welcome! Hope you have a good birthday.
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Those deviations of yours about the Whirlwind and the storm, I don't suppose that, as opposed to the Leviathan, they're what the original engines looked like back in the 19th century?
I mean, I've seen photos and have sprites of the Jupiter, 119 and Leviathan, but I've never seen photos of the Storm and Whirlwind.
So, I don't suppose, based on your deviations, that's what they once looked like, that long ago?
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It's what they would have looked like when they were built. The locomotive builders painted engines, back in the day, so until an engine needed a major overhaul or badly needed a repaint, they would wear whatever paint scheme their builders preferred. In the case of the Jupiter, Storm, Whirlwind, and Leviathan (as well as all the rest of Schenectady's locomotives, at the end of the 1860s), the builder was a very proud Scot, who painted his engines in Prussian blue and Crimson lake based on the colors of the Caledonian Railway.
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Happy birthday! If you are looking for sound effects for your works, click here: www.sounds-resource.com/pc_com…
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Excuse me. Is there a way for me to download your model railroad route?
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No, because none really made it far enough in TS12 to be ready for release and I am unsatisfied with how walls cast shadows in TANE.
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Hey friend, I have a quick question for you. Sice you've been working and researching the Central and Southern Pacific railroads, what would the colors would their passenger cars sport between the 1890s and 1905?
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That I am not so familiar with...If I had to guess it would be a coach green similar to the SP heavyweight cars that came out a decade or so later. Pullmans at the time could be a mix of several different types...see a couple here: sandcrr.blogspot.com/search?up…
Standard colors at the time were the brown and gold seen on the two cars ahead...green was nothing new but most of the palace/sleeper car companies at the time used brown. But check me, don't quote me! XD
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Hey, I have another question. I've been looking at the livery on your C&C loco liveries and I'm thinking of revising my M&P loco schemes and was wondering what the letter font is on your C&C tenders?
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It isn't a specific "font" - Andrew Brandon drew up the lettering and numbering on the C&C locos based on photos. The closest thing is Bou College, which you could use to represent nearly any basic Baldwin lettering.
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Sorry for how long it took me to reply. The relocation has kind of put a damper on a lot of things.
But anyway, thanks again for the font suggestion, it looks great on the M&P locomotives! Much better that what I originally had. Thanks again!
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Hmmm, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the blog link! I've been flowing it alread, but missed that post somehow.
I appreciate what you were able to share. I'll do some more hunting and digging around.
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As a person who loves the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, what do you think of my depictions of the Reno?
Here are my two samples: kendallcollins.deviantart.com/… kendallcollins.deviantart.com/…
and the Inyo: kendallcollins.deviantart.com/…
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Not sure about the Diamond and Sunflower stacks; both engines wore capped stacks in the later days. I think Inyo had a Sunflower when she was sold, though, and id the Diamond stack is based on a specific photo I'd like to see it.
As far as paint, the toolbox lids and reservoir brackets would have been black, but otherwise they're very good.
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I should add that the headlight is actually the one used at Old Tucson Studios. Even though having the locomotive restored to the way it was in the '30s would be nice, the headlight should stay since it's based on the turn of century look.
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When I did those images, I used only one base engine for it: The Reno.
Now, for the Sunflower, I wrote in the comments that that was the look when the engine was sold.
The diamond stack was just random idea since the locomotive's most famous look was this: photos.aroundcarson.com/773-80… and it was a probable that Hollywood occasion got it right...once in a while in a slim way: wanderer.jamesfouchard.com/All… on a sister engine.
I've used multiple images from Mallory Hope Ferrel's book from the V&T for the main drawing, and all of them showed the No. 11 always having the brass bands, although the reservoir brackets were an extra mile due to a photo from the '70s when it appeared in "The Young Pioneers" as C&NW 673.
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I can verify the brass elsewhere on the engines; as I recall there is a good color photo of Reno in the '40s that I can show when I get home.
The same issue was on the Inyo, since apparently descriptions aren't visible on a phone. Rest assured, however, that I did try to find that first.
As for the Diamond stack, I figured as much but I don't know of a time, even in movies, that a V&T engine looked quite like that. It does look good, though.
If you're looking for another good version, you might try ca. 1905 when most V&T engines were coal fired with Diamond stacks and raised headlights. Reno also wore a stovepipe stack a little later, and it looked very smart.
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I've seen that color image in Ferrel's book, and it always impresses me everytime I see it.
That colored image of a diamond stack V&T engine was the Inyo as it appeared in the Wild Wild West television series. It also appeared this McClintock starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9wNbD… in the same colors and stack.
I just picked the '30s look because it's my favorite look for the engine. The same can be said about my version of Nevada County Narrow Gauge No. 5: www.rgusrail.com/album/cancngr… (Including the steel cab). As pretty as the very colorful engine, there's something about a black used locomotive in the '30s that grabs me. The diamond stack on No. 5 is also neat as well.
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The diamond stack is a Hollywood addition; in the '30s she wore an extremely short stovepipe stack. It does look very good though, better than the '30s stack to be honest.
I wouldn't expect you to take on one of the colorful liveries; the black livery was adopted in the late 1890s. The 1902-1910s variation is closest to Genoa's restored form, but with a raised kerosene light.
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Funny you should say that: kendallcollins.deviantart.com/…
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