New steam (not electric) locomotives: Aslaug and Biarritz
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 11:14 am
This is going to be fun.
I have decided which electric locomotives I'm going to model. These are going to be the best electric locomotives ever.![roll_laugh ^**lylgh](./images/smilies/lachliegen.gif)
Edit: They are now not going to be "electric". See this post.
I was looking around for free plans, just because I like starting from plans. It makes things nice and easy because I can just drop the plans in as a background image and build the mesh over that. So I found plans for an old Danish freight steamer called Aslaug, which was built in 1927 and lasted for 40 years. She's a perfect generic example of the small freighters of the period, so will be good for RT3 purposes.
This will give us a nice, basic, cheap freighter for hauling stuff over the RT3 briny. I've made a start on the model already, and will play with it when I need a break while finishing off the Schools class choofer, along with roughing out the double freight cars for those that can be doubled.
For cargo that needs to move faster, like mail and pax and fruit or whatever, we need something slicker. This is where Biarritz comes in. She was one of the largest and fastest of the cross-Channel steamers owned by the UK railway companies, with great passenger appeal. I don't have actual plans for her, but I have enough photographic and technical information to do the job anyway.
Both of these will have a low top speed by land rail standards, but they'll never have to worry about grades and I'll give them decent acceleration, so they should still be quite usable. Provisional top speed for Biarritz is 40 mph, which is more than she could do in real life but enough to make her a useful fast steamer in RT3 without going mental on it. Aslaug will probably do about half that, which again is around 50% more than her real speed, but should still be ok for lower-priced freights which have a slow rot time.![thumbs_up !*th_up*!](./images/smilies/ok.gif)
![Very Happy :-D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
I have decided which electric locomotives I'm going to model. These are going to be the best electric locomotives ever.
![roll_laugh ^**lylgh](./images/smilies/lachliegen.gif)
Edit: They are now not going to be "electric". See this post.
I was looking around for free plans, just because I like starting from plans. It makes things nice and easy because I can just drop the plans in as a background image and build the mesh over that. So I found plans for an old Danish freight steamer called Aslaug, which was built in 1927 and lasted for 40 years. She's a perfect generic example of the small freighters of the period, so will be good for RT3 purposes.
This will give us a nice, basic, cheap freighter for hauling stuff over the RT3 briny. I've made a start on the model already, and will play with it when I need a break while finishing off the Schools class choofer, along with roughing out the double freight cars for those that can be doubled.
For cargo that needs to move faster, like mail and pax and fruit or whatever, we need something slicker. This is where Biarritz comes in. She was one of the largest and fastest of the cross-Channel steamers owned by the UK railway companies, with great passenger appeal. I don't have actual plans for her, but I have enough photographic and technical information to do the job anyway.
Both of these will have a low top speed by land rail standards, but they'll never have to worry about grades and I'll give them decent acceleration, so they should still be quite usable. Provisional top speed for Biarritz is 40 mph, which is more than she could do in real life but enough to make her a useful fast steamer in RT3 without going mental on it. Aslaug will probably do about half that, which again is around 50% more than her real speed, but should still be ok for lower-priced freights which have a slow rot time.
![thumbs_up !*th_up*!](./images/smilies/ok.gif)