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RailDriver27Member since Aug-19-02 · 11 posts

Just finished uploading the Berkshire 2-8-4 cabview for MSTS on RailDriver.com. Our thanks to Dennis Braid at the Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation. Visit his web page to learn more about the Pere Marquette 1225 we used to model this cab. We still have some artwork to finish, adding rust and heat stains to the boiler, etc. But everything should work.Please download at will and let us know what you think of it.

Dan
from RailDriver

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RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, chucksc, Aug-22-02, 11:12 AM, (1) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, pstraten, Aug-22-02, 02:31 PM, (2) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, Adam3291, Aug-22-02, 05:23 PM, (3) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, johnf, Aug-23-02, 00:46 AM, (4) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, johnf, Aug-23-02, 02:54 PM, (5) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, Adam3291, Aug-23-02, 04:37 PM, (6) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, CMO, Aug-23-02, 08:52 PM, (7) RE: Screw Reverser, RailDriver, Aug-25-02, 06:20 PM, (10) RE: Screw Reverser, TrainTrak5000, Aug-25-02, 07:19 PM, (13) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, pstraten, Aug-24-02, 09:54 AM, (9) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, Adam3291, Aug-25-02, 06:45 PM, (12) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, OkrasaGhia, Aug-24-02, 09:03 AM, (8) RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available, lilman316, Aug-25-02, 06:31 PM, (11)

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pstratenCharter Member · 194 posts

RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available

Downloading it now. The screenshot looks great. If it's anything like the mogul cab, it will be a real winner.I've been waiting a while for some more steam cabs, and now the last few days have turned into a double-barreled bonanza. Thanx!PaulSBerkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available – image 3

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CMOCharter Member · 154 posts

RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available

I would like to know what is the round spoked wheel in the lower right?
If it is a reverser, is this common on American engines? I thought they all used a Johnson bar or lever arrangement.

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RailDriverMember since Aug-1-02 · 11 posts

RE: Screw Reverser

Pere Marquette 1225 used a screw reverser. According to Denis Braid, curator of the Steam Railroad Institute this locomotive was designed as a main line locomotive where changing reverser often was not necessary. He also said that if the locomotive was used for switching it could have be fitted with a johnson bar type reverser. Locomotives of this size always had some type of power assist on the reverser mechanism. A locomotive the size of the small mogal we modeled used direct mechanical drive but larger ones like this had a steam cylinder to help drive the gear. I hope this helps. We have a lot more data I could dig up I you need any more. Thanks
Michael

RailDriver engineer

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TrainTrak5000Charter Member · 411 posts

RE: Screw Reverser

>I would like to know what is the round spoked wheel
>in the lower right?
>If it is a reverser, is this common on American
>engines? I thought they all used a Johnson bar or
>lever arrangement. Here is a picture of Pere Marquette #1225's cab. Yes, I too thought that the wheel-reverser was incorrect, but as you can see, it is not. Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available – image 7(The engineer has his right hand on the reverser.)Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available – image 8

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pstratenCharter Member · 194 posts

RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available

"Finally a Berk!"Finally is right! The Berkshire seems to be the orphan steamer of MSTS. When I get one, I may disappear forever in trainsim land. Wooo...wooo...wooooo...CHUFFCHUFFchuffchuffchuffchuff.......PaulSBerkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available – image 9

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Adam3291Charter Member · 613 posts

RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available

The Berk is not the only orphan engine in Train-Sim world. The N&W 611 has not been made yet!!!! I SAY LET HER STEAM AGAIN!!!!Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available – image 10
N&W Class J #611 steams eastward near Salem, Virginia on July 30, 1987. Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available – image 11
The 611 crosses Cotton Mill trestle in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1982, the year in which the locomotive returned to the rails following its restoration. Both of these pictures were taken by Julius Sigler!!Adam

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lilman316Charter Member · 292 posts

RE: Berkshire 2-8-4 Cabview now available

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probly only one to think bout this,,, NEW SCOTTS CAB! don't like the default, just use/edit this one to your needs! I might do that to one of my 3 versions.

lilman316
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