Victorian Railways B class Clyde/GM diesel electric

Here is my current progress. The model is 99.9% finished. I just have to do a cab and finish tweaking the eng file. (adding lights, etc...). --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-28-02 AT 04:52 PM (EDT)

one fine loco there! Are you going to do it in all the colour schemes. WCR, V/LINE, VICRAIL. if you do vline you have to make it very dirty like on the newsrail cover a couple of years back. Also will it have custom sounds?

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I plan to do it in 1970's VR, V/Line and WCR at the moment. As for the sounds, I am just aliasing to the gp38 but it will have a custom horn.--Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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have you used the KLW 7 series sounds they are ace! you should use them, they are in the file lib.

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I want to keep the download as small and as simple as possible at the moment. If someone wants to use these sounds, they're welcome to download them from train-sim.com.
--Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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James,I don't realy care how big the zip is, I amjust waiting to run a B class around here.An A class would be easy from here.Derek

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An A class isn't as easy as it looks. The A has a lot more parts to model than the B. At the moment the B is right on the limit of what MSTS will accept without crashing. This may sound a bit odd, but the S will be a much easier loco to model because all I have to do is take a cab off, extend the body, move the dynamic brake fans to the rear and model the correct horn. Most of the other detail is just changed by modifying the textures. --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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James,Awesome work! I'm probably biased, but that is the best MSTS loco I've seen so far. Thanks for the work, I await it with eager anticipation. I've used the KLW 7 series sounds, and they are superb. Sitting in the cab, with the loco at idle is eerily realistic.Thanks again, James and Kurt,
Cheers,
Matt A

Milwaukee Electric Lines

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Hi all,I wasn't happy with the windscreen textures or some of the texturing on the side of the loco. I've gone and re-done these areas. Here's the result. I'm hoping to have this loco available by the end of next week, but of course, I can't guarantee it! --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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Beauty,Could you please put some specs in a readme with the release (I don not know off hand if you do this with your other models). Just the basics - prime mover info, weight, build date (approximate). this will help with cab & sound selection. I look foreward to seeing the unit on the downloads.TCTallant

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The cabview won't be a problem There is still a lot of work to go on this, but hopefully it shouldn't take too long.The engine is a 16-567B. B74 entered service on 6/7/1953 and it was built at Clyde Engineering's Granville plant in Sydney NSW. I plan to include a breif history and specs in the readme. --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!! i crying its so good. sniff. love it too realistic! waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!You said the a would use too many pollys not ness. The b has the seperate fans on the roof which are all round but the a has a box up there also you could leave the cab blank.

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Here's a shot of A66 near Spencer Street:As can be seen from this photo, although the A has less fans on the roof, it still has three and the rest of the roof shape is more complex than the B's. The A also has four extra marker lights than the B and all marker lights stick out from the nose, an extra set of ladders on each end, six extra horns to model and a more complex mounting system for the horns. I may do the A in the future, but the S is a much easier progression from the B class model than the A.--Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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bit dirty there!
the s should be a killer if its like ya b
you could make some overland cars and has double s's pulling it mmmmmmm.......

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-13-02 AT 12:07 PM (EST)

This is just to let everyone know that I'm still working on the B! I've been delayed because of a number of railfan tours that have run over the last few weeks. This also means that I now have 4 * 37 slides to scan as well! The Model is now finished:The Cabview now had working gauges (except the flow meter) and I've added the brake handles.I just have to finish up the cabview, test it and it will be ready. BTW, I also plan to include a little suprise when I release it! --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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Outstanding worksmanship! the cab looks so real, I had to look twice to make sure I wasn't looking at the real thing!

Hangin' In there with no MSTS
Mobo, case ordered
Fan of the CSX river line
Shawn "Icy-Fire" Kenselaar
ShawnSSK@Yahoo.com

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-13-02 AT 12:17 PM (EST)

Thanks. The Australian Railway Historical Society gave me access to B83 which is preserved at their museum in Williamstown (a suburb of Melbourne). I took several photos and used these to create the cab in Photoshop. --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-13-02 AT 12:44 PM (EST)

roflol. I have drawings and photos of the 42 and B right in front of me as I type this. The controls are almost identical with only minor differences. The gauges only have a slightly different layout on both locos. The floor plan for the No2 end cab in the B is very similar to the No1 end cab in the 42.--Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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OH YEAH!
When, when, when, when

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-14-02 AT 01:01 AM (EST)

Soon, soon, soon, soon Unless something wierd happens, it will hopefully be available by the end of November or early December. As you can see, the model is finished and the cab is very close to completion. --Victorian Railfan Web Site:
http://www.railpage.org.au/vr/

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YES!
James you have been making MSTS stuff for a few months and looks a B class! Mate you are superb, give yourself a pat on the back!
w00t!!!!!

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