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Contents in retail versions could vary in different countries to include local routes and locomotives. Owners of Train Simulator 2014 received a free upgrade to the TS2015 core technology via the Steam platform. Train Simulator 2016 was released on Steam on 17 September 2015 as Train Simulator 2016: Steam Edition. This version provides a ...
Trainz is a series of 3D train simulator video games.The Australian studio Auran (since 2007 N3V Games) released the first game in 2001.. The simulators consist of route and session editors called Surveyor, and a Driver module that loads a route and lets the player operate and watch the trains run in either "DCC" mode, which simulates a bare-bones Digital Command Control (DCC) system for the ...
No. 4500 was built as an oil-burning steam locomotive by Baldwin in 1942 for Frisco passenger service. [1] It was the first 4-8-4 Northern that Frisco ordered. Along with similar locomotives 4501 and 4502, it was painted in the zephyr blue, white and gray paint scheme with "Meteor" spelled out on the side of the tender in bold, red letters. [1]
Smokey Joe is a model steam locomotive based on the 264 which has been in the Hornby Railways range since 1983 and has been highly popular, being regarded as a "permanent fixture" by the company. [10] A 'starter'-level engine, it has also been the centrepiece of an eponymous train set in the Hornby range. [11]
The AC-9 was one of two Southern Pacific Railroad's articulated steam locomotive classes that ran smokebox forward after 1920. Twelve AC-9 class locomotives were built by Lima in 1939 and were Southern Pacific's largest and heaviest steam engines, partly a consequence of low quality coal these engines were designed to burn.
Designed by George Hughes, chief mechanical engineer of the LMS, and built at the ex-L&YR works at Horwich and the ex-LNWR works at Crewe.The inspiration came from a Caledonian Railway 2-6-0 design at the grouping, however the cylinders were too large for the LMS's English section's loading gauge, resulting in Hughes having to adapt the concept. [3]
The Reuben Wells was the first steam engine to work the grade by adhesion alone, pushing the cars up the hill as well as supporting them on the descent starting in 1880. [6] The Reuben Wells was completed in the railroad shops [7] in 1868, and quickly proved to be a success leading to the creation of a second locomotive in 1869 named M. G. Bright.
The locomotives has boiler pressed to 170 pounds per square inch (1.2 MPa) feeding steam to two cylinders that had a 25-inch (640 mm) bore and a 32-inch (810 mm) stroke. These were connected to 61-inch (1,500 mm) driving wheels buy Walschaerts valve gear, although the last 47 were built with Baker valve gear. They had 14-inch (360 mm) piston ...