Elvas Tower: FRISCO BALDWIN VO-1000 #222 - Elvas Tower

FRISCO VO-1000 #222 for MSTS and Open Rails"
March 7th, 2012
Model by: Allen Norton.
Textures by Allen Norton
Physics created by: Tim Muir, Allen Norton
Lighting by: Allen Norton
Shape files for coupler, airhoses and cutbar provided by: "Tim Muir"
"TOMS CREWS" shapes by Tom Werb" AKA (SANDY RIVER TOM) caracatures of engineer and fireman
Testing performed by: Andre Ming, Tim Muir, Allen Norton, HIGHBALL3985(JIM)
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SPECIAL THANKS GO TO: "Tim Muir" for his Engine file, sound aliasing, help and support.
"Tom Werb" AKA (SANDY RIVER TOM) "Toms Crews" caracatures of engineer and fireman
"Andre Ming" For his inspiration.
And "All the gang at ELVAS Tower" who I have teased mercilessly.
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SOME HISTORY:The St. Louis and San Francisco owned a total of 38 Baldwin VO-1000's
Ecerpt from: FRISCO YARD TALES PDF included
This Roster Tale and the next to follow, will conclude the series on Frisco diesel
yard power with a discussion of the first diesels received and put into service by the
Frisco - the 38 Baldwin VO-1000's, which provided reliable service from 1941 until the
last of their kind were retired in the 1970's. Their road numbers were SLSF 200-237.
This article will discuss the VO-1000's as they were received and used for many years.
The follow-up article will cover the repowering of several of the VO-1000's with EMD
engines, plus will cover the four Baldwin DS-4-4-1000's, a model that followed the VO-
1000's, obtained by the Frisco in 1948. These later Baldwin's were numbered SLSF
238-241. In November of 1941, while world tensions were rising rapidly with the on-going
war in Europe and the approaching war in the Pacific,the Frisco took delivery of five
Baldwin VO-1000 diesel switching locomotives, SLSF 200-204. These were the first diesel
locomotives purchased and received by the Frisco, and, in fact, were the first new
locomotives on the railroad in over ten years, following the twenty SLSF 4200 series
2-8-2 Mikado's, which appeared in 1930 at the peak of the depression. Baldwin was long
a favorite locomotive supplier to the Frisco, so it was logical that the first diesel on
the railroad would come from that same builder. Following the first five VO-1000's, 33
more were purchased, with the last, SLSF 237, arriving in June, 1946, well after the war
ended. As discussed already in a previous Roster Tales (MarchApril, 1993), two smaller
Baldwin's, VO-660's SLSF 600-601, were also purchased in 1942.

The VO-1000 was a rather large, hefty switcher locomotive when compared to its competitors
from EMD, Alco, F-M, and Lima. The VO-1000, as the name indicates, developed 1,000 HP from
an in-line, four cycle, eight cylinder "VO" engine which ran at a relatively low 625 maximum
RPM. They were of the traditional end-cab design, with a front mounted radiator and high
mounted headlight. They rode on four-wheel AARType A trucks. The Baldwin Locomotive Works
often changed small details of their locomotives almost randomly, even within the same series.
So it was with the VO-1000's - as typified by the 38 owned by the Frisco. Some, including
the first, came with one exhaust stack. However, others carried four stacks, and yet others
had only two. They were, however, well built, rugged, tough locomotives which possessed great
pulling power and were well liked by both management and the operating department and crews.
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This file contains an extra FA without a crew for those who don't want this feature or for a trailing unit. In this case copy this line over the existing line in the engine file "FreightAnim ( FRISCO_VO-222-1S.s 1 1 )" to this "FreightAnim ( FRISCO_VO-222N-1S.s 1 1 ).
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Unzip the FRISCO_VO-222.zip to a temporary folder. Move contents to
..\Trains\Trainset folder. Make a consist and roll em.
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REQUIREMENTS:
You must have the "FM Switcher Cabview" installed in the MSTS Common.Cab folder for the cab to work. You can download it from the Cabview/Sounds section at ( www.elvastower.com ). Follow Richard's instructions for these.
You will also need the sound file from Matthew Imbrogno titled Baldwin 608sc Diesel sounds V1.1 in the Common.Sound folder for the sounds to work. You can download it from ( www.trainsim.com ) Follow Matthew's instructions for doing these.
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Please take note of this info:
It take a good machine to run this model. Minimum would be dual core 2.7 gig processor with 2 gig of ram and a512 meg PCIE video card. The file is 12 meg.+ so plenty of hard drive space would be a good idea also.
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SUPPORT:
As far as support goes, I'm not sure what help I can give. If you do run into a problem with the model you can PM me at-(Elvas Tower)
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LEGAL:
As author of this design, I advise that it is copyrighted, but royalty free. You may use it and edit it as you wish, but you may "not" distribute it for money, or include it in a paid distribution without permission from "Allen Norton", who can be reached via personal message at (Elvas Tower). You must include my name in your credits, as well as my copyright notices, and this entire Readme.txt, if you , use or derive files from it, or otherwise use or distribute these files. If you repaint it you may not upload
it to any site without prior approval. Because this program is royalty free, it is provided WHERE IS, AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, and WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULARPURPOSE or any other warranties. There is no liability by
the authors in your use of this program, instead all liability is assumed by the user.