Elvas Tower: Cotton Belt Alco RS-3's - 18 Pack - Elvas Tower

MSTS

March 2012

18 Alco RS-3's in both St. Louis Southwestern and Cotton Belt paint with early and late numbers:

This pack contains the passenger equipped locos #308 - 310, 311, 313 and 314 as originally numbered, and #2800 - 2805; in both early and later lettering in SSW Black Widow Paint. #311 did not have a steam generator but did have piping and controls for steam heating so could be MU'ed with a full passenger equipped loco.


*** Do Not Reskin this Locomotive --- A Reskin Kit if available will be on elvastower.com ***

Credits:

Original RS-3 shape file and hardware textures copyright Allen Norton used with permission.

Coupler and Airhose shapes and textures copyright David Rowe and Tim Muir.

Model detailed and textured for Southern Pacific by Richard A. Percy.
All Southern Pacific textures copyright Richard A. Percy.

RS-3 Cab by Dwight Mitchell

Alco 244 sounds by EMD567 aka soundforge

The eng files have been setup for the included Dwight Mitchell RS-3 cab; as well as the included 244 sound files by emd567 aka
soundforge. You may of course use different cab and sound files, editing the eng files to refelect your choices.

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Lights:

The light settings have been set for LightFx. A brighter light ace which can be found on trainsim.com

If you do not use LightFx and do not wish to install it, then the lights may look a bit small.

Simply go into each eng file and double the radius of all the Type ( 0 ) lights.

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These files were not zipped up with folders enabled.

Install this to a temporary folder first and then move to your TRAINSET folder.

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The RS-3 was another model unique to Cotton Belt, not rostered by parent SP or T&NO.

The first 4 (of eventually 17) units (#311-314) were delivered in early 1951, in switcher paint of black and orange and lettered St. L.S.-W. with the Cotton Belt Route Logo on the cabside, (the later passenger units would receive Black Widow paint and signal lights). Of these, the #313 and #314 had steam generators, 65:18 gear ratios and split 800gal/1200gal fuel/water tanks, allowing them to act as backup passenger power. The #311-312 had the lower 74:18 gear ratio's more suitable for freight service.

The next four #315-318 arrived late 1951, and were specified the same as the previous #311-312 freight units.

Early 1952 saw the freight units with 74:18 gearing: #311-312, 315-318 renumbered into one series #350-355. With the two backup passenger units with 65:18 gearing remaining as they were.

Another 4 units arrived in mid 1952, #308-310 were built with all the requirements for passenger service, as well as signal lights and came painted in a variation of the Black Widow scheme, although still lettered St. L.S-W. The other unit was numbered #356 and built as a freight unit, probably painted in switcher black and orange.

The final 5 units arrived in late 1952, one unit was numbered #311 (the second unit to have this number), built for backup passenger service but without a steam-generator, only steam generator controls and piping for passenger service. The other 4 units, #357-360 were built as freight units.

As delivered, the freight units were painted in the Cotton Belt 'switcher' scheme, ie the black and orange scheme.

The later passenger units were delivered in Black Widow paint, with signal lights. The Black Widow paint was the SSW version which was slightly different to SP's, and lettered St. L.S.-W. with the Cotton Belt Route Logo on the cabside.

All SSW RS-3's were setup long hood forward, and passenger units had the Steam Generator in the short hood. Passenger units had dual 800gal/1200gal fuel/water tanks, freight units had 2000gal fuel tanks. All were delivered with MU capability and an air-cooled turbosupercharger. Later they were modified with a water-cooled turbosupercharger, this changed the orientation of the exhaust stack from fore and aft, to across the hood.

All units were renumbered in 1965 to the 2800 series sequentially in their delivery order.

St. L.S.-W. Lettering was dropped in the mid 50's, and Cotton Belt lettering applied. None were painted in Bloody Nose, although they lasted until 1968.

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Richard A. Percy

richard.percy@gmail.com

These files are for personal use only and may not be used for anything else other than personal use.
They may not be redistributed in any way, shape or form anywhere in the world without the express permssion of all people mentioned in this readme.

Models created totally from recycled electrons and no animals were harmed in any way during their production...

These files did not harm my computer when using them, they should not cause your computer to crash. These files are provided and given in good faith, but as I have no Control as to how you may use them, I can offer no warranty, nor guarantee any results.


Original file name: SSW_RS-3.zip