Elvas Tower: B&O 1858-1860's Freight Set Part 2 - Elvas Tower

BETA B&O 1858-1860's Freight Set Test Consist for OPEN RAILS ONLY - PART 2

Here is a small 1858-era Baltimore & Ohio RR freight train set. This set contains five rock gondolas, loaded and not, and three house cars, loaded and naught.

Open Rails tested only. I have not tested the cars in MSTS because I don't have it installed.

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About the contents, all meshes were constructed and mapped in TSM Pro. All artwork and special effects are done in Paint Shop Pro7.4, using textures.com transparent "decals" for dusting, streaking, rusting and other effects and textures.
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Other textures were also used from textures.com, such as various metal images, scratched and/or rusted; various brass and copper, iron wheel tread, wood, etc.

The rock gondolas were built by eye from photos found in various publications, the major resource being John H. White's, "The American Railroad Freight Car", a book I regard with much favor and heartily recommend to anyone interested in the wood car era. Very good drawings of B&O's unique floating bolster wood beam trucks appear within the book, so these models are very accurate in construction.

The box cars are not exact to any one specific type, but based on the 1856 B&O boxcar drawings on page 178 of White's fore mentioned volume. They are all typically of ten ton capacity.

No caboose, yet. I would like to know if the B&O had a conductor's car of some kind in this period. It's on my list.

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TWM

May 9, 2021