Elvas Tower: Nacional de Mexico #6413, Baldwin DR-12-8-3000 "Centipede" - Elvas Tower

Nacional de Mexico #6413, Baldwin DR-12-8-3000 "Centipede"
NdeM6413 BETA Version B.0
November 15th, 2007
Original model and Textures by Frank Musick.
Physics by Matt Imbrogno and Chuck Zeiler
Sounds by North American Locomotive Works
Cabview courtesy of Columbus Locomotive Works (Cameron Lashley and Verne Horton) modified and redistributed with permission

OVERVIEW:
This model of Baldwin Locomotive Works DR-12-8-3000 is part of a series of "Centipede" replicas created for MSTS. None of the series is 100 percent finished. Some of the units are what Microsoft likes to call "ALPHA" versions, which may be a unique way of getting out of trouble for producing buggy software. In my case it most definitely is. I don't have the skills required to complete all the various components of an MSTS model and some of the more obscure parts, like lighting, physics and sounds I have borrowed from the guys who really know how that needs to be done. Other models in the series, like this one, I still consider BETA. While the models may look half decent they may use parts or textures cobbled from more complete versions without being as integrated as they should be. They are being "released" with fair warning that they need further testing and development, but are still a bunch of fun to run in the sim.

SOME HISTORY:
Among the largest diesel locomotives built by any manufacturer, 14 of these 3000 horsepower giants were ordered by the Nacional de Mexico Railroad in 1947 as drawbarred sets. Each unit was 91 feet long with a total weight of 409,000 pounds (almost 205 tons) carried on 24 wheels, 16 of which were powered by 750 horsepower traction motors. With 102,000 pounds of tractive effort these units were the largest and most powerful diesels on the planet at that time. It was not until 1966 that any other manufacturer offered anything close to the size and power of a set of DR-12's

Unlike the PRR sets, which were detuned by having their turbos removed, the NdeM sets were returned to Baldwin after several years and "souped up". The modifications resulted in 3400 horsepower locomotives (6800 for the pair) making the NdeM units the most powerful Centipedes built by BLW.

This model of #6413 attempts to represent the set as it appeared in 1960 with 3400 HP and the gray over red paint.

Original File Name = NdeM6413.zip