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Posted 06 March 2012 - 06:43 PM

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File Name: Southern Pacific S-12 #1448
File Submitter: B & O GUY
File Submitted: 06 Mar 2012
File Category: Early Diesels (Pre - 1960)

Southern Pacific S-12 #1448 for MSTS and Open Rails"
Tim Muir's first cab ride was in this locomotive number 1448 Baldwin S-12.
March 29th, 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"
Testing performed by: Tim Muir, Allen Norton
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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
And "All the gang at ELVAS Tower" who I have teased mercilessly.
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SOME HISTORY:Southern Pacific owned a total of 59 Baldwin S-12"s with s few of these going to subsidiary T&NO.
From the "ESPEE" website:

SP purchased 4 orders of S-12's from Baldwin. The last two orders 1492 - 1513 and 1539 - 1550 came with the Washer/Dryer headlights (Detail Associates 1016), and a grate/door in the bottom of the radiator. The 1539 - 1550 order also came with full length side handrails, MU and dropsteps, (as well as the aforementioned items) and was the only order to have the oval exhaust stack a la the Athearn model.

Initially the first order of S-12's (1442 - 1463) worked all over the Pacific Lines, by the time of the 1965 renumbering most had been reassigned to northern California and Oregon.

The three T&NO units eventually migrated to Los Angeles shortly before retirement in 1969.

The second SP order (1492 - 1513) had a similar history to the first order, found everywhere on Pacific lines. Most ended up in Oregon, except for:
two Pacific Lines units SP 1498 and 1505 were transferred to the T&NO in 1956 and renumbered 121 and 122, to replace two FM H12-44's (T&NO 119, 120) that were to be delivered to T&NO, but never were, SP decided to keep all the H12-44's on the west coast. In 1965 #121 and 122 were renumbered SP 2124, 2125, and in 1969 moved to LA with the 3 other T&NO S-12's.
SP's third and final order of S-12's (1539 - 1550) were only ever found near and around the Los Angeles area, except for #2149, 2153 and 2156 which were sent to Oregon in the mid 1970's.

There were a number of detail variations over the years:

Train indicator numberboards appearing about halfway down the hood, later moved to be in front of the cab.
Single blat horns, and later chimes mounted on the hood, to chimes on the front of the cab roof.
Exhaust stacks on early units were a round tapered type, some had extensions fitted.
Radio antenna varied with a whip type (DA 1802) and Firecracker (DA 1805, DW157) evident in photo's.
Some units had an early Rotary Beacon mounted on a stalk.
Steam Era type classification lights appear on early units.
The small oval hood side number board was later plated over with sheet metal.
Although these units had one large round headlight, it contained two bulbs.
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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 ( SP_S-12_1448_FA.s 1 1 )" to this "FreightAnim ( SP_S-12N_1448_FA.s 1 1 ).
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Unzip the SP_S-12_1448.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.

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