[abschlammventil]

I hope this hasn't been posted before...

Recently I've found this fine model for Open Rails on a Spanish Trainsim site:

http://www.spaintrainzrutas.com/download/downloads//PresentacionUP4500_1.jpg

It comes complete with sound and cab (2D).

Here's the link (click on "Descarga" for download):Link

[Hobo]

There has been similar models on TS for years . They are called " Big Blow " and " Veranda " . They work just fine because they are not steam turbines . The one you have is basically the Spanish version of them I think . There are also many repaints of them too .

[cuontv]

 Hobo, on 19 March 2016 - 03:26 PM, said:

There has been similar models on TS for years . They are called " Big Blow " and " Veranda " . They work just fine because they are not steam turbines . The one you have is basically the Spanish version of them I think . There are also many repaints of them too .

No, this is a completely different model with outstanding details on the scale of Nicolas-s's fantastic PRR T-1 model. I've enjoyed the BigBlow models for years but the advances in model building over the last decade are clearly evident between these two. Unfortuntely the Spanish offering is of only one model-UP Gas Turbine Electric 4500 #55-but I hope the creator has plans to produce the other variations like what is offered in the BigBlow file (or any other UP oddities for that matter). This will look really good on the new Sherman Hill route.


Many thanks to abschlammventil for putting this on the forum!
-Tom

[SP 0-6-0]

Outstanding model of a fine locomotive.

Any fuel tenders included?

Robert

[hroch]

http://www.elvastowe...post__p__196596

[Hobo]

Yes - this version is one of the newer generation and the old one on TS is the older series with two units . This Spanish version is a good model , with cab and sound .

[cr-stagg]

FYI don't go making your own Consist until you look at the consist provided in the installer.

[Casey Jones ICRR]

 cr-stagg, on 20 March 2016 - 10:54 AM, said:

FYI don't go making your own Consist until you look at the consist provided in the installer.

I hear that!! I never could figure out the coupling with any consists I tried to make. Switching out the coupler types in the .eng file didn't work out either, but I think I'm not replacing them all which is why that didn't work.

I just took the ready made con and put 75 transition era freight cars behind and started out of Laramie on the 3DTrains Sherman Hill route. This model is a BRUTE!! I took track 1 out of Laramie so I would be going uphill to Tie Siding. (Not track 3 with the easier grade.)

The turbine took about 45 minutes to get to Tie Siding, but it did pull the entire train without so much as a burp. I use OR by the way. I (I think this model is a OR model.) There were times I was gimping along under 15 MPH, but the train never stalled out.

It is by far the best model of a UP Gas Turbine for OR/MSTS to date.

EDIT: The model does not come with a fuel tender. I downloaded one from TrainSim.

[SP 0-6-0]

 Hobo, on 20 March 2016 - 07:44 AM, said:

Yes - this version is one of the newer generation and the old one on TS is the older series with two units . This Spanish version is a good model , with cab and sound .

Hmm, You have them backwards. The turbine in discussion is the very first production models of the GE GTEL units.

Next came the Veranda Turbines and then the big two unit 8500 HP Big Blow GTEL locomotives. The latter was the last and most powerful of these locomotives ever made.

The latter two are the older NALW models already mentioned.

Robert

[railguy]

That's a great model, except for one thing: it has great exterior detail and opening doors, but no cab interior details whatsoever. That seems an odd combination.

I'm just old enough to remember seeing the Turbines in use. They were indeed brutes and the noise was unbelievable. A jet engine in a locomotive--that sums it up.