Elvas Tower: NY&LE No 87 - Elvas Tower

NY&LE No.87 Version 1.0 September 9th, 2022
Frank Musick

WARNING: OpenRails ONLY!!! Pretty sure it won't work in MSTS.

OpenRails model of what may have been an 0-8-0 camel type built Winans & Gillingham for the New York & Lake Erie in the mid 19th century. I've found scant information on the Erie camels. There is a statement in John Whites book "The American Locomotive"...
"As a curious aside on the subject of coal burning, wood burning camels were built for Erie in 1851". The Erie later "thought of purchasing a dozen, but after testing first two, cancelled the order"

I had to guess what a wood burning camel firebox would look like. I based the model on a short furnace camel.

The Erie (as well as the DL&W) was broad gauge (72") at the time these engines appeared. I made no attempt to model that. The models are the standard 56.5" gauge so they can run in ORTS without looking strange. I didn't want to create a broadgauge route to go with them, though that is a tempting idea.

Except for the general shape, which is generally based on a German drawing of Philadelphia & Readings "SUSQUEHANNAH" and images found on the Internet, it's all guess work. There was no info available (that I know of) for controls and a whole host of other things. Color at purchase was alledgedly green in color. From the info I've found Winans painted all parts of his locomotives green, similar to the way some modern Caterpillar equipment is sprayed orange. For the non-Baltimore & Ohio camels I went with other colors. Not sure if any these other railroads repainted their camels. I know one, Pennsylvania's SENECA, appears to have been rebuilt with some flair.

Physics was originally created for Jon Davis built Rogers 1855 4-4-0 by Bill Hobbs March 12th 2007 and minor adjustments were made by Tim Muir on May 9th 2019. I borrowed them from Tim in May of 2022 and added some effects and lights to coincide with the Winans camel series of models. The performance parameters are beyond my skillset and probably need revision.

The model is high poly (especially the crew) and may cause framerate issues. The crew can be edited or commented out of the engine file if needed...Either delete or comment them the following lines....

ORTSFreightAnims (
MSTSFreightAnimEnabled (1)
FreightAnimStatic (
SubType(Default)
Shape( LEHIGHCrew.s )
Offset( 0 0 0 )
FreightWeight( 0t )
Visibility ( "Outside" )
)

)


The loco has an animated bell, and it works well. The bell sound, however, keeps going a couple of rings after the bell stops swinging. Not sure how to fix that at this point.

Installation Procedure:

Unzip NY&LECamel87.Zv into the OpenRails Trains\Trainset directory.
Move any consists into OpenRails Trains\Consist directory.

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I thinks that's about it.
Regards,
Frank Musick