[midneguy]

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File Name: MSTS D&RGW Dual Gauge C-48 2-8-0's #1147 & #1161
File Submitter: midneguy
File Submitted: 30 Jun 2012
File Category: Steam Locos Std Gauge

MSTS D&RGW DUAL GAUGE 2-8-0 C-48 #1147, #1161 AND TENDERS

ENGINES PROVIDED IN 3 TYPES - PLAYER DRIVEABLE, HELPER (DOUBLE HEAD OR PUSHER SERVICE),
AND AI

These models have been constructed to represent how they would have appeared in the 1930's TO 1950's,
and are configured as dual gauge switchers.

The D&RG purchased these engines as 220 Class 2-8-0's (numbers 1131 to 1199) from Alco-Schenectady in 1906 and 1908.
Later they were reclassed as C-48's and served under this classification for the rest of their careers. All were
retired by 1956 and sadly none were preserved.

Specificaions:

Type: 2-8-0 Wheel Arrangement
Boiler: 200 psi, coal burning
Cylinder Bore and Stroke: 23" x 28"
Valve Gear: Walschaerts
Driving Wheels: 57" Diameter
Overall Wheelbase engine and tender: ~59' 6"
Locomotive Weight Loaded: 220,400 lbs.
Weight on Drivers: 194,100 lbs.
Tractive Effort: 47,489 lbs.

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MODELING INFORMATION:

Locomotive and Tender models created in 3DCrafter Professional Edition, Version 9.1.1 (Build 1256). Post Processing of shape file performed with Shapefixer File Version 0.1.0.39 by Paul Gausden. Textures created using MS Paint and Photoshop Elements 6.0, and converted to .ace format by TGATool2A by Scott Miller.

NOTE: With the exception of numbering, these models were not designed with re-texturing in mind so repaints will be difficult if not impossible to accomplish. Renumbering may be accomplished by editing the files DRGW1147nums.ace, and DRGW1161nums.ace .

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INSTALLATION:

YOU MUST HAVE BIN INSTALLED FOR THESE MODELS AND THEIR LIGHTS TO WORK CORRECTLY. BIN IS ALSO REQUIRED FOR CAB SWITCHING BETWEEN PLAYER AND HELPER LOCOMOTIVES, AND FOR THE ANIMATED DUAL GAUGE COUPLERS. All files needed to run this engine are included, no additional downloads are required.

Unzip DRGWDG280s.zip to a temporary folder.

Move contents to ..\Train Simulator\ folder

Accept write overs if prompted, which will place a single engine consists in the Consists folder and
the locomotive folder in the Trainset folder

NOTES ON BUILDING CONSISTS WITH THE DIFFERENT ENGINE FILE TYPES SUPPLIED:

Included in this release are 3 types of locomotives to be used depending on their use as the lead or single engine in a consist, helper / pusher in a consist, or on an AI train. The sound files have been configured to achieve correct engine sounds for the locomotives in each of these cases, as long as the correct .eng file is used. The .eng files to use for these different applications is as follows:

Lead / single engine in Player consist: DRGW1147.eng, DRGW1161.eng and tender DRGW1147Tend.wag, DRGW1161Tend.wag

Trailing Helper or Pusher in Player consist: DRGW1147Help.eng, DRGW1161Help.eng and tender DRGW1147Tend.wag, DRGW1161Tend.wag

AI consist in any position: DRGW1147AI.eng, DRGW1161AI.eng and tender DRGW1147Tend.wag, DRGW1161Tend.wag

NOTE: Engine files are also supplied if you want to run with the white "extra" class lights turned on by substituting the .eng files that contain "xtra" in their names into the consist of your choice.

ALTERNATE SOUNDS AVAILABLE IN THE SOUND FOLDER:

Some of you may have a preference in whether or not
you want to always hear the open cylinder cock hiss
when you start the engines. I have provided two
versions of the .sms files so you can use the version
you prefer. In the sound folder are two other folders:

"Cyl Cock Hiss"

and

"No Cyl Cock Hiss"

The engines are originally installed using the .sms
files that have the cylinder cock hiss sound present.
If you want to try the models without the cylinder cock
hiss sound, simply copy the files from the
"No Cyl Cock Hiss" folder into the Sound folder.

If you want to have the cylinder cock hiss sound back again,
simply copy the files from the "Cyl Cock Hiss" folder into
the sound folder.

COUPLER ANIMATION:

The front coupler on the engine and rear coupler on the tender are animated on these models to simulate the transition from standard to narrow gauge positions. The coupler movements are animated as right doors - to change the coupler position hit CTRL + number pad 9. This is a cosmetic feature only since it is not possible in MSTS to couple a standard gauge engine to narrow gauge cars on dual gauge track.

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LEGAL:

As author of this new 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 or non paid distribution without permission from Derek Miller, who can be reached via personal message at www.elvastower.com or www.trainsim.com forums (user midneguy). You must include my name in your credits, as well as my copyright notices, and this entire Readme.txt, if you repaint it, use or derive files from it, or otherwise use or distribute these files with my permission. Copyrights for content included in these files, but not created by me as listed in the credits section of this readme.txt, are retained by the original authors. Refer to the included readme text files in the installed "DRGWDG280s" folder for copyright and distribution information for additional content not authored by Derek Miller.

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 PARTICULAR PURPOSE 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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CREDITS AND THANK YOUS:

3D Models and textures © 2012 by Derek Miller with the following exceptions:

3D Model of coupler © 2004 Jeff Link and Tim Muir, Coupler Texture base © 2004 Steve Thompson

Engineer and Fireman shapes & textures (a.k.a. "Tom's Crews") are provided for use with this
model and may not be copied, modified, and/or transferred to a different model for distribution.
For information on adding "Tom's Crews" to models for distribution, contact
Tom Werb ("Sandy River Tom") via personal message at ElvasTower.com

MSTS Steam loco photorealistic cab view,
suitable for US built, small to medium locos,
circa 1910-1935. Operable controls include;
throttle, reverse lever, train and engine
brakes, bell, whistle, sander and cylinder
cocks. From photos of SVRy #19. By Rick
Grout and Steve Thompson.

Cabaview also available as a separate download on www.elvastower.com ( SVRy16cabview.zip ) and
www.trainsim.com (svr16cab.zip )

Sound credits:
Whistle sound provided by Chris Signorelli & Bill Hobbs, North American Steam Whistle Pack.
Bell sound provided by Captain Bazza, aka Barry R Munro
Shoveling sounds provided by Derek Miller
All other non-default sounds provided by Brandon Smith

Texturing and Modeling Advice (from elvastower.com forums): Rick (thegrindre), Tim Muir, Dave Nelson, Bill Pratt, Alexey Soljenitchev, Fleegle411, Allen Norton, and Herb Kelsey.

Inspiriation and Encouragement: All listed above and those at the elvastower.com forums, both in the thread of the construction of these models, and inspiration from other models I have admired.

Herb Kelsey for his help in reviewing technical details of the construction of the models, and refinements to the .eng and .wag file variables. Also thanks for many photographs supplied for reference of various locomotives, pictures of the Handlan class lights, and tri-color D&RGW logo.

Initial Testing and positive input: Herb Kelsey, Jared Singletary, Mike Long, Tim Muir

Brandon Smith for providing the .sms concept and the majority of the sound files used

Tom Werb for the use of his excellent "Tom's Crews" cab figures

Lettering and Number Font - RRRoman and RioGrnde from Railfonts.com

Tim Muir for use of his coal texture.

Steven West for fine tuning the loco3.wav and x_loco3.wav sounds, and looping the safety.wav and x_safety.wav sounds

If I have forgotten anyone I humbly apologize but know that I appreciate all the advice and inspiration I've received. I also must mention that the vast amount of information available on the forums regarding modeling for MSTS has been invaluable. The success I've had in making these models would not have been possible without drawing on the experience of so many others that have blazed the trail before!

Thank you all and hope you enjoy these models!

Derek Miller
June, 2012

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[pinpuller]

Outstanding models Derek. Very nice work. I have them all including the WP engines. However, I do get sound errors when checking with ConBuilder, as I do with all rolling stock before adding them to the Trainset. The errors do not seem to affect the operation of MSTS but I feel that any and all errors should be eliminated if at all possible. Just thought I'd pass this along and perhaps there is a fix. Thanks again for your work.

Regards,
Pinpuller

Here is a sample of what ConBuilder shows for one file but all files show the same.

[SOUND FILE MISSING]
The sound file specified by the file 280_eng.sms does not exist in the folder
D:\MICROSOFT GAMES\TRAIN SIMULATOR_FEATHER RIVER\TRAINS\TRAINSET\WP12\SOUND
If this file is aliased it should exist in the aliased sound folder .
The error was found on this line:
Variable_Trigger ( Variable1_Dec_Past 6 StartLoop ( 1 File ( "" -1 ) SelectionMethod ( SequentialSelection ) ) )
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[SOUND FILE MISSING]
The sound file specified by the file 280_eng.sms does not exist in the folder
D:\MICROSOFT GAMES\TRAIN SIMULATOR_FEATHER RIVER\TRAINS\TRAINSET\WP12\SOUND
If this file is aliased it should exist in the aliased sound folder .
The error was found on this line:
Variable_Trigger ( Variable1_Dec_Past 5.4 StartLoop ( 1 File ( "" ) SelectionMethod ( SequentialSelection ) ) )
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[SOUND FILE MISSING]
The sound file specified by the file 280_cab.sms does not exist in the folder
D:\MICROSOFT GAMES\TRAIN SIMULATOR_FEATHER RIVER\TRAINS\TRAINSET\WP12\SOUND
If this file is aliased it should exist in the aliased sound folder .
The error was found on this line:
Variable_Trigger ( Variable1_Dec_Past 6 StartLoop ( 1 File ( "" -1 ) SelectionMethod ( SequentialSelection ) ) )
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[SOUND FILE MISSING]
The sound file specified by the file 280_cab.sms does not exist in the folder
D:\MICROSOFT GAMES\TRAIN SIMULATOR_FEATHER RIVER\TRAINS\TRAINSET\WP12\SOUND
If this file is aliased it should exist in the aliased sound folder .
The error was found on this line:
Variable_Trigger ( Variable1_Dec_Past 6 StartLoop ( 1 File ( "" ) SelectionMethod ( SequentialSelection ) ) )
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[Noisemaker]

Probably sound block reference copies within Derek's SMS. Like you say Pinpuller, I'm leery too of these conflicting addendum's that's wound up on many SMS from Kuju to so many today. Even though they're 'offside' in the SMS and don't affect actual operation. ConBuilder and I'm sure MSTS must be combing through them at some point and may cause disruption on different camera views, entering tiles with AI use, etc. As the saying goes 'cleanliness is next to Godliness' - or at least smoother and error free MSTS operations. :pleasantry:

I'm sure Derek will be on this like white on rice, and I can certainly help if need be.

[midneguy]

Ah yes, I get errors reported every time for these .sms's in the same lines you're highlighting when I do a .sms check in route riter. These are the lines that have to do with the playing of the cylinder cock hiss sound. What's odd though is that I have never seen that it cause an actual problem in the sim though, either for myself or stability issues with anyone else that has tested them. The issue is having the cylinder cock hiss sound play when accelerating, but you don't want it to play when decelerating in that speed range - that's why there is no file called out on the deceleration side, or "" as it appears.

It's been awhile since I messed around with that portion of the .sms file but I seem to remember simply removing the "decelerating" triggers and it caused endless crashes. Or I could be wrong since my memory is fuzzy at this time. All I know is that whatever I tried at that time caused the sim to lock up and leaving it the way it is now kept it stable. I'll have to look into this some more though as something that might be cleaned up for future releases.

Derek

[pinpuller]

midneguy, on 23 July 2012 - 08:44 AM, said:

Ah yes, I get errors reported every time for these .sms's in the same lines you're highlighting when I do a .sms check in route riter. These are the lines that have to do with the playing of the cylinder cock hiss sound. What's odd though is that I have never seen that it cause an actual problem in the sim though, either for myself or stability issues with anyone else that has tested them. The issue is having the cylinder cock hiss sound play when accelerating, but you don't want it to play when decelerating in that speed range - that's why there is no file called out on the deceleration side, or "" as it appears.

It's been awhile since I messed around with that portion of the .sms file but I seem to remember simply removing the "decelerating" triggers and it caused endless crashes. Or I could be wrong since my memory is fuzzy at this time. All I know is that whatever I tried at that time caused the sim to lock up and leaving it the way it is now kept it stable. I'll have to look into this some more though as something that might be cleaned up for future releases.

Derek

Thanks for the explanation Derek, I kind of had an idea it would be something to do with the cylinder cock hiss lines in the files. I can live with the error warnings as long as it is not interfering with anything else. So far I haven't noticed anything. These engines, and your others, are just too neat not to operate. :curiousPC: Thanks again.

Regards,
Pinpuller

[midneguy]

http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/sign_thank_you.gif

And as I said, I'll revisit the .sms design since I'll be going over it to get properly "synched" AI and Helper versions set up for the WP Mikado I'm now working on. With luck, I figure out what my issue was before, and have it properly cleaned up for all future releases :oldstry: My theory (totally unconfirmed, so only worth what you're paying for it http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/unknw.gif) is that the sound system in MSTS actually isn't bothered by being instructed to play no file at all, as opposed to attempting to play a file it can't locate. My hunch is that the error checkers in Route Riter or other programs are based on the assumption that an actual file must be called out rather than simply play no file at all.

At any rate, I'll be diving back into this soon :oldstry:

[midneguy]

I thought I'd give a quick update on this sound file issue since I have had a chance now to revisit the .sms design and try some new ideas I had. I wish I had a magic solution to report, but it seems that the .sms design as they were set up on these originally seem to give the best results from a sim stability standpoint, and replication of the sounds as intended. I tried a number of things such as using speed based triggers rather than variable1, adding a silent sound file and including it in place of the "" (empty quotes with no .wav file called), different variations on the number of triggers used and schemes, and all to no avail... In the worst case I got CTD's and in other cases I got the cylinder cock sounds playing when they weren't supposed to or incorrectly - for instance, close the throttle down to zero in the wrong moment of acceleration or deceleration and the sound would play loudly even when it shouldn't be and other strange behaviors.

So, even though various checkers may report these lines as errors I'm going to leave the .sms design as it is. However, I will be including a disclaimer in my readme's saying not to be surprised if these errors are reported since there's never been any indication of the sim being effected in a negative way. The other option would be to utilize the "No Cyl Cock Hiss" alternate .sms files included in the download, and delete the "Cyl Cock Hiss" versions from the install. You wouldn't have the cylinder cock sound anymore, but those .sms files won't report errors either.

I wish I had better news on this, but at least the sim doesn't seem to care. I'll always have this in the back of my mind though in case I think of something else to try http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif