[Sandy River Tom]

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File Name: "Chile Bill" Memorial Baldwin 4-4-0
File Submitter: Sandy River Tom
File Submitted: 12 Aug 2012
File Category: Steam Locos Std Gauge

Baldwin Standard-Gauge 4-4-0, "William Collier Smith", Circa 1915.

Built as a memorial to "Chile Bill"; Elvas Tower Administrator.
May he always have a Green Signals in heaven.

Revision: Build 9
By Sandy River Tom
12 August 2012

This is a classic Baldwin 4-4-0 based on the Canada Atlantic RR, Class F locos.
It has been upgraded from Link 'n Pin Couplers to Knuckle Couplers and equipped
with Westinghouse Type 6ET Automatic Air Brakes. When the U.s. Railroads were
nationalized in 1917, some RRs (like the Pennsy) relettered some tenders "U. S. A."
Since Bill never mentioned a favorite prototype RR, I decided to letter the Tender
of #4611 that way.

Acknowledgements:

John Frum: For initiating the Baldwin 4-4-0 project, supplying drawings and photographs,
Beta-testing and critiquing several builds and rebuilds, and for providing moral support
during the 18+ months of construction, reconstruction and frustration.

Howard "Hadrians" Saunders: For Beta-Testing and setting up the operating Physics.

Tim Muir: For Inspecting and Critiquing the initial Builds.

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[Mipman25]

This has to be one of the best models I have ever seen for MSTS. I don't care about what I have to put myself through; I just want to use this engine somewhere.

[Noisemaker]

With Dustin on that! Heck, I might get underway with the I.B&O route finally because of this!

Great work Tom! :derisive:

[Fred]

That's one great engine. :dance3: But I'm having a problem with it. In conbuilder the engine shows up as the wheel assembly and the tender shows up as the boiler assembly. Where can I find the actual tender? :wub:

[lineman]

It's in the B440-Tender-4611 folder, by it's self. The readme actually explains how to build it in conbuilder, etc.

[atsf37l]

Fred, on 13 August 2012 - 01:49 PM, said:

That's one great engine. :pardon: But I'm having a problem with it. In conbuilder the engine shows up as the wheel assembly and the tender shows up as the boiler assembly. Where can I find the actual tender? :dance3:

First portion of the loco is an .eng file which shows as a loco. Second portion of the engine file is a .wag file and it shows in conbuilder as a tender. The tender is a .wag file but the type has been put to "FREIGHT" which is why it isn't showing up as a tender graphic in ConBuilder. In order for it to show as a tender in conbuilder, and the F-9 display, just open the B440-Tender4611.wag file in Wordpad and change the type from FREIGHT to TENDER. :wub:

[atsf37l]

Tom, in looking at the website for the Canada Atlantic Railway Locomotives, I assume this loco is based on their 621-622 (Nee 20 and 21) which has such good info on the class, obviously from a Baldwin order sheet. Am I right? :wub:

Ps: Any chance of getting this loco with link-n-pin couplers? Although the original version, honoring Bill, will not be messed with, I see lots of clones of this basic stock model 4-4-0 forthcoming. :dance3:

[Sandy River Tom]

Correct! Canada Atlantic Class F (#20 - #23) built 1893 - 1896.
But updated to ca-1915 with Knuckle Couplers and 6ET Air Brakes.

Based on inquiries I've received, I will issue an "original build" Link 'n Pin version. Sometime . . . .

[Fred]

atsf37l, on 13 August 2012 - 04:32 PM, said:

First portion of the loco is an .eng file which shows as a loco. Second portion of the engine file is a .wag file and it shows in conbuilder as a tender. The tender is a .wag file but the type has been put to "FREIGHT" which is why it isn't showing up as a tender graphic in ConBuilder. In order for it to show as a tender in conbuilder, and the F-9 display, just open the B440-Tender4611.wag file in Wordpad and change the type from FREIGHT to TENDER. :oldstry:

Thanks for the info Boomer. Now it works like a champ! :blink:

[johnfrum]

Correcting the Crew display issue in Open Rails

When running this engine in the Open Rails simulator the engineer and fireman appear to have slipped through the floor!

But it's simple to fix that using Shape File Manager. I'll explain how.

1. In the loco's Trainset folder you'll find the file "CAR22CrewE.s". Copy that file (don't cut it, copy it) to another folder and rename it to CAR22orCrewE.s (just add the "or" in the middle of the original name).

2. In Shape File Manager, open the newly renamed file, uncompress it and shift the height by +1.0. then recompress it and return the new s file to the original folder. Now there's a Crew shape file for Open Rails as well as the original shape file for MSTS.

3. In your favourite text editor, open the "B440-4611b.wag" file that you'll also find in the loco's Trainset folder. You'll see this line very near the top:

FreightAnim ( CAR22CrewE.s 1 1 )

Carefully change "CAR22CrewE.s" in that line to "CAR22orCrewE.s". Then save the newly edited B440-4611b.wag file.

4. Try it out in Open Rails. The engine crew should now appear where they belong.

It's now a very quick procedure to change the B440-4611b.wag back and forth between the MSTS and the Open Rails FreightAnim by either deleting or adding the "or" in the FreightAnim line and saving the wag file.

-JF-