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Looking very good! I am not very clear on how backdrops work in Trainz. For our auto racing mods we would use a wall with the distant terrain on it. It basically had no lod distance (kind like the sky) and surrounded the entire track. If that kind of capability is in Trainz you could have the Coasta...

Some interesting pictures there! It appears as though the SP repainting was rather uneven. I was interested to note some tenders had "SP of CAL" lettering and that the Russian Iron survived for some time before being painted over. I am not so sure that the Diana was converted to oil in tha...

Well I've got good news and I've got bad news. It turns out I have a photo of the Ben Ely. :D The bad news is she doesn't match Curtis' 2-6-0s much. I was going to ask Curtis what the build numbers were but I thought to check his builder's plates and sure enough he had the numbers there and from the...

OK, here is what I have on the Ben Ely Bought by the Vaca Ville & Clear Lake Railroad Company Road No. - #2 Name - Ben Ely Type - 2-6-0 Driver - 48 Builder - Baldwin C/N - 3753 Date Blt. - 7/75 Weight - 55500 To Northern Ry. Co. #1022 To SP #1500 (SP listed the weight as 45600) And SP sold the e...

"For intents and purposes their closest neighbor would be the D&RG 4-4-0s like D&RG #95 which is available on the DLS. The detail differences would be a "short" smokebox and a Radley-Hunter stack, everything else would be close enough." Since togog's D&RG #92 and his ...

Have you looked at gary_hoorn's American 10? I haven't got it working in TS12 yet but it is a 10 wheeler perhaps a bit newer than you need. As for the Northern engines in the encyclopedia, I left out their narrow gauge stuff. They had 5 engines they inherited from the San Joaquin & Sierra Nevada...

Sure, glad to help. The encyclopedia has most of a page dedicated to the Colusa & Lake Railroad Company I don't know how much, if any, of that information you may need. Mr. Robertson lists Poor's 1889, p. 887; 1889 California PUC report, p. 183; and Chico - The Weekly Butte Record - Oct 3, 1985 ...

You may already have this information but... Locomotive Engines: Road No. - #1 Name - none listed Cyln. - 9x14 Type - 2-4-2T Driver - 36 Builder - Porter Bldr. No. - 720 Date Blt. - Nov. 1885 Road No. #2 Name - Harrington Cyln. - 12x18 Type - 4-4-2 Driver - 45 Builder - Baldwin Bldr. No. - 8125 Date...

You may already have this information but... Locomotive Engines: Road No. - #1 Name - (none listed) Type - 2-6-0 Driver - 40 Builder - Baldwin Bldr. No. - 3638 Date Blt - Aug. 1874 Aquired 1881 from Eureka and Palisade Road No. - #2 Name - Inyo Cyln. - 14x16 Type - 2-6-0 Driver - 36 Builder - Union ...

I've integrated the cylinder data into the spreadsheet and the link is in the first post. I found several misspelled or misnamed engines that have been corrected, I am currently cross referencing the data in this spreadsheet with other railroad tables in the Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History ...

Oh thank you Curtis! I knew this site had to have an index but I searched and searched and could not find it. The condition of the records is more than a little scary though. Should be fun.

Hi Curtis, I was fooling around with your gondola cars and thinking to myself that wood-chips were probably not a particularly likely load for the 1860-1910s. This lead me to wonder about the possibility of how much split/cut wood billets (aka fuel) would fit in one of the tall gondolas. While the f...

Central Pacfic Railway Company Engine Roster.csv Edit: Updated file with cylinder dimensions http://www.mediafire.com/?4xunz3u7ak4ffn1 Central Pacfic Railway Company Engine Roster 2.csv This is a comma delimited spreadsheet which should import into whatever spreadsheet program you are using. It cont...

Indeed it would!

I rather like both versions of the Vulcan 2-2-0, steam car and locomotive

The "Napa" was retained as the "Flea" by the Cal. P. when they took over the Napa valley road and was used as a maintence vehicle. It was apparently used by the Central Pacific when they got a hold of it and was used by the SJV on loan as pictured above. It is rumored to be burie...