Atomic Systems

We are pleased to announce our latest product is coming soon to UKTrainSim: The Chaddock Engineering LNWR Engine Shed Kit Part 2: Turntables and Water Towers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODhtYNLkPDc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEiodB1EaMM

This kit follows on from the LNWR Engine Shed kit released early part of 2010 and compliments this area of route building for the trainsimmer. The provocation of these is their use in Many Short Journeys and Absolute Reliability (link:http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 4&t=111297), which we are compiling for release at a later date. The models are base loosely around information from “British Railways Engine Shed – London Midland Matters, Irwell Press ISBN 1 871608 08 2. (I date my books when they come in to my possession on the inside first page, this one says I acquired it at the NRM York on the 18th April 1992 when we took the DOG 71000 there. Happy Days!)

Before you bash off with building/introducing the turntables into your works of art, please can you view the video tutorial on turntable installation, on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufI89LEevOg), this will give you all the parts to makeup the models and give you a sensible presentation in your routes.

These turntables are based on the well type and are 70, 60 and 55 foot lengths, the table tops are these lengths, but the game code believes they are longer than this allowing for overhang of the locomotive in a prototypal fashion. You should be able to get a class five just on to the 55ft and the 70 fits the big engines, so Hey! you can now turn all those big ones. You will need all the bits of rail and sleepers to fill the gap and the borders to make sit on the ground correctly. There is one part which you will need from the armament of Rail Simulator/RailWorks, is the tunnel decal to break the ground under turntables and allow the well to show. To get rid of the weeds, use the grass lawn texture, if you are using default textures.
The difference between vacuum and hand operation are just graphical.

The water towers are Ex Midland, out of the book and I have animated the tap, swing and hose where required. The crane has a left and right swing model, so they can be line up correctly in a shed yard and work. The positioning will be a bit of trial and error to get them line to the central tank filler of tender engines (sorry, no side tank type, you will just have to fill the middle of the boiler, err!).

We are hoping to release these this week, but for now, have a look at the instructions for placing the turntables.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufI89LEevOg

thanks,

chaddockdk

Great work, and very generous of you to release these to us mere mortals.

Many thanks

Bob

We are mortal ourselves... You are the one with the Route Building Challenge Win!

Thanks for the comment,

chaddockdk

Well done
They look very nice indeed
I have been using some of your assetts in Candlewick which is still being developed in Rail Simulator
Kind regards Stephen

Thanks for the comment Stephen, but sadly these have been exported in rwp format, as the files were developed in RailWorks.

thanks,

chaddockdk

Hello again
Luckily I use a work around to open RWP files ....namely Winrar
I have to use this method because my package manager doesn't work
Thanks once again for these excellent additions
Kind regards Stephen
Ps It is surprising that several add ons will function in Rail Simulator

Brilliant, just brilliant. Love the rail procedural, a great idea (apart from now I've got 32 miles of route that will need checkrails adding in many places!) Thanks for your efforts and for making these available, CKPR wouldn't be done or anywhere near as good without Chaddock Engineering.

cheers

Ben

Thanks for the comment, Ben,

chaddockdk

This looks good, will they be able to turn any 4-6-2 loco, like the DT West Country as the RS one's can't

Anthony

We've tried as many locos as we have installed, and all of them can turn on the 70ft version, I think anything that is 82ft or less will turn.

Thanks,

chaddockdk

chaddockdk wrote:We've tried as many locos as we have installed, and all of them can turn on the 70ft version, I think anything that is 82ft or less will turn.

Thanks,

chaddockdk

Thanks, looks like they will then, looking forward to this

Anthony

Thanks for your ongoing efforts to supply us with great bits and pieces. One thing though, I'm having nightmares about that parachute one.
Thanks Phill

Don't worry, it's only an 18ft drop

thanks,

chaddockdk

Thing is, 18ft is tall enough to hurt, but not enough for the 'chute to open...

*Chuckles*

BTW, the file is being uploaded presently.

thanks,

chaddockdk