Atomic Systems

Have just received the March Newsletter from the good people at Just Trains and note that the LMS Patriot is due out next month

Few details yet, but there is a thread on the early development of the loco here http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 3#p1397833

Just as well I decided to pre-order Scottish ECML after all then, I know what I'll be putting my fiver towards now !

That makes me a rabbit of positive euphoria

B

Great. That'll probably be my first JT purchase.

Keith

At last, what a day. This and a GW railmotor previewed as well.

Gordon

Awesome! Another must have

SquidvT wrote:Awesome! Another must have

Aaaargh! The problem with all this "must have" DLC is the good old Visa card that keeps saying "must stop"!

On no. Yet even more UK payware. If it's not another payware locomotive it's a payware long and monotonous passenger route.

What's happened to all the talented freeware developers? Freeware route makers who think freight ops are fun?

nineercharlie wrote:On no. Yet even more UK payware. If it's not another payware locomotive it's a payware long and monotonous passenger route.

What's happened to all the talented freeware developers? Freeware route makers who think freight ops are fun?

Hopefully this will link OK:

TPR-Team

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TPR-Team/149005335217276

That might be of interest. Anyway back on topic, what is so special about the train?

Rockdoc2174 wrote:Great. That'll probably be my first JT purchase.

Keith

It won't be your last

JW

Hm, whats special about the locomotive? Depends on opinion, they were a LMS design based on the chassis of the royal scots and had the boiler of LNWR claughton class locomotive. There were 52 built from 1930 for passenger express service and there is currently non in preservation, all were scrapped by 1960s but there is project to make one from scratch in the works.

They were also designed by Henry Fowler so they are in the same family as 3F,4F 2P and so on and have the older style look to them. If anything, its another LMS locomotive added to the stock available for LMS fans to exhibit on steam era routes.

They also came in rebuilt and non-rebuilt designs to which added the later stainer boilers and smoke deflectors onto it.

For me personally, its special kind of locomotive as its one of the first I recieved for a model railway when I was younger, in the form of a hornby Lord Rathmore and was the first bigger locomotive I recieved so as irony would have it, living in a LNER era I became a LMS fan from quite a early age.

For some its probably just another steam engine, or another DLC, for steam fans its another LMS design added to the shed to be used in scenarios featuring heavy LMS routes and operation and for some on personal grounds its a favourite for them to.

So if there is no push backs and it maintains its end of April release I'll be using the discount code from S ECML on it and be adding this to the library, I also have fingers crossed that the names will include Lord Rathmore, but I'm not going to kick up a fuss if it doesn't, but be nice nontheless.

It will be interesting to see how the modellers have covered the fact that a lot of the Pats weren't named until long after they were built so there are some engines that won't have name-plates in LMS red livery but will in LMS black or BR geen. Then you have the problem that Patriot's name-plate was a revised version of the plate from the LNWR war memorial Claughton it replaced and differed from the rest.

Keith

This will be a another great loco to run on Bens "Shap" route along with the Stanier Duchesses/City Pacifics. I can also remember having a Hornby Patriot, mine was Lady Godiva in BR Black.
LW

Rockdoc2174 wrote:It will be interesting to see how the modellers have covered the fact that a lot of the Pats weren't named until long after they were built so there are some engines that won't have name-plates in LMS red livery but will in LMS black or BR geen. Then you have the problem that Patriot's name-plate was a revised version of the plate from the LNWR war memorial Claughton it replaced and differed from the rest.

Keith

In the in-development screenshots area, there is patriots both unrebuilt and rebuilt with nameplates and no nameplates, also headboards, I think they pretty much have it all covered, as they did with the Princess Corries and their A4s.

I can imagine that there will be named and un-named engines but will there be one that's not named until later and appears correctly in all liveries was what I was getting at.

Keith