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Bulleid Pacifics

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Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!

I hope you like spam.

In 1940, there was a war on, and the Southern Railway was looking into producing a new high speed locomotive for commuter services into London??!??

It probably made sense at the time. So the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway, O. V. S. Bulleid, designed a large pacific locomotive capable of hauling the large commuter trains at 100mph.

This was the Merchant Navy Class, and left the shops in 1941. Bulleid decided to 'streamline' the locomotives, but he didn't like that word so it became known as
Air Smoothed Casing, and in short looked like a can of Spam.

As time passed, Bulleid was made aware that these engines were just absolute units and couldn't run on the whole network. In 1945, this was resolved by the appearance of the West Country and Battle of Britain class, which were basically identical to the Merchant Navys, but a bit lighter.

Then BR took over, realised the Air Smoothed casing and chain valve gear was bunkum, and rebuilt the engines (they kinda looked like small Britannias).

Then like 70 years later some jumped up British guy in his pyjamas released this mod.

This mod contains
SR Merchant Navy Class -- (Old Casing) - (SR Green)
SR Merchant Navy Class -- (Old casing) - (Golden Arrow)
SR West Country Class -- (SR Green)
SR West Country Class -- (Golden Arrow)
SR Battle of Britain Class -- (Transitional Green)
BR Battle of Britain Class -- (BR Green)
BR West Country Class -- (Rebuilt) - (BR Green)
BR Merchant Navy Class -- (New Casing) - (BR Blue)
BR Merchant Navy Class -- (Rebuilt) - (BR Blue)

Stats are actual (Source: Wikipedia)

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Known problem to fix:
HOLE IN THE COAL

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hoborailcat 18 sep, 2021 @ 0:14

I do enjoy me some good cans of Spam. Just needed to point out that the BR unrebuilt Merchant Navy has the stats of its smaller canned brethren. Otherwise a fantastic set of engines.

Bow-Tied Engineer 31 aug, 2021 @ 12:38

The recent Thomas character of this prototype was actually what introduced me to this interesting class of engine, and I was wondering if you would ever consider adding the flashy fictional livery from the show. I understand if you don't want to, but I'd use it.

Su1phur 5 jun, 2021 @ 16:43

Thanks for making this! But the texture looks a bit flat and too bright on the SR Green. I will gladly use the BR Green ones in my network tho

Dourbracken 2 jun, 2021 @ 20:45

Yeah @dsmx, I see the same. The rest of it looks quite good, but the tender and cab are weird.

Dan 8 jan, 2021 @ 12:01

Hmm i'm not sure on people saying these look great. Or maybe it's an issue using the Vulkan rendering.

What I see in my game in 1941 is coal load has holes in it and I can see the driver in the tender and the cab has no-one in it,. The leading bogie wheels are just green circles. the front buffer beam has no visible coupling. On the left side of the boiler there seems to be a random black dot that casts a shadow. Overall, the version available in 1941 just looks awful, sadly.

That said having the actual train number on the engine is a nice touch and the sounds are nice, but considering the lack of detail on this engine I'd have to say there are far better pacifics in the game with far more detail on them than this one.

I've tried to keep my criticism on this constructive as you created this model for free for all of us but you don't create these in isolation and right now I'd rather use the LNER pacifics or the coronation models as they do look significantly better in game.