More New American Locomotive Suggestions

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  1. MECAl301

    MECAl301 New Member

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    Hello, my name is Alex. I’d really like to see more variety in terms of locomotive choice, I have a few different locomotive choices in mind-
    GP9 High Hood
    GP10 Chop Nose with Horst Air Filter
    GP15
    GP18
    GP20
    GP30- (A big must eventually)
    GP40
    A little less GP38
    GP50
    GP60
    And any more Emd road switchers I haven’t mentioned
    SD9
    SD24
    SD26
    SD38/39
    SD40-2 (HIGH HOOD)
    SD50
    SD60
    SD70
    SD70M
    And any more I missed, there’s so many choices aside from these especially Alco and GE. GE Uboats are preferably my favorite and we don’t have them yet, please take all of these and the others not mentioned into consideration obviously when there’s time for an American RR release. Thank you! And if anyone has anymore suggestions add away!
     
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  2. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    TBH at this stage I would rather see something Alco, Baldwin or Fairbanks Morse or even a GTEL. An EMD with a 567 or 645 prime mover is going to sound pretty much the same regardless of the body style.
     
  3. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Alco Baldwin and Fairbanks Morse locomotives fit horseshoe curve in PRR Era. Here's Sister Game Train Sim 2022 article on PRR Alco HSC
     
  4. MECAl301

    MECAl301 New Member

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    Right I would as well, but maybe even more of a 70’s-80’s GE wouldn’t be bad because they only have newer GEs atm. Also I’m not sure if anyone else caught on to this but the C40 and the AC44 have the same prime mover BUT do not sound the same so a difference in prime mover sounds is definitely a must. Especially their EMD sounds. They should really work on the sounds of locomotives.
     
  5. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    Sadly, I doubt DTG would ever even try something like that, they never did outside of the UP turbine with TSC, and I doubt they will with TSW2.

    Hell, even the 3rd Party's on TSC never really ventured much outside of GE's and EMD's.
     
  6. OldVern

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    Sadly you may be right. I only know of two Alco's, one done by RWA as a promo/fund raiser for the site and another that ISTR had issues with tilt/bounding boxes and kept derailing.
     
  7. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    There is the old PRR RS-11 that got released by virtualRailroads on steam in 2013, which seems to get forgotten quite a bit. Then there is DTM's DL-109's, which where not very good......
     
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    It was indeed the RS11 which kept falling off the track.
     
  9. jedi247

    jedi247 Well-Known Member

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    HSC in the PRR era would be amazing. I still want a PRR Baldwin Centipede, Baldwin RF-16 Shark, FM H-24-66 Trainmaster, SD9 "Cadillac," Alco Switchers (RS3, S2, etc.), Alco PA-1s/PB-1s, Alco FA-2s/FB-2s, and GP7s/GP9s.
    I also want to see GP50s, GP60s/GP60Ms/GP60Bs, SD45s, SD45-2s, Tier 4 ET44ACs/C4s, and SD70ACe-T4s/SD70ACeP4-T4s. The UP Gas Turbines, DDA40Xs, DD35s, DD35As, U50s, U50Cs, and Alco C855s would be amazing.
     
  10. aarontheloner

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    I just want an AC6000CW.
     
  11. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Might as well make SD90MAC its rival also 6000HP. The Best Value is a Heavy Horsepower pack Sherman Hill AC6000CW SD90MAC Union Pacific CSX Sand Patch AC6000CW and SD80MAC 5000hp.
     
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    I would definitely want to see GP30, GP50, SD9, GP60, SD50, SD60, SD70, SD38 and GP18 locomotives for sure[/QUOTE]
     
  13. aarontheloner

    aarontheloner Active Member

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    I like the sounds of this. Even if they all had issues, lol.
     
  14. sergio volodstok

    sergio volodstok Active Member

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    NS SD40E for HSC, would add in all those missing helper runs.
     
  15. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    What reason to why AC6000CW SD90MAC SD80MAC are problematic. For Sand Patch Grade 8000hp if GP38-2 SD40-2 was coupled to SD80MAC 9500hp SD80MAC with AC4400CW 11000hp SD80MAC with AC6000CW. Sherman Hill 12000hp SD90MAC with AC6000CW 10400 hp SD70ACE or Cane Creek AC4400CW with AC6000CW or SD90MAC 9000hp SD90MAC or AC6000CW with SD40-2 or GP38-2 if SFJ was owned
     
  16. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    Reliability issues in real life. They weren't very well liked. UP only kept their 6000hp SD90MAC-II's a few years before selling them (In which they were scrapped, same fate with CP's SD90MAC-II Fleet).

    The AC6000CW's were a bit luckier, being only derated/converted by CSX and UP, though CSX has recently sold most of their converted AC6000's.
     

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