Post by: Viper on August 03, 2017, 03:56:46 PM
Ed
Post by: nodcc4me on August 03, 2017, 05:22:21 PM
Post by: William Brillinger on August 03, 2017, 07:24:01 PM
If you have any sort of digital camera, you can take your own photos and load them up using the RailPro Assistant Software.
The tricky part is that they need to be sized correctly. See this thread for sizing with basic windows software:
https://rpug.pdc.ca/index.php/topic,194.msg1052.html#msg1052
How to load custom pictures is covered on page 24 in the RPA user manual:
http://www.ringengineering.com/RailPro/Documents/RailProAssistantUsersManual.pdf
Cheers!
Post by: PatP on August 04, 2017, 09:19:54 AM
How come their are no Southern RR loco pictures on file to download? thanks in advance and remember i am new to Railpro.
Ed
Welcome Ed.
If you don't want to create the pic yourself or don't have the software to do it, I can do that for you and email it to you. It only takes a few minutes. Or, Ring used to do the same thing. You can pull it in using RP Assistant.
PatP
Post by: Viper on August 04, 2017, 12:41:04 PM
Ed
Post by: PatP on August 04, 2017, 01:53:21 PM
Thanks Guys, hey Pat could you send me a picture of Southern SD40-2 pic?
Ed
Ed,
No problem. What's your color pattern? What's the engine number(s)? I can email it or attach it here.
PatP
Post by: Morebassman on August 04, 2017, 03:17:28 PM
I had a problem trying to convert it myself. I gave up!!
Post by: PatP on August 04, 2017, 05:52:05 PM
If someone wants a weathered pic of their engine, its just an offer. They can stand a piece of notebook paper behind it and take a close-up with their phone so they've got a white background. I don't mind doing them. I won't pirate photos though, so I don't doctor internet pics. Someone worked to take those.
PatP
Post by: Viper on August 06, 2017, 07:13:30 AM
Ed
Post by: PatP on August 06, 2017, 12:53:30 PM
#3317L and #3240X thanks again Pat!
Ed,
3317L and 3240X BMPs attached. Let me know if they should look different, I've never seen a Southern engine. This is the only SD40-2 photo I had. It was FEC 714 parked at Agrock a couple of years ago when I took the photo.
PatP
Post by: Viper on August 06, 2017, 02:09:12 PM
Ed
Post by: PatP on August 06, 2017, 10:07:14 PM
, Southern were High Hoods though. Thanks!
I wondered about that. I saw the high hoods on Athearn's site, which is how I found out about the stripe and what looks like gold lettering. If you want to take a cell phone picture(s) and email it(them) (pat@patpatterson.com), I'll turn them into BMPs and send them back. I don't have permission to use any of Athearn's pictures.
PatP
Post by: PatP on August 07, 2017, 10:26:23 PM
Great news. I have written permission to use the product photos from Athearn's website so, Southern High Hoods are all yours.
PatP
Post by: Viper on August 08, 2017, 06:42:16 AM
Post by: G8B4Life on August 08, 2017, 07:06:16 PM
Note that if you send him the picture it has to be facing cab to the left side.
Not cab left but forward direction left. From the RailPro Assistant manual.
"It is preferred that you place the locomotive such that if it were to move forward that it would be traveling to the left on your picture. Forward direction to the left is consistent with pictures that we already have."
This means technically that if you had a hood unit where the long hood end was forward the long hood should really be to the left. I don't know if many, if any US hood units were set up as long hood was forward and I don't think it matters to most, possibly because of a combination of they don't know which end is actually forwards on the prototype and whatever they buy is most certainly going to be wired as short hood end as forward anyway, regardless of which end is forward on the prototype.
Remembering it's forward direction facing left, not cab left will help when you have to install into things like B units and twin cabbed units.
- Tim
Post by: Alan on August 08, 2017, 08:35:46 PM
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I don't know if many, if any US hood units were set up as long hood was forward
The railroad I model, the Akron Canton & Youngstown, road engines were exclusively Fairbanks Morse units all of which were long hood forward.
Post by: nodcc4me on August 08, 2017, 08:44:07 PM
Post by: G8B4Life on August 08, 2017, 09:49:02 PM
From my very limited knowledge of US diesel history it looks like most of what I'll call gen 1 units (early FM, ALCo, EMD) were long hood forward, a carry over from steam. As things got bigger and the boiler in front mentality went away short hood forward became the norm. Here, in my state that took until the mid 70's to happen with hood units.
Alan, to validate one of my points, which way forward were your FM's wired from the manufacturer? and if SH forward did you bother to change the forwards direction to be LH forward?
- Tim
Post by: PatP on August 08, 2017, 10:24:26 PM
Just a thought,
PatP
Post by: Alan on August 09, 2017, 08:01:18 AM
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Alan, to validate one of my points, which way forward were your FM's wired from the manufacturer? and if SH forward did you bother to change the forwards direction to be LH forward?
That's a good question. I never paid attention. I have no way of running a non-RP equipped loco so I swap them to RP straight out of the box. FMs, at least my H15s and 16s, are marked F on the long hood sill so I would assume Atlas wired them forward that way.
Not being a railroad man I have no clue why but the AC&Y often ran two units lashed short hood to short hood. Perhaps having the cabs close together served a useful or convenient purpose. I run my models the same way because it is how I remember them and how my photos show it. The AC&Y often ran single power either direction depending on whatever suited the switching situation at the moment. The only time they reliably had long hood forward was when a train left Brittain Yard, their only major yard.
I believe there was also a perception in the early days that long hood forward offered additional crew safety.