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No, of course I’m not done with trains yet! ^^

Not quite Spaghetti Western and not quite Steampunk, this engine falls somewhere between those two categories of fictional locomotive design. ^^ Like many of my engine designs, this one is meant to inhabit a (very slightly) “alternate” version of reality— specifically, of course, an alternate version of the Wild West. It features a slew of features that would have been rather unusual in real-life 1870s America, but nothing particularly “fantastical.” (Perhaps I could coin the term “Alternatepunk”...?) In a way, perhaps, this locomotive could even exist in a fictional world such as Alex Karnes’ Lone Islands. In any case, this engine is one of a series of three conceptual locomotive classes that I envision as working together, but it is also the only one of those three to have a finalized design— so far.

As I’ve said before, textures aren’t easy to apply in Google Sketchup, so once again I’ve relied on the program’s stock color pallet to paint this machine. I wanted to give the locomotive a well-worn blackened look. And again, as usual, rivets, boiler plugs, and other would-be texture details are absent. The Stephenson valve gear, I’m afraid, is not animated (Breadman can vouch for the difficulty ^^).

UPDATE 5/24: Basic statistics now available:

Engine Weight: 27 Tons
Driving Wheel Diameter: 68”
Cylinders: 18”x28” (2)
Tender Weight: 14 Tons (Six-Wheel Standard Design)
Tender Capacity: 8 Tons Fuel; 1,900 gallons water

Alternate views can be found here...: atticus-w.deviantart.com/art/4…

Description
No, of course I’m not done with trains yet! ^^

Not quite Spaghetti Western and not quite Steampunk, this engine falls somewhere between those two categories of fictional locomotive design. ^^ Like many of my engine designs, this one is meant to inhabit a (very slightly) “alternate” version of reality— specifically, of course, an alternate version of the Wild West. It features a slew of features that would have been rather unusual in real-life 1870s America, but nothing particularly “fantastical.” (Perhaps I could coin the term “Alternatepunk”...?) In a way, perhaps, this locomotive could even exist in a fictional world such as Alex Karnes’ Lone Islands. In any case, this engine is one of a series of three conceptual locomotive classes that I envision as working together, but it is also the only one of those three to have a finalized design— so far.

As I’ve said before, textures aren’t easy to apply in Google Sketchup, so once again I’ve relied on the program’s stock color pallet to paint this machine. I wanted to give the locomotive a well-worn blackened look. And again, as usual, rivets, boiler plugs, and other would-be texture details are absent. The Stephenson valve gear, I’m afraid, is not animated (Breadman can vouch for the difficulty ^^).

UPDATE 5/24: Basic statistics now available:

Engine Weight: 27 Tons
Driving Wheel Diameter: 68”
Cylinders: 18”x28” (2)
Tender Weight: 14 Tons (Six-Wheel Standard Design)
Tender Capacity: 8 Tons Fuel; 1,900 gallons water

Alternate views can be found here...: atticus-w.deviantart.com/art/4…