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Well it's about time for another model so here's the only one that's finished, a big... (slightly fugly) thing. I'd like to point out right from the start that this is designed to a fictional loading gauge that can take locos as tall as the US has but on much heavier built track (40t axel loads are the norm, hence its hugeness on just 6 axels).

This is just a small part of a much, much larger project that is in the works at the moment, details will be revealed later when I get more of it worked out. But, onto the loco!

It's a bit of a mashup of a Russian TЭ10 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia… and a generic American big thing like GE and EMD are producing at the moment with a small amount of Australian (Pilbara iron ore railways) influence too. Inside it has a 7,875hp EMD 20-265H engine (again, entirely fictional, they only ever made a 12 and 16 cylinder version of the H engine, I don't think a 20 cylinder version was even considered). I was mainly trying out different styles of design, the large flared radiators and the 'dent' for the air intake and the dynamic brake grids.

It is designed to be bidirectional even though there's no way to see out of the cab. The drivers rely on a large LCD panel on the back wall of the cab with a live feed from a pair of cameras mounted under the radiators to see where they're going, a sort of psuedo window if you will. All windows and camera lenses are fitted with a 'lotus leaf' layer to disperse the water from them instead of relying on traditional wipers to do the job. I tried putting in some more modern tech type things into this as an experiment, though they're not really my strong point.

Anyway, that's enough rambling from me so let me know what you think of it (even if it's intentionally a little ugly)! I'm interested to know others opinions ^.=.^

Other pics of this thing, as usual, can be found here:

Loco design and model was created by me and is copywrite
Please don't redistribute without asking or I'll be really sadface

Description
Well it's about time for another model so here's the only one that's finished, a big... (slightly fugly) thing. I'd like to point out right from the start that this is designed to a fictional loading gauge that can take locos as tall as the US has but on much heavier built track (40t axel loads are the norm, hence its hugeness on just 6 axels).

This is just a small part of a much, much larger project that is in the works at the moment, details will be revealed later when I get more of it worked out. But, onto the loco!

It's a bit of a mashup of a Russian TЭ10 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia… and a generic American big thing like GE and EMD are producing at the moment with a small amount of Australian (Pilbara iron ore railways) influence too. Inside it has a 7,875hp EMD 20-265H engine (again, entirely fictional, they only ever made a 12 and 16 cylinder version of the H engine, I don't think a 20 cylinder version was even considered). I was mainly trying out different styles of design, the large flared radiators and the 'dent' for the air intake and the dynamic brake grids.

It is designed to be bidirectional even though there's no way to see out of the cab. The drivers rely on a large LCD panel on the back wall of the cab with a live feed from a pair of cameras mounted under the radiators to see where they're going, a sort of psuedo window if you will. All windows and camera lenses are fitted with a 'lotus leaf' layer to disperse the water from them instead of relying on traditional wipers to do the job. I tried putting in some more modern tech type things into this as an experiment, though they're not really my strong point.

Anyway, that's enough rambling from me so let me know what you think of it (even if it's intentionally a little ugly)! I'm interested to know others opinions ^.=.^

Other pics of this thing, as usual, can be found here:

Loco design and model was created by me and is copywrite
Please don't redistribute without asking or I'll be really sadface