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RH&DR Hercules Class 4-8-2 (semi-fic)
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Scenario: Europe
Vehicle: Locomotive
Tags: Train, steam, British, uk, england
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19 Jan, 2023 @ 4:18pm
15 Feb, 2023 @ 11:37pm
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RH&DR Hercules Class 4-8-2 (semi-fic)

Description
RH&DR 'Hercules Class' 4-8-2

Okay. So, this is a semi-fictional version of a real-life locomotive. What do I mean by semi-fictional? Well, the 'real' RH&DR Hercules is a 15 inch gauge engine that I just....kind of liked the look of. So I decided to make a full-sized, standard gauge interpretation of it because big 8 driving wheel freight engines just look cool.

This was originally supposed to be a fairly small, not-very-serious mod, but then scope creep happened, and now there's 73 different model variants. >.>

Features

-Liveries include RH&DR Red, RH&DR Blue, RH&DR Logoless Red,LNER Freight Black, LNER Green, LNER Wartime Black, BR Green, BR Blue & BR Black.
-4 tender variants - A 'RH&DR style' tender (basically an imagining of a full scale/oversized version of the RH&DR tender, minus the driver's seat), GNR 8-wheel tender (from the LNER A1/A3), LNER 6-wheel tender (from the LNER P1), and LNER Corridor tender (from the LNER A4)
-Fictional variant with german-style smoke deflectors (ala LNER A3) also included.
-Full aging and recolour support. Detailed dirt and rust accumulates as the engine ages.
-Engines are sorted in depot menus to reduce purchase menu clutter.
-Small file size and .dds compressed textures, to help with load speed.
-Placeable rail assets.
-Moddable engine numbers - edit the number of the train and the number will display on the side of the locomotive.


Specs

RH&DR 'Hercules Class' 4-8-2
-Available from 1927 (additional liveries and variants will unlock over time)
-Available until 1966
Top Speed: 105 kph
Power: 2800kW
Tractive Effort: 195kN
Weight 190t

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Requests and Feedback

Constructive feedback is always welcome, and I love reading your comments, so if you have any notes on what I can improve, or just want to leave a nice message, by all means please leave a post below!
22 Comments
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2999 Lady Of Legend 16 Apr, 2024 @ 8:43am 
Nice : )
thewildsimon141 15 Mar, 2024 @ 6:46am 
Is there any plans for you to do these engines in a narrow gauge size?
Pizzaguy 23 Jul, 2023 @ 8:23pm 
ah nevermind its already been explained
Pizzaguy 23 Jul, 2023 @ 8:22pm 
out of curiosity why isint the maximum speed any higher
Green Ranger (aka Gr1m)  [author] 15 Feb, 2023 @ 11:44pm 
UPDATE: New interior/exterior mesh details, updates to LNER liveries with new logos, and added aged variants to the placeable assets.
Green Ranger (aka Gr1m)  [author] 3 Feb, 2023 @ 7:20pm 
UPDATE: Small adjustment to the gloss textures.
DPT Wanderer 31 Jan, 2023 @ 1:58pm 
Continuing on from the last one @Blast Hardcheese the A2/2 apparently "acquired a particularly bad reputation for wild and unsafe riding at high speed!" according to O.S. Nock and had a bad reputation for slipping on starting (which meant that they couldn't be used for the Edinburgh-Aberdeen route (the route they had been originally built for!) and suffered from unreliability (assumedly comparatively speaking) they suffered badly from frame movement, vibration and loose fittings.
DPT Wanderer 31 Jan, 2023 @ 1:54pm 
@power man to be fair they were only asking and then listing the reasons why they asked its still entirely up to the mod author in question to carry the request through or refuse the request.

@blast Hardcheese If I Remember correctly the P2's had that smokebox style that you mentioned specifically to lift the smoke from the drivers view (something that often was done with higher speed steam engines and is currently done with the modern flying Scotsman via smoke deflectors instead of a wedge shape in fact with the second locomotive of the P2 class the original design needed a SECOND pair of smoke deflectors due to unnacceptable amounts of smoke at low cutoff (i.E low power) also you are basically asking him to make an A2/2 (a Tompson design which was not as successful as the Gresley P2
power man 28 Jan, 2023 @ 12:59am 
@Blastcheese, the P2 never had the A3 smokebox, it ain't a good idea to force a modder to change the mod to how YOU want it, than how it was in reality
briansyston 26 Jan, 2023 @ 8:01am 
We need a 15 inch gauge track mod with stations !