Railworks America

I would like to know if there are any dirty steam engine repaints? As all I see is polished, little yuppies. Steam engines were meant to be dirty, grimy and greasy. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME STREAMLINERS. I find tourist railroads guilty of this.

You mean like this?

or this?

or this?

or this?

or this ...

The War Years dirtied up many a busy road engine. Moreover, many of the "engine wipers" had been drafted to server on the US Military Railroads in European Theater. Engine "housekeeping" with an oily rag took a back seat while everyone was engaged "hauling the freight" for the war effort.

It would be fantastic if we could get the "dirty" repaints posted to the Library of all these working thoroughbred horses that were "run hard and put up wet" for all of us to enjoy.

OlPaint

Xdriver, why do you hide these things? Those are brilliant! Buzz, mrennie, those look just as good. If we could get then in the library that would be awesome!

1225fan5358 wrote:Xdriver, why do you hide these things? Those are brilliant! Buzz, mrennie, those look just as good. If we could get then in the library that would be awesome!

Mine's in the package that you get when you buy the Consolidation. All the reskins (road names) I've uploaded to RWA are based on that weathered version.

XDriver wrote:

Nice! Could you give me some tips on repainting the berkshire? And something else. I notice the berk in your pictures is NKP 770. Well, 770 was head-oned by 776 in December 1954.

OlPaint wrote:The War Years dirtied up many a busy road engine. Moreover, many of the "engine wipers" had been drafted to server on the US Military Railroads in European Theater. Engine "housekeeping" with an oily rag took a back seat while everyone was engaged "hauling the freight" for the war effort.

It would be fantastic if we could get the "dirty" repaints posted to the Library of all these working thoroughbred horses that were "run hard and put up wet" for all of us to enjoy.

OlPaint

Women took over many of the lighter duties while the men were fighting: keeping the engines clean.

"Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army" from the fantastic Library of Congress collection.

Later, in the 50's towards the end of steam, many roads essentially ran their steam locomotives into the ground. You'll find some very dirty engines, with scale crusts round broken stay bolts and leaking fittings adding their white marks to the general grime and dirt.

My biggest problem is probably that no two steam locomotives were weathered or dirty alike. So each road number should have individual weathering, dirt, grime, oil stains, soot, rust and limescale deposits.

_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha wrote:Later, in the 50's towards the end of steam, many roads essentially ran their steam locomotives into the ground.

This is so true. They didn't even want to fix them. They would run them till they wouldn't run and then park them on the side to be scrapped.

Now we just need to find the dirtiest, grimiest Berkshire, Big Boy, Cab Forward, Challenger, GS4 or K4 =in service= for reference as to how far one could go in weathering.

Incidentally, spic and span Big Boy takes to the road:


Big Boy meets Big Blow:

Does this place look familiar?

Big engine from down east:

Kanawha, that is a marvelous photo of our War Time Gals doing their part for the war effort. "Rosie the riveter" came by her nickname very deservedly so.

OlPaint wrote:Kanawha, that is a marvelous photo of our War Time Gals doing their part for the war effort. "Rosie the riveter" came by her nickname very deservedly so.

RosieTheRiveter.jpg

This is her apparently, though the photo looks slightly staged compared to the photos showing male workers:

"An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif.

I can spend days in that library!

Back to topic, who has the dirtiest steam locomotive yet?

I will second 1225fan5358 Joe; you've just got to get these wonderful repaints out there for us technically challenged to enjoy (he said wistfully, still not having been able to get started on his own WM repaints )

Curse all of you. Joe has sent all of this to me to check out and upload. I need a couple of beta testers that have the Berkshire to make sure with all the file manipulation he and I have done that we aren't uploading something that won't work. These puppies run fine for me including new sound. Video shortly so Joe can tell me if I have that loaded correctly.