Hello, and thank you for subscribing to this creation! I work on this steam locomotive in real life and got bored one day and decided to rebuild it, only taking 4 hours until the 4 spot was under steam and reliably usable. Now with well over 60 hours invested into the creation she is ready for the workshop!
When this locomotive comes to you, it will need C4V's mod allowing miniature steam turbines for the dynamo. This is the only mod this locomotive needs and it can run without it!
If you want to use the dynamo I cant upload the locomotive with it on there, simply follow the last two images in the workshop listing for placement of the dynamo, all wiring and valvework is already prelaid for it and all you must do is place the turbine and assure that the steam in is lined up with the grey steam line, and steam out is lined up with the grey/black exhaust.
To use it without the dynamo simply use the battery below the engineers seat (Also just as we do in real life) so you dont need to use the dynamo. If the dynamo is running electricity will be supplied even if the breaker is off, but make sure to turn it on to recharge your battery. The dynamo is activated via a handvalve found on the firemans side at the start of the locomotives catwalk. When turned it will be turned on automatically and its speed can be adjusted with the throttle lever labeled atop the boilers top wrapper sheet. Typically a 0.075 throttle speed can fully power the locomotives functions along with a small train, but can be sped up for more electrically hungry equipment or dummned down for noise, the locomotive will charge its battery in its lonesome at 0.0333 throttle.
To fire up the locomotive you will need to follow the steps below to prepare for running.
Open both Injector valves (Labeled FIV and EIV on locomotive catwalks) before the check valves to insure injection into the boiler.
Open both injector steam valves (Labeled FISV and EISV on top wrapper sheet of boiler below front windows)
Open the Dynamo valve *IF installed* and Air compressor valve via the catwalk on the firemans side of the engine.
Allow airbrake pressure to build and your set to go, make sure to use dynamo or battery power to control the locomotive and ensure that the injectors are working and adding water before continuing onward as a safety check.
(This locomotive will explode when below 2200 on the sightglasses {AKA the bottom of the sightglass} for more than 8 seconds when the fire is above 200 degrees.)
The locomotives air compressor uses steam to compress air via piston to power its airbrakes. The handvalve for the compressor is found just on the side next to the dynamos handvalve, where it can be turned and steam supplied. The compressor is autogoverned via a threshold valve and exhausted out the stack until it hits 28 atmospheres inside the resivior tanks, in which the exhaust valve is closed and the compressor cut off.
The air brake system on this locomotive is a custom design which will be featured on the workshop, the brakes are designed to release fully at 18 atmospheres, the brake valve works as follows,
Anything less than -0.10 will add air to the system, opening a valve from the tanks to the brakeline.
Anything over 0.20 will release air, *Ex: 0.21 will open the valve at 0.21 but 0.19 will keep the valve at 0 to prevent accidental braking.
Anything in between will leave the brakes idle, not adding nor subtracting the air from inside the brakeline.
The damper valve found on the engineers side of the locomotive below some piping and the forward reverse lever will kill and rekindle your fire, no need for lighting the fire on this engine. Upon spawning the valve will be open and the fire roaring as it ignites automatically. The valve can be shut for storage or idle sitting, killing the fire and preventing further water from being boiled, or the crown sheet from melting on an underfed boiler.
The locomotive also features a VLT, Veichle Lifetime Timer, in which it showcases the amount of seconds the locomotive has been spawned in the world.
The tender refill process can be complicated at times but is advised as follows.
To begin:
Close the air intake valve located below the tenders rear facing headlight, then going along the engineers side open the equilizing valve to balance the pressure inside the tender.
- feel free to open the hatch on the back of the tender to aid in the release of air. Stand back from the tender hatch as it WILL send you flying into the air, but rapidly decrease the equilization proccesses time.
After equilizing the tender, find a freshwater source that can pump water into the tender to save time, then attach the hose and open the water valve. This will begin to fill the tender.
After filling to the desired level, make sure to shut the water valve and disconnect the hose from the tender as to not harm anyone, the locomotive, or hose in case of forgetting its presence. Then remember to close the equilizer valve and shut the tender hatch before reopening the air intake valve. doing so before hand may result in wasted effort as the air is pumped in but ultimatley wasted through the open valves. A responsible crew is an efficient crew.
