"Iron Horse" - A modular train set based slightly in reality

[andythenorth]

Done some hoppers innit

1960

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1990

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2020

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[andythenorth]

Super realisms!

Scotland <-> SW speedlink: china clay, MOD stores, random powder hopper, timber, class B petroleum, general merchandise
Midlands steel trip: finished steel, scrap metal, random MGR coal hoppers
March <-> Washwood Heath freight: grain, empty coal and soup all from Kings Lynn, ammonia, fertiliser, DMU fuel for Ipswich, ferrywagons for Harwich

I made all this up, it's just cartoon trains

[SimYouLater]

Super realisms!

Scotland <-> SW speedlink: china clay, MOD stores, random powder hopper, timber, class B petroleum, general merchandise
Midlands steel trip: finished steel, scrap metal, random MGR coal hoppers
March <-> Washwood Heath freight: grain, empty coal and soup all from Kings Lynn, ammonia, fertiliser, DMU fuel for Ipswich, ferrywagons for Harwich

I made all this up, it's just cartoon trains

You added a speedlink van?

[andythenorth]

Grain stuff

[andythenorth]

Iron Horse 2.0.0 Alpha 11 now on Bananas

Sprites are about 90% done, hoping to get a 2.0.0 beta out...soon

Changes from 2.0.0 Alpha 10

• added coal hopper cars, separate from generic hopper cars
• rework generic hopper car appearance
• added grain hopper cars, separate from generic covered hopper cars
• rework generic hopper car appearance
• added chemical tank cars, separate from generic tank cars
• sprites complete for
  • Haar 0-8-0
  • coal hopper cars
  • hopper cars
  • grain hopper cars
  • gen 4A, 4B and 5A covered hopper cars
• tweaks to chassis sprites
• fix gen 3C mail car TPO livery out-of-order / \ angles
• show role types for engines in buy menu text
• split up express and freight vehicle intro date offsets more, to avoid too many simultaneous new vehicle messages
• fix spacing of vehicle intro dates, using month offsets not days, as OpenTTD is believed to round to nearest month
• compile optimisations
  • use nml->nfo->grfcodec to produce the final grf, this provides a much faster compile in cases where only graphics have changed
  • option to compile without cargo sprites, speeds up compile by about 55% in tests
  • adjust how makefile triggers docs generation
  • use multiprocessing pool for docs image generation
• updated translations from web translators

[Diesel Power]

Sounds great! I like loadsa wagons.
Is there a to-do list, so we don't report bugs/missing sprites that you're aware of?

[andythenorth]

Is there a to-do list, so we don't report bugs/missing sprites that you're aware of?

Sprites are complete for everything except:
- chemicals tankers
- most covered hoppers
- most steam engines
- the first two electric engines

Cargo sprites are far from complete, but they are worth reporting if missing, I won't be able to test them all myself.

[andythenorth]

What's new here then?

[Kevo00]

Bit of Western Region action!

[andythenorth]

Another addition.

[andythenorth]

HST!

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Also this

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[Aegir]

Pretty!

[Kevo00]

125 reasons to like the set.

[andythenorth]

Finished the sprites for Blaze HST. Also the Grid, shown with different company colour settings

[NekoMaster]

So essentially the Blaze HST is a Iron Horse Knock off of the real HST but with support for hauling freight
I imagine if the HST power cars used normal coupler or chain couplers they could haul freight but for the most part I dont think that would be practical when most frieght seems to be limited to realy low speeds in Europe (Though north america isn't too much better when the average speed of freight trains is around 60-65 mph or 97-105 km/h)

[andythenorth]

So essentially the Blaze HST is a Iron Horse Knock off of the real HST but with support for hauling freight

"Support" => I didn't see any point in banning player from attaching freight cars

But actually HST freight could be a thing...each power car is just a 2k horsepower locomotive with a pointy front and high-speed gearing.

Also https://www.railmagazine.com/news/netwo ... ks-gbrf-md

Meanwhile, Horse has an upgraded HST at a later date (train 138)

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[andythenorth]

Iron Horse 2.0.0 Alpha 12 is now on Bananas

Main theme of this release

After some play-testing, it became clear that there were some gaps in the engine roster, especially later in game.

It's nice to get very high-power engines available from 1990s onwards, but this left no medium-power engine available, and sometimes a medium power engine is what you want.
Especially for trains around 4-6 tiles long, which need 2000-4000 horsepower to reach top speed in a reasonable time (assuming freight weight multiplier is set to 1).

So there are some new engines included, and a general rebalancing of stats later in game

Also early in game, a small electric engine was missing. This is fixed, with 2 small electric engines now included

Generally I think the grf is now quite nice, and I'm still hoping to get a 2.0.0 Beta release done soon

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Changes from 2.0.0 Alpha 11

• no savegame compatibility with previous 2.0.0 Alpha releases
• added new general purpose / express engines
  • Stoat electric (1905)
  • Pinhorse electric (1935)
  • Wyvern diesel (1955)
  • Fury electric (1989)
  • Revolution electro-diesel (2018)
• added new freight engines
  • Grid diesel (1983)
  • Blackthorn diesel (2020)
• added new high speed trains
  • Blaze diesel (1980)
  • Scorcher diesel (2010)
• removed Turtle diesel engine (replaced by Revolution electro-diesel)
• adjusted date and power of some other engines to balance against new additions
• reduced gen 5 and gen 6 express speeds for game balance with high speed trains
• sprites complete for
  • chemicals tank cars
  • covered hopper cars
• reworked sprites for
  • Screamer electric engine
  • Sizzler electric engine
  • Gosling Blast electric engine
• for electro-diesels, power on both diesel and electric is now shown in the buy menu
• fixed some minor sprite bugs
• set oxygen ahead of chlorine in cryo tank car default refits
• updated translations from web translators

[Lionic]

andythenorth, you've got no new locomotives between 1963 and 1980. Maybe you could adjust appearance dates so some would appear in 1970's?

[andythenorth]

Done some coil cars eh

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[andythenorth]

Such Horse!

Been adding / improving early electric engines.

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