[Request] Steam Lorries

[OldTimer]

I think I can safely say that everyone who plays Locomotion, and at least the majority who make mods for use in the game, are very much into trains. And I count myself as being one, whose first choice of transport when playing a scenario, is of course “The Train”.

Since the start of the “International Challenge”, I’ve had a lot of enjoyment with other forms of transport – transport which I didn’t think I’d like at all, but am glad I had a go.

For a few weeks now, I have been thinking about other forms of transport which are not in Locomotion. There are three types (and maybe more): Horses and Carts, which I doubt if anyone is interested in; Traction Engines which if I am correct were only used locally on Farms and on Road Maintenance and Fairgrounds; and of course Steam Lorries.

The latter came into being in the 1890s and were the workhorse of road transport until the introduction of petrol and diesel engines. There are many and varied types of Steam Lorries over the years, so if any of you are interested in producing any, you have a wide range to choose from. Here are just four of them:

[metalangel]

These would be interesting, as a companion to the (rubbish) trucks you start with in 1900... I'd imagine the steam ones would be far more powerful and thus carry more and with more horsepower than their petroleum counterparts.

There *are* horse-drawn vehicles in both Transport Giant and Simutrans - in Simutrans they're particularly painful to use, given their limited speed and capacity.

[OldTimer]

These would be interesting, as a companion to the (rubbish) trucks you start with in 1900... I'd imagine the steam ones would be far more powerful and thus carry more and with more horsepower than their petroleum counterparts.

When I googled "steam lorries", I came across quite a lot of pictures of both steam lorries and traction engines. The big Sentinels often towed a trailer which looks as if they carry as much as the steam lorry itself. If I were able to produce mods of these, I would certainly do so, but I'm afraid age is against me.

I have a copy of Transport Giant, but I find it extremely hard to play. Not a patch on CSs games. And that silly little map is useless.

[metalangel]

You might enjoy this link I found:

http://www.stanleysteamers.com/

Stanley are perhaps the most famous manufacturer of steam-powered cars ever, and there's some interesting photos on there, including some trucks.

It would have been a different world, really, if Cadillac hadn't invented the electric starter motor so early.

I more or less gave up on JoWood's transport games after Traffic Giant (despite being given a copy by one of the board members as a gift, via my parents). They are too rigid, not enough freedom - the constant, unpreventable, illogical vehicle crashes in Traffic Giant essentially ruined the game for me.