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16 axle heavy transport..

I've seen this 16 axle heavy transporter from the Italian FS and I couldn't resist to model it. This beauty is a four large wagons convoy (length=8 or 10) that transports gas/oil, and even cement/concrete. It's almost finished..

 

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It looks like a giant sausage. haha  How can something that long take a turn?

Painter, in and out of retirement.

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Quote from: PatrickN – on
It looks like a giant sausage.

* Igor makes "huuuum" *

Quote from: PatrickN – on
How can something that long take a turn?

Probably it's for a factory internal railway and runs only on straight lines. Say, picks up goods at a point of factory plant and unload elsewhere, and goes back. It'll never run on public railways.

EDIT:

I think I'll order one... it's cheap:

https://www.ehattons.com/StockDetail.aspx?SID=16436

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ehh!! you found the website, Igor!! I've lost the original link...

Back to the topic, I actually don't know if it exists or it's just a concept vehicle. I haven't found any info in wikipedia, railfan sites, etc... Anyway I like those strange vehicles so I can resist to see them in Simutrans... :)

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Given the huge number of Schnabel cars (http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/schnabel_cars.html), I could envision such a heavy transport was done also on a slightly modified one. 16 axel is certainly not the limit there ...

Who wonders about curves: Usually loaded such cars are only on slected tracks with signal sometimes even removed and not trains crossing from ahead of course. Empty they can run at the end of a normal freight train.

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See the big sausage in action.. :D


P.S: It's not well aligned yet.

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This project was almost death because I lost the png, blender model and textures but I was decided to finish it, thus after a looong alignment process, here it is a preview before the release. I only have to balance some attributes and it'll be ready for downloading very soon.


Btw, do you think it should be electric or diesel? I'm not sure at this point..

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And here's a ten-pack of them:



:-D

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Finally, here it is!! I would like to introduce you the flammable sausage...  :D

Now serious. It's an electric engine, pretty slow (vmax 65 km/h) but with enough power to pull the payload. It has a gear of 65, therefore it's only recommended for straight routes with as few curves as possible. The capacity of the whole convoy is 400 m3 of gasoline/oil and the price of all is about 38.000 credits. Enjoy!