Published Jan 17th, 2018, 1/17/18 3:41 pm
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In the begginings of January 1967 the first English Eletric 1400 series locomotive arrived at Alcântara, having traveled from Liverpool. To celebrate this so iconic and loved engine I made this colection of the loco in all the paint shemes you can see her running in Portugal.
I'm also experimenting with my own texture pack, what do you think? I have trying not to get to much away from the default textures, though sometimes it is hard not to.
About the loco: In the 60's the portuguese rail operator 'Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses', today's 'CP - Comboios de Portugal', engaged on a major effort to replace the aging steam locos with more modern diesel-electric ones. There was sign a contrac in November 10th 1965 with the british company English Eletric to initially build 50 engines. The first 10 were built in England and the last 40 in Portugal by SOREFAME. In 1973 there were ordered an aditional 20 locos from Montreal Locomotive Works, in order to replace some older 1400s in Central Portugual, since thoose would go to the North, were there were the last 30 still operating steam engines of the country. Originally the locos were painted blue with a white stripe and the golden logo, and later with the more common orange with with diagonal stripes on the front. Today theren are only two locos painted blue, used on some special passenger services. Since 2003 the locos have been sold to other, new, private companies, Takargo Rail and SOMAFEL. Some engines were also sold to countries like Argentina.
Stats:
There were only 67 engines built (1401 to 1467).
Top speed of 105 km/h.
Engine power 1330 Cv (rounded to 1400 to give the loco's series number)
Gauge: Iberian broad gauge of 1668 mm.
Note: I don't take any credit for the real life photos of the engines shown, they are only used for the sole purpose of providing people with a mean of comparison between my work and the real thing.
Third-party programs:
Chunky;
MCEdit
I'm also experimenting with my own texture pack, what do you think? I have trying not to get to much away from the default textures, though sometimes it is hard not to.
About the loco: In the 60's the portuguese rail operator 'Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses', today's 'CP - Comboios de Portugal', engaged on a major effort to replace the aging steam locos with more modern diesel-electric ones. There was sign a contrac in November 10th 1965 with the british company English Eletric to initially build 50 engines. The first 10 were built in England and the last 40 in Portugal by SOREFAME. In 1973 there were ordered an aditional 20 locos from Montreal Locomotive Works, in order to replace some older 1400s in Central Portugual, since thoose would go to the North, were there were the last 30 still operating steam engines of the country. Originally the locos were painted blue with a white stripe and the golden logo, and later with the more common orange with with diagonal stripes on the front. Today theren are only two locos painted blue, used on some special passenger services. Since 2003 the locos have been sold to other, new, private companies, Takargo Rail and SOMAFEL. Some engines were also sold to countries like Argentina.
Stats:
There were only 67 engines built (1401 to 1467).
Top speed of 105 km/h.
Engine power 1330 Cv (rounded to 1400 to give the loco's series number)
Gauge: Iberian broad gauge of 1668 mm.
Note: I don't take any credit for the real life photos of the engines shown, they are only used for the sole purpose of providing people with a mean of comparison between my work and the real thing.
Third-party programs:
Chunky;
MCEdit
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Also, that's indeed broad gauge. My country uses 1435mm between the rail-tracks or 1500mm heart-heart of the rail-tracks, whichever the 1668mm might be.
The Iberian gauge comes from a long history. At the time the king of Spain and his engineers thought that larger tracks meant bigger and more powerfull locos. Thouth some say that was also to prevent the French from invanding by train. And so they addopted 1672mm. So Portugal was 'forced' to change it's tracks from 1435mm to 1668mm, which was not a problem since we haven't yet runned a train on them... and at first it was a few milimiters diferent from the Spanish gauge, but close egouht to allow trains to pass, it was 1664mm, because we are lazy people and if you just take the rails from 1435 and rest them on the oposit side of the 'nais' you get 1664mm. The 1668 was implemented in 1955 to get the two countries closer together. THE END :)
Ah yes good ol locs still doing their job. My country tend to get rid of those, only to get new ones back with software issues at the start...
Ah so that's why. Quite the reason especially it wasn't a big problem at all... Thanks for some history :-)
I don't know from which country you are but one thing is sure, pipes and tubes and valves usually don't come with software issues. The only software those ones have is the CONVEL, our rail safety system, everything else is mechanic like the good old steams. But I can tell you that in 2011 we replaced our 20 years old DMUs that were fine with some Spanish, also 20 years old, DMUs with crapy conditions jus because they have AC, (yet the windows don't open which tends to be a problem in the summer)... and this 'new' ones had to be restaured because they already were rusty and falling in pieces...
No problem! The Uk also has and interesting gauge history and we own them the 1435. Ireland and Russian supposedly also have broad gauge due to invasion fears I believe.
I do prefer to keep my country for myself (European it is) as I dislike to get things like "hey fellow countrymen" in own native language.
Certainly true, but the stock is modernized all the way & bought in by firms. So we don't exactly know those black boxes were software does most of the job. No need to watch all these pressure clocks and such.
In the past things were more "reliable" because our nationwide rail-company made their own trains. Hence the reason why things kept running because all the drivers knew the ins and outs (+10 ways to get the train running again vs resetting the train - have you tried turning it of and on again? principle).
Also after WW2 we electrified as soon as possible. So we tend to have issues on electrical stuff. And not much on the good ol technical stuff. Although we tend to have issues with railroad switches.
As for the gauges. If I recall correctly, the Isle of Man (UK) uses narrow gauge. Japan uses a mix of 1067mm for regular trains and 1435mm for the Shin-Kansen or Bullet-train - They travel great!
I do miss the old narrow gauge lines that winded up the side of the valleys... I bet they travel great! Until now the only high speed train I travelled in was lat year and was the Eurostar, also a wonderfull journey.