Train Simulator’s Steam Workshop scenarios are free and easy to download, adding many more hours of exciting gameplay. Scenarios are available on Steam Workshop online and in-game. The locomotives are also Quick Drive compatible, giving you the freedom to drive the S-2 Class ‘Berkshire’ on any Quick Drive enabled route for Train Simulator, such as those available through Steam. 759, a variation based on the locomotive on display at Steamtown in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
765 operated by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, and No. The S-2 Class ‘Berkshire’ for Train Simulator, developed by G-Trax Simuations, represents two preserved examples of the locomotive, No. Between 19, an additional 65 units were acquired from Lima Locomotive Works. The first release of RailWorks contained all five real-world routes of the original European and North American releases of Rail Simulator, and added three new fictional routes: Hedborough. It is the successor to Rail Simulator, and was released online on 12 June 2009 and in stores on 3 July 2009.
The railroad purchased 15 S-2s from Alco in 1934 alongside many other US railroads. Train Simulator (originally RailWorks) is a train simulation game developed by Dovetail Games. The New York, Chicago and St Louis Railroad, popularly known as the Nickel Plate Road, is famous for its powerful and beautiful Berkshire locomotives, so called due to their 2-8-4 wheel arrangement. Train Simulator’s Steam Workshop scenarios are free and easy to download, adding many more hours of exciting gameplay.The fantastic S-2 Class ‘Berkshire’ is a wonderful US steam locomotive and now available for Train Simulator in two preserved representations of these stunning models. More scenarios are available on Steam Workshop online and in-game. Three scenarios for the NEC: New York-New Haven route: Also included are scenarios specifically for the NEC: New York-New Haven route (available separately and required to play these scenarios).
The locomotive is also Quick Drive compatible, giving you the freedom to drive the New Haven FL9 on any Quick Drive enabled route for Train Simulator, such as those available through Steam. Also included are Metro-North Shoreliner III passenger cars with passenger view, and driveable cab car. Features of the model including in-cab signalling as seen on the New York-New Haven line. The EMD FL9 for Train Simulator is available in New Haven ‘McGinnis’ heritage livery, as operated by the Connecticut Department of Transport in the 2000s. Despite this, a few FL9s are still in occasional revenue-generating service, whilst some have been preserved in museum collections.
The FL9 was considered successful, despite being underpowered when compared to the electric locomotives they replaced, and survived a number of railroad mergers that saw them eventually retired under Metro-North ownership in 2009. The hybrid electro-diesel model was seen as direct competition to the less popular Fairbanks-Morse dual power P-12-42 locomotive, and was designed specifically to run under both diesel and electric power to accommodate the electrified lines running under the East River and into New York’s Grand Central Terminal. The EMD FL9 was arguably one of the more unique locomotive designs ever conceived, but plied its trade on New York’s commuter lines for more than 40 years.īorn from a drive to replace worn out and ageing ALCO DL109 and Boxcab Electric locomotives, New Haven president Patrick McGinnis ordered 60 of EMD’s FL9 locomotives in 1956 to operate solely on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH). Buy Train Simulator: New Haven FL9 as a Steam key at