This looks magnificent. I always wondered what one of the larger planned steam locos would have looked like.

Why?

can i make a suggestion?, maybe add hook and chain couplings to the canteen to make US stock compatible with UK stock. like buckeye couplings on one end and british couplings on the other.

Thanks for your contribution to the modding community

ohh finally i really needet a train with this power!
no srly i have a big city on the mountain and it takes 1/2 of the map to climp it

Jesus Christ. Engineering has gone too far.

UPDATE: Kind of doing a massive batch of updates, so please see here for information: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/discussions/18446744073709551615/1681441347871087327/?appid=446800

we need more 8's for it.

hey uh gr1m going off of vandelayofficial the 4-10-10-4 was a real thing just derailed in the first test and thats about the only info on it exsept that it was made by santa fe so yeah

nice！
Can u make mod for PRR S1 and S2？

@InfectTheNet: You think that's bad? Historically a Triplex was only good for about 5-15kph, max. xP

But if you want to change the stats, you'll want to go to Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\446800\1741620392\res\models\model\vehicle\train\usa\Quintuplex.mdl, open it in notepad and look for the line topspeed = 80. Change that to what you want in kph.

The canteen's got a top speed set at 96 so you may need to change that too depending on what you're setting it as - you'll find that in vehicle/waggon/usa/Quintuplex_Canteen.mdl.

Only 80kmh? Please tell me there is a way I can edit that myself.

thanks for clearing that up

you are mad but sensible, for creating this steam beast

Train company : we should make trains that could be longer.

George Henderson : Gotcha' fam'

Train company : ...

@power man: it's for decoration only - it has no capacity.
@VandelayOfficial: I'm considering a couple of things at the moment but haven't settled on anything. A lot of people have requested a Garratt in the past, so that's a consideration now that I know how to make one work.

can you make more crazy locomotives? Like a 4-10-10-4?

hmm, needs more power.

would be nice to see this in fictional BR livery like steves mod

is the massive extra tender for capacity or decoration?

ok now this is epic

You are a very silly person. Please do not stop.

Fixed it. And as a bonus, fixed the obscured light on the tender as well :P

Hey, I apologize if I'm being too annoying with the questions / reports, but I have another one, thankfully not game-breaking, but I still wanted to know.

The very first version of this loco had the light particle placed correctly, but starting from the second version it's hidden inside the front cabin. Can I fix this myself by editing some text strings? Once I managed to add lights to a train that didn't have them, but it was so long ago I don't remember how I did it.

Awesome! Sorry it took so long to find the problem - it turned out it was actually a simple, kind of glaringly obvious issue to fix x.x

It seems to work fine now. Loaded two times and no crash. :)

@n.chiri. I just pushed through an update that I think should fix it. Let me know!

I made sure I have the latest version of the mod, and did a brief test. Two saves, in both the loco is hauling 40 coal hoppers from the vanilla game, one has the canteen and the other doesn't. Save with no canteen loads fine, the one with the canteen does the crash I mentioned earlier when reaching 25% of load.

I'm no expert in modding at all, but I wonder if this is somehow related to the fact the canteen doesn't seem to fit into any type of rolling stock. You can only buy it if you set the "all" filter on the depot, it doesn't appear if you filter by locomotives or wagons. I've also noticed the canteen has a driver inside.

If you want to use the soundset from the Large Lad do so.

@n.chiri: weird. I've got 1km coal trains that are working fine. Which carriage specifically are you using?

Also, I just posted another update (New horn sound taken from the Big Boy and some minor model fixes) so try again with the new file and let me know.

WATAFAK?

What happens is that I assign the loco + canteen to haul a 50 wagon coal train. Then I save the game, quit, and it gives me that error when I try to reload it. I've tried the same without any wagons and it did not crash. Maybe I'm going too over the top with the train lenght for the game engine? I don't know.

@n.chiri it seems to be working on my end with no issues (I've checked it all, including downloading the current version on steam and can't seem to recreate the issue). My only thought is it's a gremlin from an older version. Are you sure the mod's up to date? Try unsubbing and resubbing.

I'm getting an error related to the canteen's MDL file. When I try to load a save with the loco and canteen on it, it says that the file "lod_0_w1.msh" does not exist.

Can I just say that I never expected someone to actually make this. You earn my respect.

Now that is a LARGE LAD

@StainlessSteelCynic lol steam locomotive was far more crazy than I thought.

I'm a tiny bit disappointed this isn't like a 150mph super express locomotive. With a cab like that up front it'd be seriously cool to have a high-speed steam passenger train.

This is the kind of shit I want to see in this game!!!!

Also, fixed some linkage distance issues and added a coupling to the front.

UPDATE: Okay, a lot of changes to note here. I've gone back and redone the textures and tinting and made several changes to the mesh. I've fixed the 'not-so-hidden' hidden wheels issue so this train is now bridge friendly. Top speed has been nerfed to 80kph and an animation bug has been fixed. I've also added a canteen/auxiliary tender as a carriage with no capacity (this has a placeable asset, too) and changed the in-game description.

You know, it does not matter if this loco never existed or if it seems 'absurd', similar ideas did exist and that's a whole section of steam train history that gets rarely mentioned and I don't think it's ever been presented in a train sim/game.
If nothing else, gr1m has made some of us aware that such strange beasts did exist!
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/quadruplex/quadrapl.htm
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/hex/hex.htm
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/francocrosti/francocrosti.htm#b

@n.chiri: Yeah, I'm aware, and I'm trying to work on a better fix. Unfortunately the game doesn't particularly 'like' the whole setup of everything, so it's a bit of a messy workaround for now until I can figure it out. There'll be an update ASAP.

@SoftwareSimian: Yeah, it's inspired by those designs, not a direct reproduction or anything.

One can easily edit the values of a locomotive by messing a bit with the MDL file without too much modding knowledge. That's what I usually do when I'm not happy with a vehicle's default stats, create a copy of the mod and edit the values.

I wanted to "report" something. I say "report" between quotation marks because I assume gr1m already knows about it, but I'm telling anyway. There are some fixed wheels like "hanging" below the model in the middle between the rails, it's noticeable when it goes over a bridge. Other than that, awesome mod, this might be silly and unnecessary to some, but I love non-ordinary things like this.

Not to nitpick, but I can't find any reference to a real-life design for a 4-8-8-8-8-8-4, only these two quintuplexes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-8-8-8-8-8-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-10-10-10-10-10-2

@Dingbat: I get what you mean, and don't get me wrong, I'm considering nerfing the top speed. As a workaround in the meantime though, there are a couple of invisible wagon mods that restrict the top speed of trains that you might be interested in.

I remember reading about the Triplexes that existed on rail for a brief time. These trains couldn't move faster than 10 mph and they BURNED their fuel.

If this had limited speed I would consider using this.

The absurd thing isn't that I made this mod: The absurd thing is that something similar to this was remarkably close to actually being built, and around 20 years before the Big Boys! xP

You can always tell when a game has reached its end of life by the silly mods that start to pop up.

oh-my-god! Is it even gaugeable to say HOW MUCH Horsepower this thing would produce!?
The IRL triplexes literally used so much steam at once they couldnt go beyond 3 MPH

Absolutely awesome mod!!! Regarding the ridiculousness of it, I recently came up with a couple of design ideas (untested of course) that could make something like this work!

@M4j0rfr34k, sorry to correct you, but no there isn´t, two sets under the first boiler, two sets under the second boiler and a fitht set beneth the tender.

pls don´t murder me for my bad writing