#derail valley

[whirligig-girl]

The S282 from the train sim game Derail Valley, interpreted as a prop built in the first two or three seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

I tried to imagine how a prop builder would actually put something like this together on a children's TV series budget. Like the other original props, this one uses kitbashed parts from Marklin model trains as well as plastic card bodies and sculpted faces. The chassis is taken from a Marklin BR55 0-8-0 and the pilot and trailing wheels, and cylinders, modified from a Marklin BR78.

There are some design changes to make it just look more Thomas, like the thomas style headlamp, the flat prominent buffer beam, and the blocky red-sided footplate. The geometry has been simplified as it needed to be made out of folded, bent, and cut plastic card.

More details and alternate versions under the cut:

The actual locomotive as it appears in Derail Valley: Simulator. Note the much larger cylinders. They could have built more proportional cylinders--they did so when they built Murdoch in season 7, but I wanted it to fit in better with Henry and Gordon.

The valve gear shown is accurate to the BR55, not to the BR78 Gordon and Henry use nor the game model (which has much thicker rods)

Other details, like the air pump (not needed on sodor, which seems to use vacuum brakes), bell, and dynamo (again, not used on sodor) have been removed. The ladder detail on the running board has been simplified. A cowcatcher is not needed, but i kept it as more or less the only obviously foreign feature of the engine. The electric headlamp on the top of the S282's smokebox has been replaced with a white

The S282's tender is a four wheel tender on a pair of freight car trucks. The thomas version is a six wheel tender based on Gordon and Henry's.

The livery was changed to make it feel more Sodor. The sides of the running board were painted red, and red lining was added to the boiler bands, cab, and tender. And 282 was given as a number on the tender, in red-lined yellow text. The wheels retain the red paint of the model that contributed their wheels, but dulled a bit by weathering. The game model has black wheels with white walls and red counterweights, but that didn't look right with the small counterweights on most of the wheels and the one single large counterweight on the number three axle.

With so many red accents, the loco bears more than a passing resemblance to Hiro from the cgi series, though this is only a coincidence.

Here's a variant with a game-accurate livery. No striping, and the wheel spokes are black with white walls and red counterweights.

Here are squeaky clean versions of both liveries.

and here are NWR green, blue, and red variants. I actually made a texture pack for the previous major version of Derail Valley, before they updated the model and the UV maps changed. (obviously my texture pack did not go so far as to add faces)

Final variant, the ES&DT version. [sniff sniff] can you hear a guitar riff slowly building tempo?

[kalianos]

Trying to use the Dm3 in derail valley is a fun experience in being a harried yet demented truck driver in Eastern Europe using something that came from the 70's. A temperamental torque driven machine that makes you want to set it on fire. Who thought it was a good idea to make a diesel locomotive with two gear boxes!? A purely mechanical monstrosity. And the shift isn't in some logical 1:1 1:2 2:2 2:3 3:3 configuration ahahaha. No.

1:1 1:2 2:1 2:2 3:1 3:2 2:3 3:3 in that order. You can skip gear sets while shunting but you run the risk of blowing up the gear box in such spectacular fashion you smash out all your windows.

I fricken love that shutning diesel. Shame it put a career save file in over 60k in debt to fix it.

[foxerfox]

Some say Kenosha can even be heard leading up to incidents.

[crouchingtoasterhiddenpastry]

Yall should check out Derail Valley. It's a train game for people who find trains boring

[eject91]

Solid first go in the diesel-mechanical

[tumblesdownhill]

I play a game called derail valley. The keyboard control rebind menu is a fucking .txt file that opens when you hit "rebind controls". So many people would lose their shit and think they broke the game because they don't understand that under the fancy skins of AAA titles, controls are probably stored as a .txt file.

another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare

[tumblesdownhill]

Derail Valley feels 100% more accurate with Norfolk Southern skins, especially if you plan on pushing 10 over track limit and rocking notch 8 through the yards.

[hasrock36]

This is still the best mod and video I’ve ever made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7NG0MmpcY

[shrimpari]

"I see all of you as rats. Nothing...but...rats."

The Abbot of Saint Markovia

[tumblesdownhill]

I wield the Splodey Bois! OBLITERATE!

In honor of pride month, I’m reviving and revamping an old post:

The LGBTQ+ armory :)

- L: Laser

- G: Grenade Launcher

- B: Bazooka

- T: Tank

- Q: Quarterstaff

- I: ICBM

- A: Anthrax

Tag yourself, I’m anthrax

[whirligig-girl]

Behold! A Rosie the Riveter texture for the S060 in Derail Valley. Based upon my trans headcanon for Rosie the Tank Engine.

[kalianos]

Happy 4th of July!

[subwaytostardew]

▲ Subway to Stardew - Ingo 4-Heart Event ▲

This plays after getting at least 4 hearts with Ingo and entering the woods on Monday. Ingo also sends an invitation!

[ice-to-orange-blossoms]

She hydraulic on my diesel till I 4

she mechanical on my diesel til i 3

[whostamera]

Some vintage family photos I wanted to share

[doctorbrown]

DOCTOBER '24 ⸺ 「 13 / 31 * ACROPHOBIA 」

October 27, 1985A

No. 

That one single word repeats on a loop in Emmett’s head, drowning out his capacity for rational thought. It is a mantra, a curse, a promise, the culmination of all the anger and desperation that has suddenly seized both his heart and his mind, grinding both to an abrupt halt as a biting chill freezes him from the inside out.

Every word of caution he once spoke loses all meaning, for there is only one option available to him now. 

Abusing this could have potentially universe-shattering repercussions.

Were he thinking rationally, Emmett might have been concerned with how readily he throws caution and concern to the wind, infusing the words let it with all the cynicism and damning finality he can muster. 

Any universe that allows this to happen is better off undone.

This isn't what it was invented for.

The Time Machine was not meant to make him God, able to interfere with the lives and fates of those standing beneath him with their eyes glued to the pulsing lights hovering over their heads, just out of reach, but just this once, he will allow himself to break every single one of his rules and consciously rewrite the past for his own selfish gain.

He has already done it for you. 

If there is some higher being, Emmett both curses and challenges Them in the same breath, daring Them to intervene. 

Only the DeLorean speaks, rumbling her support.

His hands move independent of his conscious mind, inputting a new destination time on the keypad. In mere moments, this will not have happened, will never happen, existing only within the confines of memory where it will serve as another cautionary tale for the future.

A reminder. One he will not forget, as if he needed further reason to see the destruction of his life’s work through to its conclusion.

Beneath him, unimportant and inconsequential, the collective sea of denim and leather gasps, cowering as a flying monster snarls, setting the sky ablaze.