Railworks America

This is one sweet looking locomotive. I'll be getting this one instead of the SD70 v.2 pack (altho I'm sure I'll get that pack later, too)

http://www.ironhorsehouse.co.uk/ Make sure you watch the You Tube videos. Screen shots later!

And once again RS.com thinks: Hey, the British packs are much more attractive to the customers. They only mock about our US products.

Nothing against your decision. The Duchess is surely a great locomotive. I just wanted to point this out for all the mockers.

Not sure what you mean Michael, what's a mocker ??

As IHH is English, then the creations are going to be more British based, he has of course, already released a Challenger, Consolidation and a Big Boy steam locomotives, along with baggage and dome cars and a 50ft boxcar, so, he has contributed quite a few items towards the North American market. I doubt if he would design and build anything "European", but, I don't know for sure.
RS.com are building the NEC route with locomotives and appropriate rolling stock and have just released 2 packs of SD70's, so, they are also contributing towards the fans of North American content in good quantity.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

ex-railwayman wrote:Not sure what you mean Michael, what's a mocker ??

As IHH is English, then the creations are going to be more British based, he has of course, already released a Challenger, Consolidation and a Big Boy steam locomotives, along with baggage and dome cars and a 50ft boxcar, so, he has contributed quite a few items towards the North American market. I doubt if he would design and build anything "European", but, I don't know for sure.
RS.com are building the NEC route with locomotives and appropriate rolling stock and have just released 2 packs of SD70's, so, they are also contributing towards the fans of North American content in good quantity.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

A mocker is somebody who mocks about something.

That was not my point. I refer to the SD70 Volume 2 dicussion here in the forums.
Some people say: Oh, I won't buy it. It's too expensive, few items, whatever.
But then they complain about RS.com making too few US dlc.
I would think this way if I was RS.com: Not enough earnings with US dlc? Why should we do even more US stuff or should we even stop making it in the future?
(And they could think this. )

So, in the words of Frank Sinatra: "That's Life!"

(But lets stop this discussion. The Duchess is a great loco. I hope it comes to Steam soon.)

Gotta have Port Road (I do) and WCML (I don't) for this one. Looks like I'll be waiting a while.

WCML is very nice. Especially when you run the Class 390 on it. You should buy this one also.

arizonachris wrote:Gotta have Port Road (I do) and WCML (I don't) for this one. Looks like I'll be waiting a while.

Yes, it's a pity about the overhead electric wires though - Princess Coronation Pacifics were all withdrawn in the 1960s and the wires only went North to Glasgow in 1974.

A nice "wish" for RW2 would be switchable features such as semaphore signals/colour lights and overhead wire/no overhead wires... Mmmm!

Although Duchess Of Sutherland wasn't built as a streamliner, most Princess Coronations were - here's one!


All were rebuilt after WW2 in unstreamlined form

There is a WCML-Before the Wires route around somewhere.

John, that is one sweet looking locomotive. Nice pic.

BTW, to update this Topic, I have The Duchess, and the SD70 v2 pack as well as WCML. Time and paycheck permitting, I'll probably have all of Railworks "stuff".

Just Trains are planning to release the streamlined version at some point too!

http://www.justtrains.net/developProduct.asp?pid=500