It's been a little while since I posted; we've been fairly busy with random things - however a member of the team Jack Royle has been working hard to produce this wonderful representation of the OBB 1216 Taurus locomotive.
The Siemens-built Taurus locomotive has had its place in the record books when it touched 357km/h on the 2nd Semtember 2006 a NEW world record speed for locomotives! It's truely a unquie locomotive, along with its older sisters the 1016 and 1116 which both produce a very strange sound when departing from a stationairy position.
We are very excited to be creating this locomotive and hope to include some different features from what is normally expected in Rail Simulator. The cab consists of two computer screens rather than the classic analogue guages which will tells you your speed/amps and everything the driver needs to know.
The text on the screens will be in German however a free patch will be available to convert it into English.
You may of noticed that this locomotive has 4 pantographs. These consist of AC and DC power controllers which can be used across different continents. Whether this will be simulated correctly is another matter but for now I think the AC voltage will be default.
That's all for now folks!
will this be released for Railworks??
Or isn't there any progress on this Taurus-project?
R
Hello. Yes this will be for Railworks.
what's the progress on this project? is it still running?
I think it's a shame everyone seems to build only UK- material
Think the RW-community on the mainland of Europe would really like to see this Taurus coming to Railworks. It's a multifunctional engine and is seen in various countries around europe!
we'll wait and see..
R