"American" 4-4-0 Locomotive

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Hello all! I have been a fan of this pak for a long time and wanted to finally contribute something for it. This is my first simutrans object of any kind, but I hope it fits well with the pak.

I noticed a lack of early rail vehicles, and thought this would be a fun one. I tried my best with the stats, but it was a lot of guessing.

Thanks!

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I also have added a simple "smoke" effect since it seems like there isn't one for this pakset yet, and what steam engine is complete without smoke?

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Welcome, and mostly if you are ready to create more objects to help me with further development od this pakset.

This pakset needs (not only) steam locomotives (and trains) a lot. Some eras are not covered fully and some eras are covered only partially, in a very insuficient way.

I tried to prepare some ones. But they don't fit to style of this pakset much. They are a bit greater than they probably should be.

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My plan is to next create some generic railcars for the same era as this locomotive (1840-1910) so that it can actually be used as a train in those eras. In reality, there were many changes to rolling stock over those years, but I think just having something will do for now. New vehicles can always be added afterwards.

Big picture: I'd like to flesh out the 1900-1940 window, but that will require new objects across the board (lots of learning on my end).

[Václav]

My plan is to next create some generic railcars for the same era as this locomotive (1840-1910) so that it can actually be used as a train in those eras. In reality, there were many changes to rolling stock over those years, but I think just having something will do for now. New vehicles can always be added afterwards.

Big picture: I'd like to flesh out the 1900-1940 window, but that will require new objects across the board (lots of learning on my end).

You may create even much more - and fully fictious (however they may be inspired by real ones), not only few from eras 1840-1910 and 1900-1940 from USA.
Really, this pakset has terrible gaps in vehicles - from trains to trams (of course, including ships, cars or planes).

I did not mention monorails or maglev because I would like to discuss about their future at first. Their situation is the worst of all. And even if their construction would be good, both need to be fully renwed.

Monorail has two ways for future: renewing or deleting (and replacing by trams that I try to make better usable - but however, I need to finish some things for them that I know that they are missing or wrong around them).

But maglev is in really terrible situation. It has not worthy successor but game would deserve it - as way of transportation with speeds between trains and planes.

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I corrected a mistake with the NE/SW directions (they were flipped) and learned how to merge the tender and locomotive into one .pak with makeobj.