N&W Class Y6 2-8-8-2

Again thanks to the efforts of Bombardiere, who got the Challenger body riding on 8-wheel driver sets and swapped out the tender, I have completed the skinning for this new engine.  It began as an attempt to represent the Y3 class, which was based on the USRA design in 1919 for the 2-8-8-2.  N&W later improved this class into the Y6b.  For gameplay purposes, this engine represents the Y6, because the slower Y3 just doesn't work in the RRT3 game engine; it is too slow.  This gives a more reasonably sized mallet, a little bit earlier (1936), for those that want big steam.  This mallet is slow but sure-footed, ugly (but oh so beautiful!) and will do best hauling ore out of the mountains.

To create it, Bombadiere swapped the tender with the one from the Northern, and placed the Big Boy's driving wheels under the frame.  The trailing truck was a simple repaint, while the pilot had to remain as 4 wheels... it's just that the rear wheel of the truck is hiding behind the extra driver!  I modified the pilot to have horizontal bars instead of vertical, and I changed the big solid box with grills on the pilot deck into an "X" of grab bars just like the real Y.  I gave the smokebox front the classic offset round door, with the N&W road number in gold on black.  I made all but the front-most smokestack invisible, a trick that is only seen from behind.  I tried to reshape the cab roof a bit, but because the textures are not applied exactly symmetrically, I had to settle somewhat.  Still, I was able to shorten the roof a bit, which helps its proportions.  The tender is the same as for the J, just with the red and gold striping painted out.  I changed the classification lamps from showing green/blue to show green/white.  I also made the bell and number boards on the top of the smokebox invisible, further cleaning up the lines to differentiate the unit.  I also darkened some of the smokebox to reduce its length a bit.

DOWNLOAD THE CLASS Y6 2-8-8-2 - as ZIP file, you must unzip and then place the PK4 file in "UserExtraContent", the rest into "EngineTypes"