New Haven R3 Mountain

Hello folks, and welcome back to the USRA era! We have the USRA variation of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad! The R-3 4-8-2 Mountain the beginning of Steam Super Power with 3 cylinders!

As a heads up folks, you will find this locomotive in your buy menu under "multiple unit" under the steam category. The reason you see it under the multiple unit category is the Random numbers mod. In order for it to work the locomotive must have a cargo space. That cargo is 1 passenger. So no, you are not crazy if you see this on your freight trains. This is the workaround for getting the random numbers to work. Honestly well worth it! Normally I’d say you must have a dependent mod active for the random numbers to work, but Meatballhero has allowed me to include the files! No dependents necessary for this one! Also you may want to set a max timer for your trains you want to sit and wait for full at stations.

During the first world war the federal government enacted the USRA as an experiment to nationalize the railroads during a wartime emergency. This lasted from December of 1917 to March of 1920. They introduced standardized locomotive and rail car classes known as the USRA Standard.
Changes occurred quickly as once President Wilson issued the order for nationalization. All the railroads were organized into 3 divisions, East, West, and South. A reduction in passenger service occurred to help with decongestion of freight. The current number of locomotives and rolling stock was augmented by new production of up-to-date and standardized types/designed to be the best that could be produced to replace outdated equipment.

These locomotives are excellent in mountain passenger service and fast freight!

I have 10 Light Mountain versions here for you.

R3 & R3A

– Large 6 Axle Tender, and Vanderbilt Tender
– MC Couplers
– Fantastic sounds by Mrcheesecake as always!
– The R2 & R3A will have random number in the 35## series
– Several locomotives have an asset version, not all I find it unnecessary.
– Matching Generic versions
– 8 different camera views

Availability- 1927
Speed – 79 MPH
Horsepower- 3,834
Tractive Effort – 71,700 LBF
Weight – 667,494 Lbs

Finally at the end of the New Haven Series! This one took some additional time.. while being a derivative of the USRA variation, it was different enough to have many parts done from scratch. That and learning to animate a triple cylinder locomotive!

This concludes my run on the USRA type light mountain and their variations. So whats in the works? I have a USRA heavy mountain currently in texturing phase, a USRA Light Santa Fe in UV phase, and the USRA heavy pacific in the modeling stage. Of course there are variations along with these, but this is the current schedule!

The USRA locomotives are also ones in which if you simply google USRA and the type of locomotive you get so many hits on model locomotives. So if you are wanting to reskin these into your own road you can ask me on the TPF American Modding discord for the PSD’s and create a dependent mod if you wish for the community.

From this point, please understand that my mods are rather heavy in poly count. Sorry I enjoy the detail. I put a lot of effort into these, to make them as best I can to be enjoyed. Sorry if you don’t have enough disk space or computer power to run these. The models have LOD’s on them to help reduce poly count as you zoom out.

Join us at the Transport Fever 2 American Modding Discord
https://discord.gg/mXzYSNrd