(1.7) K.P.E.V. Preußische P8/Baureihe 38 Steam Locomotive

2024 Heavy Machinery Contest 2nd Place Winner

This locomotive is ONLY SPAWNABLE on the EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH of the game

To CORRECTLY spawn this locomotive you must spawn it "PINNED"

This technically is not a Prussian P 8 due to the Baureihe 50 Pistons, Different Boiler, Different Dynamo, Etc things that ive added

The Prussian Class P 8 of the Prussian state railways (DRG Class 38.10-40 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) was a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built from 1906 to 1923 by the Berliner Maschinenbau (previously Schwartzkopff) and twelve other German factories. The design was created by Robert Garbe. It was intended as a successor to the Prussian P 6, which was regarded as unsatisfactory.

Because Garbe was an advocate of the simplest possible designs, a straightforward, superheated steam, two-cylinder driving gear was envisaged. The P 8 benefited especially from superheated steam technology, which had just been developed by Wilhelm Schmidt (nicknamed 'Hot Steam Schmidt'), that led to outstanding performance for those times. The P 8 was a very economical locomotive that did not make great demands on the ability of the engine driver. At the outset Garbe even designed the P 8 as an express train locomotive, with the expectation of attaining a top speed of 110 km/h (68 mph). As a result, the first units were fitted with low-wind-resistance, tapered driver's cabs.

One characteristic feature of the P 8 is the large distance between the centre and rear coupled axles. At the outset the P 8 only had a steam dome behind the sandbox; later a forward feed dome was added. Further constructional changes affected, inter alia, the driver's cab roofs, the smoke deflectors and various external assemblies.

Side Notes: This Locomotive as of writing this is only usable in Version 1.7

Controls:

• Pressing B enables the brake

• Pressing H enables the whistle

• Pressing Space enables the hand brake

• To reverse you must turn off "Automatic Transmission" in your game settings then press Ctrl until your at the reverse gear then simply press W then away you go uh thats it and everything else: lights, sanders, cylinders, bell, etc can be found in the cab

Credits to Jaylee Hadaway for the bell mechanism that i "borrowed" Credits to nyan4006 for helping me fix a piston rod glitch

ignore this pls Tags: Prussia, Railway, Railroad, 1900, 1900's, Locomotive, Steam Train, Baureihe, German, Germany, Deutschland, Scalable, Scalables, Express, Passenger, Goods, Freight, Cargo, Mixed, Engineer, Engineering