This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2015-08-31
GSbAG Foothill-class Freight Train v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL6) Copyright 2015 by Onno Meyer GSbAG uses steam railways on some underdeveloped planets. They can be maintained using local ressources, a cost-saving measure which can make the business case for a new mine viable where imported grav technology would run at a loss. The Foothill-class Engine is usually found towing flatbed cars with Series 4 (Interstellar) containers, either nine cars with the cargo of a Free Trader or twenty-two cars with the cargo of a Subsidized Merchant. Freight Engine The Foothill-class is a 2-10-0 steam engine with an attached coal and water tender. She was built for high traction at low speed. Most of her weight rests on the ten big driving wheels, with just two small leading wheels. The cab has room for one engineer and two stokers, and two jump seats for other personnel catching a ride. The running boards lead forward to the headlight and the pilot plow. The engine has an intercom to talk to the rest of the train, plus air brake and power lines. The top speed with nine full 4A containers is 50 mph, but 30 mph are more reasonable. With twenty-two containers, the Foothill can reach 35 mph and travel at 20 mph. The speed with a hundred coal cars is 15 mph. The steam engine burns 3.125 tons of coal per hour of routine use. A full load of 37.5 tons is $1,500. Subassemblies: Body +7, twenty Railway Wheels +3. Powertrain: 2,480-kW all-wheel drivetrain; 2,500-kW triple expansion steam engine; two 3,600-kWs lead-acid batteries. Fuel: 1,500 cf coal bunker. Occ: 1 RCS, 2 RS, 2 RSR. Cargo: 200 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Wheels: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment: Body: Whistle; medium-range radio; intercom; 3-mile searchlight; 5-man environmental controls. External: Plow; 1,333 sf top deck; two tow hitches. Statistics Size: 150'x11'x15' Payload: 80,000 lbs. Lwt.: 400,000 lbs. Volume: 20,000 cf Maint.: 34 hours Price: $354,640 HT: 12. HPs: 24,000 Body, 1,200 each Wheel. gSpeed: 50 gAccel: 1 gDecel: 10 gMR: 0.125 gSR: 6 Ground Pressure Very High. No Off-Road Speed. Design Notes Performance was calculated with 792 tons of towed weight, representing the rest of a typical Freight Train configuration. Body is 15,000 cf, articulated. Wheels are 5,000 cf (increased volume). Structure is cheap, extra-heavy. Armor is cheap metal. Mechanical controls. 6,087.46 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 320,000 lbs. Container Car This is a stake body car for a Series 4A container or a mix of 4B, 4C, and 4D containers. Alternatively, it can be used with or without stakes for breakbulk cargo or vehicles. Subassemblies: Body +6, eight Railway Wheels +3. Cargo: 4,000 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 3/5 3/5 3/5 - 3/5 Wheels: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment: External: Two tow hitches. Statistics Size: 50'x11'x14' Payload: 96,000 lbs. Lwt.: 176,000 lbs. Volume: 6,000 cf Maint.: 69 hours Price: $83,000 HT: 12. HPs: 12,000 Body, 1,500 each Wheel. gSpeed: * gAccel: * gDecel: * gMR: * gSR: * Ground Pressure Very High. No Off-Road Speed. * Use towing vehicle's statistics after adding towed weight. Design Notes Body is 4,005.25 cf. Wheels are 1,994.75 cf (increased volume). Structure is cheap, extra-heavy. Body FRLB Armor is open frame, cheap metal, Body U and Wheels armor is cheap metal. Empty weight is 80,000 lbs. Both vehicles uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the background and design choices, but not the technology of this vehicle. Next Week: A hydrogen train. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
