Buy Trainz Plus DLC - Victorian Railways D1 Class Black PC key

Trainz Plus DLC - Victorian Railways D1 Class Black adds two Type 4 D1 class locomotives and their tenders to Trainz. Built by the Victorian Railways Newport Workshops between 1904 and 1920, these mixed-traffic locomotives could also haul mainline passenger services. The pack depicts them in the all-over black livery introduced in the 1920s, with the distinctive VR 5 chime whistle.

The D1 locomotives

The DD class eventually numbered 260 locomotives and was built by the Victorian Railways and outside builders, including the Phoenix Foundry in Ballarat and the Baldwin Locomotive Works in the USA. Its design developed through five major variations. The fourth, recognized by its wide Canadian cab and high running boards, influenced the Type 5 superheated locomotives; some members were later rebuilt as D2 and D3 class locomotives. The pack's Type 4 locomotives are classed as D1 from the 1930s through the early 1950s.

The two versions differ in their number plates and available numbers:

• VR D1 T4 Black 1 Npt: older-style serif number plates and serif class plates, with 51 numbers available from 500 to 668.
• VR D1 T4 Black 2 Npt: newer-style sans-serif number plates and serif class plates, with 39 numbers available from 500 to 697.

Sessions and consists

A Down Passenger session features both locomotives and offers free roam after completion. The pack also includes six pre-made consists: light engine, goods and passenger consists for both versions.

Locomotive features

The locomotives are in broad gauge and have three optional weathering levels, selectable through the properties menu. Clean, lightly weathered and heavily weathered textures have matching individual specular and reflection maps. Automatic numbering includes the tender, normally mapped number plates and matching builders plates, with 92 numbers available; a snow mesh uses Trainz's snow altitude function.

The pack includes a custom interior with operational controls, and animated, scripted reverser and valve gear in both exterior and interior views. The tender's coal load deforms as coal is used. Animated parts include the screwlink couplers, brake hoses and taps, safety chains, cab doors and windows, roof vent, weather tarp, smokebox door and tender tank filler lid. The cab doors, windows and roof vent can be controlled from inside the cab or through the properties window, and the weather tarp matches between cab and exterior views.

Scripted effects include exhaust smoke based on regulator and cut-off, an animated air compressor with sound and smoke, cylinder drains based on steam chest pressure, and other steam and sound effects, including injectors and the blower. Marker lamps and tail discs are scripted and animated, with glow lamps compatible with the VR Set Train Lamps driver command. All meshes have level of detail.