Prolongement du MF88

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Hi guys! You might notice that many of my post titles are now in French. This is because I am learning French! Prolongement means extension, prolong means extend and prolonger means something that extends.

Anyway, so this is the extension of the MF88. In the same way that MA51/52 cars were turned into intermediate booster units, these are driving motor cars with their cabs replaced. They turn a 3-car train into a 5-car train composed of a 2-car subset and a 3-car subset. When coupled with a 3-car MF88, this train, which I am terming the MF88B ("B" for "Booster Unit", same as MA51B and MA52B have the "B" suffix) produces an 8-car, 120m-long MF88. This is how the MF88 should have looked. R.I.P. MF88, in two years time you will be gone.

These have gray windows only, retrofit the gradient ones (Fenêtre de Dégradé) yourself, if you want shiny windows (personally the gray ones really suit the MF88 -- it looks wrong in shiny colours, ÎDFM looks good however)

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ÎDFM P2

RATP P1

RATP P2
 

MP59 Vert

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4 Car MP59 M3516-A6080-N6080-M3518

6 Car MP59 Super 6 M3516-A6180-N6180-N6080-A6080-M3518

This is the MP59, in service for 71 glorious years. These witnessed the conversion of Line 1, 4, and 6 to rubber tyred track, the creation of the Paris RER, and the creation of Lines 3bis, 7bis and Météor.

These are by far the most interesting French trains... ever.

They retired last year, on 12 June 2024.

There were, throughout their lives, two consists:

4 cars (Line 11), which was arranged as M-M-R-M, and a special 6-car version, nicknamed the Super 6, which was arranged as M-R-M-M-R-M. Super 6's ran on Lines 1, 4 and 6 before MP59s were retired from there.

RATP "Bleu Blanc" MP59 will come soon. This wore the same livery as the MF77s did initially.

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P4 (P6 for a Super 6)

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Parts for a Super 6:

Super 6 P4

Super 6 P5
 

New model out soon

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MM1 locomotives and M1 trailers coming soon!

For reference, the MM1/M1 was the first suburban train in France, used on the Paris Metro since its opening. "MM1" referred to the motor coaches and "M1" referred to the trailers they pulled (at a ratio of one MM1 to 3 M1s). These locomotives were bidirectional, and would drive around to the other end of the 4-car train at the destination.

Only 8 meters long, but highly problematic; the diminutive MM1 and its M1 trailers were highly susceptible to short circuits, which is bad when the entire carriage is made of flammable wood and flammable cast iron (the carbon in the cast iron frames will catch fire), such drawbacks were highlighted when a 12-car consist running to Nation station burst into flames in 1903.

These were not around for long. All were retired by 1931, with Line 1 losing its original rollingstock in 1914.

This very grainy photograph, likely at Bastille station due to the presence of the iconic iron bar in between the tracks, shows the trailers; the MM1 did a run-around at the terminus to link up to the opposite end; guards would hang off the back of the trains. The MM1 is inside the station building, and is not visible.
 

MA51B/MA52B

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Small update, I found out that some MA51/MA52 Control Motors had their driving cabs, lights and destination boards removed, control cables fitted, and semi-permanent drawbar couplings (like those linking road-going trucks together) were used to lock these driving motors together, turning them into effectively booster units. These were known as MA51B and MA52B cars.

These run like any normal MA51/52, but must be coupled to another MA51/52... 

MF88 ÎDFM

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I am so proud of this.

I had always wondered, what an MF88 would look like in Île-de-France Mobilities (ÎDFM) livery. Today, I made that livery. The RATP Jade Green one was one of the first remixed models I ever did, with detailled bogies/floor boxes. Now, a modernised one exists. The sad thing is that these would have existed in an ideal world.

If anybody here does not know, the MF88s were not actually production trains. They were metro prototypes, culminating from years of successful research on the MF77 BOA prototype train. These were literally just prototypes rushed into production because of a need for more trains. They were designed for an operational speed of 110km/h, and were equipped with hydraulic steering on their single-axle wheels (which also provided a hydraulic tilt mechanism to lean the trains into corners.) Motorisation came from GTO traction, which was the first instance of such a powertrain in a French metro train, and one of the first instances in the world.

In a little twist, two versions are being offered: A dark windowed version, and a gradient windowed version. This is because several of you expressed a wish for the original gray windows that Clem made to be present on many models, even redrawing them with said windows yourselves.

I also will release a new MF88 RATP with gradient windows.

:3 

P1 (Dark windows)

P2 (Dark windows)

P3 (dark windows)

Gradient windows (Fenêtre de Dégradé) 

P1 - Fenêtre de Dégradé

P2 - Fenêtre de Dégradé

P3 - Fenêtre de Dégradé
 

MF19 CC Essai (Rame du Inauguration)

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Ahh, here we have it, the last MF19 to be drawn, which was, ironically, the first MF19 to "enter service" (as a test train, obviously)

This is the MF19 Essai (Test train), and has its distinctively colourful livery featured nicely on a 2D template! The livery is from Clem, and I made it into a high detail model. Usage of trim constraints really saved me here... they are a little known Paint3D feature...

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P5 

Sydney Trains Oscar (Orange)

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This train is different to most of mine  - notice somebody is driving the train! He's just a cute lil guy I drew (then scaled down to fit him in the train), I would feel very safe, knowing he's driving!

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More Jumbos will be made soon!

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Cool stuff coming soon...

Oh, and the Oscar templates have been updated. Go check them out.

 

New 101 Eole Front

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New 101 Eole front, to reflect the change in the Crimson Eole front. The Crimson Eole front also has a digital display.

 

Comeng 2101 AdMet

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Here we have driving trailer no.2101, the first Jumbo driving trailer to be made, and the first to go into service.

Unlike driving motors, which numbered from 2001-2012, trailers were more abundant, numbering 2101-2118. Usually, two trailers were arranged outside one motor car, but occasionally trains would run as MD consists or even DMMD/MDDM/DMDM consists (a famous example being 2003-2106-2012-2117, of which 2003 was preserved)

Trailers were almost half the weight of motors, coming in at 35 tonnes instead of 67 tonnes (power cars were heavy enough that they were classified as passenger locomotives).

Trailer 2101 was the first to be modernised; repainted into the AdMet livery with its then-coupled motor, 2003.

It was also one of the first to be unfortunately scrapped.

2109 was preserved, with 2101's pair motor car, 2003. Both 2109 and 2003 can be witnessed at Steamranger, although they have tried to airbrush the existence of these out of their history books; the trains are not drivable, do not ever go on tours, and are hidden at the back of their yard, they also do not show up on their website. Lets just hope they don't scrap them.
 

Comeng 2003 and 2012

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More 2000 class railcars have been made: 2012 in TransAdelaide and 2003 in AdMet.

I have compiled a list of motor cars that were yellow at scrapping, and I will make all motor cars eventually.

The first railcar we have is 2003. 

A little bit of info about 2003:

Jumbo no.2003 was the 3rd motor car to enter service, and was the first to be repainted into the yellow Adelaide Metro livery, being repainted in the year 2004. It was repainted directly from the STA livery; it never wore the TransAdelaide livery that was worn by 2012, 2004, 2006, 2001, 2005 and 2011.

2003 was interesting in that it did not ever have numbers on the front, unlike all of its yellow classmates (excluding 2011 and 2004)

Later, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 were all repainted into yellow, as well as others I have not found photos of yet.

The second railcar I produced today is 2012.

A little bit of info about 2012:

This is the most iconic of the jumbos: 2012. This railcar was repainted early 2005, but never refurbished into AdMet yellow; instead, it was given Adelaide Metro stickers on the front and TransAdelaide stickers above cab windows. This train worked in a 4-carriage MDMD (Motor-driving trailer-motor-driving trailer) consist for the last 4 years of its service, arranged as 2003-2103-2012-2117. It was unique for being the only non-yellow train in the consist. Despite efforts to save it, it was hauled for scrap in late 2015, still wearing its orange livery, but with a modernised interior.

2003 is preserved, however, with 2109, both of these trains are yellow, and no original orange jumbos were preserved in running order.

Here is the floor equipment for both motor cars:

Comeng 2104 AdMet

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Trailer for 2004 (or 2002)
 

Little announcement?

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Congrats to Dalfan on his new blog!

Visit it here: Dalfan's new blog 

 

Comeng 2004 AdMet

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A while ago, Mungojerrie made a model of the Comeng 2000 series (Jumbo) in STA livery (which I love very much, enough to make it my blog banner :3). However, I have tried to find a yellow version of it, but I have been unsuccessful.

So... I ventured into dangerous waters.

Making models typically is done entirely on the computer. However, Mungojerrie's models broke the mould: They were done in real life.

All of his models were made from photographs of trains. This is an extremely difficult way of making trains, as each photograph has to be stitched together with another, which makes distortion in photos a real nightmare. However, the result of this insanely hard process is a train so accurate, even a plastic model cannot match it for detail.

Soon, I will start making my own models in his style. 

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P2 - same as STA Jumbo's P2

Anyways, if anybody has blueprint-quality photos of a Hybrid Comeng 3000/3100 Class, it would be much appreciated, these are my next model. These are also from Adelaide.

The 3100 Hybrids have traction batteries in the floor of the train that provide them 7km of battery range, and retain their diesel engines. They run on the Belair line (pronounced BELL-air, not beh-LAIR).

This is the 3100 Hybrid for reference:

 

Crimson MF19 CA

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The CA Version of the MF19 CC Crimson is finally here! Just print the end cars to replace the driving trailers on an MF 19 CC Crimson to convert it to an MF19 CA.

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Crimson MF19 CC

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Today is the day of Crimson! I have published 2 Crimson trains today... and this is the third! 

This is still an MF19, and if it had entered service only 5 years ago, it may have worn a livery that resembles this... Because of its livery, I was considering calling it the RER19... which sounds better, RER19 or MF19?

Driverless version is coming soon. 

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