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team-ALCOTM (Australian Locomotive and Carriage Organisation) is a group of enthusiasts dedicated to producing the finest quality 3D models of Australian prototype for Microsoft's Train Simulator.

Latest News

Here you'll find the latest news regarding team-ALCO products and activities.

Last-minute additions to the N Class pack

1 June 2008: The recent purchase of the Rolling Stock Plan Book has enabled us to create extra models for the SA section of the VR N Class/SAR 750 class.

Russell has been working on a SAR flat car and his progress work is shown here:

Allan Lownsborough has also been working on some sheep wagons and has submitted them to team-ALCO - they look to be coming up well:

Whilst this will cause another short delay to the pack's release date, we're sure you'll enjoy the extra rolling stock.

We hope to be able to include another one or two items of rolling stock before release as well. Stay tuned for details!

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team-ALCO Purchases SAR Rolling Stock Plan Book

19 May 2008: One of the main reasons the team went payware was to be able to fund purchases of resource material to make our products even more realistic. Over the past two years, we've purchased Brief History Books as well as working timetables and other data on various online auctions. This material has been used in creating models as well as providing information for you to create realistic activities (the extensive loco loading and train-running times documentation provided with Russell Beer's "Main North" route, for example).

Today we successfully bid for a book of South Australian Broad Gauge Rolling Stock plans, having been alerted to its availability by long-time MSTS route-builder Allan Lownsborough. The book contains plans for just about every broad gauge piece of rolling stock and appears to date back to 1961. We know the plans contain information that will be invaluable to railfans, rail historians and model builders (both scale and virtual).

team-ALCO intends to make these plans available to the rail community as a whole as our way of saying "thanks for your support". We are progressively scanning the plans and they are being uploaded to the web as 3,000 x 1,250 pixel GIFs for everyone to download and use.

Visit the SAR Rolling Stock Page (hosted by Railpage and steam4me) to see the plans.

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VR N Class Loco Pack Nearing Completion

10 May 2008:The Victorian Railways' N class Loco Pack in in the final stage of production and we hope to have it on release by June. We are also working towards completing the Tait set. The Spirit of Progress Set will follow shortly thereafter.

VR H & X Class Loco Pack Released

20 March 2007: The Victorian Railways' H & X class loco pack is now available through our usual retail and direct order channels. This pack includes the famous "Heavy Harry" and four mighty X-Class "Mikado-type" steam locomotives including one with booster. Freight vehicles for the locos are also supplied.

NSWGR 38 Class Loco Pack Now Available

30 September 2006: The NSWGR 38 Class Loco Pack is now available through our usual retail and direct order channels. This pack includes both streamlined and unstreamlined versions of this famous locomotive along with passenger rolling stock for a variety of NSW express trains.

NSWGR AD60 Class Loco (Garratt) Pack Now Available

30 September 2006: The NSWGR Garratt Loco Pack is now available through our usual retail and direct order channels. This pack includes both light and heavy Garratts as well as a variety of rolling stock, including vehicles to enable to recreate the famous W44 ore train.

NSWGR 36 Class Loco Pack Released

10 March 2006: The NSWGR 36 Class Loco Pack is now available through our usual retail and direct order channels. This pack includes both round top and Belpaire-boilered versions, and includes a unique smoke-deflector version and the loco that hauled vthe Royal Train. Passenger rollingstock include the Melbourne Express and CUB Sets in two liveries. A range of goods rolling stock is included as well.