WILBUR GRAPHICS - Release Notes
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WG_NS_2000_V1.2
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The Dutch State Railways (NS, Nederlandse Spoorwegen) locomotives series 2000 resulted from a large range of diesel-electric road switchers that during the years 1943 and 1944 were constructed by the Whitcomb Locomotive Corporation under an US Army Transportation Corps (USATC) contract. The design reflected the somewhat limited British railway clearances, compared to US practice. This feature enabled the storage of these engines on English tracks while awaiting the liberation of Europe. From 1943 on many representatives of the type could be found in Italy in support of the Allied campaign that was staged there. When hostilities ended in 1945 many Whitcombs that were not returned to the US ended up as surplus to requirements in an army dump in Northern France. NS purchased 20 of them and had 19 engines overhauled by their Tilburg Central Maintenance Facility, cannibalizing the 20th unit in the process. After that, they were pressed into service as series 601-619.
Soon after that persistent problems came to light with the cylinder heads of the original Buda engines. Because of that it was decided in 1953 to replace alle Buda engines by locally manufactured engines. At the same time all units were renumbered from 2001-2018 (number 603 had developed frame problems and had to be scrapped). The locomotives were mainly driving local goods trains, e.g. transporting crude oil in the North of the Netherlands, but could also be seen in front of local passenger services. When the series 2200 and 2400 made inroads in the NS locomotive roster the Whitcombs were gradually redrawn and had all been scrapped by 1960.

Operating head and rear lights will follow TS-standard practice, but shunting lights can be switched on and off by a separate panel switch.

The Wilbur Graphics NS 2000 addon is made available as a .rwp file and can be installed using the TS Utilities program:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\RailWorks\Utilities.exe

SIn the window that will be shown at the start, select the tab Package Manager and klick on Refresh. Next, click on Install and select the file:

WG_NS2000_V1_2.rwp

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