BHÉV MII (suburban train)

• Type of project: Vehicle (train)
• Name of project: BHÉV typ. MII
• Involved persons: Me

Hello everyone!

After my already published vintage tram (ezres), which is to be honest is definately not a perfectly made vehicle, I started to work on something different, with the ambitions of a better looking model and more precise simulation. So I started to build an old suburban railway train:

Pictures:

It's a type MII ("M two") train from Budapest, Hungary, originally operated by the BHÉV (~Budapest Suburban Railway company, later combined with the current transport company BKV).

By the way, HÉV service is a bit like S-bahn in german cities - city railways with larger trains, not trams, but also it's not a metro system.

These trains were produced in 1910 and withdrawn in the '80s. Unfortunately there's not much left from this widely used type, only this particular car (photo taken by Varga Ákos Endre).

At the moment I'm working on the model as you can see, but I'm planning to script it as realistic as I can, since I have, well let's say the original "manual" of this train. Later on I'll make carriages for it, which looked just like this, only without pantographs, dashboards and electric stuff, so "realistic" trains can be driven (2 locos like this with 4 carriages, which were pretty common in the late sixties here).

I started to work on the cab controls:

Almost finished the cab controls (few scripts are missing, and the sounds, also a rope for the panto):

Of course it will have seats, but at the moment I'm working on the cab. Later I'll add seats, lamps etc.

Here's what originally looked like and how the only car nowadays looks like

(pictures from villamosok.hu)

So bad that nobody builds suburban railway tracks or anything like that

Everybody builds tram maps with very narrow curves. But that's not that surprising, since not so many people build vehicles, and even less build trains and not trams (I saw a narrow gauge red coloured, very well made train in the screenshot thread that I'm looking forward to, and maybe that's it). I hope in the future this will change.

I got you guys a video about the new sounds (I'm currently working on the cab sounds):

Quote from Holms96

Nice I recommend you to put "vacuum cleaner" sound there too because when the train is idle there's no sound and i don't know if the engine is turned on or off. BTW Good luck with finishing this model. This will be the first train for LOTUS even though it's a small suburban train.

Wut.

Uhm, this is electric, that sound at the begining is the air compressor

These trains didn't have static chargers (they had a resistor divider to charge the batteries) nor ventillation for the electronics...etc so they didn't really have any sound while standing in place (just like the Ezres).

I made a new video, now on another WIP part of my map. At least this is the real line where these trains were used

I made a video of the catenary system on my map (well it's more about the map than the train itself, but you can see that the pantograph is moving )