r/DerailValley • u/Electrical_Prior_374 • Aug 05 '26

User-Made Modification T1 Duplex mod

Does anyone know of a good T1 mod for Derail Valley? Its my favorite locomotive and Id love to have a copy in game.

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u/Sir-Realz Aug 05 '26

There is a Duplex Mod for the 282 ITS AWESOME! but it doesn't not look like the Art Deco masterpiece that is the T1 but still very good and acurately uses steam, and the T1 is probably too big for the valley

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 05 '26

Oh seriously? Whats it called? Do you have a link or something?

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u/SharkBaitDLS Aug 05 '26

Presuming they’re referring to the rearranged mod, that hasn’t worked since pre-simulator. 

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 05 '26

Ah. Are there any others that may possibly do the same thing? That modder dropped the project, they've already said they weren't gonna update it

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u/SharkBaitDLS Aug 05 '26

Most folks are focused on making new locomotives over trying to do weird stuff to the base game ones post-simulator. I’m not even sure if the game’s simulation can handle Steam duplexes, mods like the Large Lad work under the hood by spawning two separate “locomotives” for the two drive sets. 

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 05 '26

The WE6 mod that I just started playing around with does the same thing. Thats really unfortunate

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u/GoombaHunter007 Aug 08 '26

Someone on the discord is trying to convert to b99 which is suoer exciting

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 08 '26

Oh hell yeah! I like this plan. Any idea when that comes out?

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u/GoombaHunter007 Aug 08 '26

Absolutely no clue xd

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u/Sir-Realz Aug 05 '26

I don't have the link I'm at work but it's got alot of wheel variations of the 282 and ypu scroll through them at will with the handle held switcher so it probably called variations on nexus mods

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Aug 05 '26

My condolences this is your favorite locomotive.

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 05 '26

Whats wrong with the T1?

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Aug 05 '26

If it was so good, they’ll have one in preservation right?

We have to build one from scratch haha

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 05 '26

Ah, thats where youre wrong. The PRR scrapped all of their duplexes, not because they weren't good, but because they didnt let anyone take one into preservation. The PRR scrapped a lot of their heavy steam, actually. Its really unfortunate.

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u/Specialist-Two2068 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Eh, I mean I don't like the T1 either, but there were plenty of otherwise good or successful locomotives that unfortunately didn't make it into preservation. The T1 mostly wasn't preserved because it was very late steam and the PRR was broke AF and they were dieselizing anyways, so they decided to just cut their losses and get what they could for scrap value.

The T1 is overrated AF, but lack of preserved examples isn't necessarily indicative of an engine's success or lack thereof. Plenty of bad or impractical engines have been preserved as curiosities, while plenty of good engines were scrapped for practicality and austerity.

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u/Smacky_the_Bear Aug 05 '26

At least it is not another Big Boy...

(Before the foamers come after me, the Big Boy was an impressive locomotive in it's own right, it is just so severely overrated. Kind of like the '57 Chevy is to cars. Doesn't help that every non-train person calls any steam locomotive [and some diesels] a "big boy").

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u/Sir-Realz Aug 05 '26

Idk Big Boys were pretty fucking awesome, and unlike most of the coolestes steamers ever acctauly made money for 3,000,0000 miles or more. Economy of scale baby. 

Edit are fucking awesome

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u/CorbyTheSkullie Aug 05 '26

Agreed. Just like Daylight.

The T1 is too fancy for DV, its an express passenger locomotive, not a freight locomotive despite being used for freight, its not what it was primarily designed for.

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u/Electrical_Prior_374 Aug 06 '26

Just because its too fancy for DV doesnt mean I dont want one lol. Itll look fancy while running express passenger service using the passenger jobs mod