Great work Tume! I actually operated 2168 once at a trolley museum and she moved! Just make the orange on the car a little brighter and make the front doors fold outward and she'll be perfect! Just out of curiosity, will these be available for download or will come in a route? I'm a Philadelphia native who has worked with 2168's restoration and I'd like to help in any way possible.
Hallo Trizzy 2609,
thank you for your kind words
Yes – I did not found any photos indicating to which side the door moves. I will see to find a way to change this animation to get the front door outward moving. These animations are quite complex
I just picked the color out of a nice photo from that car taken after preservation at the Baltimore Streetcar museum where the car is located now. Perhaps I picked the color from a section which appeared a bit too dark.
BTW – if you coming from Philly – do you know something about the chance that SEPTA reopens Line 23 again?
I know there have been more lines planned to come back but I have read that the 23 tracks have been refurbished at a street section in Germantown some years ago but at other places the track would need attention of course.
I really ask myself why they putted these lines (23, 56 and so on) out of operation anyway. I found some articles in the net that named the need for new cars as the main reason. But in the other hand SEPTA probably needed to increase the number of busses significantly to get the capacity to serve the suspended streetcar lines with it. I don’t can imagine that a simple streetcar just like the Kawasaki PCCs are much more expensive to get than a large number of busses.
Perhaps you know something I don’t
About the release:
There are not much considerable streetcar routes available at DLS – especially not including content which meets the latest standards such as season change. My PCCs (as well as all of my content now – tracks, roads, buildings, ground textures and so on) will support this feature meaning the user can play in summer or a snow season. I already crated such a new “playground” for seasonal streetcars and therefore these cars will be released within that route. The route even contains a bulk number of new seasonal content – quite enough for users to build their own routes from if they want.
Your’s TUME