CPLW - offline?

Most likely the website is shutting down for good. They haven't released anything new in several years. From what I've heard some of it will show back up on other sites.
 
daylighttrainz uploads a lot of content to Trainz Forge, which makes me believe that's where he's been hosting rather than his own website.
 
I would like to know how I can get the Cuyahoga Valley 4070 and the Grand Canyon 2-8-2? I went to download them the other day and found out that the website wasn't working. I tried Wayback archive, but the downloads don't work. Were most of those kitbashes of Ben Neal locomotives done by tigerko15? I tried sending him a pm days ago and he never responded.
 
I went on the wayback machine. The website was last captured on the 29th of March 2025
All The Google drive links have not been archive, but when I went to paste the raw links into the URL bar it showed a request access window.
So it seems that all the Google drive files have be made private.

*Quick tangent but this thread was created on the same day as my birthday
 
I really hope someone at least has archived some of the engines on there. I really wanted to get my hands on the Southern Railway PS-4, Grand Trunk Western 4070 and 5629, and especially Grand Canyon Railway 4960. I'd be very sad if all of this great content was lost forever!
 
Captamtrak said:
I really hope someone at least has archived some of the engines on there. I really wanted to get my hands on the Southern Railway PS-4, Grand Trunk Western 4070 and 5629, and especially Grand Canyon Railway 4960. I'd be very sad if all of this great content was lost forever!
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I have downloaded some.
These include: *in rough order to when I downloaded them
- Southern Railway PS-4
- CB&Q 0-8-0 #547
- ATSF 789 class 2-8-0 #800 & #811
- ATSF 3100 2-8-2 Mikado #3118 & #3119
and finally
- CN B-26a 4-4-0 #311 (the last model I downloaded before the site shutdown)
 
I'm willing to share them. under the condition that I will NOT! Have a lawsuit against me for "illegal redistribution of assets" I don't really with that nonsense
 
Tigerko decided he didnt want to make public content anymore and CPLW is closed down. There's talks about their content being rehosted on Texas State Shops but that'll be a while
 
jakethegs4 said:
There's talks about their content being rehosted on Texas State Shops but that'll be a while
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I'm not betting my fingers too much on this. There's just so much time before a trainz content creator just disappear off the face of the earth with no explanation, and even if your can still contact them via email. It would probably go unanswered.
 
Does anyone have the Cuyahoga Valley ones? And the Grand Canyon one? If they are just Ben Neal reskins, I could just make my own skin, but I think the ones on CPLW had certain edits to the meshes that I can't do or don't know how to do like changing the headlight, moving the bell, etc. The google drive links that you can access on Wayback archive don't work because you have to sign in. Seems like the steam locomotives are lost unless they are rehosted elsewhere in the future like Texas State Shops. I wasn't aware the site closed until I tried going to it one day.
 
rwk said:
CPLW had certain edits to the meshes that I can't do or don't know how to do like changing the headlight, moving the bell, etc.
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Well. I've upgraded a few of Ben Neal's models with lilb's script library

The only limitations is: I'm allowed to mesh edit the locomotive's body.

I took advantage of his whistle & bell, USRA Shared, and USRA 2-8-2A mesh libraries.
But I kinda wish lilb himself is still around. I really want to ask him what that his script is capable of.
I only know a few from models I've downloaded. But I want to know more so I can take full advantage
 
rwk said:
The google drive links that you can access on Wayback archive don't work because you have to sign in.
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No. It's not like that.
But it's because wayback machine did not archived Any of the URLs of the Google drive links.
This
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If you access the google drive links by taking out the wayback url then you will get the sign in screen which probably means the owner made the files private. I should have downloaded everything when the site was active and kept the files in a safe place. There were other sites that closed where I failed to download some stuff and now it can't be accessed anywhere. I can still access the pictures of the locomotives. Maybe if I knew what base loco and tenders were used for the Cuyahoga Valley and Grand Canyon locos I could just make my own skins based off the photos of the Trainz models and look up pics of the real locomotives for a better look at the fonts used for the numbers and lettering. Maybe the headlights and bell might not be correct but maybe someone could help me modify a Ben Neal loco to have the correct headlight and bell position. Maybe I could mod a 2-8-2 from a different site into this but the tender looks like a custom mod of an existing tender. It looks kind of like a NKP berkshire tender though. I thought I saw other 2-8-2 models with a visored headlight on other sites. The original Ben model does not have a visored headlight.

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I tried signing in to my Google account and the files are indeed private now. I saw a screen in English. It asks to request access. There is no way to access the files now unless someone has them. You don't happen to have the Mikados, do you? I really wanted the Grand Canyon and Cuyahoga Valley ones. If not, I will ask on the main Trainz forums if anybody has them. I found this on Peter's Trainz. It looks very similar, and I could just reskin it. It doesn't have a visored headlight, but maybe someone could help me replace the headlight with a visored one even if I send them the loco. The site won't let me paste the image directly, the url for the image doesn't work in the insert image tool. Right clicking is disabled. The CPLW one and the Peter's Trainz ones the loco part are both Ben Neal reskins of the same loco. It's just that the CPLW one has more mods to it. There might be a Mikado on a different site that used to be at the Backshops with a visored headlight. I checked, at WIT Simulations and no they do not have a visored headlight and the bell is in the wrong position. I might stick with the Peter's Trainz one. Oh, why does Peter's Trainz work if it was a part of CPLW but the main CPLW site does not?

NKP H-6o Mikado 587

peterstrainz.wixsite.com peterstrainz.wixsite.com
 
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