CPLW - offline?

[barronzmtrainz]

I went to CPLW recently and got a "ERROR: PAGE NOT FOUND 404 This page isn’t available." page instead. Anyone know what is going on?

Home | CPLW

daylighttrainz.wixsite.com

 

[SanJuanPacific]

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.

 

[JCitron]

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.

 

[rwk]

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.

 

[SanJuanPacific]

Yes, they are Tigerko15 kitbashes of Ben Neal's small Baldwin 2-8-2 from the early 2000s.

 

[orangeengine69]

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

 

[Captamtrak]

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!

 

[joebernard]

sad time

 

[orangeengine69]

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!

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)

 

[orangeengine69]

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

 

[jakethegs4]

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

 

[orangeengine69]

There's talks about their content being rehosted on Texas State Shops but that'll be a while

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.

 

[rwk]

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.

 

[orangeengine69]

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.

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

 

[orangeengine69]

The google drive links that you can access on Wayback archive don't work because you have to sign in.

No. It's not like that.
But it's because wayback machine did not archived Any of the URLs of the Google drive links.
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