Entire passenger trains on the Download Station

[jordon412]

Someone should start making a freeware version of N3V's games passenger trains add-ons. This would allow people to get entire passenger trains without having to pay about 20 dollars to get one passenger train and matching locomotive. I'm pretty certain that whoever does this won't take the time and effort as N3V does to their add-ons, but it would provide a more economical alterative to paying for a matching train. However, I would give some suggestions:
1. If not on the Download Station, it should be on a website that offers either only freeware or freeware and payware
2. It should be a website that you don't have to be a registered member to download it
3. Make sure you don't focus on just one country, make trains from all over the world
4. If done by one person, try to do one a year; if done by more than one person, try making more than one entire train a year, but without losing the quality of making one train a year
5. Try to make the cars and locomotives as close as possible to the prototype, trying to stay away from using Paintshed as little as possible
Does anyone agree or have some suggestions for this? I'm certain that there would be a lot of trains from around the world that would be asked from people all around the world.

 

[boyerm25]

They were only $5 a train for a whole week, why didn't you pick them up then? I 3 things that would usually be $60 all together for $15!

 

[shaneturner12]

That's a very bad idea, as N3V likely own the copyright for those models, and may take legal action.

Shane

 

[kd7eirjim]

I have only had Trainz 12 for a couple weeks now, but I have discovered that there is so much freeware out there that unless you MUST have a very particular loco or car, you can probably find anything that you want with a little diligent searching. The only cost is some of your time.

 

[jordon412]

What I'm referring to is Walthers, a model railroad products distributer, make an HO scale model of a different passenger train each year. They make models of the prototype's car, instead of using one product to make all the cars on that train (i.e. a 52-seat coach would be used to represent a 64-seat coach used on the prototype). They also make sure that the cars have the correct trucks (such as the Milwaukee Road's passenger cars, who's trucks (or bogies) and the cars themselves were made by the railroad, not a company like Pullman, Budd, or American Car Foundry who made cars for other railroad's passenger trains), along with the interior details being correct. Walthers has already made model trains of the following passenger trains:
1. Santa Fe's Super Chief
2. Great Northern's Empire Builder
3. Milwaukee Road's Twin Cities Hiawatha
4. Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited
5. New York Central's 20th Century Limited
6. Union Pacific City Streamliners (City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles and City of Portland)
7. Santa Fe's El Capitan (Amtrak's double-deck Superliner passenger cars are based on the El Capitan's double-deck passenger cars, called 'hi-liners'.)