New Jersey Transit electric locos/MU's?

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MonkeManTrainz420

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Hello, hello. I've recently done a sort of "tour" of NJT's system over the past few weeks. Anyways, I've been stuck on my home state's commuter rail for quite some time. I've converted one of my older routes to be set in modern-day, and I've started a new diorama based on my personal favorite spot that I visited, Woodbridge. I was simply wondering if there's any Trainz content to represent NJT's electric fleet. There's a ton of geeps, a few F and E units lying here and there, but, oddly enough, not a lot of electrics. Only Socimi/AlexMaria's E60s seem to be the only prevalent ones, along with the older models by DrChoi (his modified European ALP-46 & Arrows). I was simply wondering if anyone actually had made NJT's regular electrics, like the ALP-46 or even 45DP, and the Arrows.
 
K&L has the old Lackawanna EMUs if you're interested in that era, IIRC they were in service into at least the early 80s. I haven't had any luck finding their modern electric stuff either. Commuter rail has an unfortunate tendency to be ignored in the Trainz community.

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acyunczyk said:
K&L has the old Lackawanna EMUs if you're interested in that era, IIRC they were in service into at least the early 80s. I haven't had any luck finding their modern electric stuff either. Commuter rail has an unfortunate tendency to be ignored in the Trainz community.

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I already have the Lackawanna Electrics from K&L. I did some research, too, and there is some modern NJT stuff, but AFAIK, they're all private content. There's also content shown on YouTube, and while a lot of it is private, some of it is supposedly being developed for release. However, those videos are years old, and there's not much else known. It's honestly sad that commuter rail is so ignored in Trainz; there's so much potential with commuter routes.
 
Here are some as well, freeware. https://www.flamerailzzztrainz.com/freeware/fw-rollingstock They look to be made from scratch as well rather than reskins of the Metro-North cars that were built in to certain Trainz versions. I found a whole bunch of NJT diesels including heritage units on the Switchback site and there are some electrics out there like the ALP-46. But, I can't find a Trainz model of the ALP-45DP which is a dual mode. There is one in Dovetail's sims with NJT routes though. I saw a pic of a Trainz model somewhere but it's probably private right now. I saw pics of Dovetail's NJT and Amtrak routes though and they blew me away with all the detail and actual modeled stations and all. There is an expanded NJT system for download made by a private creator but it requires a bunch of payware routes to work properly. There is hardly any completed Philly, NJ or NY Amtrak, SEPTA, NJT, or Metro-North routes in Trainz other than Philly to Wilmington and the MN Harlem line which is incomplete, doesn't go all the way to Grand Central then there is a NY area route with the MN up to Garrison, NY and it includes Penn Station and Grand Central.
 
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JCitron said:
Have you checked this site for locomotives?

https://www.theswitchbacktrainz.com/

They have NJT diesel locomotives and Comet cars.
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I checked it out, and wow! It's pretty good. The diesel locomotives are of very high quality, and the U34ch is perfect for the 80s. The coaches are nice improvements to the OG shoreliners, but Flamerailzzz's comets are a bit better.
rwk said:
Here are some as well, freeware. https://www.flamerailzzztrainz.com/freeware/fw-rollingstock They look to be made from scratch as well rather than reskins of the Metro-North cars that were built in to certain Trainz versions. I found a whole bunch of NJT diesels including heritage units on the Switchback site and there are some electrics out there like the ALP-46. But, I can't find a Trainz model of the ALP-45DP which is a dual mode. There is one in Dovetail's sims with NJT routes though. I saw a pic of a Trainz model somewhere but it's probably private right now. I saw pics of Dovetail's NJT and Amtrak routes though and they blew me away with all the detail and actual modeled stations and all. There is an expanded NJT system for download made by a private creator but it requires a bunch of payware routes to work properly. There is hardly any completed Philly, NJ or NY Amtrak, SEPTA, NJT, or Metro-North routes in Trainz other than Philly to Wilmington and the MN Harlem line which is incomplete, doesn't go all the way to Grand Central then there is a NY area route with the MN up to Garrison, NY and it includes Penn Station and Grand Central.
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I already have those coaches, and they're amazing. Honestly, those coaches alone got me into the commuter rail side of Trainz. They're very detailed and HQ. As for the ALP-46, was that the old DrChoi model, another European reskin, or a newer ALP-46? AFAIK, the only publicly available ones were DrChoi's, and various reskins of European TRAXX locomotives.
 
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