cascaderailroad
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It is too filthy dirty ... It looks like my 1991 F-150 Pickup ... never washed, never waxed, aside from a wash job in a rainstorm
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kaeksa2423
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Some California Zephyr Rolling stock I have been working on
Trainz_12_fan_100
yes thats my name
Hey TP14 the black could be raised a little as well as it being a little lighter. I also would like to see a clean one and a slightly weathered one.
TrainzPlayer14
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You mean like this?
I can't really do anything about raising the black portion, if I raise it any higher by more than two or three pixels it'll go above the top of the nose, which I don't want. I did lighten it a bit though
Do you know what running numbers you want these to be, BTW?
Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14
Looks great! Fictional MILW units are sometimes fun... This might help you with figuring out a realistic number set
Cheers,
SM
Cheers,
SM
Trainz_12_fan_100
yes thats my name
Yes exactly like that, and a slightly weathered unit as well. I still need to figure out numbers tho.You mean like this?
(Me foaming over great reskin)
I can't really do anything about raising the black portion, if I raise it any higher by more than two or three pixels it'll go above the top of the nose, which I don't want. I did lighten it a bit though
Do you know what running numbers you want these to be, BTW?
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the year is 1992 another set of Decapods have been delivered to the railroad, this time, the tender has roller bearing trucks, Since the federal Railroad administration has required the engines to have them since friction bearings are no longer allowed and has been since outlawed.
TrainzPlayer14
zzz
The template I used is for MSP's (mchawkman) SW1500 on the DLS. A blank for three different variants can be found here: http://sufferinpacific.weebly.com/sw1500s.html
You'll probably want the bottom two unless you're going for an SP look. You can also get blanks for the 2-axle flexicoils on the same website. Slabay has his reskins of the standard model of the SW1500 on the DLS, I have a reskin of the same model as well, also on DLS.
Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14
You'll probably want the bottom two unless you're going for an SP look. You can also get blanks for the 2-axle flexicoils on the same website. Slabay has his reskins of the standard model of the SW1500 on the DLS, I have a reskin of the same model as well, also on DLS.
Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14
First of all, "tried" wouldn't be the word. Most railroads that used Russian Black Enamel weren't necessarily "trying" to look like Russian Iron, but found the paint to be a high-quality, temperature-resistant enamel paint, in an era when not many were available. Any railroad with any plan to use grey boiler jacketing anywhere would have given some thought to using it. The only road I know of whose crews actively tried to replicate Russia Iron was the SP.
Also, any chance I could get a source for that claim? NP grey jackets are pretty ingrained in the common memory, but I could not find any information confirming or denying how they were used.
Finally, "simple" wouldn't be the word. NP were never rolling in money, and they already used expensive white paint for lining and lettering. A second-color boiler jacket is an even greater expense that most roads didn't go for, least of all in the heavyweight era. Furtermore, it would be an odd stance to take in the 1940s, as paint would have been expensive during the War, and F units and lightweight cars arrived on the road near the war's end. That all means that either the NP would have to shell out an unreasonable amount of money, or repaint express locomotives whose days it knew were numbered.
daylightrain
Development Purgatory.
To add on to Dans comment, another thing is that maintaining a colorful paintscheme on any steam locomotive is difficult work, as steam engines are by nature much dirtier to work with than diesels. Black hides dirt and soot, hence it was the usual go to color for most railroads. If your boiler was painted grey, once the engine got dirty and the paint spoiled, it ended up reflecting bad on the railroad. Another thing to remember is a lot of railroads ditched their colorful, streamlined engines leading up to and during World War II. As you said Dan, with the arival of diesels post-WWII many railroads switched out their steam for diesel on their flagship passenger trains. Take the Southern Pacific for example. Steam continued to be the main motive powe for their Daylight passenger trains until diesels took over. Don't quote me on the date, I'm going off by memory here, but I believe it was sometime in 1948. Afterwards, the remaining GS engines where stripped of their skirting and painted black, hardly any SP GS series engines survived until the end of steam in Daylight paint. It was too costly to maintain the colorful paintscheme for engines that had been demoted from their previous roles. Anyone who is logical will cut out unecessary costs to save money.
TrainzPlayer14
zzz
Looks sweet WCRULEZ! CN looks really sharp on SW1500's!
And BTW, I think I'm late to say this but @kaeksa2423, the passenger cars look fantastic.
Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14
And BTW, I think I'm late to say this but @kaeksa2423, the passenger cars look fantastic.
Cheers,
TrainzPlayer14
These look great any chance of a future release?Spent the past few days churning out some photo reskins...
