Too bad the MILW 261 is going to be stuffed and mounted and no longer pulling excursions, much like NS's steam locos. Large mainline steam is rare today in the US, except for UP's 844, NKP 765 and PM 1225 in Michigan, and the ATSF one in Calif. BNSF is really the only class 1 that will let steam on their lines, and UP will only allow their own steam. NS allows limited steam movements, like when NKP 765 was moved to Indiana for special excursions and they had to use NS to move it there. NS put a diesel in front of the 765 during the move. In a video of an excursion with 765, 1225 in Michigan I thought I saw a Milw super observation on the train like this
http://www.trainfestival2009.com/images/4449-obs.jpg http://www.trainorderpix.com/images/Owosso/OW-DD-Hiawatha-072909.jpg And there's a full dome car, too. I like the dome car in Trainz with it's upper interior view. I made reskins of the car for Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern and Norfolk Southern railroads, they both have one car. Here's an example of the dome car in Norfolk Southern
http://valleypass.com/Sales/Screen26/NS_16.jpg this is an MSTS model but it shows you what the dome car looks like in Norfolk Southern. I would like to make NS's business car fleet like this
http://valleypass.com/Sales/NS.htm but in Trainz 2004. There already is an NS observation car and F7 diesel (I modified mine to have the correct NS font and K5LA horn) on the DLS but nothing else. I am using Paintshed to do some of the NS coaches, but I would like to use a few of your coaches, dome car for the NS train, and also a second copy of the dome car for Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (a 300-mile regional railroad based in Port Clinton, PA which also operates steam and diesel excursions for the public). I am doing a super route combining Reading and Northern and NS Reading Line layouts with my own DEM to form a super route. The NS part I might extend to Manville, NJ to the east, and Shippensburg, PA to the southwest. I extended the Reading and Northern layout up to Sayre, PA (former Lehigh Valley RR) which Reading and Northern operates up to the P&G plant at Mehoopany, PA and the Steamtown lines to Delaware Water Gap, Carbondale, and the CP line across the Nicholson Viaduct. The reskins of the dome car and coaches are only for my personal use at this time unless tume allows me to release them sometime in the future.
