What Company is the most INcomplete in Trainz?

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Hello, all. :wave:

A few days ago, TDStead started a thread where he asked which train company (i.e. BNSF, British Railways) is the most complete in Trainz. Well, what about the opposite? What roads do you think are the most incomplete? Here's my top 3 list (in no order):

1. Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range (All i found on the DLS was some cabooses, a covered hopper, and a boxcar.)
2. Iowa Interstate (Don't we just have a GEVO for the IAIS and nothing else?)
3. Boston & Albany (There's maybe 2-3 engines for the B&A, but a lot of cars. What's gonna pull all of 'em?)

I'm sure there are others. What company would you like to see more of in Trainz? List away!

Regards,
 
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For the UK, definitely the LNER. So far, if you only include freeware, there's just:
A4 (Quite an old model too)
P2 (edh6 WIP)
Gresley A1
N2
J69
V2
D41
J72
A3
K3
D14
L1
ALTHOUGH there is quite a bit more if you include payware. Pre-grouping railways in the UK are badly represented generally. Absolutely nothing for the North Eastern Railway, Hull & Barnsley Railway, Taff Vale Railway, etc. and surprisingly little for the Midland Railway, Great Eastern Railway and even the GWR pre-1923. US-wise, there really isn't much out there for the Wabash RR, Boston & Maine, Texas & Pacific and the CNJ.
Narrow gauge is quite well represented in Trainz, but virtually nothing for gauges under 2ft...
 
In the UK, I don't believe I've seen more than a few items for the SECR, the Great Western between 1908 and 1920, all of the larger Scottish railways, Furness, LSWR, LNWR, L&Y, Midland (as mentioned above), LMS (liveried freeware), Great Eastern, Great Northern, North Eastern, Great Central, and all the joint, light, and military railways.

Plus, steam era Irish broad gauge.

For the US, I haven't seen much for the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, FEC, ACL, Southern, Frisco, MKT, Soo, Milwaukee Road, Rock Island, T&P, B&M, and N&W.
Then there's all the well-represented railroad companies that are under-represented in the steam era, such as Missouri Pacific, NYC, Burlington Route, Rio Grande, and Union Pacific (pre-1930s).

For Continental Europe, we need more French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Russian, and Norwegian steam era stuff. Or really, just more stuff in general.

Then there's a general lack in Asian models outside of Japan.
 
In the UK, pre-1923 anything is sparse.

nathanmallard makes a fair point about the LNER and I'd argue that actually it's worse than he makes out - many of the freeware models are quite old.
 
Northern Pacific, Spokane Portland & Seattle and the Great Northern. There are bits and pieces and most are very outdated.

Regards
 
CNW. Even finding good CNW rolling stock is hard to come by. Sure, we have SD40-2's, SD60's, C40-8's and Dash 9's for them, but we could use more SD40-2's, GP9's, AC4400CW's, SD45's, SD9's, F7's, GP38-2's and the list could go on....
 
If you're interested in modeling the so-called "Golden Age" of American railroads -- roughly from about 1920-1940 -- then virtually all of the American railroad lines are horribly underrepresented in Trainz.

But it's not just the variety of locomotives and rolling stock that's limited --.era-appropriate people, automobiles, trucks, homes, buildings, industries, roads, and infrastructure are few and far between.
 
Some LNER stuff, the Mallard in T:ANE



Just doing a test run on the Kings Cross to Edinburgh route. Still some more work to be done on the Mallard but she's rattling along at 100mph.

Cheers,
Bill69
 
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Uh, as much as I love my BR stuff and even some american stuff, surely the answer is pretty much "Indian Railways", I don't think there's a single locomotive for a railway system that is one of the world's most prolific and carries perhaps the highest number of people in the world.
 
Enzo1 said:
CNW. Even finding good CNW rolling stock is hard to come by. Sure, we have SD40-2's, SD60's, C40-8's and Dash 9's for them, but we could use more SD40-2's, GP9's, AC4400CW's, SD45's, SD9's, F7's, GP38-2's and the list could go on....
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I think Sniper297 has some F7s, GP9s, and Baby Trainmasters for CNW on the download station.
 
There are lots of Railroads from the Pacific Northwest and Midwest that are still largely incomplete (when it comes to Steam Locomotives thats is)
 
NikkiA said:
Uh, as much as I love my BR stuff and even some american stuff, surely the answer is pretty much "Indian Railways", I don't think there's a single locomotive for a railway system that is one of the world's most prolific and carries perhaps the highest number of people in the world.
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There is a (well-done) WDM2 by Nikos1, but he said he's through with it. It's truly shocking, as there's only a small variety of mainline stock, and we struggle to create even that.
 
The Pacific Northwest is one of the most under-represented areas, particularly if you factor in "Total possible representation"..... Obscure short lines are bound to be obscure in a modelling hobby..... But the PNW practically drove several major factions in railroading history for decades. The closest we get are Marias Pass and Tume's Avery-Drexel MLW Routes.....

I don't think we even have a decent SP&S 700 model? Other then that the only SP&S stuff I've seen is seriously dated old diesels which are merely repaints. Most of the rolling stock is of the "Faded, rusted, Transition era, stick a fork in it its done" type.

I think we have a total of 1 marginally correct Northern Pacific Model (Might be 2, I remember seeing an 0-6-0 at some point) and its rather dated.

GN? Only people that have made U.S. belpaire Firebox's are K&L and they've only done stuff in the East for PRR. At last count we had maybe 3 or 4 decent vanderbuilt tenders, and nothing like the low slung box tenders the GN used to use behind their older locomotives. Trainboi took a stab at an S-2, and its not bad as a stand alone model, but its not one that usually gets mentioned alot either.....

As for Routes, GN, NP, MLW, and UP all had Transcons, and all 4 serviced the North West.... We have a couple small sections of three of them, and thats it..... I'm not saying we should be able to run a train in one session from Chicago to Seattle, but of tens of thousands of miles of Rail between the 4 companies, we might have maybe 1500? represented? And mostly of modern era configuration under different company names if at all?

Arguably, I think I would have to settle on Northern Pacific as the Candidate of least represented in the U.S.....

-Falcus
 
Falcus said:
The Pacific Northwest is one of the most under-represented areas, particularly if you factor in "Total possible representation"..... Obscure short lines are bound to be obscure in a modelling hobby..... But the PNW practically drove several major factions in railroading history for decades. The closest we get are Marias Pass and Tume's Avery-Drexel MLW Routes.....

I don't think we even have a decent SP&S 700 model? Other then that the only SP&S stuff I've seen is seriously dated old diesels which are merely repaints. Most of the rolling stock is of the "Faded, rusted, Transition era, stick a fork in it its done" type.

I think we have a total of 1 marginally correct Northern Pacific Model (Might be 2, I remember seeing an 0-6-0 at some point) and its rather dated.

GN? Only people that have made U.S. belpaire Firebox's are K&L and they've only done stuff in the East for PRR. At last count we had maybe 3 or 4 decent vanderbuilt tenders, and nothing like the low slung box tenders the GN used to use behind their older locomotives. Trainboi took a stab at an S-2, and its not bad as a stand alone model, but its not one that usually gets mentioned alot either.....

As for Routes, GN, NP, MLW, and UP all had Transcons, and all 4 serviced the North West.... We have a couple small sections of three of them, and thats it..... I'm not saying we should be able to run a train in one session from Chicago to Seattle, but of tens of thousands of miles of Rail between the 4 companies, we might have maybe 1500? represented? And mostly of modern era configuration under different company names if at all?

Arguably, I think I would have to settle on Northern Pacific as the Candidate of least represented in the U.S.....

-Falcus
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Well said Falcus, thank you
 
In the model railroading world, you can usually find a model that's "close" to the prototype you want to model, and you fire up the Dremel tool, buy some modeling clay and lost wax brass "detail parts," and have at it.

In the Trainz modeling world, things aren't that simple, because there's not many "open source" meshes that you gain access to, to "kit bash" into a reasonable "stand in" for the locomotive of your dreams.
 
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