Engines Wishlist for Jointed Rail.

JR has very few Paducah & Louisville (PAL) content, so I thought maybe a megapack of content could be made containing some more PAL locomotives and maybe rolling stock.
1: They have tons of locomotives and locomotive models in their roster, but maybe you can add their GP38-2s (3800-3834), their SD40s (3040-3052), and why not their SD9043MAC? Also, you could make some fictional PAL locomotives, maybe a PAL SD70ACe or a PAL U25B?
2: PAL also has a rolling stock roster consisting of mostly 52ft gondolas and covered hoppers. However, they do have open coal hoppers and boxcars, and a power car nicknamed the "PowerPak". Maybe you could throw those in!
 
In case they haven't been mentioned before, Topeka cab GP9's!

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Matt
 
Always wondered why you can find a JR GP9 for just about every other railroad except ATSF? The Santa Fe also had U25b’s as well ;);)
 
I have both of those routes. I wish the normal unpatched BN SD9 would of had auto running numbers, but I guess its alright.
 
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I'm absolutely dying for some of the newer SD70ACe-T4's like the Bananas KCS is leasing or the UP ones. Does anyone know if there are plans for those?
 
Quebec Cartier MLW M636 and ALCO C636. More on the niche side, but these hulks got the job done moving ore and lumber. I know the majority of these were ex-Canadian National and all were heavily modified by the time they ended up on the NYSW and WNYP. The upgraded C636s were the former Alco Demonstrators.

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These aren't really engine suggestions, but why not make a command in which we can run our locomotive in HEP mode, especially for passenger locomotives. Simply click the command, a pop-up will appear, and we can enter in however much RPM that we need to run. Then instead of the train idling with the idle_1.wav file (or n0.wav file for JR's advanced enginesounds), it instead idle's with whatever idle enginesound is used when it's at a certain HEP. For example, a P42 needs to run at 900rpm in order for HEP to work. We can use the command, type in 900 as the value, then it would idle with the notch 7 idle sound.

Speaking of JR's advanced enginesounds, I recently downloaded their RBMN locomotives and I was surprised to see that they added a startup/shutdown feature on their engines, as well as some much needed dynamic brake sounds (all of the trainz simulator games use the throttle sounds instead of dynamic brake sounds, which takes away from the realism imo). Although at first, the sounds ended up playing for only a few seconds and in increments, I was able to fix them by extending the dbend.wav, dbrake.wav, and dbstart.wav to 10 seconds and it sound almost perfectly. Just a suggestion but maybe upgrade all of the Jointed Rail locomotives with these enginesounds, as well as upgrading the enginesounds themselves to advanced? I'm aware that they only work with the jr_loco.gs script and not the fx_loco.gs script, as well as some config file editing for the locomotives, but it's still a neat idea. I was able to do it myself on my Amtrak P42, UP SD70M, and my BNSF SD70ACe on TRS2019 (though I sadly cannot modify any of the JR locomotives that are default on TRS2019). And hey, maybe add in the hep idea that I suggested.

...just an idea...
 
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