As Neil said, the best thing about this sim is that everyone can find and run what and where they like.
...err yes as I said first line of my post?
Originally posted by =FI=Ghost
I can make the first of these units as soon as I have returned home tonight.
So far I haven't found any pictures of the other side view? The AC44's are quite different on either side of the body so without seeing where the BNSF Logo and former railroad logo's are that's a bit difficult? Good news is that the 25th Anniversary is plain old Arial Font All the logo's are conveniently posted on the "BNSF Railway" FB page under Photo's. Hardest part will be marking all these logos' with shading to keep the 3D effect of the panels they cover.
You seem to be right on the other side not being visible. I was sure they had posted photos of both sides at their FB page. I will do just one side then and wait for the other.
I agree. I would rather run a silver and black Everywhere West FW&D SD-9 than any of this new _________!
I prefer 1970 to 1980 time frame cause it is what I remember with my dad. I'm not a huge Gevo fan or long stack trains to me the second generation EMD locomotives are what I know. Glad people will like them but just not for me.
Just to prove that a rainy afternoon can even get me to look closely at a Gevo ....and I STILL think they're BORING.
Now Charles... you were talking about those wonderous beauties, shaby and black, bedecked with slogans and road dust.. Ahh... The SD9
Anyway here's one side of your boring Gevo LOL!
If anyone can get a picture of the other side I'll finish this one and upload it with all the working files. Photoshop only I'm afraid.
FYI this is a reskin of one of the SLI Scenic Sub AC44's. Most difficult bit is blanking out the original side logo's because it looks like a PSP texture on the aces.
Not to beat it more, but I think "nostalgia" wasn't the right word for what I was trying to say. I'm 58, so was really getting into trains and riding them in the late 60's.
Thanks for going against the grain and toughing this one out
LOL! Well despite a forecast for the week ahead that's far from promising I've done with AC traction. I've interest and enthusiasm for all the roads who's logo's it's carrying but long trains, multiple loco lash ups and Desert Routes just ain't my thing. It was good practice for a couple of loco projects I'd been playing around with but the rivet counters will note that the base model is hardly "ex-shop" like the photos? I like my models with loads of dirt, wear and tear so this probably wasn't the best base model.BTW the only reason I bought Scenic Sub was because the sales blurb stated that the models were adapted from work they'd done for the cancelled MSTS2. Those "in the know" have never spoken about just how far that got but I always thought that M$'s attempt to create a "virtual World of Rails" was ill conceived and a bridge too far. The main fault with the concept being that it could never have been based on historical railroads, roads and track systems.No one has ever publicly breached the NDA to my knowledge so guess we'll never know.
Just posted on the "BNSF Railway" FB page to ask if anyone has any decent pictures of the units yet or knows it both sides are identical and if there's anything on the back. I have to say having spent (reportedly) a huge sum of money on these liveries you'd have thought they might have wanted to take some decent pictures of the finished work?
BNSF has written in one of the comments there that both sides of the locomotive have logos on them. I presume the same logos are on both sides.
Well I'll do some more to it when I see a picture. I spent quite a bit of time sizing and placing the logo's as best I could given the awful wide angled shots and their excellent capture of the reflection of the shop lighting Par for the course now everyone thinks they're a photographer because their phone has a camera?! But hey anyone can have a go at it! I don't "own" it because rain kept me on my PC yesterday, LOL!
I have some hope that FB group will come up trumps. The local aviation enthusiasts where I live seem to post a dozen or more shots of EVERY aircraft movement from our airport so if the BNSF fans are as passionate..... ?
A poster on TO spotted 6111 at the Mid America Car & Locomotive shops on Saturday. Not the best shot, but just passing it along. DSCN0002_5f39f57960cb0.jpg
I prefer 1970 to 1980 time frame cause it is what I remember with my dad. I'm not a huge Gevo fan or long stack trains to me the second generation EMD locomotives are what I know. Glad people will like them but just not for me.
I concur with you Michelle. It was a more colorful time and exciting time I think (Like my opinion means anything). Lots on transition going on both exciting & depressing if you were fan of a road being absorbed into another. Today everything just looks the same to me which makes it boring for me. But like others that aren't into the eras I treasure in railroading, they love it & I respect that. And for younger railfans, this is what they are growing up with like when I was growing up with 1st & 2nd Generation power. That is what keeps things going.
Only stak-paks I really enjoy was when the Susquehanna was resurrected from being drowned in a sea of Conrail blue & reopened the old main west of Smoke Rise, NJ to Sparta Jct, then use to the L&HR north & using the Southern Tier to Binghamton, NY. You had NYSW with 2nd Gen ALCO & EMD power up front pulling Sea Land stack trains. Was exciting seeing a line come back from the dead using older motive power on more modern trains.
A poster on TO spotted 6111 at the Mid America Car & Locomotive shops on Saturday. Not the best shot, but just passing it along.
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Looks like the decals are placed exactly the same positions as on the earlier shot Curt so looks like one skin will fit all numbers? Just need to see how they spaced and positioned them on the other side. Thanks for posting the shot.
Well I found another VERY wide angled shot of the other side in the paintshop. The Decals are all masked and taped in what I assume will be their final position? Why mask them otherwise? Using the door seams and latches as a guide I've placed them that I can see and they all LOOK like the same position as on the other side. Can't see beyond Frisco but as all the others are in the same relationship as on the more visible side I've assumed they'll be positioned the same?
NOW... from an aesthetic point of view I have to ask why they started so close to the end under the rads? They could have moved them much more centrally? Unless of course there's a variation in this loco to the one modelled by SLI?
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....and I STILL think they're BORING.
How long will this rain last? 
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