Nysw?

[dcarleton]

Correct. Guilford kept everything of value, as much as they could. They even kept the shops at Colonie!

CSX, on the other hand, used their credit to try to make the NYSW operation of the D&H successful. Completely different way of doing business.

For our purposes as modelers, during the NYSW era on the D&H you'd see all kinds of combinations. You'd see D&H power, D&H power that had been Guilford-ized, Susquehanna power, Chessie power, and even some N&W/NS power. Fascinating era, wish we had a better route to run it on....

[CSRX]

Correct. Guilford kept everything of value, as much as they could. They even kept the shops at Colonie!

CSX, on the other hand, used their credit to try to make the NYSW operation of the D&H successful. Completely different way of doing business.

For our purposes as modelers, during the NYSW era on the D&H you'd see all kinds of combinations. You'd see D&H power, D&H power that had been Guilford-ized, Susquehanna power, Chessie power, and even some N&W/NS power. Fascinating era, wish we had a better route to run it on....

I guess what I'm saying with D&H being a CSXT heritage, is the fact the D&H, MEC, B&M, PTM, and ST were/are under the Guilford Rail System name, eventually being transferred over to Pan Am Railways name, and CSXT has officially purchased Pan Am Railways and all it's assets.

Granted they have pretty much pawning off most of the B&M as well, but it's still a heritage.

[Unoriginal]

You can get the required SLI shape files by digging around in the Danny Beck files here in the Trainsim Library. Search danny_beck_ to find all of them. The Danny Beck files are a great resource for older SLI engines that are no longer available.

The SD60s and SD70Ms don't use danny beck shape files. You can really only do that with the SD40-2s.

[dcarleton]

Okay now I see where you're coming from Shawn, and yes that's very true too. (I was thinking more of legacy.)
BTW, what happened to the Pan Am business train? Those cars also came from the D&H.

[CSRX]

The SD60s and SD70Ms don't use danny beck shape files. You can really only do that with the SD40-2s.

For the SD70M's, you can use the Union Pacific model from the UP TRAINSETS VOL 2 | TrainSimulations set.
Edit: I gave this a try, yeah, never mind. A lot of the sections didn't match up, such as the nose and the trucks..

for the SD60's, the CN&W model could work, as the image files match, CNW TRAINSETS VOL. 1 | TrainSimulations
However, I believe the CSXT model could work just as well. I have the set, but I can't seem to figure out what folder they are in. I know I have the AC44's, so maybe I purchased them prior to being placed all in the same package.
CSX TRAINSETS VOL. 1 | TrainSimulations

Okay now I see where you're coming from Shawn, and yes that's very true too. (I was thinking more of legacy.)
BTW, what happened to the Pan Am business train? Those cars also came from the D&H.

Parked down in Jacksonville as far as I am aware. Not really sure whats going to happen to them. The FP9's I am hoping either go off to a scenic railroad, or preserved somewhere. Passenger cars, they could either continue to use, or sell off to another railroad. I wouldn't be surprised if the Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railway buys them, or Vermont Railway buys them.

[wwhall]

Eh, I might pass on those. I've seen them before and they just ain't for me.

For their era, the F45 shape used for the NYSW F45 model was well-detailed--no Fred Flintstone wheels, etc. like so many models of that era of MSTS. The model's biggest fault is that the detail in the texture file is pretty low resolution, fuzzy, and pixelated. Editing the .ace files by sharpening them and possibly relettering them with higher resolution would solve a lot of the model's shortcomings.