EMD GP40's

[CSRX]

Been going a little nuts after making some blank textures on the BNSF GP40M model.

Did some adaptation to the Conrail model, and boom, Guilford and Pan Am painted GP40's. Now, just to add some ditch lights via an F/A..

Huge shoutout to Pete W, on making the perfect fonts!

[eric]

There are never enough Geeps.

[CSRX]

Agreed, now with freight animation ditch lights, and updated engine files to have working ditch lights. Time to mass number both the blue dip and gray scheme!

[eric]

The work and screenshot are great.

I interviewed with the real Pan Am at one point in the late 1980's, so seeing that logo come back as a railroad just never sat right with me.

[pwillard]

Looking great. Love seeing GP40s as they were quite common when I *got the foaming bug*

[Nels_Anderson]

I interviewed with the real Pan Am at one point in the late 1980's, so seeing that logo come back as a railroad just never sat right with me.

Isn't that the truth! Seeing Pan Am on trains has always seemed weird to me too.

Still spotted occasionally; just last weekend I saw a Pan Am box car parked in Worcester.

[mword77]

Looks good Shawn. My only suggestion would be to paint below the deck 'Guilford Gray' as well. Nothing was black on those units. Trucks, fuel tank, steps etc. was/is all gray.

[CSRX]

Looks good Shawn. My only suggestion would be to paint below the deck 'Guilford Gray' as well. Nothing was black on those units. Trucks, fuel tank, steps etc. was/is all gray.

Excellent! The Guilford gray units were a test bed at first, so a few things I overlooked. Will definitely go back and produce the gray to those items as well before going all crazy on the renumbers. I noticed I also forgot to add the American Flag! Thank you!


Eric, Nels,
It was strange when Pan Am became a railroad, though nothing really changed but the name. Some of the guys I used to work with however, said interchange wise, Guilford was much easier to deal with than the newer management of Pan Am.
It's all CSX now, so we shall see how it turns out.

Looking great. Love seeing GP40s as they were quite common when I *got the foaming bug*

Pete, I was actually curious, if you'd be able to produce the Pan Am Railways in the reverse italic lettering as seen on some of their units.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1514096

[CSRX]

Updated textures for the Guilford unit, minus the flag still.



Also, I think I made a mistake. Man that logo was a pain to reproduce. (very early WIP, may scrap)

[jbtower]

Updated textures for the Guilford unit, minus the flag still.



Also, I think I made a mistake. Man that logo was a pain to reproduce. (very early WIP, may scrap)

WOW those look awesome Shawn

[CSRX]

I kicked the NECR unit to the side for now..

[pwillard]

Sure. I can try refers italic...

[CSRX]

Sure. I can try refers italic...

Awesome Pete, that would open up a few more Pan Am painted units for the future.


On a side note. I recently uploaded a beta file set of the GP40's. Can be found here if anyone is willing to help me out with this one... YOU WILL NEED THE CONRAIL SET FROM TRAINSIMULATIONS found here:

https://www.trainsimulations.net/cr-2ndgen-enginepack

As per the MUST READ file, you will need the shape file 3188, as well as the sounds and cabview folders.

Someone that did test them, has been running into this issue every time he tries to go into the sim with any of the units.

"System.Null Reference Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Which blows my mind, as the locomotives work just fine on my end with zero issues. I thought maybe two different versions of ORTS was the cause, as I am on the stable 1.5.1 version, and the tester was on 1.4. Not the case, as he updated to 1.5.1, and it gives the same error.

I'm curious if there is an error of sorts with something I set up in the engine files, or something with the shape files of the two F/A's I put into play.

If someone is able to help pinpoint, that would be extremely appreciated. Due note though. These beta files still have several paint adjustments and other things to be tweaked, these are NOT the final production. When the final items are finished, these current ones may become broken with the future updates and additions. I think I also goofed on the 300 when I did some updating, as well as goofed on the underbody parts and walkways. Those have since been changed, but currently are not reflected in this package. Thank you.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkvdx3e6tczn5eb/NMP_MEC_GP40Set_Beta1.zip?dl=0

[veemr]

I got the 300 unit into the sim quickly using a couple of shortcuts, so not a fair test. In fact I used the BN GP40M .s which looked fine to my eyes. My .eng files all use (0) for the number of FA attachments with no problem but I tried (2) and it loaded without any problems. I can continue looking at your eng files to see if i discover a hitch.
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[CSRX]

Using the wrong model kind of defeats the purpose of properly testing these units, but at least you got it to work..