Which CSXT 3194 Preferred?

[marklester01]

Now, everyone has their own Preferences on what they like on certain Locomotives & Rolling Stock for Various Reasons. However, recently Fish had Uploaded CSXT's 3194 & now Lucas has too. Which would be more suitable?

[eric]

Considering Fish essentially abandoned the community because he didn't want people trying to teach him the art of reskinning.... I'd lean towards the one just uploaded.

[Curt C]

I'm assuming that we're referring to the unit that was uploaded and in the file today? Is it just me, or is it just a picture??? Where's the rest of the file to download the unit?

[derekmorton]

Errr, yes, he only uploaded an image.

[eric]

Maybe I'll take back my vote.

[eric]

OK, I see what happened. The author uploaded a new JPG and accidentally overwrote the reference used by the downloader.

It's now back to normal...

[lineman]

The only upload I see is by Lucas. I downloaded most of fishes repaints because I had all the required files. Had a lot of fun modifying them to look good in the sim. It took days on each repaint but looks good enough for me.

[TrirailCentral]

Hello, File has been reuploaded properly, i apologize for that

[geepster775]

I just wish people would start with the most current, up to date model possible. In this case, it would be the 3000 and 3100 series CSX ES44 model from the trash train set. Then you don't need freight animations that change out significant body parts like cab window arrangements.

Just because Danny Beck gave away his Plebeian grade shape files for free doesn't mean they are always the most appropriate starting point.

[Unoriginal]

I don’t think it’s fair to bring that up with this example since the csx trash train set is now gone (for whatever reason). If nobody can get it and not a lot of people have it, what’s the point in using that model? Plus, I don't think the guy who made the reskin actually has that set, so it's not like they could've done that either.

I just see that argument a lot and half the time it's not really valid because the better version of the model isn't available, like is the case here.

[geepster775]

My records show I purchased that set on 5/15/14. There is nothing wrong with adding file library content that only benefits a smaller subset of people who haven't been snoozing through many half price sales since 2014.

[Unoriginal]

I can get that, but again the person who made the reskin does not have the CSX trash train set so they couldn't really use that.

There are newer people who come to open rails too, who would have never gotten the chance to purchase items like this. So for them there isn't any other options.

[scfe_fan]

There are newer people who come to open rails too, who would have never gotten the chance to purchase items like this. So for them there isn't any other options.

I have to agree with you on this issue. I have several repaints of Marc Nelson's E units, but I won't (not sure if I even legally CAN) because of 3DTrains being defunct. Lots of products aren't available anymore, good and bad, so to say someone is "snoozing through the sales" really isn't a fair comment. My son is just now getting into Open Rails at 10 years old. Was he snoozing through the sales too?

[eric]

Agree. Base model availability is going to drive what people use.

And it's not just a matter of 'asleep at the wheel' but some of us didnt have the income to buy everything on a 2014 wish list. And that was a lot of stuff at the time....

I get why some of the older models get pulled, but I do wish that they would wait until the replacement was available. The flip side to that is someone who buys the old model on clearance might get pissed if the new one comes out a week later.