"Missed by that much"....

[ossie]

I just uploaded a buffer car and when I was checking that it was all ok in the F/L noticed I'd called it a "bugger" car in the installation part of the readme.

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[CSRX]

That's okay, thank you for uploading regardless! I'll be putting it to good use on many unit oil trains.

[JSMR]

It may be just that if it gets sent to the wrong yard. 😜

[qballbandit]

Ha! One of my other Aussie friends is always telling me how he "buggers" things up, so...... 😁

[derekmorton]

I represent that remark.

[ossie]

Given my own skill at buggering things up, I think my finger just felt more at home on the g key than f. It's a shame we don't have an ORTS era freeware airslide as I have photos of a couple of BNSF airslides marked for buFFer service. It anyone wanted a "fictional" version I could take the stencils off one of the them and add them to a red BNSF FMC hopper allowing a different buffer at each end of the train.

[ossie]

I found a photo earlier of one of the red/brown FMCs marked for buffer service. I'll get it done in the next day or so and uploaded so unit trains can be properly "bookended".

[geepster775]

There is a freeware airslide out there. It was done by Michael Stephan http://www.golden-age-rails.com/ who moved on to railworks and which is now a defunct site. It carried a warning about being 'high poly' at 10,000 so you can pretty much guess on the age of it. 😀

I think fellow Aussie Steve Malloy compiled the most repaint efforts involving this car shape. He may have also gotten his hands on the repaint kit (layered psd files). I recall this shape was a bit unique in that it carried around an underside track shadow effect that I found to be totally unnecessary. I got rid of the shadow by alpha-ing out the texture involved.

[geepster775]

This airslide pack is still downloadable from the wayback machine. From there you can see the undercar shadow effect that was built into the shape, and which no other content producer ever duplicated.

[Unoriginal]

All 4 of his msts items are in the google drive that’s linked on his site’s homepage. I removed the shadow effect from my cars too because I thought it was unnecessary.
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Also swapped the trucks/couplers on the airslides with that from a TS 4650 hopper since the length was basically the same.
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[ossie]

Thanks for the info guys, much appreciated. I don't recall ever having seen that site before so I'll will give it a look. 👍

[CSRX]

I must be missing an important link...

[ossie]

This one Shawn?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YepbOtUVb1E5EBabID9wZ5rOHzkR9EYd?usp=sharing

EDIT: I spent some time searching last night and we can now add a bummer & butter car to the bugger. I'll upload shortly.

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[CSRX]

Pete, love em! Can't wait to slap them on unit oil trains destined for Saint John, NB.

[ossie]

Hearing that stuff is what makes it all worthwhile Shawn. Hope you get a lot of good running out of them.! Pete 👍👍