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[email4butch]

Reskins in B&M Bluebird Scheme of Chris Nelson's GP9 units. gp9 retexture2.jpg gp9 retexture.jpg

[email4butch]

and.. after much research.... reskins of Paul Charland's reskin of Larry Goss's NE Buggy in B&M Bluebird... BM NE CABS.jpg

[johnnyboy99]

image.pngimage.pngan imaginary and freelanced WIP route that will showcase pretty much every one of Mr. Ebner's signal systems and road signs. (I suck at designing yards)
I think the dblslip track piece works in ORTS? I read that it doesn't work properly in activities in MSTS, hence why it's obsolete. Maybe ORTS fixed that?

[ZachBell4400]

BNSF SD40-2 #1687 (fbuilt as BN SD40-2 #6356 in April 1973). Here the 1687 sports PTC, an A/C unit, a Prime 920, GW E-bell, and a white conductor-side door. Thanks to Unoriginal for setting up the ENG file and INC lines for my new "prototypical replica" of the BNSF Northtown yard movement to Willmar and back!

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[Big Boy 4014]

That BNSF SD40-2 looks awesome!

[ZachBell4400]

Also, a project that didn't take too long to work on... The fictional shortline based in Little Falls, MInn. (the LF & Dakota RR) was designed for a short-term project to haul scrap out of Little Falls when the ex-NP line from Gregory to Brainerd, as well as abandoned structures and ROW in Little Falls, had to be torn down and scrapped. BNSF had leased a former Frisco GP15-1 and a pair of BNSF GP40M's for motive power to help with the scrapping project in town. As always, scrapyard prices are up there!!!

Seen here is LFDR EMD GP15-1 #630 (ex-SLSF).
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[ebnertra000]

Also, a project that didn't take too long to work on... The fictional shortline based in Little Falls, MInn. (the LF & Dakota RR) was designed for a short-term project to haul scrap out of Little Falls when the ex-NP line from Gregory to Brainerd, as well as abandoned structures and ROW in Little Falls, had to be torn down and scrapped. BNSF had leased a former Frisco GP15-1 and a pair of BNSF GP40M's for motive power to help with the scrapping project in town. As always, scrapyard prices are up there!!!

I've thought about reviving that line as an interurban-style operation, but I don't know if I'll ever get around to it

[ossie]

Once I've finished with the old Australian MSTS archiving project I'll be uploading some autorack packs, hopefully pre-Christmas but if not, early January. There's a back story on these that goes back many, many years. When I first started trying to do graffiti reskins on Jeff's models, the 2 piece texture was giving me nightmares trying to stitch the graffiti sections together neatly. Travis came up with an FA for me that covered the join but the ladder sections of the cars were still separate so I was still working on 2 side textures. When I got better at "kit bashing" I used Andrey's container shape to completely cover the side of the rack so I could apply the side textures in one go. He's kindly given me the go-ahead to get some of these into the file library so if you download them and are wondering about the FAs, that's the reason. I haven't renumbered many (or any??) of the ends so if that's important to anyone wanting them, you might need to get your stencils out. I will try to include a couple that the spray can folks haven't decorated but there's not a lot of them in the modern photography era and Jeff & Bernard did a fantastic job representing the non-vandalised period of their operational use anyway.

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[CSRX]

I didn't realize someone else did the new Ferromex autoracks.
To be fair, I'm really surprised those aren't caked in graffiti yet, in reality. Especially the locations they go and end up sitting. Every time they eventually do show up in my neck of the woods, both sides are pretty crisp and clean. It's weird. Haha

[johnnyboy99]

will there be a freight animation to make them partially enclosed next? A shame about the autoracks lacking modeled interiors

[ossie]

I didn't realize someone else did the new Ferromex autoracks.
To be fair, I'm really surprised those aren't caked in graffiti yet, in reality. Especially the locations they go and end up sitting. Every time they eventually do show up in my neck of the woods, both sides are pretty crisp and clean. It's weird. Haha

Funnily enough, I managed to get a couple of clean shots of the grey/silver Ferromex racks Shawn. There's a couple with graffiti but 3 or 4 clean ones, which from a % point of view would make them far and away the cleanest set of any of the company/road names I've got. It's interesting to hear you say you see them clean too. Maybe the spray paint doesn't stick so well to the grey/silver colour?

[CSRX]

Ah good, more to go with the ones I produced on the TS and NAVS models!


That's what I'm thinking, not much blends in with silver..

[johnnyboy99]

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more plate c 60' boxcars

[johnnyboy99]

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experimenting with transparency on autoracks

[Big Boy 4014]

My latest project is a CB&Q GP30 with (somewhat) prototypical weathering. I hope to upload it eventually.

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