North American Passenger Railroads Set - v.0.15 [27 Feb. 2024]

[Oshawotta737]

Hi! I'm so glad to hear you are safe and doing well. The war has been such a terrible thing to see from the safety of America, and I can't even imagine living through it. No pressure on doing an update, you owe us nothing and should focus on anything else if you need/want to. Slava Ukraini!

[Tony Pixel]

I'm happy to announce that North American Passenger Railroads got updated to version 0.15! You can pick it up right from the shelve of your favorite grocery store
This release has taken me no less but two and a third of a year to put together. Can't say it is that rich in features, but I hope I will be able to provide consistent updates now that I found both time and inspiration for it again.

This version is not compatible with previous games. This is mostly because of length changes, but I will try to replace as much of remaining wrongly sized stuff as I can in the next update.

Changelog

Added:

• Bombardier Multilevel cab/car: now has fresh and upscaled sprites and push-pull support with GE P32AC-DM and Alstom ALP-46 locomotives*
• Amtrak Horizon car: added new, longer sprites and a cafe variant
• Comet V cab/car: added Metro-North livery
• Metroliner cab car: added livery choice support
• EMD E9: updated sprites
• Alco PA: updated sprites and added two more liveries
• EMD F3: added "Blue Warbonnet" livery
• Metra F40C got updated sprites and push-pull support for Gallery cars

Changed:

• Metra bilevel cab/car: unified with other planned traincars into Gallery cab/car with 5(!) liveries and push-pull support with EMD F40PH, EMD F40C, Alstom HHP-8 and GE P32AC-DM
• Comet I-V: cabs are now unpowered

Fixed:

• Budd Metroliner I: fixed capacity issues (I hope?) by using correct variable in capacity switch
• PRR Heavyweight sleeper car: fixed horizontal views
• PRR K4s: fixed minor graphical issue with wheel animation
• SP GS-4: Removed yet not implemented "Freedom train" livery option

Different diesel smoke symbols are preserved for easier tracking of updated stuff, I hope you wouldn't mind

[bigyihsuan]

With the announcement of the NJT MLV III self-propelled EMUs, do you think you could add them in, unlocked 2026? From what I've read, they'll be spread throughout a train consisting of 2 cab cars, a handful of powered units, and several unpowered trailers.

From the outside, the only real visual difference is a pantograph on one end, and a pair of missing doors on the midlevel for electrical equipment.

[Tony Pixel]

With the announcement of the NJT MLV III self-propelled EMUs, do you think you could add them in, unlocked 2026? From what I've read, they'll be spread throughout a train consisting of 2 cab cars, a handful of powered units, and several unpowered trailers.

From the outside, the only real visual difference is a pantograph on one end, and a pair of missing doors on the midlevel for electrical equipment.

I think that is possible! I plan to get back to work on this set this summer.

[bigyihsuan]

I think that is possible! I plan to get back to work on this set this summer.

Sounds good! However, a possible problem I can see is that the MLV IIIs use the existing MLV cab cars, which are already represented in-game. However, you can't have a cab car at both ends and power in the middle, because the cab car is defined as a coach and not as a locomotive with 1 power.

Screenshot 2025-06-17 093945.png (13.58 KiB) Viewed 208 times

(top is 3 MLVs. Bottom is a cab, an ALP-46, and another cab)

[Tony Pixel]

I think that is possible! I plan to get back to work on this set this summer.

Sounds good! However, a possible problem I can see is that the MLV IIIs use the existing MLV cab cars, which are already represented in-game. However, you can't have a cab car at both ends and power in the middle, because the cab car is defined as a coach and not as a locomotive with 1 power.

Screenshot 2025-06-17 093945.png
(top is 3 MLVs. Bottom is a cab, an ALP-46, and another cab)

I think I will come up with something for that. For example, I can do an articulated cab-powered car pair to go in front.