[WIP/REL/HQ] Older US freight / passenger cars

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » 09 Dec 2006 15:40

yeah this kind of train is allready made by plastikman und can be found in his amtrak pack ...

i was still wondering, becaus here in gemrany most of the trains ( steel, coal e.g. ) have som electric locos at the front ...

Hula121 · Post by **Hula121** » 09 Dec 2006 17:11

In the USA, the majority of the lines are not electrified. The country is so vast, that it'd be impractical to electrify every mile of rail line out there.

That said, the part of the country I live in had some electrified lines back in the early-to-mid 20th Century; operated by The Milwaukee Road and the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific. Both railroads ran passengers and freight under electric power.

Jose · Post by **Jose** » 10 Dec 2006 01:24

There is 228,464 kilometres of rail in the US, could you imagine the cost of electrification. There are no new electirc freight US locos, there are a few older ones.
As Hula121 said there are some rather spectacluar ones that ran on the Milwaukee Road, I have released one electric boxcab already. Ones i would like to release in the future would be EP2 Bi-Polar, Little Joe and a EP5.

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » 10 Dec 2006 01:51

hm .. ever see the movie al gore did ?

ok thx for answering my question ...

Jose · Post by **Jose** » 10 Dec 2006 04:49

Well i know that US railroads are a major contributer to global warming, BNSF Railroad is the single largest consumer of fossil fuels per day. Even here in Australia we have recently phased out electric freight locos, dont know why thought.

scpk2000 · Post by **scpk2000** » 10 Dec 2006 16:04

From what I understand General Electro has built and released into production an Enviro Friendly Freight Engin w/in the last couple of years.

ilovetrainz · Post by **ilovetrainz** » 10 Dec 2006 16:11

Yes, they even say that they're making a new, environmentally friendly loco, which lowers emissions by about 15%, to find out more, go check out their site, GEtransportation.com

Hula121 · Post by **Hula121** » 11 Dec 2006 06:18

This company makes hybrid locomotives used for switching.

NitrousX · Post by **NitrousX** » 11 Dec 2006 09:18

In Europe we use the modified Alstom V100 locomotives (ex DR V100), they have recently been testing with a hybrid model for shunting and tunnel maintenance, it was featured at the Innotrans show.

It also has a regular diesel for main line purposes.

scpk2000 · Post by **scpk2000** » 13 Dec 2006 04:51

I have this pack and it looks great and it's nice to see the additional steamer locos for US trains, but the question is I have is will there be an updated to the steamers where the parts move? I dunno if this is being addressed or not and just wanted to ask.

Jose · Post by **Jose** » 13 Dec 2006 13:51

I am going to resize them soon, and i think i might check out a way to animate them as well (no Promises).

scpk2000 · Post by **scpk2000** » 13 Dec 2006 21:15

Jose wrote:I am going to resize them soon, and i think i might check out a way to animate them as well (no Promises).

Well it would be nice to see that.

RTek · Post by **RTek** » 20 Dec 2006 20:56

Jose wrote:I am going to resize them soon, and i think i might check out a way to animate them as well (no Promises).

Hey, I say go for it. I would love to see that. Even if it's just two frames (rods up/rods down) it would be really cool!

BTW, Jose, how did you get the boxcars to hold grain, paper OR goods? I just tried a few and they came out holding paper AND goods. Not what I wanted to do.

Jose · Post by **Jose** » 21 Dec 2006 14:04

Hi Rtek, what i did was edit the Xml manually without Vehicle creator,
Add this for grain, paper and goods

Code: Select all

<cargotype id="8">0</cargotype>
<cargotype id="5">0</cargotype>
<cargotype id="1">0</cargotype>

I think there is a list of cargo id's out there somewhere, i found mine my checking each cargos xmls's. i wrote them on a piece of paper which is now lost.

chevyrider · Post by **chevyrider** » 22 Dec 2006 10:13

All cargo types are in the WIKI:
http://wiki.locomotiondepot.net/index.p ... able:cargo

RTek · Post by **RTek** » 23 Dec 2006 22:37

Thanks chevyrider. I was trying to make some oil-only and chemicals-only cars, but it looks like that's not gonna be possible without new cargoes.

Catch is, how then do the oil rigs/wells and chemical plants produce just oil or chemicals?

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » 28 Jan 2007 12:01

shoirt question ... is the download down ? can't find it on ami->downloads !?

Jose · Post by **Jose** » 29 Jan 2007 02:36

I dont know about that but there will be a new download soon with all the stuff on that i didnt release. I have just been a bit lazy the last couple of months.

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » 29 Jan 2007 15:31

cool ... cant wait

andel · Post by **andel** » 29 Jan 2007 15:39

SkyNet wrote:shoirt question ... is the download down ? can't find it on ami->downloads !?

Might be my fault - lemme look into it - i've had to do some serious server work of late...

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