Train Mods

[Trolca 15]

The LastCarVariety.dat gives variety for the last car of the freight trains including the caboose as one of the possibilities.

 

The LastCarVarietyNoCaboose.dat gives variety for the last car of the freight trains with the caboose being converted to a box car.

 

The mod that converts the caboose to a box car shouldn''t be used with either of these mods or they might not work.

 

Trolca

[Trolca 15]

I found that the subway engine was flawed.

Here's what it looked like in the reader.

The FSH file for the front was plain black.

Here it is with the new FSH I made.

Here is a standard subway car for comparison.

The plugin DAT file is the correct FSH file for the front of the subway engine.

[Trolca 15]

Here are some alternatives for those that don

[Equinox 1,209]

Looks really great, Trolca!  I really like the steam engine replacement modd!  The variety makes the game all that much more realistic.  Excellent work! 

[Trolca 15]

Here is a passenger train with an alternate paint scheme. There's an additional type of passenger car made from the tunneler, something hardly ever seen anyway.

I might make more changes so it's easier to see the difference between the two types.

 

Edit:

I'm not sure how my image was replaced by this one. I also noticed that many of the images on this page are missing.

[Trolca 15]

Here is another passenger train upgrade. Again I robbed the tunneler for an extra passenger car type.

 

 

At least I remembered to hit the return this time.

 

[Equinox 1,209]

Hey, pretty cool, but can we edit the new textures you're putting in somehow?

[Trolca 15]

You can edit the textures, what I call skins by using the reader to copy the FSH files, then using FiSHman to extract the bmp files. I'll try to put the steps together. I'm just not very good at explaining alot of what I do because so much is trial and error. I'm sort of learning as I go.

[Equinox 1,209]

Nah, that's all I need to know.  I'm good enough with the Reader and good enough with other stuff to be able to figure out the FiSHMan tool...it looks very well-written to me.  So don't worry about it.

[Trolca 15]

I figured out how to add an alpha channel to the freight engine skins. Here is 5 new skins for the original freight engine. Only use one at any time.

 

Here is three of them.

 

 

[simbuilder 1]

Looks good, but could you by any chance actually make the train cars look as if they are connected to each other> I mean really, they don't look like one combined train, but instead four seperate cars

[themallard12 54]

Can you make 2 more skins, one to make the freight train into a blue engine that has the conrail logo on the side. The other, to turn the default skin of the passenger train, and all its cars, into amtraks Acela train.

[Equinox 1,209]

Are you going to update the modd that adds variety to freight trains with your new alpha channel discovery?  Please do.  And I agree with the Mallard: some Acela trains speeding through the city would be really cool.

[Trolca 15]

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On 8/20/2003 4:34:48 PM Equinox wrote:

Are you going to update the modd that adds variety to freight trains with your new alpha channel discovery?  Please do.  And I agree with the Mallard: some Acela trains speeding through the city would be really cool.

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Either tonight or tomarrow. I'll do some major updating on most of the old mods.

The problem with skins that have lettering is the fact that one skin is used for both sides so one side will be reversed (a mirror image), I don't like how that looks until something can be done to change it which I have an idea I'll try. Other then that, yes, it can be done.

[+Guest]

uhh trolca,can you make the trains have doors,like the subways and the commuter trains

[Trolca 15]

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On 8/20/2003 5:24:56 PM tHe Dark_Child wrote:

uhh trolca,can you make the trains have doors,like the subways and the commuter trains

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I thought they do have doors on each end, I place doors on the side but they're hard to see, I'll look into it.

[Trolca 15]

Looks good, but could you by any chance actually make the train cars look as if they are connected to each other> I mean really, they don't look like one combined train, but instead four seperate cars

I'm not sure how at this time. I'm very new to this. Maybe some one else can help?

[Trolca 15]

Here is the new steam engine replacements. These five freight engines are the same as the previous group but they replace the steam engine. It is possible to have freight engines with two color schemes at once, using one of these mods with or without one from the previous freight engine package.

[Trolca 15]

Here is a super passenger train mod. The tunneler, supway engine and car are lost with this mod. What is gained is an extra passenger engine and two passenger cars for a total of two passenger engines and three passenger car types.

 

 

 

 

They still need work. I'll update later as well as changing some other color schemes over to this.

[DarkMatter 21]

Keep up the good work, Trolca. I like these mods...they make the game more entertaining. I'm curious...do these skins replace existing ones? Or do they all add to the existing set of train skins? I have some requests myself....for the freight trains, I'd like to see Santa Fe, Berlington Northern, and BNSF (Santa Fe and Burlington merged a number of years ago)engines. For the santa fe engines, I'd like to see the yellow and black ones, not the red and silver ones.

I used to build N-scale model railroads. I havn't done any model railroading since I was 15 or 16, but I still love them. Your train mods are kind of opening a new avenue for "virtual" railroading.

[themallard12 54]

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On 8/21/2003 7:32:13 PM DarkMatter wrote:I'd like to see Santa Fe, Berlington Northern, and BNSF (Santa Fe and Burlington merged a number of years ago)engines. For the santa fe engines, I'd like to see the yellow and black ones, not the red and silver ones.

I used to build N-scale model railroads. I havn't done any model railroading since I was 15 or 16, but I still love them. Your train mods are kind of opening a new avenue for "virtual" railroading.

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Um, Darkmatter i think the default engines are santa fe it just doesnt say so on the sides, but it does on the front see:

 

As a matter of fact this engine looks almost exactly like one of the santa fe HO scale model train engines I have tucked away somewhere.

[DarkMatter 21]

Nah, the santa fe engine IRL looks quite different. Its more yellow than black (only the gas tanks are black), with some red (Santa Fe lettering). The BNSF engines are either yellow or green, with the appropriate lettering.

[themallard12 54]

They do have trains in that paint scheme, nut they have trains like this too:

 

[DarkMatter 21]

Oh...there ya go. I've never seen one of those engines before. Well, ok...so I'm requesting the "yellow" santa fe engine!

[themallard12 54]

You mean you want the default engines changed, just for it to be a little less black, and to have it say santa fe on the side.

[stp243 8]

hey trolca these mods are awsome. ive wanted new train skins since day 1 but im not good at stuff like that. But i have a question, would it be at all possible to make the frieght trains longer than the 4 or 5 cars that they are now? also if that was possible could u make there be more than one engine pulling it? thanx.

[DarkMatter 21]

Actually, I wanted additional engines. Rather than replacing, just add new ones. Its possible, just complex.

[OriginalAndy 1]

very kewl Trolca... I love this new variety in trains... for some reason FSHman doesnt work for me.... oh well ill try to download it again and see what happens...

 

keep up the awesome work.

[SirBig 0]

These are amazing

[stp243 8]

my trains also wait at the junctions, i think maxis added that with patch 2 but im not sure.