VDK Trains Inc.

[vester_DK 477]

Staying in the "family":

The predecessor, New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad or just Erie Railroad.

[vester_DK 477]

Did another Erie railroad, well just and engine that goes well with the Chesapeake and Ohio cars:

 

NYLE: New York & Lake Erie.


Its based on a black and yellow Erie Railroad color scheme:

Used the same colors as on the C&O cars.

[vester_DK 477]

From some New York trains (Erie, Erie Lackawanna, NYLE), we are going north to Maine:

They are pulling some CP cars, but the different is not that big....

[T Wrecks 10,210]

I've lost count of the variations and combination options already... then again, there doesn't seem to be anything that does NOT look awesome, so I guess you can't do much wrong.

 

What about night lights, by the way?* I could imagine that especially those panorama coaches (or whatever you call them) should make for some very atmospheric night pictures.

 

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*: I openly admit that I was too lazy to look back and see if you already posted a picture, so feel free to slap me with a wet trout instead of posting a pic...

[vester_DK 477]

Sorry T. Don't have any pictures of the nightlight.

 

 

Back to the Lake Erie. This time to railroad that went westward:

Wabash Railroad.

[Darknono35 3,138]

So cool, I really love your work
It's can be funny to have merchandise wagons, tank and other stuff for our railway

 

But keep the good work

[vester_DK 477]

Someone ask for some Texas Special, I mean MKT / Frisco Texas Special...

 

 

Darknono35: You can find some by searching for BigRedFish / BRF, Trolca on STEX.

[slickbg56 778]

I've got to admit it's getting better. A little better all the time.

[edwardjeria 503]

You aré fast

Asome work

[vester_DK 477]

Thank you both. Glad you like my work.

 

Here is a little something, or should I say two things:

An engine from Maine Central (MEC) and some cars from Pullman.

 

Pullman had cars of their own, which was in trains with cars from the main railroad. Later on they would still run the cars with porters ect, but the railroads themself would own them.

[vester_DK 477]

Returning to Chicago again:

Rock Islands commuter train from Chicago. Today the line "Rock Island District" is run by Metra.

[vester_DK 477]

Golden State, a train runned Southern Pacific and Rock Island.

 

This is what the nightlights looks like:

[vester_DK 477]

Here is an overview of all the passenger engine mods:

[nosferatu247 20]

This is amazing! I might be a little biased because I love classic North American passenger trains, but... this may well be the greatest train mod ever envisioned in the nearly eleven years of SC4. Keep up the good work!

[Francis90b 748]

I'm under the impression that the "golden state" night picture looks quite like the night picture of a Western Pacific zephyr train.

 

That said, i'd like to see a day shot of it .

[vester_DK 477]

Well spotted. It was the Western Pacific, but the nightlight is the more or less same on all the mods.

 

There will not be as many different color schemes for the cars. Settle on 40 different.

[Darknono35 3,138]

Great

It´s amazing, all those trains are so realistic :thumb !!

Keep it up man, it´s an fantastic work so far :yes)

[jmsepe 2,039]

Why have I not seen this before? I was looking for some awesome train skins and boom, I saw this thread. Great work here, the details is very realistic. 

[vester_DK 477]

Thank you both. Glad you like them.

Working on the documentation for the engines.

 

Removed the BN1b engine to make room for this one:

NJDOT.

[Jack_wilds 550]

glad you kept the BN1a as I prefer that one    ... the addition looks neat   ... as it appears to have a 'presence' -it is visible and looks right, in-game... 

[vester_DK 477]

Thanks Jack.

 

 

The installer for the passenger engine is almost done. Is in the process of being checked.

In the meanwhile I am working on the cars:


As the passenger trains called Zephyr (more than just California Zephyr. There were 14 other lines called Zephyr) and Chicago commuter rail,
ran for great deal longer under the Burlington Route name than under Burlington Northern,
I renamed the car mods from BN3 to CZ after California Zephyr.

The Burlington Northern Railroad was a of a March 2, 1970 merger of  between Great Northern Railway,
Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
The interctiy traffic was taken over by Amtrak as of May of 1971.
So a little over a year Burlington Northern had intercity passenger service.

The Burlington Northern merged with Santa in 1996 into Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Now just known as BNSF Railways.

BTW: The White Face color scheme (BN1 B) that I took out, appear a lot later, as late as 1989.

[vester_DK 477]

Have uploaded the passenger engines to LEX:
VDK Trains Mods, Volume 10. North American Passenger Engines.
 

[vester_DK 477]

Have now uploaded VDK Trains Mods, Volume 11. North American Passenger Cars to Lex:

 

[IBBubba 2]

Downloaded and installed both mods. Look Great!  Just a note, I did have to disable my antivirus software to install Vol. 10.

[fan o SC4 128]

Thanks for the trains, the quality here is immense! Your fine rolling stock is a must download, it will be running in my cities very soon. Keep up the great work, It'll be interesting to see what you create after all this.

[Darknono35 3,138]

Nice work man . You have done an awesome work, i hope to see other stuff from you

[scotty222 549]

Excellent stuff, i love playing with various train mods 

[vester_DK 477]

Here is a little something new or should I say older:

"Proof of concept"

Downloaded and installed both mods. Look Great!  Just a note, I did have to disable my antivirus software to install Vol. 10.

 

Thank you.

No idea why you had to disable it just for one of the packages. Same software and more or less same structure to the scripts.

[vester_DK 477]

Haven't got any progress on the older passenger cars to show, but here is a little something new on the way:


A lot of reuse of the textures from the passenger engines, but with a little change here and there, colors amongst other things.
You will be able to use these with the trains from the other freight engine package.

[vester_DK 477]

Have change the colors on the Baltimore and Ohio (BO), Lackawanna (DLW), New York and Lake Erie (NYLE) and also on Western Pacific A (WP A)

 

Have uploaded them: