ORTS Rolling Stock wish list

[CSXT Q-317]

I have the Chessie set. I will have to take a look at the others. The Chessie set is a great set. Over here in Ohio on the now defunct Ohio division which I model you could always find what I mentioned. Even the short 28 foot ribbed side pup trailers. Perhaps this is a case for me to do some work. I have been meaning to get the other sets mentions.

[pwillard]

Do you mean these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Metroliner ???

Drawings man... it comes down to needing some drawings... and related physics details.

[Orbita]

I don't think anyone's brought this up, but this is something I would really like to see for ORTS.

Metroliners.

No, not the cab cars that Amtrak rebuilt (we have those already), but the original EMU's that came out of the Budd plant in the 60's. We have just about every piece of rolling stock that turned a wheel on the Northeast Corridor except for those.

[rdayt]

Need more stem winders.

Randy

[drjayyyy]

I would like to see some OpenRails ready Conrail SD80MACs and some FP45s also GE U-Boats.

[Orbita]

One thing I have noticed a lack thereof, is 45 foot Fruehauf trailers smooth and ribbed that were representative of trailers found on TOFC to represent B&O trailer Jets. Unless there are some out there evading my eyes.

I believe TrainSimulations has a few sets that have 45' trailers. All appear to be smooth side. The Chessie set, one of the UP sets, and the Rock Island set comes with classic 45' trailers. Haven't seen any ribbed trailers anywhere.

[CSXT Q-317]

One thing I have noticed a lack thereof, is 45 foot Fruehauf trailers smooth and ribbed that were representative of trailers found on TOFC to represent B&O trailer Jets. Unless there are some out there evading my eyes.

[pwillard]

Yeah, that's a reason why Imt trying to make a 60's Era Chevy Van that won't make the model a beast when it's done since it will hold 10 of them.

[cuontv]

Autorack Loads

"Years ago someone asked if they could use the autoracks and add a FA with autos to them and post them to the library but I can't remember if he did or not."

That was me Paul. I had the idea to use some of James Hinman's great scenery object vehicles as a single drop-in load for your racks that would match the cars era. James graciously created a shape of 70's-era AMC Gremlins lined up as a load that could be added as an FA and I created new artwork for the textures. Unfortunately the FA shape file proved to be almost as large as the car itself, and with PC speeds at the time and OR's limited abilities compared to now, a carload of them would have dragged down some users systems badly so the project just died on the vine and was never released.

I really appreciated your cooperation in allowing us to try this Paul, and providing us with the source files was a great help.

Tom Kline
Houston, TX

[CSRX]

I have checked out the beta of the open autorack Pete, and it's shaping up to be a really good model. Fits well with the semi-enclosed autoracks from TS as well!

[cuontv]

Really nice work Pete, been having fun with the Beta. Don't know if you're aware...there's a group 'Open Autorack Memories' on Facebook with lots of impressive modelers and former rr/auto industry folks there. They might be able to help you with drawings and dimensional info. They've been a great resource for my re-skinning and mod projects.

Tom Kline
Houston, TX

[pwillard]

well, as an alpha test... it's still crude... coupler height needs some tweaking... and the upper deck cables are still missing. I was working on some 68 Chevy Vans for it, I might finish them.

[rt35ge]

Cool stuff.

So... it looks like it's ready for people to look at in ORTS. Alpha-release. semi-functional... no loads yet.

At least the couplers seem joined correctly.



Be sure to check out extra details here --> http://railsimstuff.com/blog.html ...and how you can get it to test it yourself...

Nice racks Pete. I designed a open rack for Railworks a couple of years ago. It's a empty version. At the time I didn't know how to add a load separate from the car. I now know how to do that and I need to go back and design one with a load. The one I did is for the D&RGW.

[pwillard]

Cool stuff.

So... it looks like it's ready for people to look at in ORTS. Alpha-release. semi-functional... no loads yet.

At least the couplers seem joined correctly.



Be sure to check out extra details here --> http://railsimstuff.com/blog.html ...and how you can get it to test it yourself...

[ZachBell4400]

In reply to Curt C,

In Becker, MN, along the BNSF mainline is a spur that runs about a mile or so east from the entrance to Northern States Power and the newly-installed interlocking that goes to Northern Metals Recycling. There is a scrap metal plant next door that makes steel coils and loads them into coil cars. About a hundred of them are sitting in the spur near Becker as I went along US-10 today. BN, BNSF, LW, NOKL, and other various roads. My apologies for not getting photos