For the rivet counters... More rivets!

[rfranzosa]

While creating new heavyweight passenger rolling stock for the upcoming BLW/ZT "Conn River Passenger Pack", I took a good hard look at the existing cars, and, armed with detailed photos from the Valley Railroad, I've upgraded existing stock textures as well. First up, the four 10 section, 1 drawing room, 2 compartment (10-1-2) sleepers originally offered as a bonus to the BLW/ZT Monon 2 set: Fort Canby, Camp Meigs, Sir Henry W Thornton and Camp Dix. Screenshot taken at French Lick, Indiana on Rick Berg's Monon 2 route.

These cars will be reissued as a bonus to customers that purchase(d) the BLW/ZT Monon 2 set. I will announce availability soon.

[eric]

You've even got the leaded glass in the lavatories... looks great!

[scottb613]

Hi Rick,

Looks good.

What cars are you making for the CT River?

I've got schematics for the 1922 B&M Osgood Bradley's - four-wheel trucks.

I've looked for the "American Flyers" but I haven't found any really good drawings. I'm guessing you may have the source for the old freeware coaches in the lib.

Looking forward to seeing what you can do.

1922 B&M Osgood Bradley (started):


Regards,
Scott

[rfranzosa]

Hey Scott,

Those look really nice! They'll make a great addition to the rolling stock available for Paul Charland's Conn River.

My target for the Conn River Passenger pack is 1955-1960. The HW Pullman sleepers that I have completed so far include the last 10 rostered by B&M (all scrapped in the early 1960s). In addition, I'm using sources from the B&M, CV and New Haven historical societies for engineering drawings and actual consists (including conductors logs). It's a fun project! I've also been working on the streamlined sleepers from the New Haven, B&M and CN,

I haven't gotten to coaches yet, but I do have both New Haven and B&M Osgood Bradley cars on my list, mostly the 'American Flyer' cars that would have been found on the Montrealer/Washingtonian, etc. I have drawings from the NHRHTA, plus the models that Phil Moberg created on trainsim.com.

Rick

[scottb613]

Hi Rick,

Understood - thanks - following up in your chat.

Regards,
Scott

[rfranzosa]

The update is now available at http://www.valleypass.com/forum in the "BLW/ZT Preview" section

While creating new heavyweight passenger rolling stock for the upcoming BLW/ZT "Conn River Passenger Pack", I took a good hard look at the existing cars, and, armed with detailed photos from the Valley Railroad, I've upgraded existing stock textures as well. First up, the four 10 section, 1 drawing room, 2 compartment (10-1-2) sleepers originally offered as a bonus to the BLW/ZT Monon 2 set: Fort Canby, Camp Meigs, Sir Henry W Thornton and Camp Dix. Screenshot taken at French Lick, Indiana on Rick Berg's Monon 2 route.

These cars will be reissued as a bonus to customers that purchase(d) the BLW/ZT Monon 2 set. I will announce availability soon.

[rfranzosa]

BLW/ZT Monon HW Sleepers Update

UPDATE - 19-NOV_2024 - I have added four new wag files (one for each sleeper) with end of train marker lamps. They are HW_Sleeper1M.wag, NH_Sleeper2M.wag, etc.)

You can used the download link at www.valleypass.com/forum in the "Bonus BLW/ZT" section to get the update.