Triple Crown containers

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Hi Jerry and yellowdog. I was looking at some drone footage from around Asheville last night and while I didn't (couldn't??) see much of the tracks, the...

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Thanks for the extra info yellowdog, much appreciated! If you drew a line from Chicago down to Houston, RR-wise I know a bit about what happens west...

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That's a really well written article by Chase Gunnoe yellowdog, thanks for posting it. While the numbers of those employed by the railways in small towns...

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Thanks heaps for sharing that link Pete. I'll get it printed out and start to work my way through it!...

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Thanks Pete and as a non-modeller anything that simplifies or standardises the process sounds like a good idea to me. I have to admit that I haven’t...

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Issues of gymnastics and courage aside, as much as it looks like a lot of text, those steps are pretty straightforward and probably take about 10 minutes...

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I hear you Shawn. A couple of years back we were replacing our shed and I wanted a container. I lost that "vote" 3 - 1. 😊

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Yep, I've been seeing it here too with the ocean containers. I saw a bunch of Tex and Triton (I think it was both just based on the different sized paint...

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LOL Shawn. It looks like Bernard's making a couple of us squirm a bit. I was looking at his attention to detail with doors etc and then looking at some...

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I didn't know that Shawn. So they're sort of a container version of TTX then?

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I just spotted some EMP (I think) containers that had been patched to Triple Crown (TCZU). As much as I thought it was a shame the RoadRailers had reached...

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I'm sure what Shawn is suggesting is don't just slap the patch on and wipe out the details underneath it. It doesn't matter how much rust, grime or additional...

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Totally agree about the MSTS-centric nature of a lot of the S4M stuff Eric and I guess that was part of what I was getting at with my ramble. A lot of...

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I was just in the process of replying to Neil's post on my wheel removal tutorial and realised I was about to hijack my own thread but it's a topic I've...

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You're totally welcome Neil! 😊😊...

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Thanks heaps all and great to see some progress there Damian, good stuff! Enjoy guys! 😊

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Other than needing a new coat of paint on the bogies to make them more appropriate for use on the ATSF, you should now have a newly wheeled and fully...

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Save your .eng file and if we now look at the model in the sim or ShapeViewer the wheels and bogies will be gone:



It’s now...

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Next we need to edit SF_SD40_2_5040_aFA.ace and as it is an ace file we need to open it with TGAtool2. It doesn’t have any existing alpha channel so...

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If we now look at our source loco in the sim or shapeviewer, it should look like this:



Prior to closing this .s file I would...