A couple of VIA things and some hoppers

[bh762]

Was tinkering around with Don Crawford's VIA Canadian pack and ended up with this:
A refurbished VIA1 coach with upgraded interior for the business traveller, and wi-fi access (I know you can't see it, but trust me, it's there).




Also darkened the original textures of the pack to give them more of a realistic look:




And finally, some repaints of the cylindrical hoppers by GreatNortherner:

[DrewG]

Awesome job on those via cars! Now we need a route to run them on

[buzz456]

Canadian Passes perhaps?

[DrewG]

Via doesn't run on that line, do it wouldn't be prototypically correct. Hopefully my proposal on engine diver will be created. ( I still do run via on CMP's though )

[thecanadianrail]

Via doesn't run on that line, do it wouldn't be prototypically correct. Hopefully my proposal on engine diver will be created. ( I still do run via on CMP's though )

Actually VIA did run over CP's line when VIA first came into service, in fact they ran over the line until just after they purchased the F40PH-2d's. This equipment would work well over the route if you backdate it to an earlier time.

[bh762]

I don't always run VIA on CMP, but when I do, I do it like this:





From pictures I've seen circa late '70's/early '80's, it would have been a fairly typical consist on that route.

Awesome job on those via cars! Now we need a route to run them on

The VIA1 coaches are a common sight on the Windsor-Quebec corridor. Would be awesome if someone modeled a portion of that. I should also mention that G-Trax and Don Crawford deserve 99.9% of the credit for these. I just changed a few things and tinted some windows.

[Kali]

The reason I keep doing Canadian stuff is entirely down to getting on a train at Brockville for Montreal in about 1979, when I was a wee nipper ( 1979 was a really fantastic year to fly over on a DC-10 too... ); would be kinda nice to have something around the lakes/St Lawrence, area, yes. Chicago-Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal prhaps? ( ahem, good luck! ).