Railworks America

I've been updating the OVSR site and I've come across 3 repaints of Michael Stephan's 48 ft Bulkhead flats and can't find any original packages that contain them.
I've gotten them from Ian Allen's Soo Line freeware assets pack and they are in GreatNortherner\Allegheny\RailVehicles\Freight\Bulkhead-48: ACL, ATSF and GMO.
I've contacted Ian, but he can't find any info on these cars.
If anyone can identify the painter of these cars so proper credit can be given it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Rick

Hi,

The ATSF car looks like it may be my original version, a slightly updated version of which is included in the download on my website.

The other two seem familiar, too, but I don't remember who created them. Modelers and repainters ought to start "signing" their textures.

Cheers,
Michael

The cars are similar but there are differences. The car in front is from the GSC West pack, while the rear car is the repaint.
The repaint has a lighter deck, 2 T line sections at each end with lighter colour as opposed to an H pattern on the original, lettering and number are slightly smaller, car body is slightly lighter and the car information is in different positions.

Michael mentioned creator signatures. Can a repaint xml file contain a comment line that would be retained in the compressed bin file? Either that, or a text file with the creator information could be placed in each repaint folder.

Rick

GreatNorthener's proposal is really not that out of the world.
Creators could paint their name and / or site of publication on an invisible part of the texture, or add their name to the <Name> section in the blueprint:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<cBlueprintLoader xmlns:d="http://www.kuju.com/TnT/2003/Delta" d:version="1.0">
   <Blueprint>
      <cWagonBlueprint>
         <Name d:type="cDeltaString">covered_hopper by DTG</Name>    <--- here
         <BrowseInformation>
            <iRailVehicleBlueprint-cBrowseRVInformation>
               <DisplayName>
                  <Localisation-cUserLocalisedString>
                     <English d:type="cDeltaString">CovHopper 3-Bay BNSF</English>


I know some people put their symbol in [] in the DisplayName, the whole name would make the designation too long.