A Trip to Michigan: The Kalamazoo Terminal Railway

[PullmanCar]

This just keeps getting better and better.

Thank you so much for all of this!

Thank you both. I hope you enjoy the assets and they help to further enhance the route.

I have only just realised I did not send pictures with them. Time to look into that, and maybe shoot some quick videos with the units.

'PullmanCar'

[PullmanCar]

Recently I have come upon a couple of new "issues" that I am curious if others will suffer from. After an update today, the 2 Monon steam locomotives reverted to BESSEMER lettering on the tender when Assets>G-Trax>BLE updated. I have fixed it on my end, but it still was odd. I made an edit to the .geopcdx files to solve this; as the texture files were unchanged, but the game had reverted to reading the \Default\ file structure instead of the \Monon\

The "FEC" ex-WICT/SNC BL2 had lights work fine, but the JSE/SNC BL2 52 headlights and KTR ex-JSE 52 BL2 headlights show a missing texture. This has since been rectified, and was due to a missing file. If others have this issue, let me know.

The file "Lens Flare Texture.TgPcDx" can be copied from: RailWorks\Assets\Kalamazoo\EMD BL2-FEC\RailVehicles\Diesel\Engine\Textures
to: RailWorks\Assets\Kalamazoo\EMD BL2-KTR\RailVehicles\Diesel\Engine\Textures
and: RailWorks\Assets\Kalamazoo\EMD BL2-JnS\RailVehicles\Diesel\Engine\Textures
to solve this.

I hope you all enjoy the updates. I feel as though the Monon Motive Power Society Diesels never get enough love, so here is the U23B, No. 607, out piloting the Century, No. 507, on a short demonstration freight at Porter Street.

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And let us not forget my raison d'être (although this is not one of my babies, none are 6-3s), PULLMAN Heavyweights.


'PullmanCar'

[Mikeov1985]

The Last One:

This was the last unit left on my list to complete. All 75 surviving E units circa 2020 (when I began this project) are in game, plus multiple variants:

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In this case I felt with the Fox Valley route, one might like a matched A-B-A set, so I did 101 and 102 to compliment 103 in WSOR Livery. I will be glad to do a pre-2009 version with beacon too. I also did an SLRG patched 103 and 102 set, and 103 in patched Kalamazoo Terminal Livery. (101 is Buzz's fabulous MILW 32A from the 261 Group, and 102B forms part of the matched A-B-A IC set).

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Thank you to so many for help:
Buzz for the fabulous skins and putting up with my incessant rivet counting.
Kris for help with the lights.
Martin Ashwill did the lovely child object ditchlights, portholes, and some light flares.
I am blanking on the name of the creator at TruRail who did the sounds and beacons, but those are fabulous assets.
The CentralJerseyRailfan's fabulous 567 and 645BC sound packs and Horns, and the incredible Horn-Switcher feature from the BeastWar'sEnjoyer EMD FP7 Pack, which gave me the idea to make my own dual horn GP38s (as SOU units had directional horns), dual horn 'Monon' units, copying the M5/A200 onto the Wabash 1009 which had an M5 and A200.

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Time to tidy up all the .bak files, check all the images, and check lots of headlights for vertical/horizontal.


Where it all began.......

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Thank you.
'PullmanCar'

All I can say is wow! These look gorgeous! Now I may need to do a WSOR / ex-MILW route to give these guys a place to roam!

Bravo.. Awesome job on those WSOR Units. I am sure Mike will be very proud to have running on his Masterpiece Fox Valley Route. Keep up the Good Work! Stefan

They certainly could do some fictitious switching jobs in Oshkosh. I don’t think WSOR had the E units when their tracks went into the heart of Oshkosh, but the WSOR E units did come up on the WC in the early 1990s for the annual Trains to Planes event at EAA.

[Mikeov1985]

Here’s a picture of the WSOR 801 and WSOR 10c at Oshkosh for Trains to Planes in 1990 and 1993 respectively.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/5632/11838779446

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[PullmanCar]

I have been working on the E units, lots of little bits that required touching up.

Based upon Mike's post, the first pack I have ready is the WSOR 101-102B-103 pack, which includes these 3 units in several variations over the past 20 years.

Would someone be willing to beta test them, before I send them to Chacal?
They require the DTG Amtrak E8 Pack, and everything else should (I hope) be packaged in.
Child objects by Martin Ashwill, Kris120, and Drangus; all used with permission.
12-567 sounds from the TruRailSimulations CNW E8 (not required) and 12-645 and 567 horn sounds from the 567 and 645 packs by BeastWarsEnjoyer. (Not required).

The first two packs I have ready are:
The initial pack, where this all started, the autumn harvest E8Au/E9Am pairs
-SLRG 9925 (ex-CB&Q E9Am) in Iowa Pacific Condition
-SLRG 100 (ex-CB&Q E9Am, ex-modern IC) in Iowa Pacific Condition
-SLRG 515 (ex-CNW E8Au) in Iowa Pacific Condition
-SLRG 518 (ex-CNW E8Au) in Iowa Pacific Condition
-KTR 515 (ex-SLRG E8Au) in KTR lettering
-KTR 518 (ex-SLRG/SNC E8Au) in KTR lettering
-KTR 4108 (ex-SLRG B unit) in KTR lettering
-KTR 102B (ex-WSOR ex-SLRG E8B) in KTR lettering

The other pack is the WSOR E9 Pack, featuring the 3 units operated by WSOR for a number of years, in various conditions.
Included is "101", ex-MILW 32A, originally 202A, from April of 1956. The unit later saw service as Amtrak 32A and 434, before going to Alaska, as Alaska Railroad 2402, until 1986. It returned south as WSOR 10C, until being renumbered 101 in 2008. WSOR sold the unit to the Friends of the 261 group in 2019, who returned it to its MILW 32A number, in a faux MILW Hiawatha scheme, as by the time the E9s were delivered MILW diesels wore UP styled yellow.
-WSOR 2000s condition, right after renumbering from 10C
-WSOR 2000s-2010s condition
-MILW 32A Friends of 261 Post-2021 Condition, modified from Buzz Baxter's kindly done MILW 32A.

Included is "103", ex-UP 957, from September of 1955. This unit later saw service as Amtrak 430, before going to Alaska, as Alaska Railroad 2401, until around 1986. It initially was dressed in Southern Railway inspired paint, before becoming WSOR 10A, and 103 in 2008. WSOR sold the 103, along with 102B, to Iowa Pacific Holdings, who patched out the lettering, but never repainted the 103 into Autumn Harvest. With the bankruptcy of IOU Pacific, 103 was sold, in real life to North Carolina's Aberdeen, Carolina & Western, but in this timeline, to the Kalamazoo Terminal, with the 102B.
-WSOR 2000s condition, right after renumbering from 10A
-WSOR 2000s-2010s condition
-SLRG 103 patched 2010s condition
-KTR 103 patched SLRG condition

102B", ex-UP 967B, from September of 1955 as well. This unit later saw service as a heater car for Amtrak and Michigan Northern, before being rebuilt back to a B unit. Like 103, the 102B was sold to Iowa Pacific Holdings, and patched, but never repainted into Autumn Harvest. In reality, with the IOU Pacific bankruptcy it went to the Illinois Railway Museum, but here it went to Kalamazoo with 103.
-WSOR 102
-SLRG 102 patched

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Would anyone be willing to beta test these, at their own risk, naturally?

-Jacob
'PullmanCar'

[AmericanSteam]

There is listed in a scenario for KTR a AS616 (from Diesel Workshop) KTR ex CnO, where is the reskin for this located.

[PullmanCar]

There is listed in a scenario for KTR a AS616 (from Diesel Workshop) KTR ex CnO, where is the reskin for this located.

I am afraid this may be one I have not gotten to publishing, yet. I was hoping to find someone to model the full height hood for one of the 2 AS616s, the non-C&O one.

I had 10 and 11. The scenarios are all a bit 'hit or miss' I am afraid, with various content required, that I have not gotten up in as timely of a manner as I should have, due to other time constraints.

There should be a thread regarding the modelling, and a desire to have the hood height raised, plus final import for Paul Charland's ex-CNoR combine.

'PullmanCar'

[PullmanCar]

I am pleased to announce that several of the E units, are now on RWA. I hope they work (one never can tell, despite testing, as there are so, so many; and so many different sound folders). I 'erred' on the side of caution, and may have included a few unnecessary sound files on these early ones, which I am looking at trimming down, to hopefully reduce file size; whilst avoiding units not functioning, which I am sure somehow they will still fail to do, as I will have messed up something.

Presently WSOR's E9 A-B-A set is up; along with the 2 that Iowa Pacific bought (103 and 102B) in IPH/SLRG patched livery; and a fictional KTR patch; plus an enhanced version of the 32-A (ex-101) that Buzz kindly did for me). These are E9s.
https://www.railworksamerica.com/index. ... e-repaints

Also up is the Rock Island pair, 652 and 630; in the 2000s/as delivered "Rocket" Scheme, and the present 1960s simplified scheme.
https://www.railworksamerica.com/index. ... e-repaints

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I am finishing up packaging the iconic IPH/SLRG/KTR IC autumn harvest pack, and coaches. I have a Union Pacific set (using the 949/951/963B set, now with enhancements, plus 942 and 928), if there would be interested.

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What other E units would users be interested in, out of the surviving units? I have a lot of CB&Q/BN units, so I was planning on releasing those next; then maybe some faux GM&O units; but otherwise what are people interested in seeing?

'PullmanCar'

[Mikeov1985]

These are great Jacob! Thank you for your fine contribution!