[Railroad Librarian]

Just discovered a useful set of freightanims from one of my European discoveries stored away on one of my external drives.

So I did up a quick set of "checks" to see how they'd look on a SLI flatcar...more info coming.

For now just a quick shot of the results. Lot's of interesting uses for these puppies!

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[longiron]

Nice, very under represented but visually interesting.

[Genma Saotome]

Back in the late steam era run of the mill 40ft boxcars roamed the rails to such an extent the odds of spotting any one roadname away from home was almost exactly equal to the percentage of the total number of boxcars that road owned. IOW boxcars pretty much were evenly distributed across the mainlines of America.

It turns out that is also true of flatcars; Like ordinary boxcars they were general purpose cars and as such they wandered. WWII was a great time for wildly distributing cars across the country. Many took years to come home... and then hit the road again. That isn't true of other types of freight cars... hoppers tended to move to one or two unloading point and then back into the coal fields again; Ditto for stock cars. Tankcars were (and still are) on an even tighter distribution with each car seeing only two stopping points for much of it's lifetime -- out to the same old spot and right back again. Gondolas could wander but as so many of them were tied to the steel industry only a small number of the national fleet routinely wandered.

My point is any late steam / early diesel era mainline route could have somebody else's flatcar (and boxcar) included in the consist. There are not all that many steam era flatcar models out there... having some crates to stick on them may make the car a bit more interesting, perhaps enough to give an incentive to somebody to make some more.

They look great.

[ianmacmillan]

There is one load that every suitable wagon should carry........

The default crates.

http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/80489/DefaultCrates.jpg


Why?

Because almost every route has them lying about in goods yards and loading areas.

[conductorchris]

Those crates that railroad librarian found are certainly the best looking crate loads I've seen. What's your source? Or could they be uploaded here?
thanks
Christopher

[ebnertra000]

They look to be the crate loads from the RoLF (Romanian Locomotive Factory) Army freight car Pack. They can be found in the train-sim.ro section of this site. Be warned that the site is in Romanian, which is surprisingly easy to understand if you have any experience with neo-Latin languages