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TrirailF40PHL (361 posts)
Feb-01-02, 09:47 PM (EST) "CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!"


Did the loco in TSM in around 1 1/2 hours....It's not perfect, the sides are not bent like the real one, but i'll update it someday.....I'll upload it to the file libary after perfecting the lights, might do a special care for the back with a virtual cab so you don't go nuts when you are running backwards and making an auto-installer/readme.Kurt Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... ccyko Feb-02-02 1 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... TrirailF40PHL Feb-02-02 2 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... Bing Feb-02-02 3 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... ccyko Feb-02-02 4 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... sniper297 Feb-02-02 5 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... ccyko Feb-02-02 6 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... TrirailF40PHL Feb-02-02 7 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... TrirailF40PHL Feb-02-02 8 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... ccyko Feb-03-02 9 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... TrirailF40PHL Feb-03-02 10 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... TrirailF40PHL Feb-03-02 11 RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L... ccyko Feb-04-02 12

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ccyko (380 posts)
Feb-02-02, 04:05 AM (EST) 1. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" BIGGEST question!... How tight of a turn will handle? I figured the problem with the MSTS 2000 cars to be the distance the trucks are from the ends. Will this new car pull an 8 car train through a 75 foot radius curve?-Chris
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TrirailF40PHL (361 posts)
Feb-02-02, 09:27 AM (EST) 2. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" Well, I got 4 cars through 45s no problem, even the S curve 45s on the green line (I think). Will try out 8 soon.Kurt Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Bing (185 posts)
Feb-02-02, 10:00 AM (EST) 3. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" Way to go!! We finally have El cars that look like El cars. Now ... not to be ungrateful, but ... how about the old green and white cars, the non-air conditioned ones we used to suffocate in during the summer, while the lucky south siders got the new cars with air cooling? I know this hpapened because I lived in Chicago during the transition. There might even be some of the old greenies sitting around in the yards. I haven't installed L1 yet: Is there a Skokie Swift line in the route and is there a changeover from outside third rail to overhead and back again? Used to stand at Crawford and the Swift line, just to watch it - at night the lights go out in the cars for just a moment during the changeover. Great stuff!! Way back when, the Swift drivers used to roll into the Skokie station with pheasant plastered on the front of the cars, from what I heard they got to take them home for dinner, too.Bing
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ccyko (380 posts)
Feb-02-02, 10:38 AM (EST) 4. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" A true test of cornering couldn't be found on the L1 route unfortunatly, because all of that has been exagerated so that the series 2000 cars would fit through them. The best way to test them is to make a 75 foot radius turn, and try to fit them through. Actually, the closest you can get is an 83' 4" turn (just did the math) in MSTS, but you might try that.-Chris
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sniper297 (1497 posts)
Feb-02-02, 11:35 AM (EST) 5. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" "Not perfect", he says. Kurt, you rock! That's pretty doggone close, here's a comparison;Here's some Illinois Railway Museum shots of the old 4000 series cars;I can't lay my hands on a shot of the 2000 series green and white cars at the moment, but I bet Chris will beat me to finding it. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ccyko (380 posts)
Feb-02-02, 11:44 AM (EST) 6. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" I don't have to, Graham Garfield did it for me.compliments of Chicago-L.org....-Chris
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TrirailF40PHL (361 posts)
Feb-02-02, 06:42 PM (EST) 7. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" Yuk.....I'm going to fix the side of my 2400 car quick...the rounded shape looks great. You won't catch me doing the 4000 series, but I'll do the 2000 if someone can provide me perfect side and front views. Say, what's series number of the ribbed-side MK-built units?Kurt Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
TrirailF40PHL (361 posts)
Feb-02-02, 08:45 PM (EST) 8. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" Fixed the sides....the front gives me a stomach-ache...gotta fix THAT...YUKKurt Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ccyko (380 posts)
Feb-03-02, 05:34 PM (EST) 9. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" LAST EDITED ON Feb-03-02 AT 05:38 PM (EST)quick trivia: why are the sides of the cars bulged out like that?The width between the track and platform only allows trains to be 8' 8", so when the CRT was building the 5000 series, they wanted to expand passenger capacity, thus they widened above the platform level, to approx 9' 4".Also... I'm not sure of the "MK" units you are talking about?
Edit: MK - Morrison-Knudsen?, that's the CTA's newest series to date, the 3200 series.Also, is it possible to change the destination signs in a similar way to changing the marker lights, or to make a seperate controlled animaton for that, so as to make a set of cars suitable to more than one route?-Chris
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TrirailF40PHL (361 posts)
Feb-03-02, 06:19 PM (EST) 10. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" I think I meant Pullman Standard...Kurt Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
TrirailF40PHL (361 posts)
Feb-03-02, 06:21 PM (EST) 11. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" Also, is it possible to change the destination signs in a similar way to changing the marker lights, or to make a seperate controlled animaton for that, so as to make a set of cars suitable to more than one route? > Doubt it...anyway, they are very blurred, and I can't make it out...Kurt Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ccyko (380 posts)
Feb-04-02, 00:15 AM (EST) 12. "RE: CTA Boeing-Vetrol cars on the L1 route!!!!!!! Pics in message!" LAST EDITED ON Feb-04-02 AT 00:22 AM (EST)Pullman cars built for the Chicago Transit Authority, and it's predecessors.....25 Open open platform trailors for the Lake St. Elevated Railroad
#s 101-12510 Closed platform trailors for the Lake St. Elevated Railroad #s 201-2151 Closed platform motor car for the Lake St. Elevated Railroad #2234250 Open Platform trailors in 3 variants for the Metroplolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ("The Polly") #s 100-24970 Closed platform motor cars in 2 variants for the Polly #s 858-92737 Open Platform motor cars for the Northwestern Elevated Railroad #s 1-37110 Open Platform trailors for the Northwestern Elevated Railroad #s 100-209Edit: Didn't mean to hit post...2 5000 series cars #5001 and 5002 built for the Chicago Rapid Transit Company180 2000 series high performance cars (the entirety of the 2000 series) built for the Chicago Transit Authority
(This series being the shortest lived series to date being placed into series in 1964, and all having been retired by 1994 when the Green line closed for re-hab) Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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