Man… that was a nice trip ! ( 7pics)

It was really nice in that new Business Car of the UP Excursion fleet...
3985 took the train over Kicking Horse Pass, really nice...here a few pics :
Update on the Smoothsides, now only the Baggage Car is missing to complete the package and then up to the tuning shop...
(well is there anything to tune ?)
I still need a "5" key view... *grumble*Have fun !!Jens-Chris

16 years old, from Germany, MSTS 3D Add-on maker and repainter ---- Jens-Chris ----

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RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), AlphaMaster, Jul-22-02, 02:26 PM, (1) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), Stumbl, Jul-22-02, 02:30 PM, (2) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), TexasWestern70Mac, Jul-22-02, 02:35 PM, (3) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), JensChris, Jul-22-02, 02:46 PM, (4) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), HAC, Jul-22-02, 03:06 PM, (5) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), AM_ROAD, Jul-22-02, 03:16 PM, (6) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), mjs2101, Jul-22-02, 09:02 PM, (7) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), Adam3291, Jul-22-02, 09:21 PM, (8) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), HAC, Jul-22-02, 10:34 PM, (9) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), Adam3291, Jul-22-02, 11:10 PM, (10) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), np2156, Jul-23-02, 00:11 AM, (11) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), ace6879, Jul-23-02, 00:46 AM, (12) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), bcdef, Jul-23-02, 06:28 AM, (13) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), gxm149, Jul-25-02, 11:52 AM, (14) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), bcdef, Jul-25-02, 03:20 PM, (15) RE: Man... that was a nice trip !!! ( 7pics), Fastruck, Jul-25-02, 10:48 PM, (16) Uh-Oh, century242, Jul-26-02, 01:12 AM, (17) RE: Uh-Oh, bcdef, Jul-26-02, 06:35 AM, (18) RE: Uh-Oh, JensChris, Jul-26-02, 07:15 AM, (19) RE: Uh-Oh, bcdef, Jul-26-02, 05:19 PM, (20) RE: Uh-Oh, HAC, Jul-26-02, 05:31 PM, (21) RE: Uh-Oh, ace6879, Jul-26-02, 06:12 PM, (22) RE: Uh-Oh, HAC, Jul-26-02, 07:53 PM, (23)

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Looks great! these are some of the best cars ive seen yet! Cant wait to get 'em!

-Danny
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lol , they look good Jens , shame ya can't git in em yet ( pass view )

"I do what my Rice Krispies tell me to do"

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those are really good jens. a suggestion on colors of your UP equipment though. here is a pic of cars i reskinned in UP colors. they are colors from an actual car. they will make the cars look much more realistic. here's the pic(of the car an screen of the tga)the grey and yellow were not distorted in the screenshot.


hope this helps (in my opinion the yellow is too intense for UP)

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thanks for the tip, only actually I did take the colors from a Smoothside Car pic from UP, I looked at *MANY* pics of Smoothsides and I mixed the best UP yellow together and did match the locos with that yellow...So, thanks for the tip, but I let it like it is...
Mine are CLEANED Jens-Chris

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-22-02 AT 03:08 PM (EDT)

Hi JC..
I'll send you some modified 3985 files soon. <G> I'm running one up in passenger two-tone grey (3976) (can you add smoke wings for this one, like the FEF-3?), and black (like your original) with weathering for freight. The new whistle sounds are made from 3985 recordings and work well, as do the other new sounds - mechanical stoker instead of the "FS-shoveler"), cross compound compressor, injector and safety popoffs (all recorded live). I've added some steam effects and firebox flicker as well..I think I could get you a scan of a colour chip of UP yellow as well..let me know...Cheers
Harold (NALW-HAC)

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Add 2 more cars and thats the City Of Denver

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WOW! These look really great! I must say that for doing UP, you are doing a superb job. (sorry, still a Southerner at heart) Keep up the good work and thanks for the updates!Michael

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-22-02 AT 09:29 PM (EDT)

Hac, I got the 844 sounds covered. As soon as I get a E-mail I will send the recordings over to NALW! Also the 844/8444 ran in four schemes. 844 gray, 844 black, 8444 gray, and 8444 black. JC, sweet job on the cars. Can't wait to put it in front of the 844 and 3985 on excursions.Just for EVERYONE to know those smoke wings were called Elephant Ears by railroaders.New LOGO in progress!
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Thanks Adam.. Looking forward to seeing what you have..
Those "elephant ears" are "smoke lifters" in CPR-speak <G>
I'll start the skins asap.. Got any good reference pics of the grey scheme you can point me at?Cheers
Harold (NALW-HAC)

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-22-02 AT 11:12 PM (EDT)

Hac, I was talking about the two-tone gray scheme. Here is a pic but you can only see the front of the loco.
Here is a full pic of the loco but she is pretty far away.
New LOGO in progress!
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Bring Narrow Guage to Life!
Adam Parsons
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The real 3977 has recently been repainted in two-tone gray complete with the "elephant ears". She is the only one of the two surviving Challengers to have worn that scheme in service, but for many years she was painted black on display. In fact I believe that's her oil bunker in 3985's tender now (3985 was always a coal-burner in service and also in the first few years after she was restored). I've seen a shot of the 3977 since the repaint but for the life of me I can't remember what site it was on. I have one of her that I took in '95 but she was still painted black then. She's on display in Cody Park in North Platte, Nebraska.

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Hey there Jens-Chris, send me a beta of just ONE of the cars and I will get ya a 5 key view!! Preferably the business car! It is just an open offer my friend!! Besides, I need to light the biz car anyway!!! NICE work as aways!!KelleyKelley D. Ellison



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Man JC you are th. E best add-on maker i have ever seen!

Railroads are our best friend they protect, save, move, give, and get!
give them gratitude which they deserve. All us RailBuffs dont even see the full potential railroads give!
to see it you got to be it!
All railroads are are steel laces on wood with big loud heavy machines on them! so simple yet so helpful!
Railroad the best, easiest, and simplest way to be and make a friend.
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Jens Chris, I had an idea for the passenger view. You could use the interior for the dome car in the VIA Passenger Cars repainted to the Amtrak colors. The dome cars in that set look like they are the same type as the ones that you have modeled for your set. The seats have a brown leather interior to them and would probably work well for one of your Union Pacific dome cars that you have. All you would have to do is copy the files for the passenger view files and put the appropriate link to it in the file for your dome passenger car. There is nothing in the interior to distinguish it as Union Pacific, Amtrak, or any other company so it would work pretty well. Plus being a dome it would give you an excellent view of the country side as it goes by out the window. You may have to get Train Artisan's permission since Gaetan Baelenger who I believe is part of their team did the original. But since there are other repaints of the cars here on www.train-sim.com I doubt it would be a problem. Anyway, I hope that this suggestion is helpful and that it might allow you to get the passenger view that you are looking for. Keep up the good work, those look great so far, your work is amazing and I look forward to running them when they are finished. George.

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ive been on one of those UP dome cars!
back in 97 there was a train ride in Culumbus Nebraska and i got on luckly caus eit was booked! but the domes are different then the Via or RGZ i have some pics.

Railroads are our best friend they protect, save, move, give, and get!
give them gratitude which they deserve. All us RailBuffs dont even see the full potential railroads give!
to see it you got to be it!
All railroads are are steel laces on wood with big loud heavy machines on them! so simple yet so helpful!
Railroad the best, easiest, and simplest way to be and make a friend.
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WoWIE Wow!Jens christ you have out done your self with these new Union pacfic passenger cars.Oh BTW, is the challenger still a go or we should wait for TA's version.oh oh I allmost forgot,did you ever go on your trip to the US and how was it.3 ago weeks I got back from Wyoming and let me tell you nothing but dash9's an sd90's on the rails Union pacfic locomotives all over the interstate 80 and some CSX locos but very few.great to see you still at it and thanks for the all the locomotives you have done.

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Looks like Union Pacific is doing a route inspection of a future acquisistion. Is CP about to become a Fallen Flag, gobbled up by the yellow machine?
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acually the Central Pacific was taken over by Souther Pacific and now UP owns the Southern Pacific!

Railroads are our best friend they protect, save, move, give, and get!
give them gratitude which they deserve. All us RailBuffs dont even see the full potential railroads give!
to see it you got to be it!
All railroads are are steel laces on wood with big loud heavy machines on them! so simple yet so helpful!
Railroad the best, easiest, and simplest way to be and make a friend.
THE END

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Spits his coke all over the monitor...
ROFLMAO !!!!bcdef, with CP is Canadian Pacific meant, because I rode the Excursion on the KHP...LOL !Oh yes, KHP = Kicking Horse Pass, just to prevent other abbreviation issues...Jens-Chris

16 years old, from Germany, MSTS 3D Add-on maker and repainter ---- Jens-Chris ----

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oh LOL i thought you guys were talking bout the Central Pacific RR

Railroads are our best friend they protect, save, move, give, and get!
give them gratitude which they deserve. All us RailBuffs dont even see the full potential railroads give!
to see it you got to be it!
All railroads are are steel laces on wood with big loud heavy machines on them! so simple yet so helpful!
Railroad the best, easiest, and simplest way to be and make a friend.
THE END

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Actually, I have somewhere here a pic of a UP business train that ran over the Laggan sub when we were entertaining the UP brass. So we do have a precedent here. Was really neat seeing a string of Armour Yellow varnish up here..

cheers
HAC

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Actually, rumors are the CP-UP combined their rosters when BNSF went after CN. I am sure it will come down to BNSF-CN and UP-CPTwo major rail lines in the west...can you say ANTI-TRUST and MONOPOLY??BTW JEns, Any luck with the 5 key view??later!Kelley D. Ellison



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Hiya Kelley..
Well, we didn't really combine rosters, but what we have got are run-through agreements, and power sharing agreements. The two networks are a good fit, in terms of service handoffs. Don't expect a merger, but rather a "strategic alliance" ..
That's about all I can say publicly...cheers
HaroldBTW, should have those SD's ready for you soon..

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