Community Project?… 86' boxcar reskins!

Longhairedwizard here with another Mega-pack project underway. This time it's Dekosoft's 86' Autoparts boxcars, but instead of just doing a "Northeastern themed" pack, I'm planning to do as many roadnames as possible spanning from the 1960's to present day as even here in the Northeast (detroit)...one can see western and southern roadnames on those big boxcars. It took me a while, but I came up with some pretty nice composite textures and thought that I would make available some "Blanks" (textures in various comfigurations/colors without the logos, roadnames and numbers) so some of you could reskin you favorite version of these cars if your interested.The Blanks would be available matched to your color of choice in one of 6 configurations:4 door with silver doors
8 door with silver doors
4 door with body colored doors (such as the conrail versions below)
8 door with body colored doors
4 0r 8 door with one color of body, different color of door (such as B&O with blue body and yellow doors)Also, I'm open to any specific requests...just be prepared to supply a reference picture and/or logo gif if it is a less common roadname/version etc....Anyway here some pix of what ive done so far...Here is a "Blank" in a faded BN green (color needs some tweaking though.)
Post or Drop me an email with your suggestions or if your interested in doing a few reskins that can be combined in one or more mega-packs of these cars.Bill Bzak aka Longhairedwizardbbzak@msn.com

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Damn fine looking repaints you got there, Bill! Cheers!
Marc - 3DTrains
http://www.3dtrains.comPro Series SuperPacks

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Yep! gotta agree on that!But I got a question, Why did they have such big box cars? and what possibly could you fill that big thing with? I just cant envision that thing being filled to the top

Shawn Kenselaar, shawnssk@yahoo.com
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The NYO&W is Gone, But never forgotten!!!

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Well Shawn, when I was still in high school, I worked the raildock of a local injection molding plastics company that made plastic 30 gallon trash cans. 8 trash cans with lids per box. I remember loading 3 or 4 of these 86' monsters. These boxcars usually had 6 or 7 bulkhead doors in them. Bulkhead doors are like moveable walls to section off the boxcar from end to end, they're used to keep;ess than a full load from shifting and falling.
Anyway, At the raildock for the plastic plant, I remember loading 1 of these in 30 minutes 1 time. Loading full of the boxes of trash cans. 9 boxes wide, 3 rows high, with 2 loose laying sideways on top of the 3rd level, these boxcars were only ones that I could stack that high in. I had 2 forklift drivers bringing me 8 boxes at a time as fast as they could. I remember it was fun.
I shoved all the bulkhead doors to 1 end and locked them down, and I loaded this car in 30 minutes. I remember going up to the shipping office after pulling the boxcar ramp and closing the doors, to get the locking tags from Missouri Pacific from the managers, and they looked at me at said there was "No F**king way that I had finished loading that car and wouldn't give me the door tags, So I told them lazy butts to come out to the dock and I'll open the near side door so they could see. It was funny as hell to see 2 50 year old mens' jaws hang open and they're eyes bug out of they're heads and look at me smiling. So, I treated them on the dock the same way they treated me up in the office. I told them that next time I come up to get the door tags I don't want no f**king hassle about it. Well about 15 workers were witness to this and the 2 supervisors gave me a $1.00 an hour raise that day, a day I'll never forget.
Shawn, these boxcars will definately hold alot of boxes or whatever else you would want to ship in them and they are filled to the rafters quite often. Jim

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So in other words, these cars were made for high volume/low weight items, correct? Jonathan Nikiforovs.
Milepost 180, CP Belleville Sub.

Repainter for Yonder Locomotive Works.

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I guess so Jon, You could subtract the loaded gross weight from the empty gross weight and see how many tons it would be!! I figure mostly paper, plastic, and wood type items get shipped in these large boxcars.

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Hiya Bill!I have yet to see a 86 footer in the livery of Canadian national?I have seen them around the metro Detroit area.can't guarantee that i can find a pic of one though,i'll see what i can do.

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Most of the 86ft boxcars are loaded with auto parts. but also paper, furniture and appliances go well in these also.

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RE:"I have yet to see a 86 footer in the livery of Canadian national"I found a decent pic of CN 86ft boxcar on george elwoods site. I did a pretty precise job for ya Don...Here's a few more I did tonight...LHW

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Hey Bill, throw me a Missouri Pacific or a Texas Pacific in there if ya wouldn't mind for a Texas guy!! Jim

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Sure Jim, see if ya can find me a pic of one though....maybe some gif's of the logos too if possible and I'll get one out for ya!LHW

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Bill, Here's 2 pics--a 4 door and an 8 door--and a mopac screaming eagle logo. Jim

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I am thinking really hard here ...Hurts a bit !!I don't ever recall seeing a prototype CN 86ft box car.Either way it looks great !!LaterTim Kent
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Hey CPR, I found a proto pic on george elwood's site...so, yes, they are prototypical....not as common perhaps, but prototypical!Here is a link:LHW

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Where is the CSX?
I like the Mo-Pac, I could use it.
You did a swell job! I'll defenently download these, no questions.-Jeffrey
Wish I could ReSkin trains, I'd be helping alot of people!

Future Engineer

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they are prototypical....not as common perhaps, but
>prototypical!
Thanks for the pic / info LHWLaterTim Kent
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Thanks Bill! I knew they were around.I have a HO model of a CN 86' boxcar.I 've seen one in GT blue with the CN markings on them also.I see the CN 86 footers quite often at the Chrysler engine plant in Trenton Michigan.I've seen them loaded with engines,headed north to the Sterling heights Chrysler plant.

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Tim,you probably wouldn't see any CN 86 footers on your side of the border,since they are used mainly for autoparts here in the "Motor capital of the world"(Detroit)

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Very nice work, once again, Bill!FYI I've got an update for the 86' auto boxcar .s file coming soon -- it won't affect the texture mapping, but will correct the width and increase the distance level model.cheers,
Chip
Dekosoft Trains
http://dekosoft.com/design/msts/index.html

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Hey Chip,Thats great news about the shape file update....I have a sh*tload of these 86' reskins to do so I can certainly wait for the update!!!You can send it to me at: bbzak@msn.comPS-I was hoping to get the width corrected but I'm not sure what you mean by "increase the distance level model"?PPS-Thanks again chip for giving me permission to do a series of reskins of your excellent boxcars!!! I believe you mentioned something a while ago about featuring my reskins of these cars on the dekosoft site?....I think that would be a kewl idea!!!...drop me an email sometime and we can talk some more!Bill Bzak aka Longhairedwizardbbzak@msn.com

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What about Canadian Pacific?Chris Wilson
Marathon, Northwestern Ontario
MP 63 CP's Heron Bay Sub.
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I've never seen a CP one before...

I wanna highball it through Woodstock, Ont. on none other than...THE TURBOTRAIN!!!

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>I've never seen a CP one before... Me neither, BUTThen again I'd never seen a CN one before either Later
Tim Kent
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RE: "Where is the CSX"?don't worry, CSX is definetly on my "To Do" list. (as is B&O, C&O and Chessie)RE:Ive never seen a CP one"I couldnt find any proto pix of a CP 86 footer but I did find a pic of a CP 86' boxcar HO model (probably an athearn model)...don't know if it's prototypical or not, but I'd be happy to do one anyways..DON????...you ever see any CP 86' boxcars around detroit?????LHW

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Excellent BoxCar Skins!!
Here is a site that has some CP 86' Boxcars:
http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/cp/86ftbox.shtml
Keep up the good work!Mykel

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Wow...don't see those very often...(CP 86')

I wanna highball it through Woodstock, Ont. on none other than...THE TURBOTRAIN!!!

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Been busy lately but here is that MOPAC request and a CSX....Longhairedwizard

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Hey Bill, Awesome job on the mopac boxcar. That sucker looks like the real McCoy. Nice job and Thanks!! Jim

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