Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Well Cars

I must say I am amazed with Jointed Rail's latest release.

First they came out with the well cars and an overall limited selection of 53' Jindo containers. Then the line of those broadened to a campy "containers for the masses" ;)

The new pack, at least in the case of the 53 footers, contains How Tomorrow Moves, UMAX, JB Hunt, Schneider, EMP, and HUB group liveries. The ultimate pack!

Now, for a Miami Sub routebuilder or one of the central-Florida A-line, one cannot have all of them together in one piece.

Hence I came up with this plan that will sort cars out to different assets, consider this a how-to, where the instructions are within the context:

For personal use only, pending any consideration from the JR team.

1. TTX Maxi-Stack "General"
  • This would be the intact, out-of-the-box asset.
  • Untouched
2. TTX Maxi-Stack "CSX"
  • The config would be altered to which the 53' containers tag in the Dependency Table will be changed to the corresponding CSX pack.
  • The CSX containers pack will only have seven meshes in the mesh-table: CSX, CSX HTM, UMAX, UMAX gray, STAX red, CSX (ex.STAX) and I think Schneider may be considered.
3. TTX Maxi-Stack "NS"
  • The config would be altered to which the 53' containers tag in the Dependency Table will be changed to the corresponding NS pack.
  • The NS containers pack will include five meshes: Swift, Hub Red, Hub Green, EMP green, and JB Hunt Intermodal
4.  TTX Maxi-Stack "Reduced"
  • The config of the pack corresponding to this asset would be reduced to which any other container not in the above, but including Schneider, would be put in this dependency table.
  • The Reduced container pack includes Pacer, APL, Crowley, and Schneider.
5. TTX Maxi-Stack "Hardcore CSX"
  • Only two containers would form a mini-pack for this one: CSX white and CSX HTM
  • For uniformity
6. TTX Maxi-Stack "Hardcore UMAX"
  • Only the two UMAX container liveries would be forming a mini-pack for this one.
  • For uniformity
7. TTX Maxi-Stack "Hardcore EMP"
  • Only the EMP container will be the dependency here.
  • For uniformity
Once done, these will jive VERY well with FEC trains, CSX IM, and NS IM. I would like to remind the reader that this is for personal use, but the strategy is there for any curious Trainzer to try out. Look for my CSX Intermodal on the Miami Sub vision of the future video on YouTube later today (March 10) which will show the effect of the variety on CSX trains. This stratagem is designed to improve aesthetics when Trainzing the Intermodal of your choice.

1 comment:

  1. If there are any West Coast lovers out there, then I will extend that:

    BNSF: Just JB Hunt, Schneider, Red Hub Group, and Swift.

    UP: Every one that I did not name on BNSF ;)

    Love it that someone finally came to their senses to do that. Great job, Tolga!

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