Northern Pacific "North Coast Limited" Coach Set

[PotatoLocal]

This may seem completely out of the blue considering how long I have been inactive, but after a much needed break from Railworks to regain my desire to repaint again I would like to present the Northern Pacific "North Coast Limited" Coach Set! This project was started a very long time ago for someone else's project that has seemingly died with no indication of returning. Child object decals were needed to add the logos, and at the time I did not know how to do them. Recently GenericZack helped me through actually making them, and I decided to come back to these cars and finish them myself.

These cars are reskins of the GN Empire Builder pack, which although close to being accurate, aren't 100% there. The most inaccurate thing you may notice is the dome car. Due to a major texture mapping issue on the dome car which I can't get around yet, I had to take some creative liberty and do something that would work with the mapping. The dome car is a very important part of this train, so excluding it would just be plain stupid. While nowhere near accurate, I decided to paint the dome car to look like private car PAXX 800290 "Stampede Pass". As much as I wish the correct livery would have worked out, I still think it turned out as a good stand-in.

The coach pack is now available over on the Desert Pacific site linked below. Here are a few screenshots:

NP Coaches 1.jpg

NP Coaches 2.jpg

NP Coaches 3.jpg

http://desertpacificrwy.wixsite.com/desert-pacific/rolling-stock
Hope you enjoy!

-Ash

[ET44C4]

Great work...

[wopflyer]

Thank you for these! It's great to get some repaints for the GN Empire passenger cars as they are some of my favorite's.

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

Amazing! I thought this was a dead project but I am mistaken! Great Job!

[Logan20131]

Finally, Thanks for completing these!

[buzz456]

Am I the only one that can't open this D/L?

[PotatoLocal]

Is the Mega link not opening Buzz? It should direct to the download when you click Monad.

[Logan20131]

yeah, I got it opened and downloaded just fine.

[PotatoLocal]

I've recieved reports from a few other people as well saying the Mega link returns an error, so I have updated the site with links to a Google Drive download as well as a Mega download. Sorry for the issue!

[philmoberg]

Am I the only one that can't open this D/L?

I'm getting corrupted files from both links, as well.

[ZekTheKid]

Works fine on my end when I downloaded it first.

[philmoberg]

Am I the only one that can't open this D/L?

I'm getting corrupted files from both links, as well.

Problem solved: I had to update my copy of 7zip.

[buzz456]

I'll have to try that tonight when I get home from work.

[RudiJaeger]

NP Pass - 03sm.jpg

The most inaccurate thing you may notice is the dome car.

Actually, I think you came pretty close. Regarding the photo, I'm not sure if the paint is faded, or if the CB&Q applied their own home-made version of NP's green tones; I tend to believe the latter. Regardless, your version is certainly a welcome addition, as we can always include Buzz's G-Trax dome car for the full-green version; same for the RPO that's not included with the EB set.

I'm not sure if you tweaked the alpha-channel, but I really like the way your version of greens appear in the sim, especially the dark green which takes on a subtle metallic appearance. I think the Loewy greens are some of the most difficult colors to replicate; in fact, I seriously doubt the colors in my own avatar are an exact match. That said, I think you've come as close as anyone with a digital paint-gun can get; pretty darn convincing IMO.

I really enjoyed taking these repaints for a run, and will continue to include them in my consists. Thank you very much for sharing your work with us; you did some excellent brushwork with these.

[RudiJaeger]

Thanks to both you and to Buzz for his locos and G-Trax versions; I think they go great together...

SWW NCL 02.jpg

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