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I'm posting a scene of the vintage oil depot at Silver Plume with new Tidewater Tank cars - a transition from coal to fuel.
1. the rusty and dirty ''Flying A'' horizontal tanks are from JL's scenery stock - my weathering scheme.
2. the Tidewarter or ''Flying A'' tank cars are from the Britkit NG rolling stock; again my repaint version.





Thinking of posting my oldy tank car schemes : Tidewater, Shell and Col. and Southern (will depend on the response)

QcRail

These look great!! Nice work!

There should be a thumps up button to like the post.

Really nice work! I love the weathering on the fuel tanks; very realistic.

Absolutely.... very nicely done!

You can add this one too....no one will mind at all....

Do we have any period wells and support buildings for oil operations.....?

gtrtroger wrote:Absolutely.... very nicely done!

You can add this one too....no one will mind at all....

I'm working on it; have to get in touch with JL and see if we could have a 3 primary_number mapped on the tank car instead on the actual 1 primary_number, thus being limited to 1 to 9 numbers. Indeed GRAMPS tanker with UTLX used 3 or 4 digits number.

P.S. my next post will illustrate the numbering problem with my Shell scheme.

Notice that the SHELL tank car displays no. 29; yet, the ,GeoDxPc file has only 1 primary_number - thus limiting to a maximum of 9 tank cars numbered between 1 and 9



As a makeshift solution, digit 2 is part of the ''decal'' texture file and not part of the auto-numbering mechanism. I tought it would overcome the auto-numbering short- coming but graphically it is a poor option as we can clearly see a gap separating the 2 from the 9 (and hell with proper alignment!). Furthermore, this option is not suitable for scenario editing - remember the numbers.dcsv file has only 9 declared numbers and will only display those 9 numbers to make a consist; again limitating. If you decide to change manyally the car number to 29, will simply not display any number (conflict with declared values within the numbers.dcsv file).

A suggestion to rolling stock creators, even if a road seem to have less than 10 cars of the same category, it is easier to use a blank number within a 3 primary_number structure than only one!

Happy creations
QcRail

I see....

gtrtroger wrote:Absolutely.... very nicely done!

You can add this one too....no one will mind at all.... re. GRAMPS OIL TANK CAR

Do we have any period wells and support buildings for oil operations.....?

To my knowledge NO. MSTS had a few interesting structures. I would love to see the Chama Oil Dock produced for TS2018

As for gtrtroger's request here is one of my final production + GREAT news : I have the kind permission from Jonathan Lewis to freely distribute the shape file; thus decided to start working on the GAMPS tank series



Here is a closeup of the proposed UTLX 88162 Gramps oil tank car:


Note : I have done extensive research to have an authentic graphic information for the under-carriage; if anyone can shed further info do contact me
Since this serie will have no auto-numbering, I will tackle a couple of UTLX Gramp tankers with its yellow lettering.

QcRail

Those look great! Don’t need a fleet...just a few will do. I would think it highly unlikely any of these ever made it past Alamosa...but you can dream....would be iffy on the Durango & Silverton route.. yes, it would be great to have a Cumbres & Toltec RR.... Thanks for doing these....

A second version of the Gramp-UTLX with it distinctive yellow lettering, my next objective is to have a few weathered or oil soiled tankers.



Any takers?

QcRail

Yes......

Definitely!