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North American Rolling Stock

This mod adds a large selection of custom, full-featured North American cars and locomotives to the game spanning eras 1-4.


All included cars and locomotives adhere as closely as possible to or exceed vanilla standards of functionality and performance, and include the following features:

• Full interiors
  
• Multiple interior/exterior riding/control positions
  
• Particle effects
  
• Loading/unloading models where appropriate
  
• Vanilla-derived cargo models and textures
  
• Passenger window shades tied to load factor
  
• Uniform art style and detail
  
• Custom GUI art for each car and locomotive
  
• Realistic custom trucks per the prototype
  
• Selective compression of equipment where required to fit the game environment and aesthetic
  
• Full gloss and snow/rust maps for all rolling stock
  
• Extensive normal mapping to reduce poly count
  
• Low-poly LOD models for all equipment
  
• Minimal performance impact (2k main textures, sub-5k poly car and 10k-poly locomotive models)

This mod requires North American Horns & Whistles in order to hear the appropriate horn/whistle when trains depart a station or enter a tunnel.

The following mods are entirely optional, but are intended to complement this pack:

• Railroad Colors – Expands the default range of company colors to include a wide variety of traditional railroad colors
  
• Generic American Town Names – Adds an option to generate new maps with common generic American town names
  
• Work-in-Progress Rolling Stock *

*This mod contains unfinished content that does not include all the features listed above, such as missing animations or LOD models


When I originally set out to develop this content for Mashinky, my vision was to create a complete replacement mod that would allow me to play the game with an entirely new set of rolling stock that would provide a cohesive look and feel and a more immersive gameplay experience. The vanilla game obviously includes assets from various geographic regions (though predominantly Eastern/Central European), which generally fits with the broader, whimsical style. With that said, I always thought the game would benefit from a more consistent art direction with regards to rail assets, which by default range widely in their detail and features. Since my background is in American railroading, I established a vision for an entirely new set of rolling stock that would capture the progression of car and locomotive development in North America while complementing and enhancing the existing gameplay.


Because my goal at the outset was to reimagine the entire equipment roaster in the game, I began by devising a comprehensive list of requirements:

[nlist]

• Every commodity must have at least one appropriate car type available
  
• Where multiple car options are available for the same commodity, each must present some unique set of trade-offs based on factors such as capacity, length, weight, and resource type/cost
  
• Cars/locomotives should be historically appropriate to the era in which they are made available
  
• Locomotives should be optimized to target a range of specific use cases, offering players the opportunity to select the most appropriate for a particular task rather than simply opting for the most expensive they can afford[/nlist]
  
  The final list of equipment that ultimately made it into the game (and is included in this mod) is listed in the guide below:
  
  https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3262953165
  
  You may notice that there are no locomotives included for eras 1 & 2; because several basic North American-inspired locomotive models already exist in-game for these eras, I prioritized development of new locomotives for eras 3 & 4, with the intention of later coming back to fill the gap. Unfortunately, I ultimately encountered significant animation challenges that stymied any further steam locomotive development (two un-animated examples are available separately in my Work-in-Progress Rolling Stock mod). For my purposes, I personally opted to tweak the default configuration of these vanilla locomotives to serve as placeholders for the equipment I ultimately hoped to include, but no such changes to vanilla locomotive configs are included in this mod.
  
  
  A Note on Balance
  
  While my original intention was always to create a complete rolling stock replacement mod, it was also my hope to balance the cost, capacity, and other characteristics of the new equipment against the vanilla cars and locomotives so that other players who wished to could choose to use them interchangeably within a single game. I quickly discovered that it was impossible to fully balance against every vanilla option while still maintaining logical relationships between the cars and locomotives contained within the mod. There are simply too many cases where the vanilla equipment characteristics fail to fit neatly within the mod’s framework. For this reason, you will almost certainly run across cases where a vanilla car/locomotive is clearly superior to the modded alternatives, or vice versa. With that said, I have tried wherever possible to keep values comparable to those in the base game (which is why the SD45, for example, displays around half of the prototypical 3,600 hp; the important thing is that it is roughly double that of the GP38, which is in turn around triple that of the SW1).
  
  
  Current and Future State
  
  As of version 1.0, this pack contains passenger and freight cars suitable for eras 1-4, along with locomotives for eras 3-4. My original ambition was to include a complete set of cars and locomotives for all game eras, but the reality of limited time to commit to development makes now the appropriate time to release the content I have in its current state. All content included in this mod is fully functional and extensively gameplay tested during may hours of playthroughs. I’ve opted to make a small selection of additional content that is not yet full-featured—but very much playable—available in a separate mod, Work-in-Progress Rolling Stock for those who can overlook missing animations or LODs. If I ever get a chance to finish development on these WIP items, I will plan to update this mod with the additional content.