Carson Car Shops

Yes, very interesting - thank you!!

I should probably switch the sand houses to use something on the DLS for ease of use; any preferences?

Curtis

Those look great! Thank you for making and sharing those cars!
Curtis

Those look great!! I'm looking forward to running them!

That sounds very ambitions, and a neat concept! It looks like you are making good progress, keep us posted!

Curtis

Looks great!!

Looks good, Norm
At some point in time, I'll replace those cars also, but I've kinda run out of time. I'm going to need to start in on the next project soon ('The Building of the V&T') ......

Some more cars upcoming:

Yeah, i suspect they were happy when they invented the cupola :) Some CP coaches: A simple arched-roof coach: http://carsoncarshops.com/images/web/cp_coach%201.jpg With a stove in the center of the car: http://carsoncarshops.com/images/web/cp_coach%202.jpg A fancier arched-roof car (probably built i...

Next up will be an early CP caboose: The CP didn't get any 'regular' cabooses until 1870, after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and instead relied on these boxcar conversions.

Andrew reminded me that the early CP cars were a bit redder than the later cars; switching to more of a brown around 1868. So, I repainted the boxes, added an even earlier box with block lettering, and added a set of later boxes in the brown. Here's the early box; all cars are now on the DLS. cp_red...

The UP Caboose is on its way to the DLS:
Also available lettered for the Laramie and Lodge Pole divisions....

Making progress on some CP cars (shown here with Dan's locomotive):

Thanks, Harold - glad you like it!

I'm using Blender for modeling, Substance Painter and Paint Shop Pro for textures, and Notepad++ for scripting The only downside with Blender is that in Cycles, the texture parameters don't get exported. You need to export with a Blender renderer material - and the Blender renderer is no longer pres...