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Unread postby PullmanCar » Sun May 05, 2024 2:19 pm

Any good train always needs an observation car of some sort, but just how many observation cars are in Railworks/Train Simulator? I began thinking of this whilst searching for a flat-end car to play the IPH/IC CALUMET CLUB.

Below is a list of observation cars from memory, plus 2 business cars (which are not observation cars, one of my biggest preservation pet peeves is when railways operate office cars as observation cars. How many times I have heard "We have a Pullman Observation Car", and boom it was a Pullman-built, railroad-operated office car). However since these are 2-D "painted" cars, the window patterns could be changed into those of an observation car.

HEAVYWEIGHT
Britkits - 6 Axle Pullman HW Obs (Open Rear Vestibule)
MSTS Conversion - 4 Axle HW Parlour-Obs (Open Rear Vestibule)

LIGHTWEIGHT
DTM PRR DR6-4-2000 & Broadway Limited Set - 4 Axle LW Pull-Std VIEW Series Sleeper-Obs (Flat End)
RSC Empire Builder - 4 Axle LW Pull-Std COULEE Series Sleeper-Lng-Obs (Round End)
DTG FP7 Zephyr Pack - 4 Axle LW Budd SILVER Series Dome-Obs (Round End)

G-Trax Freeware - SP Daylight 4 Axle LW Pull-Std Blunt End Sleeper (Flat End, No Windows)
G-Trax Freeware - ATSD 4 Axle LW Stainless Round End Sleeper-Obs (Round End)
MSTS Conversion - 4 Axle LW Business Car (Open Platform) - On RWA in UP and CSX Liveries
Machine-Rail - ex-MILW 4 Axle LW Business Car (Open Platform)


Does anyone know of any cars that I have left out? I would love to be informed of additional observation cars.


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Re: Observation Cars in Railworks

Unread postby Unoriginal » Sun May 05, 2024 9:34 pm

JustTrains has a PRR broadway limited set, but it represents the same stuff as the DTM set. https://www.justtrains.net/product/broadway-limited

Broadway limited loco works might have an observation in one of their passenger sets, but I can't really remember.

The MSTS conversions pack has a few others, including a Milwaukee road skytop lounge, but that MSTS converted stuff just doesn't look all that good now.


It'd be nice if Micheal eventually did a matching observation car to go with his heavyweights.
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Re: Observation Cars in Railworks

Unread postby buzz456 » Mon May 06, 2024 6:47 am

And a sleeper or two.
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