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Kalamazoo Terminal Railway Modern Freight

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These are repaints of Searchlight Simulations newer (2024) Freeware Freight (FRT) pack and other freight cars. See complete description.

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Description

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This is the Kalamazoo Terminal Modern Freight Pack.

It includes:
- Repacked (Assets>KZOO) Skins of the Searchlight 72' Reefer in 2 Pfizer Liveries
- Repacked (Assets>KZOO) Searchlight 73' Centrebeam Variants
- Repacked (Assets>KZOO) RRMods TTX 60' Boxcars
- Repacked (Assets>KZOO) Skins of the Golden-Age 50' Boxcar in Cannamazoo Liveries and Monon+PRR liveries from the original pack for the steam engines.
- Repacked (Assets>KZOO) skins of the TSC/Ragno ViewLinerII Baggage Cars as Pfizer Tissue Recovery Mortuary Cars (2 variants) and escort dormitory car.

The Kalamazoo Terminal Railway provides service to a variety of freight customers in the 21st Century, outlined in the Google Documents about Developement, Train Numbers, and Customers.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bu5m0VVbJUFlvs_scIhwURKGwOuwP2YSDU3eWacS9IU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.y6dvs2tstqob

Searchlight Simulations newer (2024) Freeware Freight (FRT) pack provides the basis for many of these:
https://store.searchlight-simulations.com/products/jrfrt-pack-03

A back-bone of the railway are (fictional) Pfizer Cryogenic Refrigerator Cars, to carry their "Magical Elixirs" that so many grew so infatuated with, and what funded the expansion of Pfizer
(and plant modernisation) as well as Kalamazoo Terminal's new EMD power.
These are skins of the SS/JR 72' Refrigerator Cars, with 2 liveries, to coincide with Pfizer's PR cmpaign to update and re-brand their COVID jabs through the 'pandemic' as sales dropped and new 'variants appeared.'

This is required for the custom Pfizer Jab Reefer Cars. The included .bat installer should copy all of the needed .GeoPcDx files, provided you have it in the Railworks\Assets Folder and have the original Freeware Pack 3 installed.

Additional cars found in some scenarios are from Packs 1 and 2. There is no custom Kalamazoo folder for these, as with the custom Reefer cars and the Centrebeams.
https://store.searchlight-simulations.com/products/jrfrt-pack-01
https://store.searchlight-simulations.com/products/jrfrt-pack-02

Many of Kalamazoo's industries centred around paper (it is 'the Paper City' after all) and some still do, for which TTX, CN/GT, and NS box-cars are commonly used (found in the Searchlight Freight Pack 2)
I have a re-packed TTX set, since those are very common, which required the freeware Railroad Mods 60' Boxcar.
https://rrmods.com/product-category/freeware/rollingstock-freeware/nsc-60ft-high-cube-boxcar/
Again there is a .bat file which should copy the needed .GeoPcDx files if it is placed in your Railworks\Assets folder; and you have the Railworks\Assets\Rrmods High Cube Boxcar pack installed.

I recommend some fine RBox and TBox cars to accompany the Searchlight Freight Pack 2 boxcars, and the Race-Track Route Boxcars, which fill out the railroad owned (CN, GT, DT&I, BNSF) cars commonly seen.
https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/rolling-stock-repaints?view=document&id=2537:rbox-boxcar-repaints&catid=19:rolling-stock-repaints
https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/rolling-stock-repaints?view=document&id=1464:fmc-50ft-plateb-railbox&catid=19:rolling-stock-repaints
https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/rolling-stock-repaints?view=document&id=4189:fmc50ftplatec-rbox&catid=19:rolling-stock-repaints

https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/rolling-stock-repaints?view=document&id=3842:cn-wi-ns-boxcars-with-grafitti&catid=19:rolling-stock-repaints

https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/rolling-stock-repaints?view=document&id=2539:coilsteel-car-gtw&catid=19:rolling-stock-repaints

Any 1980s-2000s Grand Trunk cars and locomotives in general would fit for operation on the Grand Trunk lines, along with the B&LE Tunnel Motor 910 or CN SD40-2W usually used (SD60s have seen usage too).

Pfizer Coal Trains were another staple, providing coal to Upjohn, and later Pfizer, en masse, prior to the conversion to natural gas as part of the site modernisation with all that COVID money, between 2021 and 2022.
DTG's N-Line (a requirement) includes some suitable hoppers, as does the Searchlight Jointed Rail 100 Ton Hopper Pack.
https://www.store.searchlight-simulations.com/jr-100t-hoppers-cr-ns
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&;id=1CKZWt6ik-x5YGI44H4W5vWzhNv88IGfV


Once the jab cars were rolling (about 25 car-loads per day at peak) everything was well, until people suddenly started dropping, from no relation to the inoculations. In a bit of fun, we decided
the railway needed some type of innocuous rail car to transport these things, so the Mortuary Cars were born, a re-purposed Amtrak Baggage car being something no one would suspect (at least not when there are 70+ E units
and lots of dome cars to look at instead). These are reskins of Ragno's ViewLiner Baggage and Dorm Cars. The Baggage Cars were purchased and converted to Casualty Recover Cars, and the Dorm Car is an Escort Car
for accompanying medical personnel.
https://www.trainsimcommunity.com/mods/c1-train-sim-classic/c87-models/i1529-amtrak-viewliner-ii-baggages


Around this same time, legalised marijuana began to pop up in Kalamazoo, with Cannamazoo opening a dispensery in a former rail service warehouse. We decided to have some fun with such,
making use of the Maple Leaf logo used by the Grand Trunk Western, a railway which served Kalamazoo, and from which the museum where 3 of the Kalamazoo Terminal members are or have been involved, has a buffet car.
These cars are based upon the "Allegheny" 50' Boxcar back from Golden Age and Michael Stephen. Prior to earlier this month, the cars were on the website, but now have been moved, so I have included all files needed here,
for the 50' Cannamazoo Cars I skinned; plus the 50' Monon Boxcar (also included in the KTR ex-Monon Pack being created); and the original PRR boxcars (as this was PRR trackage and features PRR E7 and E8s, PRR 7688, etc.) which is a skin from RWA by Harry Adkins (which I do not claim as my own, only the re-packaging).


A .bat is included to copy the .GeoPcDx files; and should be placed in Railworks\Assets; after installing the Ragno assets (which are not required to load these cars in the scenario,
any freight cars repacked in the Railworks\Assets\Kalamazoo folder are self sufficient).


These cars pair with the Kalamazoo Terminal Locomotive packs, for the Kalamazoo Terminal Route, also on RWA:
ALCos: https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/engine-repaints?view=document&;id=4419:ktr-alco&catid=18:engine-repaints
EMD Pack
Route: https://railworksamerica.com/index.php/download-library/route-collection?view=document&id=4418:kalamazoo-terminal-railway&catid=20:route-collection

At the time of this pack being submitted, ALCos and EMD GPs/SDs have been submitted; and F units will follow. There are additional packs, to be uploaded, but not relevent to 21st Century Freight Operations.

As ever, this pack is provided free of charge, and is to be used and installed at one's own risk, with no reliability from the original creators, or reskins. I do not claim any assets as my own, only the repacking job,
and livery skins for the Mortuary Cars, Refrigerator Cars, and the CZoo Captive Service Boxcars.

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