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Transition Era Universal Freight Cars
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Scenario: USA
Vehicle: Wagon
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15 May @ 9:41pm
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Transition Era Universal Freight Cars

Description
More Variety, Less Micromanagement!
If you've been paying attention to my freight car mods, you may have noticed they've all been exactly the same size. This mod is the reason for that.
This mod contains one car, the randomizer to rule them all. This car can carry any cargo type and the model of the car will change to whatever is appropriate: boxcar, gondola, tank car, or hopper. It will also choose a random skin. Every freight car in the image above is the same vehicle as far as the game is concerned.
Is this balanced? No. If the challenge of making money on harder difficulties is what you're looking for, this car is like a cheat code. If you just want to watch trains this car eliminates some of the tedium of matching car types to line rates in mixed trains and allows for natural variety in your trains between hubs that carry multiple cargo types. Every train that passes will be different!

As an amalgamation of my other cars, it has similar stats:

Stats:
Top Speed: 65 mph
Capacity: 13
Cargo Types: All Freight
Weight: 25 tons
Available: 1920-1960

Note, you'll need all of my previous freight car mods to use this. No meshes are actually included with this mod, it's just a model which uses the parts of all of my other cars.
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puffer_mbo 16 Oct @ 2:21pm 
@Wütender Tintenfisch
Ich hab das selbe Problem. Hast Du es inzwischen lösen können ?
Angry Squid 27 Sep @ 10:00pm 
I'm certainly willing to try it out! Will report back
Labby  [author] 26 Sep @ 10:08pm 
@Angry Squid Are you using custom cargo mods? If so you'll need my compatibility patch: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3467033118

These cars work by making the car bodies themselves custom loads which change depending on the cargo carried. By default these are only defined for the vanilla cargo types. My compatibility patch mod goes last in your load order after both your vehicles and custom cargo mods are loaded. It will detect whatever cargo types are added by your other mods and then update the custom cargo model data for cargo types where it's missing.
Angry Squid 23 Sep @ 2:15pm 
Okay, third time tried. the four required mods are confirmed to be present and active. and this mod still inserts blank/nothing spaces with nothing but wheels on the track instead of carts and goods. It's clearly trying to insert something random ... some wagons show up ... others ... do not. I don't know if it's a missing required mod that isn't highlighted, a change in one of those required mods that now breaks this one, or something else ... but unfortunately ..... this is a none starter here in september 2025.
Angry Squid 23 Sep @ 7:03am 
I'm going to give this one more try by unsubscribing, re-subscribing, verifying reported dependencies ... but it seems like a flaky mod. twice now I've tried this and cars sometimes ... just aren't there. no cargo, no car, just wheels.
Bigs2013 21 Sep @ 5:17pm 
@labby it shows the gondala model but not the logs or anything loaded into it
Labby  [author] 11 Sep @ 8:18pm 
@Bigs2013
Do you have the loads mod for the gondolas? Logs should show up for them.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3437497190
Bigs2013 5 Sep @ 7:18pm 
Any plans to add logs? Currently just showing empty gondalas
charley 30 Jul @ 2:35pm 
I could do that, yeah
Labby  [author] 30 Jul @ 12:53am 
Only issue with the generic skins is that the car wouldn't be colorable since they're technically custom loads, but generic skins in default colors only could work.