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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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girlweapon 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.
girlweapon 29 Jul @ 8:30pm 
Would also like a version of this that just has the generic liveries, so you could get away with using these cars for later periods
colin.1914 18 Jul @ 10:42pm 
Awesome mod! would love to see other modders do something like this.
CRUUUB 13 Jul @ 3:47pm 
@Labby I tried starting it in different years from 1920 to 1960, and nothing
Labby  [author] 13 Jul @ 2:59pm 
@CRUUUB What year is your game currently? The universal cars aren't available until 1920 when the latest of my freight cars, the tank cars, become available.
CRUUUB 13 Jul @ 8:18am 
i cant seem to make it work? i have all the required mods but i dont get any new car, only the vanilla ones are available to buy
Awawiwous 26 Jun @ 3:52pm 
figured it out, thanks. Amazing mod
Labby  [author] 25 Jun @ 6:52pm 
@Awawiwous get my compatibility patch mod . These cars use custom loads to swap out the body which has to be configured for each cargo type. That means by default nothing will show for modded cargo types since nothing is defined for it in the .mdl. My patch script copies the custom cargo configs for existing cargo types to any new ones it finds so it will make these and any other cars with custom loads at least show something when loaded.
Hellfish6 21 Jun @ 7:59pm 
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but are you making any plans for other eras to use cars like these? Post-1960 randomized cars would be excellent.