V & T boxcar 1007 (yellow)

V & T boxcar 1007 (yellow)

28' Wooden combination box car built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad in 1872 by the Central Pacific Shops in Sacramento, CA.
Circa 1872-1880's.
9 tons unloaded; 15 ton capacity
Originally painted yellow, but repainted red by the 1880's
Upgraded to Sams automatic couplers 1897/98; air brakes 1899/1900; and Tower knuckle couplers 1902. The ventilated hatches and doors were likely removed around this time.
Detrucked December 1918 at Huffakers.
Retrucked and sold to Paramount in 1938.
Sold to Old Tucson in 1971.
Carries old west general goods, hay, fruit, and cows.
Link and pin couplers; hand brakes only
Four levels of detail
Based on plans by Michael Collins
Thanks to:
Prowler (Todd Hohlenkamp) for the door sounds.
AJ, Wulf, and TRam for scripting examples that made this car possible
Stephen Drew for the history of the car
Andrew Brandon for the fonts
Revision 2: Mesh optimizations and fixes; added detail; removed swaying script (now built into TANE); fixed minor errors

Author: Pencil42

V & T boxcar 1007 (yellow)
• boxcar2.gs 3.03KB
boxcar_art
boxcar.jpg 27.95KB
boxcar_art_icon.texture.txt 79 bytes
boxcar_art_icon.tga 32.02KB
boxcar_body
boxcar.lm.txt 335 bytes
boxcar_3_1001.texture.txt 38 bytes
boxcar_3_1007.tga 3.00MB
boxcar_3_normal.tga 4.00MB
boxcar_high.im 538.37KB
boxcar_low.im 91.59KB
boxcar_lowest.im 4.63KB
boxcar_medium.im 213.92KB
boxcar_normal.texture.txt 90 bytes
door_solid.im 19.15KB
door_solid_low.im 2.07KB
open_doors.im 63.23KB
open_doors.kin 9.39KB
open_doors.lm.txt 292 bytes
open_doors_low.im 6.96KB
open_doors_medium.im 24.26KB
solid_doors.kin 6.03KB
solid_doors.lm.txt 240 bytes
vent_cover.im 47.64KB
vent_cover.kin 7.71KB
vent_cover.lm.txt 237 bytes
vent_cover_low.im 5.11KB
boxcar_shadow
boxcar_shadow.im 4.26KB
• config.txt 8.73KB
• doorclose.wav 53.90KB
• dooropen.wav 53.89KB