This is a mod for RailRoad Tycoon 3 which changes the default Passenger, Mail, and Dining Cars.

created by Michael Rountree
http://wpandp.com/RRtycoon.html

Installation instructions:
First, be sure to back up any files that will be overwritten by the following procedure.

Extract the ZIP file and then move or copy the files into their proper locations.  
The following files go into your game's Data\CargoTypes folder: 
Mail.cty  (BACKUP FIRST!)
Passengers.cty  (BACKUP FIRST!)

The following files go into your game's Data\EngineTypes folder:
Coach.cct
Mrpo.cct
DinerA.car  (BACKUP FIRST!)
DinerB.car  (BACKUP FIRST!)
DinerC.car  (BACKUP FIRST!)
DinerD.car  (BACKUP FIRST!)
DinerW.car
DinerZ.car
CoachA.car
CoachA.cgo
CoachB.car
CoachB.cgo
CoachC.car
CoachC.cgo
CoachD.car
CoachD.cgo
CoachW.car
CoachW.cgo
CoachZ.car
CoachZ.cgo
MrpoA.car
MrpoA.cgo
MrpoB.car
MrpoB.cgo
MrpoC.car
MrpoC.cgo
MrpoD.car
MrpoD.cgo
MrpoW.car
MrpoW.cgo
MrpoX.car
MrpoX.cgo
MrpoZ.car
MrpoZ.cgo


All other files go into you game's Data\UserExtraContent folder.

With this properly installed, your passengers will ride in maroon-colored "varnish" rather than the game's default blue and white, at least up until around 1950 when brightly polished fluted silver takes over.  This mod includes more than the game's default 4 eras (A,B,C,D); the W,X,Y,and Z eras are "transitional" eras that come after each of the other eras, thus a W-era car occurs between the A and B eras.  This allows more variety over time, and allows the increase in car weights to occur more gradually.  The start and stop times of each era do not necessarily correspond for the cars; one example is the Mail car in the 1840's; it changes to a larger car before the passenger coaches do.

The fun thing about adding a Z-era after the D models is that it let me represent Amtrak, beginning in 1971.  The mail car becomes a Material Handling Car (MHC) which is basically a boxcar, but it doesn't do so until a few years later.  Of course, doing so means that someone REALLY needs to do an Amtrak skin for the FP45, preferably with replaced trucks to model and F40PH!  I'd make it start in 1975 and end around 1999 (after the AMD-103 becomes available - which also needs an Amtrak skin).  Perhaps somebody has already done this; if so, go get that mod!

Please note that any saved games you have will retain whatever train consists were on the rails when you saved, so you won't see these modded cars until after those trains visit a station and load up new cars.

Please note that some of the car bodies exhibit a mirror-image (backwards) skin on one side of the car; this is due to how the original 3DP file was created, and there is no way around it, other than to refrain from using lettering and logos, which I don't want to do.

Finally, if you are keeping your backup files within the same folder (i.e. just renaming "Mail.cty" to "MailBackup.cty") then things might not work properly.  I strongly reccomend keeping all your backups somewhere else.

If you enjoy using this set of car mods, feel free to let me know!
paranoid@wpandp.com