Southern 'waffle-side' box car

Southern 'waffle-side' box car

Blender mesh by MSP.
Textures by MSP.
A Southern Railway 63' 'waffle-side' boxcar.
Reporting marks SOU 565306.

The Southern Railway Co. owned a large fleet of 'waffle-side' boxcars, and also an even larger fleet of their shorter 52' version. This is the early version of the 63' (over strikers) 'waffle-side' boxcar which were purchased by the Southern Railway Co. The first order of these cars came equipped with the Hennesy car door openers, which were intended to help customers in opening & closing the car doors when spotted for pick-up / delivery. Unfortunately the Hennesy car door openers were somewhat fragile under normal railroad operating conditions, and quite often due to damage became more of a hinderance than help. As the car door openers became inoperative over time, the railroad chose to remove them completely from the cars, rather than continue to dump more money into maintaining them and trying to keep them working. Later orders of these cars did away with the car door openers entirely. This particular model shows a car which still retains the car door openers.

This car also has the 'Southern Railway Gives A Green Light To Innovation' logo, and the green dot in the center of the 'O' of SOUTHERN.

A big thanks to SR6900 from the Trainz Discussion Forums for providing me a link to this awesome drawing I used for reference in building this model: http://southernmodeler.info/Hundman/SR_Waffle-Side_Box_Car_1979_MM_Oct_1983.pdf

If you wish to re-paint this boxcar, please read the Repaint templates.txt file which can be found in the art folder once the asset is cloned / opened for edit.

All dependencies are either built-in (TS12), come off the DLS, or can be found at RRMods.

Author: MSP

Southern 'waffle-side' box car
art files
preview.tga 126.61KB
sou preview.tga 126.61KB
waffle_boxcar1_psd.zip.txt 6.72MB
• config.txt 4.62KB
• coupler_tex.bmp 192.05KB
• coupler_tex.texture.txt 34 bytes
• repaint templates.txt 674 bytes
shadow model
shadowblacktexture.texture.txt 41 bytes
shadowblacktexture.tga 1.04KB
waffle_boxc_shadow.im 8.10KB
• shadow1.texture.txt 30 bytes
• shadow1.tga 128.04KB
• waffle_boxcar1.im 885.92KB
• waffle_boxcar1.lm.txt 333 bytes
• waffle_boxcar1.texture.txt 37 bytes
• waffle_boxcar1.tga 3.00MB
• waffle_boxcar1_low.texture.txt 41 bytes
• waffle_boxcar1_low.tga 192.04KB
• waffle_boxcar1_med.texture.txt 41 bytes
• waffle_boxcar1_med.tga 768.04KB
• waffle_boxcar2.im 394.88KB
• waffle_boxcar3.im 307.43KB
• waffle_boxcar4.im 71.30KB