QR BU/BUV Suburban Carriages

Built by Evans Deakin as early as the 1910s, the BU suburban carriage was a second class wooden-bodied carriage which featured nine open compartments, and was used extensively on the 3ft 6in gauge suburban railways of Queensland.

Like most rail companies Queensland followed simple letter-based classing conventions, whereby their carriage numbers were abbreviated by a selection of characters, indicating the style of carriage. In this instance, the 'B' indicates second class seating, and the 'U' indicates that the vehicle is suburban stock.

In line with this pattern, cars designated 'BUV' were a composite guards van carriage, featuring six passenger compartments, and a spacious guards compartment at the rear of the vehicle.

These 30 ton carriages have been faithfully recreated for Trainz, in these accurate models and liveries:

• BU & BUV in Queensland Rail branded Brown,
• BU & BUV in Unmarked Brown
• BU & BUV in "Bellarine Railway" Maroon and Cream modified Tasmanian livery.

The models feature accurately represented interiors, (accessed by pressing 1, can be explored further by activating freecam), 3ft 6in animated bogies, modern PBR material texturing, and were designed based on accurate and original (scanned) drawings and plans, of all elevations of the vehicle.

The PBR texturing methods used in this model yeild ultra realistic results, including:

• Suitable wood-like surface reflections on all painted wooden surfaces on the carriage, with bump maps to show realistic wood 'sticks', on the sides of the vehicles, accurately representing the panneling on the real-world wooden cars.
• Realistic levels of bump and shine on the roof, to realistically represent a canvas roof material, as is prototypical of all older rollinstock roofs, including that of the BU/BUV cars.
• Translucent window textures, with special bump and shine maps, to yeild a shiny, glass like surface, with the protoypical dimples and wobbles of the material, while maintaining glass like transparency.
• Baked textures, meaning even the lowest end computer can run a fairly realistic looking model, with some darker and lighter areas, hinting at shade, without having full shaders on.

These carriages will look at home among any 3ft 6in railway yard, our out on the mainline behind your own suburban passenger train!

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For those interested, the models were created in Blender 2.9, with the textures, parameter and normal maps made in GIMP, both of which are free to download. If you need help with your own locomotives or rollingstock

Upon purchase of this pack, you will recieve a .zip file named "QR BU BUV CARRIAGE 2021.zip", which when unzipped will hold eight (8) files:

• "QR BU Car - Bellrail.cdp" (Bellarine Railway livery BU carriage body)
• "QR BU Car - Queenslandrail.cdp" (Brown with QR logos livery BU carriage body)
• "QR BU Car - Brown.cdp" (Unmarked Brown BU carriage body)
• "QR BUV Car - Bellrail.cdp" (Bellarine Railway livery smooth plywood BUV carriage body)
• "QR BUV Car - Queenslandrail.cdp" (Brown with QR logos BUV carriage body)
• "QR BUV Car - Brown.cdp" (Brown BUV carriage body)
• "3ft 6in QR Bogie.cdp" (QR carriage bogie)
• "Invisible Interior TS.cdp" (Carriage interior dependency)

Note: These models were designed for, and have only been run in Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019, and are therefore INCOMPATIBLE WITH T:ANE, or any other versions of the game. These models do not yet (July 2021) include visually working vestibule gangways, couplings, or night-time interior lighting. These models are non-refundable, and Taipan Studios hold no laibility for damage caused to your models if you attempt to tamper with them in a non-permitted way. Locomotives pictured are not included.