Ok, finally got motivated to sort out the reefer and flatcar cargoes for the new 8 eras.
At the moment they all work, but to get them running I've used default reefer and flatcar models and skins. So they'll change weight 7 times instead of 3 times, and they have the custom weights to match the rest of the custom cargo cars, but they still look like default PopTop cars of the same era.
Getting this result for flatcar cargoes required having a separate car type for each cargo. Basically, the default flatcar system has to be ditched entirely and new cars made for all cargoes. It just won't work otherwise. With seven cargoes, and eight eras for most of them, my enthusiasm for inventing oodles of cargo models and cars for every cargo for every era sorta ran out. At some point I'll probably get enthused enough to give some of them custom meshes and skins, but this was me just wanting the @&@!% things running. So, they run now.
The only really new cars are the Pulpwood cars. Pulpwood is now carried on flatcars instead of in covered hoppers, much like WP&P's old pulpwood flats. Those only had default eras and weights, while the new ones have the full custom eras and weights. They look like this:
New_Pulpwood_8_eras.jpg
Note that because they are using default PopTop models for the cars themselves, the B and C eras share the same cars. Ditto for D and E eras. Ditto again for F, G and H eras. However, you can still tell when they change weight, because the reefers change weight when the stock cars and hoppers and tankers and pax and mail cars and cabooses change weight, and all of those already have individual models and skins for all eras.
Similar deal with the flatcars. The flatcars change weight when the autoracks and boxcars and troop cars change weight, and all of those are already meshed and skinned for all eras, so you can still tell when your flatcars are getting heavier if you notice what the other cars are doing.
Zips are attached, for the new reefers and the new flatcars. Note that the xReefer zip contains 1 CargoTypes and 1 EngineTypes file for 1.06's Medicine cargo, and obviously those files (one .cty and one. cct) should only be copied into a 1.06 installation.
