This is a mod for RailRoad Tycoon 3 which adds a new car type to carry Coal.

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

Installation instructions:
First, be sure to back up the "Coal-" 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: 
Coal.cty  (BACKUP FIRST!)

The following files go into your game's Data\EngineTypes folder:
Hcoal.cct
HcoalA.cgo
HcoalA.car
HcoalB.cgo
HcoalB.car
HcoalC.cgo
HcoalC.car
HcoalD.cgo
HcoalD.car
HcoalX.car
HcoalX.cgo
HcoalZ.car
HcoalZ.cgo

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

With this properly installed, your coal cars will wear the Norfolk & Western roadname, at least after 1914.  Around the turn of the century, the default low-sided gondola begins to evolve towards a real hopper, though still of wooden construction. After 1969, 70-ton hoppers give way to the high-sided 90 ton hopper, developed by N&W as the H11a class.  To represent this, I used the Caboose D body, and it turned out pretty good, though I had to shorten the side by a few panels to fit the shorter body.  Also, this car lacks the hopper bottoms, but I feel this is an acceptable compromise.

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 "Coal.cty" to "CoalBackup.cty") then things might not work properly.  I strongly recommend keeping all your backups somewhere else.

If you enjoy using this mod, feel free to let me know!
paranoid@wpandp.com
