MACHINE RAIL CHRISTMAS SALE

Our entire store has a special offer for you with 50% OFF until midnight on January 1st, 2024!

This is your chance to get our products for your TSC at half price!

UPCOMING RELEASES

We're still working on the next three launches, which will take place at the very beginning of 2024! We expect this to happen within the first quarter of the year. Check out the progress of each project below:

The Western Maryland I-2 Class is still at the same point waiting its turn to be finally completed.

Here's the Pere Marquette N-1 Class in its current state, there's still a lot to be done.

The FRISCO T-54 Class is at a very advanced stage in its progress.

Remembering that this will be our next machine to be launched, it's the first in the queue of the last two commissions. The next will be the PM N-1 class and, finally, the WM I-2 class; we would very much like these next launches to take place in the first quarter of 2024, and we are working towards that.

The FRISCO T-54 is in an advanced state of progress, with almost all of its 3D mesh completed, including the interior of the cabin. In the next few weeks they will begin the export stage for TSC, which includes the creation of textures, animations, scripts, etc... This is a rather lengthy progress (much less so than creating the 3D mesh), but it can still take several weeks before everything is in perfect working order.

Take advantage of our special Christmas offer, the entire store is 50% off!

For now, that's all we have to update you on, but we'll be back very soon with more news. Taking the opportunity to write on our blog, the Machine Rail team would like to wish all your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May 2024 be a great and blessed year for everyone!

Yours sincerely,

Carlos, the owner of Machine Rail™.

Now Available: Open Side Autoracks

We are officially back with the launch of the Open Side Autoracks Bi-Level & Tri-Level!

Promo Video

A few days ago we announced the launch of this package, however we made mistakes in some design and production details that are as important as the high quality of the product.

If you want to know all the details check out the previous post.

The Main Package Changes

• All Autoracks textures have been changed from 2K mapping to a single 4K mapping

• LOD values ​​for all Vehicles spawned in Autoracks have been reviewed and adjusted

• LOD values ​​are mainly adjusted for the small details of vehicles and autoracks

• New load variations created: Empty - Half Loaded - Loaded - Fully Loaded

• Mesh cuts were made on all Autoracks and Vehicles reducing lighting imperfections

• Now the Tri-Levels have even more variations between them

• The Bi-Levels also have variations between them, but in smaller quantities (for now)

• 11 different vehicle models are present in Autoracks in certain load variations

• More than 40 variations available between Autoracks, the majority of which are Tri-Levels

• All vehicles can be added to the scenario and each one has more variations

All Open Side Autoracks and their respective versions

Receiving the New Package

If you purchased the previous package, please contact us with your Order ID so we can locate your information and send you the new package.

Machine Rail team highly recommends that you completely uninstall the old version to avoid any type of conflict with the new package, including vehicles.

Available Now:

If you are purchasing the bundle for the first time, please follow the link below to the product page and carefully read all information shown.

This pack requires American Road Vehicles Vol.1 to work properly to avoid issues with missing textures or things like that, so please download it! The link is also on the product page:

Open Side Autoracks Bi-Level & Tri-Level - Product Page

We hope everyone enjoys our new release! We rushed to deliver it within the shortest possible time and now everything has worked out. At an opportune moment we would like to have new packages with other models of Open Side Autoracks, perhaps even from other eras...

We would also like to give a very special thank you to everyone who participated directly and indirectly in this project, and all the professional 3D modelers responsible for these beautiful cars, if it weren't for you we wouldn't have such quality in these freight cars; and I don't risk saying the name of each one because it would be unfair to forget someone, but their names are present in the Manual. Thank you very much to all of you.

Enjoy!

UPDATE REQUEST! Open Side Autorack

We are very sorry about what has happened in the last 12 hours since the release of the Open Side Autoracks Bi-Level & Tri-Level package.

We received dozens of direct messages regarding this product and its high level of detail, which is often insignificant. Therefore, we are carefully reworking this package to have a re-release very soon; We thought it would be appropriate to apply some of our knowledge in locomotives to freight wagons, but it became very clear that it was not appropriate! Check out the changes:

LOD (Level of Detail)

*All LODs for vehicle models and the Bi-Level & Tri-Level freight wagon itself are being completely revised and better adjusted. Smaller details will only be seen from a certain distance much closer to your camera.

TEXTURES

*At first it looked good, but now we see that it can be improved. So all the textures of the Bi-Level & Tri-Level freight cars are being remade from scratch with new mapping. There were previously four 2K textures for your details, now we work with just one 4K texture.

POLY COUNT

*We always like to respect real references during our projects, looking at photographs or videography from the time or even reports. Unfortunately this will not be possible with this freight car package. Most of the time, Tri-Levels are loaded with up to 15 vehicles (5 in each level). For TSC processing, this initially seemed to work, but in reality it didn't. That's why we are reducing the number of vehicles in the wagons (in the “Loaded” version we will have a maximum of 4 vehicles per level). This will have a good impact on reducing polygons generated in the foreground.

I BOUGHT IT AT THE FIRST LAUNCH, WHAT DO I DO?

Wait until this update is released, then you can contact us for a request via Chat here on the website. We will be happy to prioritize this Update for you.

Once again, on behalf of everyone involved in this project and a sincere apology to our friends and customers, we are very sorry for what happened and for our lack of full attention.

We will have the update arriving in the next few hours.

Carlos.