There's a livery of the class 185 with rail4chem logo and it has its own wagons for transporting dry chemical pellets. It's defenetly present on the Main–Spessart railway. Should try to get permitting to feature this in the DLC two because we hardly have any other variations. We have the class 185 locomotive so it's just a matter of obtaining clearance. And then introduce some fresh scenarios with it doing various odd things good luck!
Each dry chemical wagon is in different condition, some have of rust, some have dust and dirt and some are faded. That would make an excellent experience in the game two if they can be the same state.
Unfortunately, that's much more than a new livery. This is a class 185 from before the facelift, the earlier generation. A lot more work to do than just repaint. The ends (and quite a few more things) are designed differently in a few obvious and many more, rather subtle ways. let me demonstrate on the 146, which went through the same facelift: Before (BR 146.0 and 146.1) After. (BR146.2 and onwards) This is the version we know from TSW.
I'd have thought that making tweak changes to an existing 3D model for a facelift version (or the other way round) would be a simpler task than making a new train because the underlying simulation would (I'm guessing here) be very similar. Either way, having multiple variations of the trains, as with the Class 66 on GEW, is a real value add for me, and introducing new rolling stock and scenarios as a boost to existing DLC, would also be very welcome.
Yeah, absolutely, and I guess that's always going to be the case, with railways all having their own specific elements and setups, like that US freight train having different light positions and other visual changes between the versions. That said, I do think that – relative to any other content additions – this provides a good bang-for-buck level of additional interest for the development time required. I guess those talented 3D guys are the ones putting the liveries in place anyway, so adding some handles, smoothing some edges and changing the light positions is probably a simple task for them.
Oh, and not to forget, an other part of these locos that's quite a bit different, is this: The lower is the newer again. All screens, barely any physical dials left.