I don't plan on releasing a new BVE version. The old R142A sounds for bve were best suited for trevor's r142 panel (all he did was add the top portion to Eddie Yee's original R142 trainset) but all the backseat moderation going on for trevor was too obnoxious for me. I believe that's the reason why the R142 isn't available now which is childish if you ask me. So if you want to use the R142A, you need to install OpenBVE and use the version currently available for download by error and myself.
I am in the process of making some alstom R142 sounds but there's no openbve R142 panel at the moment.
Well, the 142 not being avaliable is because of Trevor's own request. It was his property therefore if he wanted it taken down, that's on him. Speaking on behalf of the BVEStation staff, as a person who actually knows what's going on with everybody on the team, there's no backseat moderation going on here.
That's not what I was told, and the reasoning behind it is still childish if you ask me. And yes, backseat moderation "was" going on because Trevor never spoke to me about it himself. I emailed him after hearing from everybody else (along the lines of "someone is not going to like that") asking if it was ok to release the sounds which I didn't even need to do. You can't control how anyone wants to use their trains on their own personal computer/laptop. As long as I was releasing the sounds and the sounds only, you can't control that too. I could understand if I illegally took the R142, put the r142a sounds on it, released the entire train and saying it was my entire creation, that would definitely be a reason for concern. But that's not what happened, and it was entirely unreasonable to take the train down because of some new sounds.
With that said, I'm just glad I'm past that and a r142a is finally released.
As an administrator here, I will give you the most blunt answer to why the R142 was removed that I can: We took it off the site to shut them up.
It was his choice because of all of the modifications up on youtube, and we were the ones blamed because we hosted the train. I myself have made sound packs years before and haven't received any fire over them, so this is an incident isolated to his trains. There is no backseat moderation involved when it pertains to his creations, if on the other hand it involved other stuff on the site then yes, maybe you would be right. When he demanded that his stuff be removed, we complied, as it is his rights as the owner to do so. As I stated before, a BVE 2 R142A is in development. It will be out soon