Budd Septa M-3 Thread (Philly Market-Frankford El)

[lboorse2]

The Budd built Septa M-3 Market-Frankford line cars were built from 1960 to 1962 at the Philadelphia Budd Plant.  Philly was the first city to put in a larger order of Transit cars with Budd.  These cars were used on the Market Frankford line from 1960 until the later 90's when they were replaced in full by the Adtranz M-4's. 

Very early stages of the M-3's panel texture.  Will be adding the Cinestron controller, compressed air hard lines, wiper motor box, door closed indicator (single green lamp), perhaps a few light switches and sun shade.  It's a start.

[Haven]

i think the window was bigger than that.

[lboorse2]

It's certainly not to scale, but I don't think I'm that far off...

[Haven]

cool.

[KNIGHTRIDER]

Septa in the house

[lboorse2]

This is still being worked on -- slowly.  I've been held up by an uncooperative PC.  So far, I'm not thrilled with Windows 7.  I think I found the source of the issue (something to do with my Video driver and how Win7 handles memory).  I've reinstalled my OS for the 3rd time and I think I have the problem licked.

Luckily, everything that I've worked on so far was backed up. 

I have the texture near complete for the Budd M-3 cab.  The handle is drawn.  I want to add a few gadgets (windshield wiper motor, and some switches) and then start building the train.dat and config files.  I hope to have the train complete before the weather breaks. 

I've also begun fiddling around with the exterior texture.  I'd like to have the exterior and cab done before spring, but I think just the cab is more realistic at this point.  Once the weather warms up I'll be spending much less time on the PC so development will be fairly slow until next fall.