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Was thinking about later eras too. Couldn't help it. For the 1975-2000 period I can use the same basic mesh as for the earlier cars. It's a pretty close match for size and shape to cars of that period, although it'd preferably have a change of eye candy. Not really a drama, since I like eye candy anyway.
The round tail observation car doesn't really fit the post-1975 period, but I can make a square-ended dining car easily enough. That's just minor skinning changes on a pax car. For the post-2000 period things get a bit different, so I did my usual trick and started looking around for drawings and dimensions.
I ended up getting quite enthusiastic about the ICE 3. They managed to build the things so that all the mechanicals are below floor level. The result is that the full length of every car is usable passenger space. The floor for the end cars just continues through to the driver's compartment, with only a glass panel between passengers and driver. This effectively turns the leading and trailing units into observation cars, with the end row passengers having a view straight out the windscreens at 200 mph. This is a pretty cool feature, and apparently is very popular with customers.
So I whipped up a mesh for the intermediate cars, which won't be hard to skin. If someone wants to make an ICE 3 end car for an RT3 electric loco at some point (which really wouldn't be hard either) then these cars will fit nicely behind it. They should also fit pretty well with any modern loco, and obviously could be given any custom livery without much trouble.
And yeah, I know I was thinking of double deck pax units a while back, but they really only fit with matching double deck end cars. They'd look wrong with most RT3 locomotives, so I decided against them.
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Edit: Ok, leading and trailing cars. Why not?
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Second one is a roughed-out ICE-T, with some quick and simple messing around for custom livery ideas.
I'm thinking the ICE-T shape would be good for a generic H era "dining car" (even though it isn't really a dining car).