Mods / Dark Derby

• BBelt Ry. of Chicago Caboosesby Dark DerbyA set of four BRC cabooses for the upcoming Blue Island layout; two in a classic red, and two in the same gray and black as the road's engines. Prototypically, the BRC used a unique type of "shorty" transfer caboose, but GTKinzel's excellent cabooses fill in nicely. A few BRC cabooses are preserv...2.0k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• CChristmas Freight Car Packby Dark DerbyWhat's this? A Christmas train! Ship loads of presents and coal, and get your nog and cocoa on, with this special pack of six Christmas liveries! - "Naughty" coal hopper - "Nice" boxcar - Eggnog reefer - Cocoa tanker - Sleigh flatcar - Caboose Car models by Long and Valkyrie Lead.1.9k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• OOrient Express Dining Carby Dark DerbyAlongside its luxurious sleeping cars, the Orient Express served the finest cuisine you could get on a train anywhere. For a sample, the first dinner served on the train: oysters, soup with Italian pasta, turbot with green sauce, chicken ‘à la chasseur’, fillet of beef with ‘château’ potatoes, ‘c...1.9k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• OOrient Express Baggage Carby Dark DerbyPart of the world-famous Orient Express, one or two baggage cars like this would be coupled on for the long journey from Paris to various points in southeastern Europe. This one displays the striking crest of Compagnies Internationale des Wagons-lits (CIWL), the operator of the Express.1.9k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• OOrient Express Sleeping Carby Dark DerbyForming the bulk of the famous Orient Express, these sleeping cars--usually six to a train--were some of the first sleeping to enter service in Europe. By the 1930s, they were renowned as the very pinnacle of comfort, rivaling some of Europe's finest hotels. Even today, over a decade after the la...1.9k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• OOrient Express Lounge Carby Dark DerbyAs the Orient Express traveled from Paris to Istanbul, its passengers had beautiful lounge cars like this at their disposal to socialize, sample drinks, solve murders, and all other manner of pursuits befitting the European bourgeoisie.1.8k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• SSouthern Pacific 8103 - Weatheredby Dark DerbyThe third in my set of Southern Pacific AC44 liveries, and my personal favorite. A little weathering can go a long way! Also check out my workshop for a fresh 'n' clean version of this livery, and a "Rolling Line-style" unlettered version.1.8k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• GGN Snowplow Tender (Berkshire)by Dark DerbyOne of two tender options for my Great Northern snowplow livery. Like most of the plow liveries on the Workshop, I used the Berkshire tender as a close match to the stock plow tender.1.8k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• SSanta Fe Malletby Dark DerbyAnother piece from the backlog. My first, and so far only, livery for the stock Big Boy, based on one of the Norfolk & Western's impressive Y-3 2-8-8-2s! ...wait, what? Norfolk & Western? But it says Santa Fe in the title. What gives? Well, the real ATSF 1795 had three identities over its life. I...1.8k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• NNASA SW1500 Packby Dark DerbyTwo livery packs in one week? Whoa! Lately I've been going through my backlog of liveries I've finished and haven't released. I made these three around early November for a NASA Railroad diorama that I never got around to making. NASA's three SW1500s were ex-Toledo, Peoria & Western engines, buil...1.8k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• GGN Snowplow Tender (KA)by Dark DerbyThe Great Northern snowplow and matching Berkshire tender had been sitting on my hard drive for about a year, but this KA tender was made just today. Awhile back I'd noticed that the KA tender goes really well with the rotary plow, so now I've finally done a livery to show that off.1.7k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• NNP "Butterknife" F7Aby Dark DerbyAn underrated classic of F7 liveries, this is the "Passenger Pine" or "Butterknife" scheme the Northern Pacific's first F7s wore from the late '40s until 1953. This one's actually numbered as one of the NP's two FP7s. They were delivered in 1952, just one year before the two-tone Loewy scheme ( )...1.7k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• MMilwaukee Road S-2 - Early Schemeby Dark DerbyModel by Long, livery by moi A trio of ALCO S-2s in Milwaukee Road colors, numbered from each of the three batches the Milwaukee ordered between 1940 and 1949.1.7k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• SSanta Fe Berkshire Tenderby Dark DerbyThe tender for the Santa Fe Berkshire.1.6k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• TThe American-Trackby Dark DerbyThe year was 1870, not long after the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, and a radical and forward-thinking idea emerged in Washington. While the transcontinental railroad had slashed travel time considerably, the new American passenger still had to deal with the headache of many...1.6k downloadsupdated 6 mo ago
• SSouthern Pacific 8103 - Cleanby Dark DerbyThe second of three SP liveries I did back when the AC44 came out, and have been sitting on ever since, as is my wont. There have been a few SP liveries already, I know, but this was the first one that came to mind when I tried out the AC44 template files. Nonetheless, I'm pretty satisfied with it.1.5k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• NNP "Butterknife" F7Bby Dark DerbyAn F7B in Northern Pacific "Passenger Pine" or "Butterknife" colors.1.5k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• BBelt Ry. of Chicago Geepsby Dark DerbyMy contribution to the Blue Island club layout. While the BRC mostly rostered ALCOs, GP7s and GP9s like these weren't uncommon. (After all, they were some of the most popular diesels ever built.) Nos. 472 and 475 were built for the railroad in November 1951 and used into at least the 1990s. 481 w...1.5k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• SSanta Fe Mallet Tenderby Dark DerbyThe tender for the Santa Fe Mallet.1.5k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• RRock Island F7Aby Dark DerbyIt's been a while since I've done a "real" livery, hasn't it? So here's a Rock Island F7 in the striking, as-delivered black and red. At some point I might do the red-and-silver "Rocket" livery to go with... Something I want to do is go through my backlog of standalone liveries (i.e. they don't h...1.5k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• LLionel "Girl's Train"by Dark DerbyHappy Easter! I wanted to do something bright and colorful for the occasion, and immediately I knew exactly what I had to do. In 1957, in an effort to broaden their audience, Lionel introduced the No. 1587S "Lady Lionel" set...y'know, for girls! Lettered realistically, but painted in bright paste...1.4k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• GGreat Northern PS-2 (As Delivered)by Dark DerbyLong's PS-2 hopper, decked out as delivered to Great Northern in 1958. My first quickmod livery and first American livery in quite a long time...but not the last GN livery. Stay tuned.1.4k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• SSouthern Pacific 6395by Dark DerbyOnce again, it's been a long time since I uploaded something! Anything! Inspired by the recent remaster of the Santa Fe layout, I dug into the backlog and found a set of Southern Pacific liveries I made back when the AC44 came out. This is the first, made to match the default AC44 models.1.4k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• RRock Island F7Bby Dark DerbyThe B unit for my Rock Island F7. Surprisingly, there really is no lettering or numbering at all on the prototype, which a) fits Rolling Line's art style pretty well, and b) is a testament to how distinct the ivery is, that you can still tell it's RI.1.4k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• KKKstB 310.23by Dark DerbyIf you played the original Microsoft Train Simulator, this next set of liveries might be familiar to you. Or read Agatha Christie. Or seen the many movies set on this train. Or played The Last Express. The point is, few trains are as famous as the Orient Express, which I've chosen to head up with...1.4k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• KKool-Aid Reeferby Dark DerbyOH YEAAAHHHHH! It all started on the Beer Line Discord server, when we found out that VIA painted an F40PH into a Kool-Aid livery back in 2000. Things snowballed from there. This unseats the DM&G U30C as the fastest thing I've ever made; Microcosmologist pinged me on Discord with the idea at arou...1.4k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• HH10-44 BL3 packby microcosmologistNew and improved!1.4k downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
• RRailway Operating Division 2704by Dark DerbyContinuing my spate of UK-themed liveries, here's an engine I whipped up about a year ago for an early 20th-century, British-military-themed layout that never came to fruition. It wears the khaki colors of the Railway Operating Division, formed as part of the Royal Engineers in 1915. The ROD hand...1.4k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• KKKstB 310.23 Tenderby Dark DerbyThe tender for kkStB No. 310.23.1.3k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• KKool-Aid Flyerby Dark DerbyOH YEAAAHHHHH Quenching your thirst for a steam engine on the Kool-Aid Railroad, that's what this Flyer does best!1.3k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• KKool-Aid Tenderby Dark DerbyA bunker full of Kool-Aid mix + a chilled tank of water = plenty of fuel for this party train!1.3k downloadsupdated 6 y ago
• NNord Railway 38.232by Dark DerbyAs an alternate engine for my Orient Express set, consider this engine, a fairly standard representative of the Chemins de Fer du Nord (or Nord for short). The Nord has its share of glamorous luxury trains, famously the Orient Express and the joint Golden Arrow/Fleche d'Or with Great Britain's So...1.2k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• RRoaring Camp No. 1 "Dixiana"by Dark DerbyThe Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad is one of two preservation lines that bring tourists from the beaches of Santa Cruz to the forests of Bear Mountain, meeting the standard-gauge Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific at Felton, California. No. 1 Dixiana was the first engine on the RC&BT...1.2k downloadsupdated 20 mo ago
• RRailway Operating Division Tenderby Dark DerbyThe tender for my Railway Operating Division engine.1.2k downloadsupdated 5 y ago
• NNord Railway Tenderby Dark DerbyThe tender for Nord 38.232. Incidentally, that number doesn't fit the Nord numbering structure at all. Might have to fix that.1.2k downloadsupdated 5 y ago

83 dark derby mods, most downloaded first. Each one has its own page here with what it needs to run and where its author publishes it; the files themselves stay with the author and are never re-hosted on this site.