Just to let you guys know: the expansion pack 'Spearhead' will contain parachutes. So I wouldn't bother modelling them enless you really want to. Here's a link to a movie showing them for those who haven't seen it yet (it's on this site's news page oOo: ):
http://iron1.la.ioerror.com/iron-bin/ff ... exp_hi.zip . I think this will make you're work a lot easier Scorpio. You should try joining the EA team, they could use a guy with your ideas and skills cool:
So what about the train? You think it's possible?