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There might be a problem on the switches with the yellow part, which t= he car might touch due to the overhang. The cars will look oversized if you= compare them to standart Lego trains. However there are a lot of people bu= ilding 8 wide Mocs (including me) and compared to those, your cars would fi= t well.
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They look good when standing still, but the 7 ca= r long train was never happy in normal lego curves, lots of drag. Runs grea= t on R88 or larger curves (which did not exist at the time I built the trai= n). I originally built the locomotives so that they could accommodate 9v mo= tors, but after my experience with PF on this train, I would never use 9v t= o power it (prior to converting to SBrick I would frequently trip the therm= al resistor on the PF IR receiver, it also helps that there is plenty suffi= cient room to stuff all of the PF in to one of the locos).
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So in my second long train I dropped the car length to abou= t 42 studs to improve operation (as seen in the front of the top photo). Ru= ns a lot better on R44 curves, but this train has 8 cars so much of the dra= g savings is lost to the extra car.
My advi= ce would be to build test flatcars the right length and quantity that you a= re contemplating for passenger cars in your train, add roughly the amount o= f weight to each flatcar that you think the passenger car build would be (r= andom plates, preexisting train cars, or whatever is handy), and see if you= r design runs to your satisfaction.
In your= other train, you ran a cable from the battery car to the engine car. I won= der if here doing it that way it would be possible to fit one of the other = and motors. I find the whine of the Cubit Motor Cube to be really offputtin= g.
Someone show me a train diorama with sev= eral levels where the inclines were created with the ground that was done w= ith some kind of sintetic material and the LEGO tracks simply lay over it. = It was nice, but I want to buld my slopes out of LEGO bricks.
So as you ar= e perhaps as limited by constraints like room and tracks as me, use this Ex= cel sheet. Using the above principles, you just write how many tracks do yo= u want to spend and it will give you the height in bricks and plates of eac= h of the pillars.
This is a Lego model of a= BNSF train engine. It is based on Lego set #10133. I built the train and t= rain cars in LeoCAD, and then exported it from there into Blender 3.5. The = landscape was made using a geometry nodes setup, and it instances in around= 4 700 000 bricks. I made the Lego material myself (you can download it her= e). The textures are from AmbientCG, and the scene is lit by an HDRI from P= oly Haven. Rendered at 4k with 2048 samples, and then composited in Blender= .
The Holiday Train came through our town r= ecently, so I thought it would be a great idea if we made one big train! So= after we went over rules, I told my kiddos that everyone would be making a= train car! They could make it a holiday train, but they could really make = it anything. Like a ghost train, an Old West train being robbed, a passenge= r train, a cargo train, whatever they want!! The only thing was, they had t= o come up with some way to link it up in both the front and the back, becau= se at the end of the hour we were going to make ONE BIG TRAIN!!
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Once kids started building, I showed them the example = I built really quick. Basically all I was asking for was some sort of hinge= or bendy piece in both the front and back of their cars. That way everythi= ng could be linked up a bit easier than just used a regular Lego as the con= nection. Plus it gives a bit of a STEM element to the whole challenge. Most= kids got it, but during my rounds I kept my eye out for extra hinges and o= ther good connector pieces, since I knew kids would need some last minute h= elp getting their train cars ready.
After t= hat, we went to our display area and I tried my best to link everyone up! A= sking everyone to use hinges or similar pieces on the front and end made it= a lot easier and less stressful. It also adds some engineering/problem sol= ving, since kiddos have to account for a way to attach their car to the tra= in. Our train length was over 20 cars long!! Lots of fun as always!!
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One year later in 1966, the LEGO Group introduced= the first sets with track and battery powered motors. These trains had blu= e rails and white sleepers using standard 8 x 2 plates, while the locomotiv= es used the standard 4-wheel drive 4.5V motor unit. The flanged train wheel= s had rubber rims for traction which were pushed into the motors. The batte= ries were either carried behind the engine in a tender, or in a battery box= built into the engine in the earlier sets.
Since 1969, there was also a 12V train program, which used additional cond= uctor rails mounted between the standard 4.5V rails, and 12V motors contain= ed in the same housings as the 4.5V motors, but with additional metal conta= cts attached to the bottom of the housings.This first period of the 4.5V an= d 12V trains, sometimes called the Blue Era because of the rails colour, la= sted from 1966 till 1979.
The second era (1= 980 - 1990), also called the Grey Era, is characterized by dark Grey ties (= sleepers) and light grey rails. The rails were of a new "snap fit" design t= o the sleepers to allow the track to be more easily dismantled and stored. = The trains were also redesigned to be minifigure compatible, and featured n= ew train bases with swivelling bogies for more realism. The 4.5V motor was = carried over from the previous Blue Era system largely unmodified, however = the new 12V motor had both a power-take off for powering on-train lights an= d could swivel, rather than be of fixed design.
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Wheels were red or black. Both 4.5V (battery powered) and 12V (DC powe= red using add-on centre conductor rails) sets were available during this er= a, too.By real model train fans, this time is considered as the greatest er= a of LEGO Trains because of the rich availability of many automated accesso= ries like Remote Controlled Switch Tracks (7858, 7859), Remote Controlled S= ignals (7860), Remote Controlled Road Crossing (7866) or Remote Controlled = Decoupling (7862) - those remote controls could be combined with the Transf= ormer / Speed Controller to a large extendible keyboard for controlling all= functions from one central position. In addition to this the world around = the trains could be illuminated by some electric lights (7861 and 7867) whi= ch for a bright flair even beyond the rails.
The introduction of 9V-trains in 1991 marked the end of the earlier two v= oltages, and marked the Trains theme transition to the 9V system (TECHNIC h= ad made the transition to 9V the year before). This third era is characteri= zed by integral moulded dark Grey rail/tie assemblies with metal conducting= rails. Later the former outstanding standard Trains theme was integrated i= n the LEGO World City theme line. The 9V era was finished with a special ex= perts model of the Factory line called Hobby Trains in 2006.
In the same year, the LEGO Company introduced the new com= pletely different RC system. These trains get their energy from batteries o= n board and are controlled via a Infrared remote control. For these trains,= new non-electricity tracks (7896, 7895) were introduced. The key advantage= of the system compared to the earlier generations was the ability of train= s to be controlled independently of each other without the need to introduc= e second track circuits.
On 1 October 2007 = Lego announced that they would discontinue both the 9-volt and the RC train= formats in favour of a new system. The announcement cited a lack of suffic= ient demand for the 9-volt product line to be profitable, caused partly by = the need to replace key machinery and place minimum orders for motors and p= ower regulators. The new range was announced as launching in 2009, and woul= d use the new 'Power Functions' system also used in the Technic line, which= would allow the company to "amortize the development and on going cost acr= oss multiple themes".
A new train was intro= duced in the summer of 2009 called the "Emerald Night", modelled on a steam= locomotive. This train was sold without a motor as set number 10194. Neces= sary part numbers were listed on the rear of the box to convert the Emerald= Night to a Power Functions compatible train. These parts were available se= parately, but mainly online. There was an additional 'collection' pack avai= lable with all the necessary parts to power the Emerald Night. These includ= ed a rechargeable battery box, a new infrared remote controller, plus a Pow= er Functions motor and infrared receiver. Although this is a "Power Functio= ns" setup, this particular setup existed only for the Emerald Night, as a n= ew motor was in development.
Following the = Emerald Night, the new 88002 Power Functions-compatible train motor and con= troller were introduced in two 2010 sets, the 7938 Passenger Train and 7939= Cargo Train. This new motor utilized the universal Power Functions connect= ions, used by all components. The standardization of the Power Functions sy= stem meant that any of the motors in the Power Functions line could be used= and builders were not limited to using a single type of motor as they had = been with previous Lego train systems.
In 2= 018, Lego introduced a new Power Functions system, known as Powered Up, or = Power Functions 2.0. This system was brought to replace the old Power Funct= ions brought about in 2007. This system was introduced with 60197 Passenger= Train In 2019, 71044 Disney Train and Station was introduced with the moto= rised elements in the tender. In 2020, the Lego Crocodile Locomotive was re= leased, designed to be motorised with Powered Up Large Motor, not the usual= train motor. In June 2022 LEGO introduced 60337 Express Passenger Train al= so powered by Powered Up, which features the ability of the train to be con= trolled via Bluetooth and a smartphone app.
When The Orient Express was revealed, there was heated debate about the tr= ain, both from the design, to the colour scheme, with many train fans feeli= ng it was quite a letdown for such a historically significant train.
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The Emerald Night is considered one of the best L= EGO Trains ever, mostly because it was designed less like a toy City Train,= and more like a model train, inspiring an entire generation of Train MOCs = and designs.
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