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So the Vancouver Lego Club built a western themed layout for our shows this last
year and I decided to build my first locomotive for them. What loco is more
western themed than a 4-4-0? We wanted 8 wide for that authentic scale feel to
it and this is what I came up with.
Gallery post mod http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=166839
The drive wheels are driven by a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption of gears and
universal joints that connect to a technic motor in the tender of all places. I
had originally put it in the boiler but it was just too heavy because if you
look closely, you can see that the drive wheels don’t touch the track. There is
nothing between the front wheels and the tender.
I also made an attempt at a fully operational 8 wide Shay locomotive. I have to
admit that it never functioned quite properly. It works in theory, but it has a
lot of trouble going through points and around s-bends. It can handle a smooth
curve though which I thought was pretty cool. The trucks, as you can see in the
picture, are completely floating. The only thing attaching the body of the
train to the wheels are the two u-joints on either side of the pistons. My hope
is that someone can take this concept and improve upon it to work out the bugs.
At this point in the design, it would have to be pushed by a motor or more
likely two motors because of the weight.
Gallery post mod http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=166840
Thanks for looking, and comments are appreciated. Nathan Proudlove
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| (...) I love the radar dishes on the first one and the black wheels on top of the second one. Space parts as part of Old West trains is just classic. I like the trains as a whole too. I've always wanted my LUG to have a Wild West portion on one of (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| In lugnet.announce.moc, Nathan Proudlove wrote: <snip> (...) Welcome to Trains, welcome to 8wide, Nathan! You have some very nice entry MOCs here, and have quickly ascertained the dilemma facing train builders-- form to follow function, or function (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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