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Re: My first train MOC's ever
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:52:20 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Nathan Proudlove wrote:
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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 our train layouts. Hopefully we’ll be able to build some trains as nice
as your’s one of these days.
David
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