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A Steamer with a Boiler that actually is Round
Macaroni bricks seem like a good choice for modelling the boiler of a steamer,
except that it isn’t obvious how to fasten the domes and stuff that are supposed
to be on top of it. The building instructions of the above model show how to accomplish that, in about
3.5 different ways. “.5” in reference to how the whistle thing closest to the
cabin is fastened: the tan-colored thing that can be seen is supposed to be a
string with a knot on it, sqeezed inbetween the macaroni bricks.
The prototype is the Swedish Littera E. As you can see the E class is a locomotive with a rather basic shape
without very much fuss. So it was comparatively easy to do justice to it in
Lego. For example I didn’t have to think about how to model cylinders, since the
original has its cylinders inside the frames.
Apart from not being able to handle switch points or crossings, this model has
the peculiar operational restriction of being a “left curves only” model. (Well,
it’s actually supposed to manage straight track too... :)) That means that there
are sliding axles, both in the locomotive and in the tender, but the sliding
driving axles in the locomotive can only slide in one direction. This is
particularly true for the frontmost driving axle, which also has a narrower
gauge than the actual Lego gauge. The wheelbase is, by the way, slightly
decentered to the right, for obscure constructional reasons.
I haven’t been able to test any of this at all though, as I and my lego
collection live separated existences these days.
The model contains a propulsion system: a technic motor with battery box in the
tender. All completely untested. It may be that the mechanism, which has a lot
of cogwheels, is too heavy for the motor. So an extra normal train motor in the
wagons might be needed, if nothing else.
The front of the boiler should probably contain some weights as a counterweight
to the motor in the cab.
Overall some things perhaps got needlessly complex, like the SNOT and offsets in
the tender, and the half-stud offset of the motor inside the cab. But on the
other hand maybe complexity sometimes has a value in itself (?)
Credits:
The motorization system is a rip off of Ross
Neal’s 0-6-0 steamer. Many details are inspired from
Ben Beneke’s BR23.
Samarth Moray’s open wagon
showed how to fasten a window pane used as a ladder.
Comments and questions appreciated.
/Martin
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| (...) WOW; excellent model, very well done! I've had a chance to see the real thing recently and your version definately does it justice. And it's nice to read how your MOC builds on where others went before you, the way this community keeps (...) (19 years ago, 19-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) --SNIP-- (URL) Macaroni love> ;) Although not the first use of macaroni the combination of the curve bricks and macaroni to make 'circles' with studs at the top is quite neat. What I really like about this MOC is the 1x1x2/3 slopes at the top (...) (19 years ago, 19-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) This is a very nice effort, Martin! I would love to see it in real life! The macaroni boiler looks fantastic; Ross actually built one with macaronis as well and it turned out looking nice: (URL) Although I believe his was only macaronis on (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Hej Martin Grattis till ännu en tjusig model. Kul med folk som bygger med svenska förebilder. Jag har studerat dina dat-filer och det verkar som du har stor erfarenhet att bygga med riktigt Lego också - stämmer det? Hoppas att du snart kan (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| In lugnet.trains, Martin Nilsson wrote: SNIPPY Not bad! The whole thing is quite unassuming from the outside, but the internals are packed with good SNOTtery and function! Reminds me a lot of my own (URL) WDM-2>. I like how you did the buffers on (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| Thanks everybody for your appreciation. As was pointed out the black 1x1x2/3 slopes currently exist only in the (URL) 4418 Dino Pod>, which contains three of them. So that would be a lot of Dino Pods! In my defense I can say that I sort of expect (...) (19 years ago, 20-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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