Lego Train

[Nancie Fazzari]

<div>There might be a problem on the switches with the yellow part, which the 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 building 8 wide Mocs (including me) and compared to those, your cars would fit well.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>lego train</div><div></div><div>Download File: https://t.co/68caBn9l13 </div><div></div><div></div><div>They look good when standing still, but the 7 car long train was never happy in normal lego curves, lots of drag. Runs great on R88 or larger curves (which did not exist at the time I built the train). I originally built the locomotives so that they could accommodate 9v motors, but after my experience with PF on this train, I would never use 9v to power it (prior to converting to SBrick I would frequently trip the thermal resistor on the PF IR receiver, it also helps that there is plenty sufficient room to stuff all of the PF in to one of the locos).</div><div></div><div></div><div>So in my second long train I dropped the car length to about 42 studs to improve operation (as seen in the front of the top photo). Runs a lot better on R44 curves, but this train has 8 cars so much of the drag savings is lost to the extra car.</div><div></div><div></div><div>My advice would be to build test flatcars the right length and quantity that you are contemplating for passenger cars in your train, add roughly the amount of weight to each flatcar that you think the passenger car build would be (random plates, preexisting train cars, or whatever is handy), and see if your design runs to your satisfaction.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In your other train, you ran a cable from the battery car to the engine car. I wonder 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 offputting.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Someone show me a train diorama with several levels where the inclines were created with the ground that was done with 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.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>So as you are perhaps as limited by constraints like room and tracks as me, use this Excel sheet. Using the above principles, you just write how many tracks do you want to spend and it will give you the height in bricks and plates of each of the pillars.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is a Lego model of a BNSF train engine. It is based on Lego set #10133. I built the train and train 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 here). The textures are from AmbientCG, and the scene is lit by an HDRI from Poly Haven. Rendered at 4k with 2048 samples, and then composited in Blender.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Holiday Train came through our town recently, 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 passenger train, a cargo train, whatever they want!! The only thing was, they had to come up with some way to link it up in both the front and the back, because at the end of the hour we were going to make ONE BIG TRAIN!!</div><div></div><div></div><div>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 everything could be linked up a bit easier than just used a regular Lego as the connection. 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 other good connector pieces, since I knew kids would need some last minute help getting their train cars ready.</div><div></div><div></div><div>After that, we went to our display area and I tried my best to link everyone up! Asking 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 solving, since kiddos have to account for a way to attach their car to the train. Our train length was over 20 cars long!! Lots of fun as always!!</div><div></div><div></div><div>One year later in 1966, the LEGO Group introduced the first sets with track and battery powered motors. These trains had blue rails and white sleepers using standard 8 x 2 plates, while the locomotives used the standard 4-wheel drive 4.5V motor unit. The flanged train wheels had rubber rims for traction which were pushed into the motors. The batteries were either carried behind the engine in a tender, or in a battery box built into the engine in the earlier sets.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Since 1969, there was also a 12V train program, which used additional conductor rails mounted between the standard 4.5V rails, and 12V motors contained in the same housings as the 4.5V motors, but with additional metal contacts attached to the bottom of the housings.This first period of the 4.5V and 12V trains, sometimes called the Blue Era because of the rails colour, lasted from 1966 till 1979.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The second era (1980 - 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 to the sleepers to allow the track to be more easily dismantled and stored. The trains were also redesigned to be minifigure compatible, and featured new 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 and could swivel, rather than be of fixed design.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Wheels were red or black. Both 4.5V (battery powered) and 12V (DC powered using add-on centre conductor rails) sets were available during this era, too.By real model train fans, this time is considered as the greatest era of LEGO Trains because of the rich availability of many automated accessories like Remote Controlled Switch Tracks (7858, 7859), Remote Controlled Signals (7860), Remote Controlled Road Crossing (7866) or Remote Controlled Decoupling (7862) - those remote controls could be combined with the Transformer / 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) which for a bright flair even beyond the rails.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The introduction of 9V-trains in 1991 marked the end of the earlier two voltages, and marked the Trains theme transition to the 9V system (TECHNIC had made the transition to 9V the year before). This third era is characterized by integral moulded dark Grey rail/tie assemblies with metal conducting rails. Later the former outstanding standard Trains theme was integrated in the LEGO World City theme line. The 9V era was finished with a special experts model of the Factory line called Hobby Trains in 2006.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In the same year, the LEGO Company introduced the new completely different RC system. These trains get their energy from batteries on 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 trains to be controlled independently of each other without the need to introduce second track circuits.</div><div></div><div></div><div>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 sufficient 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 power regulators. The new range was announced as launching in 2009, and would 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 across multiple themes".</div><div></div><div></div><div>A new train was introduced 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. Necessary 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 separately, but mainly online. There was an additional 'collection' pack available with all the necessary parts to power the Emerald Night. These included a rechargeable battery box, a new infrared remote controller, plus a Power Functions motor and infrared receiver. Although this is a "Power Functions" setup, this particular setup existed only for the Emerald Night, as a new motor was in development.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Following the Emerald Night, the new 88002 Power Functions-compatible train motor and controller were introduced in two 2010 sets, the 7938 Passenger Train and 7939 Cargo Train. This new motor utilized the universal Power Functions connections, used by all components. The standardization of the Power Functions system 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.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In 2018, 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 Functions brought about in 2007. This system was introduced with 60197 Passenger Train In 2019, 71044 Disney Train and Station was introduced with the motorised elements in the tender. In 2020, the Lego Crocodile Locomotive was released, designed to be motorised with Powered Up Large Motor, not the usual train motor. In June 2022 LEGO introduced 60337 Express Passenger Train also powered by Powered Up, which features the ability of the train to be controlled via Bluetooth and a smartphone app.</div><div></div><div></div><div>When The Orient Express was revealed, there was heated debate about the train, both from the design, to the colour scheme, with many train fans feeling it was quite a letdown for such a historically significant train.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Emerald Night is considered one of the best LEGO 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.</div><div></div><div> 8d45195817</div>