[MOC] Melbourne D2 class tram (Combino)

[Melburnian]

As a tram enthusiast living in Melbourne, I am currently trying to replicate each of the city's trams with lego.

Deciding to experiment with low floor models, I built this 5 sectioned melbourne D2 class tram (PF operated: two powered trucks, one on the first section and one on the fifth). The second and fourth sections are suspended (no wheels), and the short middle section has an unpowered truck.

Does anyone know of a coupling system that will minimize the gap between the sections of the tram?

Also, if anyone else has experimented with low floor trams like this, don't hesitate to post pictures - I would like to see!

Hope you enjoy!

[Man with a hat]

Nice! You captured the overall shape really well. The top of the front looks a bit blocky, but that's a tricky part of course. The lower parts looks quite good actually.

[the world is about trains]

sick build absolutely loving it

[Ashi Valkoinen]

Really nice Combino tram. Front is a little roboust, but I really like the black wedged part on driver's cab side window, nicely built detail.

It is special to me we have Combino trams in Budapest as well, but they are short-articulated versions, without suspended sections.

 

Also I built a CAF Urbos 3 tram with the same arrangement (B'2B'), with two suspended sections, here are some photos:

Entire tram: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/Trams/CAFUrbos3/0.jpg

Coupling: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/Trams/CAFUrbos3/caf_08.png

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/Trams/CAFUrbos3/caf_09.png

I decided to create a double connection, but only on the roof to leave enough space for minifigures. I used SNOT gray panels and slopes to make as close connections as I could. 

Edited September 29, 2016 by Ashi Valkoinen

[Melburnian]

Thanks for the comments everyone, Ashi, you Urbos tram looks fantastic. The connection between the sections is really clever.

I hope you don't mind if i use that idea in the future with some of my other builds! 

[Ashi Valkoinen]

16 hours ago, Melburnian said:

Thanks for the comments everyone, Ashi, you Urbos tram looks fantastic. The connection between the sections is really clever.

I hope you don't mind if i use that idea in the future with some of my other builds! 

Thank you. You can use the design of course, but if you use it, please refer to my root Brickshelf folder, which is here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=AshiValkoinen

Note that the parts you can use (cheese slopes, panels or 45° slopes depends on how long your suspended sections are and where you put the pivot point between cars. I got used to put this pivot point in one of the sections, a pivot point right in the middle between sections makes this technique not working. :)

Can you tell me, do these tram have rotation-symmetry (I mean the strange arrangement of doors), or it has a symmetry to it's center line?

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Very nice MOC ...it looks like the original one! 

[Melburnian]

On 10/1/2016 at 1:25 AM, Ashi Valkoinen said:

Thank you. You can use the design of course, but if you use it, please refer to my root Brickshelf folder, which is here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=AshiValkoinen

Note that the parts you can use (cheese slopes, panels or 45° slopes depends on how long your suspended sections are and where you put the pivot point between cars. I got used to put this pivot point in one of the sections, a pivot point right in the middle between sections makes this technique not working. :)

Can you tell me, do these tram have rotation-symmetry (I mean the strange arrangement of doors), or it has a symmetry to it's center line?

I think the answer here, actually,  is that the tram has neither.

This is mostly because of the odd fact that the suspended sections are not actually the same length, the shorter section having one door on either side and the longer section having two doors on either side.

However, if the two suspended sections were identical, in terms of the door arrangement, these trams would have rotational symmetry (the 1st and 5th sections have only one door each).

We have another tram in Melbourne though, the C2 class tram (Citadis) (which we leased and then bought from Alstom in Mulhouse, France), which has the same amount of sections, with the 2nd and 4th being suspended. The difference with this one compared to the D2 class tram though, is that the suspended sections are identical, like the CAF Urbos 3 tram. It has rotational symmetry.

C2 class tram: http://www.yarratrams.com.au/about-us/who-we-are/our-fleet/c2-class/

[jan_12]

I really like it, the shape is captured very well and I like the fact that it has power functions. Keep up the good work! 

[MaxProduction16]

Comment revoked. Not hard to tell what was said, that is done and nothing can be done to change that. 

Edited July 19, 2022 by MaxProduction16

[JopieK]

Hi @MaxProduction16 That is a topic from almost four years ago... Also don't ask for LDD files in that way please. Apart from that enjoy your stay, but also read our rules!