[WIP][MOC] Lego Pneumatic Train a new rig.

[Electricsteam]

Here we go nearly, nearly... nearly four years now? Anyways here in the new movement valve gear what ever ya called it, the new rod set up I will be using for the next pneumatic train! I am super excited even though its quite early in the build state I am just happy to have it working! This here feels much smoother then big red several years ago and will have a much more compact fit inside of the train.... I am unsure of the size of shape of what the new train will be but right now its looking towards an X-8-X I'll shut up now here are the pictures!

It's a bit of a mess in this state but trust me once I work on it a bit more it will be an amazing build. Very few lego trains run or pneumatics or are nearly vanilla built.

Here is a video of it in action, It's quite slow because of the mini compressor.

Here is the old red wonder the ESCO behemoth.

It's set up was a bit more rudimentary with exposed tubing and what not.

-Bonus gif- http://imgur.com/ng16s3v

Anyways! I'd greatly greatly greatly appreciate some feedback on my ramblings literally anything! Hopefully you folks can sort out my excited nonsense!

-ESCO-

[dr_spock]

Cool. Would an air tank and a couple more compressors help?

[Electricsteam]

Cool. Would an air tank and a couple more compressors help?

It would help like crazy the pistons will always be a little jerky because hey its only two and its well simple legos. I need to get LDD going and make a train around this set up then learn how to put BL orders up. I'd need a lot more of those little ones but the two normal pumps I have works quite well for it. If I had more or pumped after I'd go a bit faster

[Lego Dino 500]

Are you going to try any new compressor designs? So far, the new one on your new prototype is pretty slow, same as the previous one. I could help you mock something up in LDD if you want to make a ore original design.

Have you seen this compressor design made by Sariel? It seems you could translate the design for the larger pumps, but it seems small enough and compact enough for the job. Or you could stack two of them together, side by side.

Edited December 5, 2015 by Lego Dino 500

[Electricsteam]

Are you going to try any new compressor designs? So far, the new one on your new prototype is pretty slow, same as the previous one. I could help you mock something up in LDD if you want to make a ore original design.

Have you seen this compressor design made by Sariel? It seems you could translate the design for the larger pumps, but it seems small enough and compact enough for the job. Or you could stack two of them together, side by side.

At the moment I am thinking of something tileable maybe that would go along the length of some sort of box car/tender Having enough of those fireing at once would give it turtle speed over slug speed. It's going to be slow by nature I think. The other option for more speed would be bigger drivers or more traction. I can't think of how I want a train to look using this system. I would love some input on what style train might look good on a fat pneumatic system.

Edited December 5, 2015 by Electricsteam