Narrow Gauge 0-4-0

[Pdaitabird]

Hello to all!  I just joined Eurobricks and wanted to share this little LDD MOC.  It's a narrow gauge saddle tank loco with a color scheme inspired by Bill and Ben from The Railway Series.  Including the driver and tracks, it uses exactly 200 bricks. I would like to include the LDD file in this post, but I'm not sure how - if someone could point me to a tutorial for uploading .lxf files, it would be greatly appreciated!

Narrow Gauge Engine 2 by kevin brackett, on Flickr

Soli Deo Gloria

[JopieK]

Looks really neat Pdaitabird. I think you need to put the lxf e.g. at brickshelf and then just link to it.

[ColletArrow]

Welcome to Eurobricks! Your little locomotive is brilliant. Does it have details in the cab? 

I think you could replace the twin buffers and coupling with one larger one in the middle, as many narrow gauge systems use due to the often tighter corners. Apart from that, I think you've done a perfect job. 

[Pdaitabird]

Thanks to JopieK and ColletArrow for the feedback.  I hope this link to the .lxf file works: 

https://bricksafe.com/pages/Pdaitabird/

Here is a view showing the backhead and a cattle car.

Narrow Gauge Engine 2-1 by kevin brackett, on Flickr

Due to the method of coupling (a simple chain), I decided to go with two shortened buffers on each end.  I would love to see someone build, and hopefully figure out how to motorize, this engine in real bricks!

Soli Deo Gloria

[Hod Carrier]

That’s a very sweet little train you’ve designed there. I like that very much.

Power is almost certainly going to have to come from a motorised wagon of some sort, as I can’t see how you would fit a motor inside the loco itself. One possibility might be something like this, although you may not necessarily need two motors.

 

Edited June 4, 2018 by Hod Carrier

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

On 4/6/2018 at 1:35 AM, Pdaitabird said:

Thanks to JopieK and ColletArrow for the feedback.  I hope this link to the .lxf file works: 

https://bricksafe.com/pages/Pdaitabird/

Here is a view showing the backhead and a cattle car.

Narrow Gauge Engine 2-1 by kevin brackett, on Flickr

Due to the method of coupling (a simple chain), I decided to go with two shortened buffers on each end.  I would love to see someone build, and hopefully figure out how to motorize, this engine in real bricks!

Soli Deo Gloria

Cute little train!

[zephyr1934]

Great job getting so much detail in such a little package.

[Bricked1980]

Fantastic job on this little Tank Engine. The colour scheme and the overall shaping is great. 

[Paperinik77pk]

It's a cutie!!! Small but plenty of detail - buffers are really nice - and that wagon...so simple but effective! 

I wonder If a 9v Micromotor can be fitted inside this locomotive somehow...

[Pdaitabird]

Sorry for bumping an old topic, but I finally bought the parts for a brick-built version of this locomotive (first ever Bricklink order)! I changed it from orange to black to save a few pennies.  I think black also gives it more of an industrial shunter look.  The model is surprisingly sturdy and holds together quite well.

IMG_0569 by the chestertonian, on Flickr

IMG_0570 by the chestertonian, on Flickr

IMG_0571 by the chestertonian, on Flickr

Thanks for looking!

Soli Deo Gloria

[kieran]

Nice, I like it in black, looks good 

[Hod Carrier]

She does look good in black. But she’s such a looker that I think she could easily wear any colour and wouldn’t look out of place on any narrow gauge line, whether industrial, mining, agricultural or passenger.

[Laura Beinbrech]

That's a really nifty & cute little narrow-gauge locomotive you built there, and it looks really good in actual bricks & black.  Looks like one of the ones I've seen pictures of on various Welsh & British narrow-gauge railways.

[Roadmonkeytj]

well done little narrow gauge … looks even better in brick!