4-8-0 steam locomotive with four 10015-inspired passenger cars - real world MOC

[Murdoch17]

Fifteen years ago, I bought instructions for @SavaTheAggie's '2-8-0 Consolidation' six-wide steam locomotive. I never really used them beyond learning techniques for useful building steam engines that could actually take curves - unlike my own late 2009 4-4-0 MOC that worked well only on straight track! You can see Sava's original 2-8-0 model here (in red / yellow with oil tender) at his new online home for his awesome instructions at Brick Train Depot. This older model got an additional axle on the new front bogie, making it a 4-8-0. The loco features a non-Sava tender, pistons, and cab. The only things that survived from Sava's instructions are some portions of the boiler. As for the coaches, they are inspired by 24-year old set 10015 (passenger wagon) from the 'My Own Train' series. I made a baggage car and three passenger cars for this train using as many new parts as possible - except for the doors, as I had no good alternatives for that part.

The front of the steam engine, which was a 2-8-0 until a few weeks ago.

The rear of the loco.

Inside the cab.

The baggage car which is half my own design and half inspired by 2001 set 10015.

Two of the three mostly-identical coaches.

The third coach carries the red marker lights for the rear of the train.

Thoughts?

[Shiva]

Nice :)

[Darkkostas25]

Nice build. Like that, you made a thematically coherent design of full train sets 

[idlemarvel]

Top marks for building a full train with consistent style and livery. I'd like to see a video of it running.

[Murdoch17]

1 hour ago, Shiva said:

Nice :)

Thanks @Shiva!

59 minutes ago, Darkkostas25 said:

Nice build. Like that, you made a thematically coherent design of full train sets 

Thanks @Darkkostas25. Most of the time, I like my passengers trains to match up with the locomotive pulling the cars.

24 minutes ago, idlemarvel said:

Top marks for building a full train with consistent style and livery. I'd like to see a video of it running.

Thank you, and sorry @idlemarvel but none of my steamers are motorized. in fact, none of my trains are motorized out of the box. Only two diesels have the ability to swap bogies to become 9v-powered. (I own not much 9v track and zero motors myself )