Murdoch17 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 (edited) This early-2000's style Wild West / 1860s 4-4-0 steam locomotive was heavily inspired by pictures of @SavaTheAggie's 4-4-0 from 2007 to which I then added a tender inspired by another Sava loco (his 4-6-0, also from 2007). I made the tender a bit longer. made the front bogie actually connect to the front of the loco, (whereas before in the original Sava design it was totally free-floating and loose) among several other structural / style tweaks here and there to make it my own. The engine is intended to go with the four My Own Train green passengers car (set 10015) MOD's that I own. The front of the locomotive, which is modeled after a coal burning type rather than the wood burner you usually see in Western scenes. The rear of the engine. The printed '10' piece is the dime part from the Minifigure vending machine, and it works rather well here! Much like real a 1860s locomotive, there are not many details inside the cab. The baggage car which is completely my own design. Two of the three coaches. The third coach carries the red marker lights for the rear of the train. Thoughts? Edited January 17 by Murdoch17 Quote
LL1982 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Nice I like this style. Huge fan of the more classic trains. Like those recessed doors for the baggage car. Personally I would have a bit in the cab, but that's taste. Quote
Daiman Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Baggage car is great in this, well it all is but the engine hurts my eyes. Now get on and find those coaches... Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 (edited) 3 hours ago, LL1982 said: Nice I like this style. Huge fan of the more classic trains. Like those recessed doors for the baggage car. Personally I would have a bit in the cab, but that's taste. Thanks for the compliments @LL1982! I've seen the inside of a real late-1850s loco - the last surviving Eddy Clock 4-4-0 from the Boston and Albany, which has a Johnson-bar (reverser) and the lever to open the firebox. No brakes, (tender had the engine brake, and there were no automatic train brakes yet!) no lights, no water-level sights, no gauges if you were unlucky. There were very plain and vey dangerous to operate... you had to listen to every sound and smell to safely run them, so this MOC is actually extremely accurate to the time frame. 1 hour ago, Daiman said: Baggage car is great in this, well it all is but the engine hurts my eyes. Now get on and find those coaches... Thanks @Daiman and sorry about your eyes - they really looked like this back then, though! I'm also looking for the coaches, but with 47 boxes of trains to go through it will take time... Edited January 16 by Murdoch17 Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 13 minutes ago, Shiva said: Nice loco and carriages too :) Thank you @Shiva! Quote
LL1982 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Oh really I never there were trains so bare so to say without gages or even brakes. Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 (edited) 1 hour ago, LL1982 said: Oh really I never there were trains so bare so to say without gages or even brakes. Yep @LL1982! That was part of the dangerous days of the early US railways: The era of link-and-pin couplers, (where you could tell how long a yard worker had been on the job by how many fingers he had left), boiler explosions by the score, stock market scams given life, (see the Holman horror) awful bridge designs that collapsed without warning (see Angola Horror for example of that), 'cornfields meets' because of poor signals or lack of rules being followed, crazy schedules (no standard time zones until 1918!), shoddy construction methods and the Credit Mobilier scandal, lack of safety upgrades, rampant government corruption, and so on... and that was just in America! Picture from the 'Crash at Crush' EDIT: sorry for going on a tangent... I kinda got into my element there, and forgot to stop when I should have. Apologies if I overwhelmed anyone! Edited January 16 by Murdoch17 Quote
Daiman Posted January 16 Posted January 16 @Murdoch17this time while searching label the boxes lol... Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 26 minutes ago, Daiman said: @Murdoch17this time while searching label the boxes lol... @Daiman Most trains are in numbered paper boxes with a master excel document telling what is where... except for ten of them which are unnumbered. I think that its in one of the unnumbered ones.... Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 (edited) I finally found the passenger cars @Daiman @LL1982 @Shiva! I hope this picture is good enough.... I had to move a ton of stuff to get this clean of a shot. First post is also updated! Edited January 17 by Murdoch17 Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 48 minutes ago, Daiman said: It's a cracker, sorry to make you work for it... Thanks @Daiman! It was no big deal, really. Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Nice train...the green coaches are especially beautiful. The three-way switch is impressive...where did it come from? Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 18 Author Posted January 18 (edited) 4 minutes ago, LEGO Train 12 Volts said: Nice train...the green coaches are especially beautiful. The three-way switch is impressive...where did it come from? Thanks @LEGO Train 12 Volts! The switch is 3D printed from OkBrickworks and designed by someone else.... can't recall who. It's nice, but both my copies have design issues that are not OkBrickworks fault. If I could get injection molded ones, I would replace both my 3D printed three-way switches. Edited January 18 by Murdoch17 Quote
Feuer Zug Posted January 20 Posted January 20 Wonderful classic styled locomotive. The colors remind me of the Central Pacific Jupiter locomotive at Promontory, UT. Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 1 hour ago, Feuer Zug said: Wonderful classic styled locomotive. The colors remind me of the Central Pacific Jupiter locomotive at Promontory, UT. I can't claim a lot of credit (it is inspired by a @SavaTheAggie design after all) but thank you @Feuer Zug for you kind words! And yes, the C.P. Jupiter was an inspiration for this MOC's colors. Quote
rjr Posted January 21 Posted January 21 I like the color scheme, nice and bright! Great smoke stack, so many parts I don't know the existence of still.. Quote
Murdoch17 Posted January 21 Author Posted January 21 4 hours ago, rjr said: I like the color scheme, nice and bright! Great smoke stack, so many parts I don't know the existence of still.. Thank @rjr! That flared part at the top of the stack was originally a bucket from the old Scala line, and was recently used on the Orient Express in black... but since that retired, prices are going up on it! You can find it here on Bricklink. (shown above in silver) Quote
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