WIP: Florida East Coast Railway in the Brick

[brickbuilder711]

Alright guys, I would like to introduce myself as an enthused train builder and "quite" a LEGO buff if you want to put that in words. Many of you know me on here, Flickr or YouTube. Well, I want to impose this thread as a showcase of a particular series of builds. The Florida East Coast Railway is a high volume but regional class two railroad in the Sunshine State with 10 trains per day. They have a wonderful, energetic motive roster. As I have developed in my hobby I have moved into doing FEC locos. I did three SD70M-2s (Railamerica scheme is being maintained, while a blue and yellow is still together but subject to rebuild and another was demolished), an ex. UP SD40-2 (still active) and a GP40-2 (demolished). But this new scheme, effectively easy to do in LEGO popped up for the SD40-2s. So it was challenge accepted. I am still working on the trucks of this glorious locomotive but anyway, here are my WIP shots real deal vs. LEGO, more to come in the near future :

[Hrw-Amen]

Looks like the colour is spot on there. I cannot quite make out the wheels though, perhaps you have some other pictures? Looks good though from what I can see.

[lightningtiger]

I like it, pretty much matched the paint job 'brickbuilder711'...try uploading your images to Brickshelf first then deeplink them to your posting here on EB.

Brick On 'brickbuilder711' !

[brickbuilder711]

Looks like the colour is spot on there. I cannot quite make out the wheels though, perhaps you have some other pictures? Looks good though from what I can see.

Thanks. I didn't add in the wheels yet since the engine's still a WIP. Also, apparently since I am reverse engineering off of 10219 their bogies are built differently, and when I tried doing my own that didn't work.

Edited January 14, 2012 by brickbuilder711

[brickbuilder711]

Here's a video of the completed Heritage unit...

Enjoy!

Edited March 16, 2012 by brickbuilder711