MOC Lego Ghost Train....

[edsmith0075]

So I was not happy with Lego's design for their official ghost train. I went back and rebuilt mine with a few extras to create more detail. Check it out and let me know what you guys think.

[locoworks]

it needs rods on it?

[James_T_Menendez]

It better than the original!!! On the rails

[Commander Wolf]

Reminds me a lot of the new Lone Ranger locomotive?

[xboxtravis7992]

It does look like Lone Ranger and the Ghost Train had a child. A very good looking train child.

My only critique would be the tender, a little bland compared to the rest of the train. One thing which I did to make my Emerald Night tender look better is fill it with loose bricks, they have a more natural coal look than bricks connected to each other.

Edited May 1, 2013 by xboxtravis7992

[Spitfire2865]

The tender is honestly too short for a 10 wheeler. But this is nice anyway.

[zephyr1934]

A big improvement over the original

[harnbak]

spooky stuff!

[edsmith0075]

Thank you for the suggestions! I am going to work on the tender and incorporate a motor in it so i can drive this MOC. I wanna do rods, any suggestions. Make technic pieces seem to be either to short or to long :(

[Hrw-Amen]

It is a nice train but really needs rods so I am pleased that you are doing them. For myself I try to use those half width technic beams on my own trains. I have tried building them out of technic connectors and axles but find they may look a lot better but they never run as good. I think that is at least in part to my inability to get the axles inserted to the same length though, but either way on such a nice train they should make it even better.

When I looked at the 7th photo of the rear of the tender I thought that was a ghost poking out of the top until I took a closer look and realised it was a building in the background!

I agree the tender is a little bland. They can be like that and I think a big bit of tender design is in the wheels. I see you have twin axles. Looking at lots of pictures of tenders though they tend to go mostly for three axles (Some even four.) which may sound like a bit of a building challenge but really once you know how to get that third axle to slide sideways a little is quite easy. I have built tenders using the train PF motor and had a third axle to make it more tendery and it looks a whole lot better. I would also steer clear of the stock wheel greeble for tenders, It is much more coach orientated, I find building something out of small greeble type modified plates is much more realistic, just remember the wheels pivot so maybe hang the whole affair on some clip style hinges so it can be angled out slightly to take account of this. It is not so much of an issue as you may think as even with LEGO sharp curves you only need a tiny bit of angle on it not to hit the wheels.