Late 70s German Local Train

[Widdi]

This is one of my more Recent CAD-Builds

It is a recreation of a classic german Local train, with Silberling passenger cars. Most of these classic passenger cars are still in service here in germany, but rebuilt into several mostly interior designs and repainted into the recent Red/grey colour-sheme of the DB regio.

The train is composed of three parts. The first one is the DB 212 Diesel Engine, which is highly inspired by Mijaspers and Erpelmutz's versions in 8- and 7-wide, but brought to the 6-wide train standard.

This is the Engine in all it's glory. Sorry for the bad screen, because I couldn't render it due to a mistake in Constructing it, since I've deleted the previous roof and forgot to remove it from the Engine. I made this engine in a blue version instead of red, since the trainset bases on the actual trains, that were used on my Local railway route, which were used on it until the early to mid 90s, before the modern DMUs of the BR628 were used. The original V100s or DB 212s were in a red colour sheme.

The second part is a mixed 1st and 2nd class car, which was built between 1961 and 1980, like the others of the ca. 5000-6000 units.There are completely 2nd class compartment cars, too. The 1st class compartment spawns the whole middle part of the coach. The 2nd class compartments are just in the front and the rear of the car. It is a whopping 64 studs long, altough I shortened it a bit. Without doing this it would have turned out at 70 studs or even more.

The third part is the classic Karlsruhe cab car, which was built between 1971 and 1977. It turned out at 65 studs, but only because of skipping a baggage door and a window. The front was quite difficult to recreate with LEGO bricks, due to it's 4-window shape. Right behind the cab for the driver is a baggage area, for bicycles, etc. and the rest of the car is composed by 2nd class compartments.

Technical: I used some SNOT and kept a very high accuracy for the whole set. So it was a quite difficult and long build (three sessions at 3-4 hours each), due to the piece count and details.

Overall it's my biggest Train MOC to date. It has 1649 parts according to my CAD program, but since I used some submodels multiple times it's a bit more I think somewhere between 1700 and 1800pcs. Peeron for example reads 1715 parts. Calculated to Lego prices of about 0,10€/part ignoring the 9v train motor it would sell at about 170€. With an motor it would be 190€ or even 200€.

You can get the complete instructions in my brickshelf folder

mFg Widdi

PS: I would really like to built this thing in real bricks, but I haven't the parts in the right colors in my 75000 piece collection and not enough money to buy the needed parts at bricklink :-(

PPS: The idea came to my mind, after a train ride in Early november 2006 with a rebuilt Silberling coach consist.

[Asuka]

Hello and welcome Widdi! *y*

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[simonwillems]

This looks great, I like the smooth rounded design of the locomotive with the four and five wide sections, though the locomotive seems to be dwarfed by the big carriages behind it.

I wonder how the carriages will go through the curves....

[MatthewUSA]

I would also like to welcome you Widdi. Your MOC's are awesome. Your carriages especially are very *sweet* looking. I may have a solution to the curve problem you may run into that simon mentioned. I am working on a special locomotive (DD40) which is 66 knobs long. I have found this curve ratio to work. The ratio is curve-straight-curve-straight-straight-curve-straight-curve. With this ratio, my MOC's seem to turn in a more realistic manner. I hope this helps. I want to add I give you two *y* up. Model on.

[Widdi]

This looks great, I like the smooth rounded design of the locomotive with the four and five wide sections, though the locomotive seems to be dwarfed by the big carriages behind it.

Yes but, the real train consists back in the days had the same problem. Since the carriages are a bit more than double the size of the locomotive at 26,4 metres each, but the V100/BR 212 engines are only 12,1 metres long. here's a picture of a similar consist to my train-MOC, without the Karlsruhe Cab, but another one of the multiple types of those old Silberling carriages/Cab cars and a red engine, but the same type.

I hope, that the picture, taken in may 1977 (not by me, found it on the web, since I wasn't born until 1988) gives any justice to the dimensions.

mFg Widdi