Lone Ranger and Emerald Night

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I have seen mentioned several times about folks saying the Lone Ranger train can be used as a great base for building the Emerald Night as there are a fair amount of common parts.

My question is this: Has this been broken down and instructions posted somewhere already?(I may have just missed it) I ended up getting two separate loco's as well as tenders to do it with.

I don't like reinventing the wheel if it has already been done, just been working a hella amount of overtime, so when we get time to play together I make sure we get some Lego train fun in.

He is dying for a steam engine with power as he says lol

Any help appreciated or a point in the right direction if its out there and I missed it.

[grymg]

I did do a parts list just for the EN loco and tender, if I get around to cleaning up my excel spreadsheet I'll upload it sometime. Then using the "part out" function on bricklink, just choose the leftover parts you need. Substitute colors as necessary (especially the hidden ones) to overlap parts even more.

But a word of warning, after I built my "fake" EN, I wanted to match 100% with the real thing so I ended up spending just as much if you were to buy set used on ebay. So I really recommend buying it whole, not bricklinking it. Another downside, you will end up with an incomplete Lone Ranger loco which is a very nice train by itself.

Edited March 23, 2014 by grymg