MOC: EU07 Polish Electric Locomotive

[Cnd]

Hi Everyone!

I've been lurking around the forums for quite a while now, posting every now and again, but haven't really introduced myself. Well, I'm an AFOL currently studying for a Ph.D. in computer science and have been playing with lego since I was a small child. In my early teens my family could finally afford to get us some lego trains and I fell in love with them immediately. I currently live in the UK, but I spent most of my life in Canada and was born in Poland. I also studied in Poland, where I used to take the trains daily to my university. You can see where I'm going with this :) I love the old Polish locomotives that are still in use today, especially when they contrast against modern carriages. I've designed an EU07 locomotive in LDD and wanted to share it with everyone. I'd very much welcome any comments and criticisms - I'd like to make any changes to the designs before I actually order the bricks (although I'm still undecided whether to order the pieces for this locomotive or 2 Horizon Express sets). The end result with carriages that I'm going for is something like this: http://www.bahnbilde...-als-12231.html (I've always wanted double-decker cars!). The livery and exact model of the locomotive that I'm building, however, are based on this: http://www.bbajko.fr.../EU07-368-2.jpg Well, here's the locomotive, I hope you like it! It's my first real MOC and the first train I've ever built in 8-wide. Please don't mind the pantographs - I intend to cut the tubing down to size, which I unfortunately cannot do in LDD. I would also like to credit markervip from the LUGPol forums for the idea to make the front windshield! His original post (in Polish) is available here: http://www.lugpol.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14701

Edited August 20, 2014 by Cnd

[Frank STENGEL]

Good work. Your design captures the essence of the EU07. Is is going to be powered ? One thing though : the bars holdign the flags for the plow look quite low. It could be that in the finished version they touch the track...

Edited August 18, 2014 by Frank STENGEL

[Cnd]

Thank you! Yes indeed, the bars are quite low. I again plan on buying black tubing and then cutting it down to size. And yes, it is going to be powered. There is gearing under the wheels going up into the train, where a motor will reside. Some members of the forums have created methods to pick up power from 9V track with metal wheels, so I plan on implementing something of the sort. Alternatively, the train is more than wide enough for a PF batter box (but I'd much rather have some interior detail!).

[legoman666]

Images not working for me :(

[Cnd]

Sorry about that, looks like brickshelf is down at the moment. Hopefully they'll be back online soon!

[legoman666]

It's possible they might not like hotlinking. Try hosting on a free site like imgur.

[Cnd]

I think brickshelf is fine with hotlinking, but their whole website has been down for maintenance. I made an account on imgur and changed the link just in case - thanks for the advice!

[Dutchiedoughnut]

Well, I can see the picture now!

That's a very good-looking machine! Designs like these make me want to go 8 wide for my models ;). I love the design of the bogies, they look amazing with the snowplow and all!

If you want to use a battery on board without the battery box, I'm thinking of using just a 9V battery which is a lot smaller of course! Im not really sure how to adapt the PF cables although I think I've heard there are modified cables for sale.

[grum64]

Very nice.

Edited August 19, 2014 by grum64

[legoman666]

Looks great, love the brick built plow. I might look in to adapting the plows on my EMD to something similar. The Lego plow buffers are too small for a 7 or 8 wide locomotive.

How is the front windshield held in place? LDD makes it look like it's floating.

[cgarison]

Very nice design. I really like the trapezoidal plate detail on the trucks. The plow is also a nice detail that would look nice on the sci-fi trains that I am building for the our moon base. I can't wait to see this in real bricks.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

This locomotive looks very nice!

I liche the front details of the bogies

Awesome work

[Cnd]

Thanks everyone for your comments! As for the detail of the windshield, I must credit that work to another builder - markervip from the LUGPol forums. I meant to credit him in my original post, but I wasn't able to find his locomotive. Only now I realized that he modelled the EP07 locomotive rather than the EU07 (they are both very similar) and was able to find it. His work is available at the following link (in Polish): http://www.lugpol.pl...pic.php?t=14701 but it seems to be suffering from the same problem that my post was - hotlinking to pictures hosted on brickshelf, which is offline. I've edited my post to duly give him credit for his work.

On another note, I was finally able to find a decent picture of the locomotive from the side. It seems that I have made mine about 4 studs too short. This is an annoying problem, since I originally made it the longer size, but due to some schematics that I found (which don't seem to be accurate at all), I changed my design to be shorter. Is anyone aware of a resource were to-scale schematics of trains (and - in particular - the EU07) are available?

Edited August 20, 2014 by Cnd

[zephyr1934]

Oh wow, fantastic design. It is amazing the extra detail you can fit in 8 wide, and you did a great job finding so much of that detail. The front and the trucks are my favorite details.