[MOC] RENFE 151 "Santa Fe"

[mtrkustoms]

Dear All,

From the MTRkustoms train Factory i have the pleasure to announce my latest MOC,

After some Spanish Train MOCs I wanted to make a Steam Locomotive, and I Started with the biggest and more powerful Spanish Steam, the “Santa Fe” 151 (French/Spanish) 2-10-2 (Whyte)

This locomotive was able to pull a 450 tons train at 30km/h and a slope of 20mils

The most difficult challenge was create a MOC that can run in R104 Blastemtrack, and R40 curves. To get the power I use a 9v dummy motor to pick up energy and 2 L PF Motors inside the boiler attached to the 9v pickup, is not a fast MOC, but is a very powerful Locomotive

DIMENSIONS

Locomotive length: 45 studs

Tender length: 25 studs

Total length: 70 studs

Height: 9 bricks

7 wide

Details

To be a complete MOC I made some type of cars, 1 Closed boxcar, 5 open coal cars, and one caboose car.

Details

These 2 axle wagons have a flex hose coupling to be connected and allow Little turn of the axles.

Also the coal wagons have an aperture system for the next project.

All the pictures in Flickr Album

And a little Video:

Enjoy it

Edited May 29, 2016 by mtrkustoms

[monai]

Really nice, your work is very interesting and offers very clever ideas to overcome the difficulties of the Lego track geometry.

many compliments

Sergio and Eros

[Nemo57]

Colossal work. Handsome locomotive. Interesting cars. Steep machinery construction.

[xboxtravis7992]

1-5-1? Is that the notation used for steam engines in Spain? Since it would be a 2-10-2 in Whyte notation. And yeah, 10 drive wheels on five axles in Lego is pretty darn impressive.

[*thomas*]

Very nice creation! Do you happen to have a picture of the train as a whole?

[kieran]

Wow, the flex axel looks like a nice solution

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Hey I'm speechless ...this is an amazing locomotive!

I really like the main body with five axes

[Ashi Valkoinen]

However the steam locomotive is the main attraction of this thread, I got impressed really by your solution of two-axle freight waggons. It is simply genious.

The locomotive is a masterpiece of LEGO-engineering as well, those very little details built from couple of black pieces around wheels and using hose and pneumatic tube together on the front. Maybe driver's cab insidings deserve little more (but I don't know, on the real thing how many pressure-meters and other things are inside).

Question: aren't you afraid losing those tiny parts around wheels during run? Most of them are hold only by one stud, my real fear is on my creations to lose some parts from bogies and derail on them on the next loop...

[mtrkustoms]

thanks all for the nice replies,

xboxtravis7992, I ammend the inital post, 151 is the french and spanish notation (only indicates the axles) according to Whyte is a 2-10-2

*thomas* Not yet, i have no space to make a good full composition picture, next week I will be in ALEBRICKS2016 event, so I will make some pictures and videos of this full MOC

Ashi Vakoinen, yeah driver cabin need more details and will be refurbished in a future, the real problem is to get a picture of the real one (only one survived and is in a museum very far from me), tiny parts are not a problem "purist dont look the spoiler"

I use kraguel for dangerous parts only if neccesary

[mtrkustoms]

Sorry for the rebumping, but i added a Video of the train moving

[zephyr1934]

A very fine workhorse of a prototype with an equally fine rendering in brick. Great work! You got all of the angles and built up a nice looking train to go with it (with more kudos for those cars).

Ashi Vakoinen, yeah driver cabin need more details and will be refurbished in a future, the real problem is to get a picture of the real one (only one survived and is in a museum very far from me)

That's the nice thing about building a surviving steamer, someone has probably already taken 100's of pictures of it. I've become dependent on the web for reference shots. I did a google image search on "151F-3101" and that turned up this shot of the cab interior, and wow, that looks like a fantastic museum (even have an ALCO built close cousin of the PA or FA)

[Man with a hat]

Wow. Wonderful. Fantastic detailing, including the cars.

And it runs really smoothly, even over those bumps. (Nice bridge by the way)