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[MOC] The Texas Eagle

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47678934852_15ca313da0.jpgTexas & Pacific - Texas Eagle by Tony Sava, on Flickr

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Truth be told, when I designed my Santa Fe Warbonnet EMD F7A, it was actually with the end goal of building the engines to this train.

47706348452_7ba5e9e674.jpgSisters from another mister by Tony Sava, on Flickr

In the first picture, the train was not yet complete.  In all, there are 12 pieces - an F7A&B, a baggage combine, 4 sleepers, 1 coach, 1 lounge, 1 diner, 1 planetarium dome, and 1 observation car.  All in all some 46 track lengths long.

47767151421_423382d4ea.jpgTexas Eagle - a little bit longer than I expected by Tony Sava, on Flickr

The coaches are running with BMR wheel bearings, and are boringly hollow.  However they could be easily modified to include interiors.

40765311313_5b28739eef.jpgTexas Eagle - Planetarium Dome - Ed "Babyface" Chang by Tony Sava, on Flickr

Additionally each car has been named after a person or group that has had an impact on my time as an AFOL in the train universe.

--Tony

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A beautiful train you built there, nice to see a livery less common among MOC's. :thumbup:

The cars seem to be at scale as well, or did you use selective compression?

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So... 5 meters long? (i use metrical :) 

How many motors do you need on this beauty?

you did a excellent job!

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This is truly breathtaking. Congratulations!

And - as before - I simply admire how you turned your rather "not building boxes on wheels" comments ages ago into a "beautiful box with so many details that it may actually catch-up with steamers - and on wheels".

Amazing. The color scheme is also very, very nice.

Question: Did an actual FP7 with one B-unit attached pull the corresponding 5 meters of coaches or is it because of the power of (at least) two 9V motors?

This is so great!

Best
Thorsten 

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Outch, that hurts.

My Colorado Eagle ist stil WIP.

And now I am outpaced by Tony Sava. Everybody will think I blundly copied your work or at least your idea :cry_sad:

http://47798889761_d8f975fefc_c.jpgColorado Eagle med. by Brick Musher, auf Flickr

 

Well, I started with that four or five years ago, so there was plenty of time for me to finish it. Somhow I lost sight of it, so the observation car and the engines A and B unit are still missing. But with your gorgeous Version ahead, I should definitely start to finish it.

I love the livery, and in 8-wide, like you did, it has this extra on details I can never reach with building 6-wide. But I am fine with that.

 

Thank You for showing this beauty :thumbup:

 

P.S. One strenuous appeal: Please dont do any scandinavian or canadian trains within the next year, that could ruin my self-confidence :sarcasm: (I really have to speed up things :wall:)

 

 

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Nice long train, We should do a side by side with my City of New Orleans!

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Thanks all, I appreciate it!

--Tony

On 5/6/2019 at 10:47 AM, Rijkvv said:

A beautiful train you built there, nice to see a livery less common among MOC's. :thumbup:

The cars seem to be at scale as well, or did you use selective compression?

The cars should be just about the right size all around.  They're the exact right height for the width.  They might be a single stud too short.

On 5/6/2019 at 11:04 AM, Sérgio said:

So... 5 meters long? (i use metrical :) 

How many motors do you need on this beauty?

you did a excellent job!

Right now there are 2 PF train motors in the A unit only.  At the Galveston Railroad Museum train show I was only running 7 coaches, but we also had an issue with the room we were in having a very noticeable tilt.  So on level track, and lubricated bearings, I *might* be able to get away with only the two PF motors.  I will test this at Brickworld.

However the B unit was built specifically to allow installation of motors, so if I need to, I will add two more motors.

On 5/6/2019 at 5:39 PM, Toastie said:

This is truly breathtaking. Congratulations!

And - as before - I simply admire how you turned your rather "not building boxes on wheels" comments ages ago into a "beautiful box with so many details that it may actually catch-up with steamers - and on wheels".

Amazing. The color scheme is also very, very nice.

Question: Did an actual FP7 with one B-unit attached pull the corresponding 5 meters of coaches or is it because of the power of (at least) two 9V motors?

This is so great!

Best
Thorsten 

Most Texas Eagles we're actually pulled by EMD E7 units - an A and a B - and the Texas & Pacific F7 units were relegated to freight (with an all dark blue with single white stripe livery).  However F7A locomotive 1500 was painted in the Eagle livery, and I didn't want to model an E7.

18 hours ago, BrickMusher said:

Outch, that hurts.

My Colorado Eagle ist stil WIP.

And now I am outpaced by Tony Sava. Everybody will think I blundly copied your work or at least your idea :cry_sad:

http://47798889761_d8f975fefc_c.jpgColorado Eagle med. by Brick Musher, auf Flickr

 

Well, I started with that four or five years ago, so there was plenty of time for me to finish it. Somhow I lost sight of it, so the observation car and the engines A and B unit are still missing. But with your gorgeous Version ahead, I should definitely start to finish it.

I love the livery, and in 8-wide, like you did, it has this extra on details I can never reach with building 6-wide. But I am fine with that.

 

Thank You for showing this beauty :thumbup:

 

P.S. One strenuous appeal: Please dont do any scandinavian or canadian trains within the next year, that could ruin my self-confidence :sarcasm: (I really have to speed up things :wall:)

 

 

 

I don't think anyone will think you are copying me.  I hope you finish your project, it looks like you have made good progress thus far.  

My next MOC will either be a modern diesel locomotive I found out my company owns, or a Texas & Pacific Mikado called "the Moccasin", so no worries.  :D

 

--Tony

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I'm late to the party, but this is great!

3 hours ago, TrainWorldFan said:

HOW did you do the front windows????

Careful piece placement. Or glue. F-unit windows are pretty much impossible to solve via normal means. 

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14 hours ago, TrainWorldFan said:

HOW did you do the front windows????

Pretty sure the window is carefully wedged between a Door Rail and Grill tile. I think Shupp detailed it on his NY Central a while back. That was the first time I remember seeing the technique, but I could be wrong.

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5 minutes ago, mark6399 said:

Pretty sure the window is carefully wedged between a Door Rail and Grill tile. I think Shupp detailed it on his NY Central a while back. That was the first time I remember seeing the technique, but I could be wrong.

I just realized that they are glued on to the pieces, but I am still going to get the instructions, I just have to find out if they are digital or hard copies.

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It's the same technique Shupp used in his E7. There's no glue needed, but it is tricky to assemble and eats up most of the cab.

EMD E7 windshield technique

 

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On 7/28/2020 at 11:47 PM, brickbuilder711 said:

This is awesome Tony. Very detailed and crisp. Too bad the current "prototype" is nothing like this.

Huh?  What is the current prototype?  The T&P had a set of F7A&B painted in eagle colors, the rest were E7s.

 

On 7/25/2020 at 12:43 PM, TrainWorldFan said:

I just realized that they are glued on to the pieces, but I am still going to get the instructions, I just have to find out if they are digital or hard copies.

No glue.  Ever.

On 7/25/2020 at 1:33 PM, Daedalus304 said:

It's the same technique Shupp used in his E7. There's no glue needed, but it is tricky to assemble and eats up most of the cab.

EMD E7 windshield technique

 

I had to really change the anchor of his design, but my design isn't possible without Nate's work.

--Tony

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16 minutes ago, SavaTheAggie said:

I had to really change the anchor of his design, but my design isn't possible without Nate's work.

--Tony

Oh, I hadn't meant to imply that you hadn't changed or modified it; I'd been trying to refer to the technique of framing the glass panes in the grille tiles and didn't intent to suggest that you'd just copied the whole construction wholesale. Poor wording on my part - I apologize!

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On 7/31/2020 at 1:17 AM, SavaTheAggie said:

Huh?  What is the current prototype?  The T&P had a set of F7A&B painted in eagle colors, the rest were E7s.

 

 

Amtrak ;) 

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