Trains, Long and Short: Show 'm here!

[Man with a hat]

Hello all,

Finally I had some time to set up some track for my trains.

Here is the not so long (but still longer than the official version) 7938 passenger train.

I like it in this size.

My Emerald Night with 5 passenger carriages:

And my newest addition, the Horizon express:

It has 8 passenger carriages. Three first class, one dining car, and four second class wagons of which only two have a toilet.

And my longest train, the Maersk train:

And it is difficult to get a decent picture...

First I had only two train motors in one engine, but there was a bit too much slippage so now I use four train motors in the two engines. Works perfectly.

[LegoSjaak]

Yesss....great, that is how it is done!! Like the extreme long HE too!!

[croooow]

Finally my Horizon Express is ready with a total of 2 loco's and 6 passengercars. I added Jacobsbogeys to all carriages except for the connection with the loco. Greetz, LegoSjaak

I have to get a 3rd set to add a #5 and #6 passenger car to my Horizon Express, that looks great!

Edited January 10, 2014 by croooow

[lostdriveway]

Love all those long trains! I need to get moving and start expanding mine outside of the regulars.. More box cars and passenger cars I think!

[legoman666]

Here's my freight train I keep adding to. I want to build another box car in reddish brown (but damn that roof was expensive to build like that) and one in dark red (but I can't make it identical in dark red :( due to the doors).

Alongside my Horizon Express with 6 passenger cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DiAIAHmyg

[ZueriHB]

May I present to you: over 4m of SBB train goodness!

[Eigenbroetler]

Lets see if this video works?

Edited January 5, 2014 by Eigenbroetler

[Murdoch17]

Here is my longest train (recreated in LDD due to me not having a camera!)

Seven 32x32 base-plates (224 studs) long plus four studs overhang = 228 studs long, or about 71 inches (or 1.8 meters) long based on my quick calculation.

Here is the train from the rear (without the loco)

[LegoSjaak]

Lets see if this video works?

Cool video of a really nice train!!

[LegoSjaak]

Are there already EB-members that have collected a long 60051 passengertrain with lots of extra cars or the new 60052 cargotrain with multiples of cargocars? Would love to see some pictures here!!

[Ashi Valkoinen]

480 cm of LEGO Stadler FLIRT, three units coupled.

Video of the trains running together:

[Stefaneris]

My 3 meters (about 10ft) long Trans Europ Express:

The whole train by StefanEris, on Flickr

And then is there the longest (at least I think so) Mearsk Train of the world, with 6 Locos and 120 cars from an other SwissLUG member (not all cars belong to him but he managed to keep the train running with PF).

For those who speak German: enjoy the article, for the others: yes, the train on the picture is one single train!

http://www.swisslug...._2014-11-11.pdf

[AlmightyArjen]

Incredible, all those long trains, really nice to see all of them!

I have a long Octan train. I've built the loc myself, using the 7755 as a basis.

And a video in action:

Edited April 29, 2015 by AlmightyArjen

[zephyr1934]

The Superliners are about 12.5 ft (3.8 m)

The North Coast Limited is about 12 ft (3.7 m)

If you look closely at this 25+ ft (7.6+ m) freight train, you will see the locomotive rounding the near corner on the right as the caboose is about to turn the far corner on the left. I've done longer, but this one is probably the longest I've done in the past few years and probably the longest I've gone with just regular lego magnets.

[empty1ca]

So excellent to see long trains, big fan. Can't wait to finish my basement to get my track setup again and take some pictures.

[Gioppa]

Finally I can see a long Emerald Night with 1st, 2nd and 3rd class!

Nice pictures!

Wait Lecco event, mine is a bit little longer, four cars, but the engine is a 4 - 8 - 4 instead of a 4 - 6 - 2 !

[Commander Wolf]

I'm actually working on a 3 meter-ish train set now, but currently my longest is a 2.1 meter-ish T1 + P54 set:

It doesn't actually have a lot of cars, it's just that each car is ginormous.

[Lego Dino 500]

I really hope that Lego decides to release some longer trains. These are all awesome and I'd love to see a official train with more than 3 cars.

[splatman]

As cool as that would be, it would probably be too expensive. If the cars were also available separately, then the buyer could buy as many cars as he/she can afford, w/o having to buy more than train set and ending up with more than one loco.

[Commander Wolf]

Yeah, given that a 60052 is already $200, I'm pretty sure Lego isn't going to make longer trains anytime soon, especially if it's a nice train set like the Maersk train or HE. Extra cars is pretty much the best thing you can hope for, and even that doesn't seem likely...

Edited May 2, 2015 by Commander Wolf

[zephyr1934]

I'm actually working on a 3 meter-ish train set now, but currently my longest is a 2.1 meter-ish T1 + P54 set:

...

It doesn't actually have a lot of cars, it's just that each car is ginormous.

Wow, that looks very nice altogether.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

This is my longest train ...soon with its own topic!

[LegoSjaak]

I still haven't seen any longer than standard length 60051 or 60052 trains.. isn't there anyone that got himself some extra passenger or cargocars from these sets? With the 7938 and 7939 it was pretty easy to get some extra cars through second hand internet-markets.....Hope to see someone posting some pictures....!!

[ecmo47]

12 volt: Looking forward to more pictures of that fantastic set-up! Got a layout big enough to run them?

Edited May 4, 2015 by ecmo47

[Skystorm87]

My modest entry

Edited May 6, 2015 by Skystorm87