Stefaneris

Very good observation (pun intended). If only they were available in light blueish grey, there would be a big potential for classic Streamliners like the California Zephyr.

Thanks for your comment. Now that you say it, I see it too. I also need to find a solution with the coupler and the "buffers", because the white stripe I built with the curved slopes doesn't exist on the real train. The lenth is about 70 for the cab car, the intermediate cars will be excactly 70 studs. I wanted to have the same number of windows as the real one, from this, the length was given.

What a nice and detailed train. Nice to see the interior as well, I started to build my trains without it to save weight (and to use simpler building techniques ;)). The fun thing is, that I'm currently also working on a 8-wide KISS (actually called ER1, kiss has another meaning in Swedish) from Transitio in Sweden. I hope we get the chance, when there are any conventions again, to place our trains next to each other.

Hello Gioppa I hope I can help you with these two links: The heavy duty car sounds for me like the "Tragschnabelwagen" from Bluebrixx, a car that is used to transport transformers. Bluebrixx - Tragschnabelwagen The crocodile sounds like this: Lobo-bricks products Stefan

This is a great set. However, TLG really missed the opportunity to include a sticker sheet here. Due to the flat surface, the sticker sheet wouldn't be bent Anyway, thanks for this review and stay safe

I never thought about this, but I guess this will save some space in the future.

Haha, thanks. I went with the Nightjet because it's the actual paint scheme, but since the CNL was also dark blue, to change this shouldn't be that difficult. Thanks. I guess in the Netherlands, there are also cars with such windows.

Super MOC of a funny looking train. My favourite detail is, that you even took care that the chairs are aligned with the windows. I guess that's the only aerodynamic part of the train

Nice work. It also reminds me on the TV series Railroad Alaska and Railroad Australia. I don't think they are as common in Europe as in the states but you also see excavators with removable axles for maintenance works. There's even one railroad in Switzerland (the Rhb in Grisons) which have Fire trucks with such axles so they can be used to help trains.

@Roadmonkeytj @LEGO Train 12 Volts @Sérgio Thanks for the kind words I added another picture of the roof, since I thought that the first one doesn't show the black hinge bricks well enough.

Thanks a lot. The roof keeps it's shape but the hinges have some play. So removing the tiles and reattach them like I did for the photo has to be done carefully. The middle line of tiles is stable and therofore the roof can be handeld easily holding it while putting the pressure in the middle of the roof (I hope you get what I mean).

Hello all I want to show you some techniques I used for my MOC of the ÖBB Nightjet. Since this train consists of several different cars from different former owners, there’s quite some variety of cars. I want to show you the most important building techniques used for cars based on the UIC-X car and the Eurofima-car. There are two links to the respective German Wikipedia page. UIC-X Eurofima These two types of cars can still be seen on the major European railroads on InterCity lines and were also used on the legendary TEE Rheingold. So, with changing the colours and some details, a lot of cars can be built using the same techniques Now the first part I show you are the windows, since the original ones from LEGO only come in limited colours and are quite expensive: http://UIC-X by StefanEris, auf Flickr http://Übersetzfenster 1 by StefanEris, auf Flickr http://Übersetzfenster 2 by StefanEris, auf Flickr http://Bautechnik Fenster by StefanEris, auf Flickr The windows are built using SNOT-techniques and using plats with handles and plates with clips, one can achieve different spaces between the windows, as seen on the picture with the one stud wide window. This technique can also be applied to 6-wide cars. Also note the doors, here a minifig hand is used to model the door handle. (I’ve seen this idea on other MOCs, thanks for the inspiration) The roof is made with the slope curved piece and a lot of hinge plates. The next car is an SBB Eurocity car, which is based on the Eurofima-car. The story behind this car is, that several railroads wanted to order the same car with the advantage of paying less per car. Since the more were built, the less one single one would cost. In the end not everything worked like the railroads wanted, but a lot of cars are still based on the Eurofima-car. Also the Swiss Eurocity car you see below. The most challenging part here was the roof with it’s longitudinal beads (?) (please correct me if someone knows the right translation of “Längssicken” here, they are used to reinforce the roof). To get this shape right, I used tiles and hinges. On the other hand, the windows here are quite simple. There’s only a three studs height stripe (snotted) with trans black and black brick. http://EC-Wagen by StefanEris, auf Flickr http://Dach by StefanEris, auf Flickr http://Dach 2 by StefanEris, auf Flickr I hope I could inspire someone or help you to build some trains, even if train windows and doors aren’t widely available in the wanted colours. Stefan Edit: Added another picture of the roof technique.

I feel honoured to be mentioned here. If I rebuild the cab of my LKAB IORE one day, I will definitely look at your techniques. Your loc looks indeed like there went a lot of thinking and trial and error in it, but it does match the real Traxx very well.

About the stickers: I use pictures which I copie into a word-file, then scale them and print them on a regular sheet of paper and cut everything out. Nothing very special here Concerning the yellow stripe: If I see correctly, you have a row of red plates/tiles above the windows of the door. Just google "SBB eurocity wagen" and you will find some good pictures (and see what I mean ;)) My cars should be able to run, however they need a lot of clearance in the curves. I hope I can test them in October when we have an exhibtion with SwissLUG.

Hello Unfortunately I only saw your MOCs but not you at ABSolut Steinchen. Maybe next year. About the SBB and the NS trains: They are of course well recognisable, but I would add some stickers with the name of the railway. The cars often look more complete afterwards. Another detail is the yellow stripe above the doors on the first class cars. I guess it would be sufficient to just change one plate in height of the red part to yellow.