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  1. Stefaneris
    The 9V motor isn't compatible with the plastic track, including the flex track. The only tracks where your motor works are the old 9V rails with metal on top. With the Emerald Night, TLG released wheels for steam engines, if you want to be a purist, you could buy them over Bricklink.
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    The overall look is really good but what facinates me the most is the use of the new jumper plates together with normal 1x2 plates for the walls.
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    Nice review, now I'm even more impatient to get my rails I only orderd R56 but I hope that even this is some improvement for my trains.
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    I never had a missing piece in a set, however I once got the wrong part in a PaB order but I got a replacement very soon after contacting the customer service.
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    If you are a member of a LUG I would consider buying baseplates over LUGbulk, however this takes a long time with shipping. Otherwise, since the plates are "just" for the base, you could use used plates and cover them with white bricks (snow or so) as you planned.
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    I measured the lenght of the PF cable from the XL motor (it is 20cm long) and it's to short for my project. It will be fun to redesign or to squeeze another cable somewhere
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    Quite an unusual design with the door in the middle but you managed to include a lot of details and play features (especially the interrior). One of my favourite part is the roof which also gives the feeling of a panoramic car.
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    According to Wikipedia, there are also other locomotives named Novelty (there's a list on the link tsi had posted). Three of these four locomotives are steam engines, however the last one is a diesel engine which was built to pull freight trains. It was the number 86235 of the British Rail Class 86. http://en.wikipedia....h_Rail_Class_86 EDIT: They also pulled passenger trains, the picture on wikipedia with a engine with the word "freightliner" confused me.
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    For the question about PF: 2 XL Motors with a gear ratio 3:5 are able to pull a 4kg heavy train through 180 degree curves, maybe even more. If you build your KISS without interrior (however, it would look a lot better with interrior) I guess it is possible to power it with PF. I used my Trans Europ Express for scale: https://www.flickr.c...57633185923370/
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    Hello Looks very good so far. Of course a picture of a whole 6 car train would be nice if you ever built it. I also like the solution for the roof with the different slopes. Maybe you could try for the paint scheme to add the light blue stripe between the blue and white part as in the original paint scheme. The interrior is awesome do you also have a interrior for the cab?
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    This locomotive looks very nice with this paint scheme. With minor changes you would have a great model of a Re 4/4 I of the SBB. Picture from Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia....oss_Chillon.jpg
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    First I did expect something like the monster hunter ghost train, but this is just awesome!
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    I would say that it depends on how you use the PF or 9V system. 9V has several advantages but for me, one disadvantage is very important: you only have one boogie type. When you try to build detailed boogies as I do, the normal train motor is quit useless, especially when working with SNOT because there are few studs to attach something.
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    I often use a "standard lenght", that's for me 64 studs in 8 wide and 40 studs in 6 wide (that's about 25m or 75feet). In the end, however, it has to look good and in my opinion, the longer the train, the shorter the cars can be. Your ICE will still be very long compared to original Lego trains.
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    I would say that, with some imagination, it is possible to spot some people on my small layout who are projected from the real world. For example a guy with an unfriendly/unhappy face who wants to buy a ticket on a ticket machine but doesn't know how to use it or a railway employee who rather eats an apple than works I also have a crowded bus as in the rush hour every morning an a waiting passenger who drinks something (it is not allowed to eat or drink in the buses in my town).
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    Great locomotive and I guess that 7 wide brings some more difficulties than 6 or 8 wide since it is an uneven number and might require a lot of jumper plates (at least that's my experience. The windscreen also looks great. How many cars can this locomotive pull?
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    Not exactly but there is enough room for four PF XL motors, so it would be very strong and maybe even overpowered. My aim is to build about ten ore cars to go with this locomotive and this train should be able to run on an exhibition (but not befor spring 2015, I don't have enough time right now to order the bricks and to build the cars) Thanks for all your friendly comments!
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    It does run quite well, of course with an overhang in the curves. There are no motors yet but it's possible to pull the locomotive with two pf xl motors.
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    Ah, I'm sorry, these parts are actually bricks with grilles, they have nothing to do with windows Maybe not the most legal construction but it works: IORE 12 by StefanEris, on Flickr
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    Hi Ed You could callculate the height and length with the width of the train compared to the real one. However on my opinion Lego trains often turn out to be to high and the lenght is a problem with the curves. For passenger cars which are often about 25 meters long, there are cars with a lenght between 60 and 70 studs. For the height I would say about ten studs, but this depends on your prototype (double deck car might be higher, and there are also small single deck cars). You get the ratio of about one to six for height to lenght, which is pretty accurate for a car with a lenght of 25 meters and a height of four meters. Of course, if the prototype is longer and you use three bricks height for the boogies and seven for the car, the car might already be to high. On the other hand, if you want to fit in minifigs you often have make compromises since their body proportions are really wrong, and wronger compared to the rails and trains I don't know if there are instructions but on Flickr, there are groups for Lego trains where you can inspire yourself and see how other people have built their 8-wide rolling stock. Stefan
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    I hope this answers your question: IORE 11 by StefanEris, on Flickr
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    Hello My first MOC to be posted on EB is the LKAB IORE, one of the most powerful electric locomotive She runs between Kiruna and Narvik/Lulea in the northern part of Sweden. She is used to pull heavy iron ore trains from the minings in Kiruna to the harbours. My model is 8 wide and 90 cm (3 feet) long (2*45cm of each single locomotive). The cab of the first locomotive with the name Nattavaara - the locomotives are named by minings or places on this railway - has a cab interior and lights. In the cab, there is enough room for two minifigs to guide the train through kilometers of unhabitated nature; or LEGO rails with CC houses around Now the pictures, they can all be found on my Flickr photostream https://www.flickr.c...57649673041782/ IORE 1 by StefanEris, on Flickr IORE 3 by StefanEris, on Flickr IORE 5 by StefanEris, on Flickr IORE 6 by StefanEris, on Flickr IORE 10 by StefanEris, on Flickr 2013-08-07 16.24.41 by StefanEris, on Flickr I'm open for critics and like to hear what you think. Stefan
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    Hello everyone My name is Stefan (German version of Steven) and I live in Switzerland. I guess I might be on of the younger persons here on EB since I'm only 18 years old. I'm a member of SwissLUG where I could show some of my buildings on two shows up to now, which was a great experience for me. I mostly build trains in 8wide and I rarely buy sets (especially of the trains, ironically).
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    When I'm building large sets like the CC houses, I build them on the floor because there is enough room for all the parts. Smaller sets and often my MOCs are built at my desk, where it is a lot more comfortable to sit and build. However there is always a great mess afterwards and the fun with (re)sorting of the spare parts starts
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    Hello Have you considered changing the red and some other bricks with this brick? I know you would have to change the ends of the boogie, but I tried this solution with one of my trains where I had the same problem and it worked. Another solution would be to add plates but then you might have problems with driving over switches
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