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Well, if your using XXL wheels, it says on Big Ben bricks website that his largest wheels are recommended for larger radius track, so that could be your problem right there. It just can't take R40's.

I loved it back then in the digital realm, and I love it now in the real world. I can't wait to see the coaches in real life! On trailing wheel issue: maybe try the using the Emerald Night connection method instead of a balljoint? That always seems to help my trains. As for why it's so heavy: I haven't a clue..... add a second motor or use larger Power Functions 1.0 motors instead.

Well, it's taken a lot longer than I thought it would... but it's finally coming together! The remaining 390 parts to this Victorian-era model have been ordered, and letters to name the station "Glenncoe" have been scrounged from my supply. The station should be built hopefully soon, (within maybe two weeks or so) depending on the mail service. This project has been in the works since the Disney train (set 71044) was released in late August / early September last year, with me avidly collecting parts since February of this year. Above we see all those parts I've been able to find in my own supply. Any thoughts?

First post updated with new pictures all around! Sorry for the delay in getting these posted, I had to shorten the front A-unit by four studs because it wouldn't fit in my storage box anymore with the longer front end. Thus I had to order a shorter 24 stud train baseplate to get it to fit, the results of which you can see when comparing the two diesel units. (the B unit is noticeably longer)

I've been following this thread for a while, and am I for one am perfectly happy with Emerald Night as a stopgap banner until we can design a all-in-one train banner for the forum. I also want to say got a couple ideas I'm kicking around to encompass 9v, PF / PU, and 12v eras in one banner to suggest to you all. Is it possible we could have three trains being overtaken by each other on parallel tracks representing different eras / types of locomotives? Such as: on rear most track, pulling the furthest ahead - 7740 Electric inter-city passenger train set engine.Then on the second track, slightly farther behind the first (yet superimposed over the first), 10020 Santa Fe super Chief loco, and then lastly and similarly to the second, the 10194 Emerald Night, with it's single coach, which can repeat behind the screen divider. This covers steam, diesel and electrics, UK, mainland Europe, and the USA, and 12v, 9v, and Power Functions. It's perfect!

Love the bush pilot and the airplane mechanic! I can almost hear the mechanic and pilot saying: Mechanic: "It'll be two weeks before your plane can fly aqain after this landing-with-no-wheels stunt you've pulled, plus I'll need to order another prop blade for for the right engine and build a whole new tail." The pilot replies: "Great, I'll be back in three-to-five days to pick it up, and just for you, I'll even throw in chance to hit it big with my next cargo load as payment - I'm going to be looking for a lost temple with some guy named Thunder. Supposed to be filled with gold and lots of booby traps." Mechanic: "...How much gold are we talking?"

Captain Henry Walker (in green) and the crew of the pirate ship Inferno.

This model was originally inspired by three sets: 3817 (Flying Dutchman) from the Spongebob Squarepants theme, set 4184 (The Black Pearl) from Pirates of the Caribbean, and 21322 (Pirates of Barracuda Bay), from Ideas. It features three and a 1/2 masts with what are going to be fabric sails of Black Pearl size but of 2010 Imperial Flagship markings. The 2016 Ninjago "Skybound" flag (see below) will fly from the middle mast as Captain Henry Walker's pirate flag. The ship also has a crows nest and two removable sections: a rear upper deck for access to the captain's cabin and a forward deck panel for getting at the front four cannons. (there are eight cannons total on the ship) Here is the rear of the ship featuring the captain's cabin windows and a trio of lanterns. The ship's name, the Inferno, goes in printed 1 x 1 tiles on the exposed gray studs on the rear of the ship. The rowboat sits on a section of deck that easily comes off for access to the cannons. The roof of the captain's cabin is removable, with a table and chair for Captain Walker to sit at and read maps. Captain Henry Walker (in green) and his crew. The pirate flag of the Captain Walker. (This picture was taken from Bricklink's catalog and is NOT mine. It's from the 2016 Ninjago Skybound wave.) NOTES: I'm working on getting this built in real life, since my last ship is so unreasonably expensive to build in real life it's ridiculous. (Thus this one is better, as it less expensive / parts intensive) I'm gonna need help on the sails, so I'm asking @Alazon, would you mind helping me with these please? They would be in Black Pearl sizes, but in 2010 imperial flagship style colors? Comments, questions, and complaints are always welcome!

They already have. Go look at the "building" section under parts. It shows what used to be in "support" and "fences", (on the old Bricklink) under one tab.

Yeah, I noticed that about the film. Thanks for commenting @Pdaitabird! Thank you @1963maniac. I've never ridden behind the 1225, but maybe someday, I will. No motorization / power plans, only hand power, like the rest of my trains @LegoDW. The front pony truck works adequately as far as I can tell running it on my home layout, though it DOES NOT like inclines. It's really weird though, as my 2-10-0 doesn't mind the bumps, and has the same front bogie design... maybe somebody with more design expertise could explain that?

Like this Diesel 10? I made him in LDD from some old instructions of a Class 38 to go along with my Lady engine, as seen in this topic here. (shameless self plug over with) Sounds like a very cool idea to use him in WW2! I have another suggestion about Armored trains: Any body here seen the 1965 Movie "The Train"? It's got a armored train that they blow up.... it was done in a real rail yard they were going to be changing the rail gauge in. The production company said "we'll do the demolition for ya!", blowing up everything in the yard to boot! It's a real good film, with plenty of train scenes, plus the brake noises were used on the early episodes / seasons of Thomas and Friends.

Here is my heavy MOD of 2020 set 75968, 4 Privet Drive. The car is a dark blue version of the Anglia in 2018's Hogwarts Whomping Willow set (75953), and fits inside the added garage. Here is the front of the house. I added a visible chimney flue, as I didn't like how the set kept the one hidden inside the wall. The rear of the building features a greenhouse and back door to both the house and garage. The greenhouse folds up and open to get at the inside of it, which at this point holds only a telephone. On the lower floor of the inside is the living room (with record player, couch, and fireplace), kitchen and dining area (stove, sink, table and two chairs). The upper floor features a lamp on a table and a bed. This 1962 Ford Anglia 105E is based off set 75953 (Hogwarts Whomping Willow), but in dark blue. (and no, it does not fly!) The rear trunk opens slightly. Two of this part are missing in dark bluish gray, and four of this part are missing in dark blue to finish the car. The LDD file is available at Bricksafe here. Any thought, comments, complaints or suggestions?

EDIT: Ninjad.

Hey, my malware protection is telling me that the Comics section (specifically, the Monday Deathmatch, page 4) link from the main Forum landing page, is infected with a virus. It It keeps trying to redirecting me.... @Eurobricks @Darkdragon

I believe @dr_spock did a pop up missile train at one point.

The prime method of transportation to and from the North Pole for children is now arriving at your front door! So, grab your robe (but don't rip the pocket in your haste to get outside!) and head on the adventure of your life... "Well, aren't you coming!? This here is the Polar Express!" What happens to the steam-hauled Polar Express when the steam-era parts suppliers eventually go out of business in the mid-to-late 1960's? Elves know toys inside and out, but steam locomotives are a bit out of their wheelhouse. Enter 1231, the newest locomotive-set in the Polar Railway's repertoire of railroad vehicles / rolling stock, used as a eventual replacement for 1225, and current freight loco. Built by EMD in December 1959 as a FP9 for the cab unit and a regular F9 for the B unit, these engines use small steam boilers to heat the heavyweight passenger cars, just like the 1225 before them with it's (obviously much larger) boiler. 1231 is currently assigned to freight duties at the North Pole awaiting it's turn at the head of the Polar Express. (eventually) The whole Express train, headed by steam locomotive 1225. This steam engine began life based on my design of the Frisco 1522, a 4-8-2 Mountain type, which I had built into a 2-8-4 Berkshire for my Polar Express. I then saw a far superior model by @Plastic_Goth over on Rebrickable, as seen here. It was then purchased, and I added my own wheelbase to it from the pervious Frisco 1522-derived version as I try not to use those small friction wheels for the front pony truck, as it squeals too much. (as used by Lemon_Boy in his version) Then, I took the open bottom cab and added mine back in, albeit in 7 wide. I redid the tender to be seven wide as well, while shortening my passenger coaches by four studs. (I will put them on a 24 stud train-plate instead of 28 for each car.) this will give me nearly enough parts to add a firth car as a third identical coach. I kinda took inspiration for the Emerald Night for the firebox. Simple and elegantly held on by technic pins, it makes a good converter from the seven wide cab to six wide boiler. The tender retained its ladder to the deck, albeit on a smaller scale - about what I did for my Emerald Night tender MOD. This is the saddest car in the film: the recycled toys baggage car, which thankfully is empty here, but in the movie was full of tangled marionettes and broken toys galore. This car features a sliding baggage door in addition to the usual opening regular doors. (which in turn were styled after the Emerald Night's coach's doors) These two coaches feature opening doors on each end. The color scheme chosen for the cars was inspired by @SavaTheAggie's Polar Express, and not the movie. (Dark red windows and medium blue train cars are accurate, but way too expensive!) This is the observation lounge car, and features a viewing balcony on the end of the car. From left to right these people are: - Narrator child - Engineer (I'm calling him Max) - Fireman (now named Joe) - Conductor (named Charlie, as far as I'm concerned) - The mysterious ghost hobo (who I'm trying to write a story linking him between the movies Emperor of the North and Polar Express. It will explain how he got onto the Express, and how he died at Flattop Tunnel. Based on a deleted scene from the Polar Express.) Everyone knows about the Polar Express passenger train, but what about the other half of the railroad business: FREIGHT! Well, this problem is now solved with the "1231" Electro-Motive FP9 diesel cab + booster locomotives, along with boxcars for toy materials, hot cocoa tankers, coal cars (for naughty children and the hungry 2-8-4 steam loco 1225), and flat cars with varying loads, this one being Santa's backup sleigh w/ reindeer! This model originally was inspired by the EMD FL9 in the "Lego Train Projects" book from No Starch Press. I made it shorter and added a B unit, while changing up the color. I also make them into a regular diesel powered F-units instead of the dual electric / diesel powered FL9. The chosen color scheme is of my Polar Express train which, as you most likely know, is usually headed up by 2-8-4 steam loco 1225. Well, here is the backup / freight loco number 1231. NOTE: This idea of a later-day diesel hauled-Express is actually not new, as I've seen it in blue-and-dark red Lionel models for a while now in several Hobby shops... they even have a Polar Railroad GP-7 as a model too, according to my Google search! The engine will feature (once built) feature printed letters on the A-unit's sidewalls saying "Polar Railway", and closer to the nose, will have the "1231" as the loco number. The rear has a doorway to the first passenger car. The boxcar seen above is for for carrying toy-making materials, such as wood, and barrels of plastic pellets. This flat car is supposed to have three hay bales in front of Olive (the other reindeer, who is usually omitted from the regular team pulling the A-Sleigh because of his bad habit of calling team leader Rudolph names and being generally unpleasant while playing reindeer games.) Olive pulls the backup sleigh instead. This hopper car is for carrying naughty children's coal, which also happens to fuel the 2-8-4 steam loco 1225. A simple Hot Cocoa tanker car.. be careful, it really is hot! The last car in the freight train is a caboose. The letters "PR" (standing for Polar Railway) go on the side wall studs. As usual, any comments, questions or complaints are welcome. There is only so many days until Christmas, and then this train becomes relevant again, so I'm building this REALLY soon! EDIT 4/22/21: Added freight cars to the post.

Sorry for the double post, but I had to let you all know that all the rest of the parts (all $8 of them) have been ordered to turn what was originally a EMD F unit into a Baldwin Sharknose. Basically, I found whatever parts I could and subtracted them from the LDD model (below). This left me with about 15 different types of bricks, down from around sixty. I had to make some substitutions, but it will look pretty much the same. Here is what the original shape looked like before I found any parts. Hopefully, it should be here in a week or two, and then there will be updated real world pictures to share!

Yes, thank you.

The whole Merrimac River Runner passenger train, headed up by Baldwin RF-16 "shark-nose" A +B diesels number 3701 with assistance provided by 4-8-4 "Northern" steam engine number 2980. The name of this train is a play off the Missouri River Runner, a real train that Amtrak runs from Kansas City to St. Louis. The Meramec River is a body of water that runs next to the real world 12-inch gauge Wabash Frisco & Pacific, so I switched the name to the Meramec River Runner. Never mind the fact the Missouri Pacific used to run on the roadbed the WFP now uses up from the 1850's until about the 1940's, when it was rerouted to it's current alignment and abandoned the old one to the eventual WFP use from the late '50's to today. These Baldwin diesel RF-16-like locos were inspired by set 10020, (Santa Fe Super Chief) for most of the basic body work and and fellow Eurobricks user @Legownz for the knife-like Sharknose front end. (Thank you for that ingenious design!) The cab and booster units feature no interior details because I have no need for such items on my layout.. that and retrofitting all my trains with inside details would be quite costly. The rear of each of the locos feature doorways to the next engine compartment, and / or the passenger train itself. This 7-wide steam loco began life as a 2-8-4 Berkshire type built by @Plastic_Goth and purchased from Rebrickable a seen here. I upped the wheel count by another leading axle, making it into a 4-8-4 Northern-type from the original 2-8-4 Berkshire. The pistons are entirely my own work, as is the complete tender. The coal tender will have the letters WFP on the side, standing for Wabash Frisco & Pacific, while the cab will feature the number 2980 on both sides. This is a scrambled homage to real world WFP 4-8-2 engine 928, which is so strong, it's pulled every piece of rolling stock the railroad owns -at one time- with ease! The inside of the cab features two gauges and the firebox door. This is all the interior the whole train features. Combination baggage and passenger car three identical passenger coaches for the train The observation car of the Meramec River Runner. (This car is to become fully enclosed soon, with a wraparound rear window provided by two of this piece.) Any thoughts, comments, or complaints? EDIT 5/11/21: Added 4-8-4 steam loco to this post. Real life pictures coming soon.

The Imperial Flagship ones will do fine as-is (no special coloring or marking), but I need them to be big enough to fit on the rigging of the new 2020 sail sizes. Is that even possible / can you please do that for me @Israel Hands? if not let me know.

I'm still working on this ship (now named the Terror), based off of set 21332 (Pirates of Barracuda Bay). I changed the colors around again, this time to my green pirate captain's colors. (I already have a bunch of the parts, making it more affordable.) The ship is devoid of any lower, below-deck features, except for the eight custom cannons. (as the bigger, official cannons would not fit despite my efforts) The only place there is furniture is the captain's cabin and that consists of a simple table and chair to save costs. What do you think? Obviously, I'm still gonna need custom-printed sails from CapeMadness, as green and white striped sails aren't an option if you go the strictly "Lego only" route. (I guess I could print my own on paper, due to the vector files now being available thanks to two users @Alazon and @Israel Hands who did all the work.) Thanks you guys for that! EDIT: Revised the color scheme again, got rid of the yellow altogether. Scrapes around $100 US off the total price.... not that I can afford it right now anyway.

This is the Classic Space command center for Benny's fleet. The building swings open and locks shut on a Technic pin. This model was constructed from parts of half the Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown model (modified from set 76108) I no longer was using for my mad scientist, so I thought Benny the classic space astronaut could downsize and takeover ownership. (with a Classic-styled color change, of course!) The windows are now in the standard trans-yellow, with a huge sign out front above the door that features a 4 x 2 slope parts with the CS logo on it. The year 1978 is on the front of the building, as that's the year Classic Space was founded. The rear of the house. The two side walls hook into my expansive Classic Space modular base system, styled after the Jurassic World sets from 2014. The inside of the front of the building features the fireplace, lamp and waiting room for potential new members to Classic Space membership. The second floor features Benny's office TV to keep tabs on current events, and a couple pieces of memorabilia. On the third floor we have the radio antenna control equipment and a small model city layout. The rear portion of the building features the first floor break room kitchen, and Benny's desk on the second level. The third floor features a master terminal for LL9000, the "brains" behind the fleet movements and hyperspace jump routes of all of classic space. It keeps freighter's from bouncing off moons and entire flotilla's from flying into supernovas at hyper-speeds... always a bad idea! In case you were wondering how this is an update, this model has been widened by four studs width-wise since last uploaded to allow for the third floor 8 x 16 custom printed computer to fit (see below) Sadly, the company that sold this printed 8 x 16 part (Brick Builders Pro) no longer sells this, or any other custom printed parts. The first post has the inside and outside of the updated building (as written above), along with pictures of the walls / front gate as was promised about a year or so ago. (sorry!)

Thanks, I revised the engine's outer lines again to be more like before. I agree with you, it does look better that way. I also started pulling parts out of my bins to see how many I had for the former Naboo Royal starship-turned Classic Space Ambassador's ship. Only 423 left to go!

This train is a very heavily modified Classic Space version of sets 75217 (Imperial Conveyex Transport), 79104 (Shellraiser Street Chase), mixed with the nose of a Baldwin diesel "Sharknose" locomotive MOC by @Legownz over on the Train-Tech forum. (as seen here). Thanks to Legownz for the LDD file of his engine which made this train possible! The train can be shortened or lengthened in modular sections depending on the needs of the specific mission, but in this particular case it has two engine units, (1 leading, 1 trailing) and two conjoined passenger hauler segments. The passenger sections are connected to each other by Jacobs bogies, but are connected to the engine units by regular magnets, allowing for more groups-of-two passenger sections to join in the train. The two engine units are missing the front Classic Space 4 x 2 slope nose print, plus the four diagonal stripe parts in yellow on both sides of each loco and the eight cooling fans up on each of the roofs. Inside the loco is a engine block inspired by the Santa Fe Super Chief. (set 10020) Besides having all the walls open up vertically, (not shown in any picture due to LDD glitches) the front glass folds up to place an engineer figure at the controls as well. Each passenger car seat four figures, meaning the whole train hauls eight people (+ their air-tanks!). The model is a possible replacement for my traditional-looking Conveyex, and about 25% of the new model's parts would come from the older model. I also am considering eventually buying the Naboo Royal starship MOC in CS colors, as seen in this topic here. But for now, they have to wait. (The train may never be built, as the 9v / RC wheels are getting hard to find, and my family source {AKA my dad } for new ones getting a little low on them!) Any thoughts?

Ok, so I revised the engines' look and inside seating arrangements. What do you guys think? The old version (outside and in)... ...the new version (outside and in). Thoughts?