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  1. Murdoch17
    I would suggest the second version of the coupler: 91968c01 as the other one you linked to can drag the ground when going up even slight inclines / bumps in table, at least in my experience. The family depends of peach skin or yellow skin: the original BTTF set figures are peach, but yellow is way more common. Which are you going to use?
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    Thanks! I just added a expanded history of the loco and it's type to the main post, I hope you like it.
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    This part here ( bricklink link ) is the one you need.
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    The 4-10-4 (four leading, ten driving, four trailing) "Rainhill" wheel arrangement was so named after the Rainhill Trials of October 1829 in Rainhill, England of which the famous Rocket was the only entrant to complete the Trials. The Rainhill type was designed in 1927 and built in early 1928, though it was originally called the "Gigantic" type, but the planned Centenary of Steam celebration sealed the deal on the naming of the type. (Unfortunately, the plans for the potential celebration were postponed in July 1928 and finally cancelled one day before the Stock Market Crash of 1929.) The steam locomotive prototype of the 4-10-4 Rainhill type was painted a dark red and gray color-scheme with a light gay box on the tender and was sold by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1928 to Brick Railway Systems, but due to technical teething troubles and because of it's unusual color scheme was nicknamed the Red Demon. The engine worked the trans-continental route on the "pan-American Limited" passenger train from New York to Los Angeles, with the Red Devil or one of it's type worked the portion west from St. Louis to Las Vegas. The Red Demon original engine (number 7957) worked this route from 1930 until being bumped to freight duties in early 1958. The engine then worked freights with it's thirty-nine brother's in diminishing numbers until this one was sidelined in 1971, the last of it's kind. The Red Demon was pulled out of the mothballs in 1973 for potential use on the 1976 American Bicentennial train but politics intervened and Texas and Pacific 2-10-4 number 610 got the job instead. After that, the engine's future looked bleak until the "Save the Red Demon 7957" Committee was formed which raised enough money to restore the engine to working order by 1978 and has kept the engine indoors and in tip-top shape ever since under the Red Demon Incorporated moniker. This company uses five former Brick Railway Systems-styled coaches on fan trips, but they are wholly owned by Red Demon Inc. The tender features the name of the railroad (Brick Railway Systems) on it's side, with a light at the rear and a ladder to the top deck. In reality, there was no 4-10-4 type of steam locomotive. It was strangely skipped over in the age of steam... none of this wheel arrangement were ever built. The name Red Demon was chosen because the 4-14-4 type of Soviet Russia was the closest analogy to my loco... except mine works fine, while the Russian one never did much as it spread the track, ruined switches and pulled the freight cars' couplings apart due to it's raw power. The second reason for the name is the Red Devil, a heavily modified South African 4-8-4 engine with a gas producing combustion system and many modern improvements. That cape gauge engine worked beautifully, but was mothballed in 2003. As of 2018, however, the Red Devil is again puling fan trip trains in South Africa! The three regular coaches, all in the same color scheme as the engine. The Pan-American Limited's observation car. The whole train. Comments, Questions, Complaints, and Suggestions for the future are always welcome! EDIT: 12/8/22: There really is a prototype for everything! I designed a 4-10-4 steam locomotive in 2019, thinking it was a complete work of fiction, as no class had been built to that wheel arrangement. Turns out, I was partially wrong - no class had been built, but one had been designed by Baldwin Locomotive Works, as seen in their online archives! It was a three-cylinder beast drawn up for a road called The Monon (otherwise known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railroad) back in 1928 - not very far off my fictionalized backstory year of 1927 as written by me in 2019.... spooky, right?
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    sorry for the one-year bump, but I thought that this was probably more acceptable than starting a new thread for the same model. I have updated the model from this... to this! What do you guys think?
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    Thanks. It is a strange one, but I feel drawn to unusual, one-off, or failed types of locos. This type certainly fits the bill of an odd loco! I would also agree about the boiler, but then again, all my 1920's types share this boiler, which was inspired by the Lone Ranger engine. It gives them a sense of the same trademark styling, if you will. I did however, add a second dome to the loco boiler.
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    I think you might want refresh your internet cache... The station is now red and looks like this: sorry!
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    i couldn't get a ladder to look good... I did add a cafe, though!
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    Thank you! i just finished editing the engine by extending the boiler four studs. (The pictures have also been updated as well.)
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    This steam locomotive is a 2-6-0+0-6-2 Double Mogul (Garratt-type) steam engine. This type of wheel configuration was built for use on railways in South America, Australia, Africa, and England in at least six different track gauges, according to Wikipedia. None were built for use in North America like my model is supposed to be, but I'm ignoring that fact. The engine I have made traces it's lineage to a model originally designed by Anthony Sava as a 4-6-0+0-6-4 but with fake pistons and with small-size friction bearing wheels. I added Big Ben Bricks medium flanged and blind driving wheels for use with the working pistons. The very inspirational original Sava engine is available for purchase in PDF instructions format at Mr. Sava's official Bricklink store here. Even with the added pistons, the engine easily can go around corners and switches quite easily. I did have to add two weight bricks for the pistons to grip the rails sufficiently to move instead of scrapping along the track like they were before. The engine also features a nicely decorated cab with plenty of printed tiles. (The letters BRS are the initials of my fictional railroad: Brick Railway Systems.) I got this picture from Google as an example of how close my LEGO Garratt engine is to the real deal. (I couldn't find a "real" picture of this specific type, but I know it exists according to Wikipedia. So this O gauge model of it will have to do...) As usual, I have a color-matched train in the works that this engine is to pull. To see the Maintenance of Way crane train's topic click this link. Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, suggestions or complaints. Thanks for looking at my model! EDIT 10/16/17: I edited the engine by extending the boiler four studs. The pictures have also been updated as well.
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    Better now @sander1992 @Ragana9289? I just added restyled the paddle wheels and enclosed the ship's bridge with actual windows and roof, plus a new name: Deja Vu 2. I bet you heard it somewhere before...
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    To create this steampunk-like Adventurers vessel, I added six studs of length to the Destiny's Bounty (set 70618), removed the sails, lanterns, flags, plants and assorted details. I then put twin smokestacks on the deck, and dual paddle wheels amidships. I was inspired to do all this by this picture of a prototype of the Destiny's Bounty from the "Making of the Ninjago movie" book. (Pic courtesy of legozeba's Flickr page) The rear of the ship is supposed to feature "Deja Vu 2" in printed 1 x 1 tiles next to the telescope on the balcony. I'm still working on the inside details, which should hopefully have an engine room with boilers to power the paddles. I haven't thought up a backstory for this ship.... yet. (I'm still working on incorporating it into my Adventurers / Monster Fighters / Pharaoh's Quest / Alpha Team shared universe story-wise.) Any thoughts, ideas, criticism, or complaints are welcome, and are helpful in making the ship better, so please, post away!! EDIT 101/10/17: I just added restyled and enclosed ship's bridge with actual windows, plus a new name: Deja Vu 2. I bet you heard it somewhere before...
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    I entered on Day 1, but forgot to post in this thread. I don't plan on winning anything because my entry is just a extended version of a engine I already uploaded.... also, as a note to the judges @raised @zephyr1934, the "Swoosh!" category will be a little hard to do digitally as LDD doesn't allow for the train wheels to be placed on curved track. Anyway, here is my Frisco 1522 model 4-8-2 steam loco with added water tender, as was used during it's short excursion career from 1988 to 2002 before the water tender was sold in 2011-ish. The real engine will likely never turn a wheel on it's own again,(Dang those high insurance prices!) so it has had it's tool cars and auxiliary tender sold for use by another steam loco group. The train may not be turn-able in LDD, but this 96-ish stud long engine and tenders -will- work in real life. and if I do somehow win.... I have no room for the tracks, so please just consider my entry a salute to your awesomeness and hard work here at BMR :-)
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    Small update: the Frisco 4-8-2 steam loco + '57 Plymouth Fury parts are finally here! I have just received the last parts for the Frisco 1522 / Plymouth Fury... now I just need to wait nearly a month before I can build it. NOTE: Two tender wheels and all the letters / numbers are not here because I need to place that order separately later on by myself. So it's really not all here, but it's about 99% arrived.
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    No, I would be excited! I always upload the LDD files so people can built things on their own, either by tinkering with my build to make it special or just making a carbon copy of what I did. Please post pictures when it's done @Goldenmasamune!
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    I just finished tiling the center studded section with three 8x16 and eight 1x8 tiles which seems to have solved the locking issue: it glides much better now. If it does seize up again like it did at some point in the future I'll consider doing as you suggested, but right now the funds just aren't there for redoing the transfer table. Thanks for your suggestion though!
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    (sorry for the slight bump) I worked on my locomotive transfer table today, adding four signal lights to the top and revising some parts of the dark bluish gray frame. The moving table still sticks occasionally when hitting a slight bump in the guide-tiles of the frame, but it works pretty well most of the time. Right now the still-unfinished 2-6-0+0-6-2 Garratt steam loco is taking the table for a spin.... er... slide? (I played with the contrast on the picture a bit in Google photos, as it had turned out darker than I thought it would in it's original state.) Any thoughts?
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    This one @Goldenmasamune? The LDD file for it is available here along with an earlier version of the breakdown train. I sadly don't have any more photos of it besides the rear view.
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    Thank you for the compliment! Since the last update on this steam loco, I realized I needed more weight over the drivers while building the model in real bricks. I have ordered a couple weight bricks and new boiler parts to hide them in in order for the wheels to grip the rails sufficiently for the pistons to work. The parts should be here soon, and the real world reveal of the engine will happen shortly thereafter. (The rest of the train will have to wait until Christmas to be built, sadly)
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    EDIT 9/28/17: The device in between the two domes (I forgot it's technical name, "feed water heater" maybe?) is now more like the real engine, with two cylinders instead of none like I had before. (This engine should be built in real bricks by early next year.) Enjoy the updated ldd file and added new pictures!
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    BUMP: I just redid the car to red and black and added new text / LDD files / pictures to the first post. Any and all thoughts (good or otherwise) are welcome!
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    Did anyone else notice the fun house mirrors use a new "wavy" panel piece? Or is it just me?
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    Belatrix LesStrange was the mother of Voldemort's daughter, and she was criminally insane so... and yes, let's get back on topic!
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    Harry's scar is a piece of Voldemort's soul, flung onto him when Voldemort's death curse rebounded onto himself due to Harry's mom's sacrifice / love for him. This rebounding latched a part of the villain's soul onto the only living thing near: Harry. This gives him some of the bad guy's abilities, such as talking to snakes and his psychic connection to Voldemort once he gains his new body. Plus, it pains Harry when Voldemort is near / doing bad things... after the death of the villain Harry scar's no longer hurts him and loses said extra powers.... no more snake talk, and no connection.. until Harry's son undoes history due to meddling with time (see the Cursed Child book / play) causing it to hurt once more. Harry eventually figures out what happens and stops Voldemort's daughter (yes, you read that right!) from causing lots of time-travel problems. Harry eventually takes his son to the time of his parent's death and the start of the series as a sort of bonding / "now you understand my pain moment." EDIT: This was from memory, so errors may have occurred... the Harry Potter Wiki may help more!
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    It kinda does, in a way... See the movies / red the books to avoid spoilers!
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