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    Real life photos added!
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    Thank you! I just added some more trains to the first post so feel free to tell me what you think of them!
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    They look very nice, but the steam switcher is my favorite. I love the others, don't get me wrong, but without those tiny switchers making up trains and doing light freight / industrial siding work, you wouldn't have much of a railroad. Sure, passenger trains get all the glory and freight is the bread and butter of railroads, but without those switchers, you wouldn't have a train to pull! I mean can you imagine a fancy-painted and streamlined GS-4 Daylight doing shunting work on a tight-turned industrial siding? ...anyway, fantastic work!
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    I kinda went the opposite direction for Benny's newest car. I made it even older, into a 1950's tail-fined gas-guzzling behemoth! My reasoning is that the space race started in '57, so Benny must have a car from then! ...Though It's actually smaller than before. I have updated the first post also, as both models have been ordered and should be here soon.
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    I just updated the main post to include two more pictures, and now have a new favorite: See the first post for more details!
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    Thanks mods for changing the topic title!
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    Could a mod please change this topic ( http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=118894 ) to say "1940's / '50's passenger trains" Thanks in advance!
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    Main post updated with several additions made, such as this train: Enjoy!
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    I found the 4460 is too different to make from a 4449, because the side streamlining does not match the spartan original, like here (not my picture): If you want a 4460, I would click here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=118894&hl=4460 It's my own version, and I'm sorry if I hijacked the thread. Anyway, the model in the OP looks spot on to a GS-4, so good job sava at designing such a remarkable engine and congrats to ritzcrackerman for getting both real loco and LEGO copycat in a single shot!!
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    Thanks! Go right ahead and use it, that's what the ldd file is for! The cutting base-plates was to make sure it didn't get and wider if I did build it... all my stations are 5 tracks long, and if it were any longer it would be 6. It's just a part of a system I worked out for my own use. Thank you, and that would work with the two 48's, but then the modular platform idea would be lost, unless you cut a slit in the base-plates.
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    Thank you!
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    Does anyone have pictures of the alt builds for the RV set? I'm considering buying it for the boat and also buying the lighthouse, but pics would be nice if anyone has some... Thanks in advance!
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    I made it feel ordinary so I could make it fit in more with the rest of my town.... It already stands out for it's bright color scheme, but I'll think about some of the stuff you suggested, especially the solar panels!
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    This station was inspired way back in 2013 by a long since expired Ideas project (link to my inspiration: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/34642 ), which was doubled in size and now features a double tracked platform + canopy and quad-sided clock tower. NOTE: You may want to cut two base-plates to a 8 x 40 size where the gaps are at the end of the platform. The station proper has removable upper roof and second floor sections. The top floor "floats" on tiles, and is removable to reach the sales counter on the main floor. Also removable is the platform and train canopy, as it is connected to the station via Technic pins. The double track train canopy was inspired by CITY set 60103, Airport Air Show, while the clock faces are supposed to feature this print: http://alpha.brickli...0pb024#T=C&C=11 The street side of the station has space for 8 printed 1 x 1 letters, allowing you to name the station what you want. If i ever did build this, which I probably won't, I would name it Glenncoe, after the location of a 12 inch ride-on real steam railway, The Wabash Frisco and Pacific Rail Road at Glencoe (spelled with only 1 "N") Missouri. (See their pretty cool website here: http://www.wfprr.com/default.htm ) The second floor has the switching control room and station managers office while the lower floor has the ticket desk and inside waiting rooms. By the way: the upper floor floats inside the walls on some tile-topped pillars, and is not connected to the build by studs in any way. NOTE: This train station most likely will never be built by me as I already have 3 stations as of now. But it IS build able in real life, so if anyone of you guys want to take a stab at this station, be my guest and please post the pictures both here and in your own thread. As such, here is the LDD file to the whole model, grouped so you can edit the station as you please: http://www.moc-pages...1463871791m.lxf Once again, questions, comments, and complaints are welcome!
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    (slight bump + update) So April has come and gone, and the building hasn't been built.... this model was put on the back burner for a while, but it should be built next month. (I hope!) Until then, here is a revamped and enlarged model with the LDD file for the whole setup in the first post. Enjoy! This was originally inspired by the Pizza shop in set 7641, City Corner, (also re-released as set 60031) I added a back based on the Bicycle shop from set 31026, and put the front window / awning area from set 41124, Heartlake Puppy Daycare into the mix as well.
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    Take the last train to Clarksville The date is sometime in Summer of 1965, the place is Clarksville Grand Central Terminal railroad station, just after the last train has left. The usually busy station tracks are now deserted except for a lone tank engine used for getting coaches ready for their next journey and pulling passenger trains through the washer and onto the servicing tracks. At this midnight hour, the station is quiet and even the steam engine seems to have gone nearly silent, with just a wisp of smoke coming from it's stack. Soon, however, the first sun rays and early Monday morning commuter trains will be arriving and the station will hustle and bustle with the little steam loco running to and fro once more.
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    Thank you! Thanks, it took a while but it was worth it!
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    Thanks! The tunnel was partially inspired by the 1850's-era Barretts Tunnels, as seen at my hometown railroad museum in Saint Louis, Missouri. (They were the first tunnels west of the Mississippi River, and were used up until the early 1940's.) Thank you! I would love to see what your model looks like when you finish it. I just checked, and no: it does NOT fit by about two bricks radiance. I'll have to tell my dad (who designed the standard this tunnel was based on way back in the 1990's) that he needs to rethink his height clearance. I too will need to extend the model to make it fit. Thanks for pointing it out, I didn't know that it was an issue!
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    first post has this new pic added: Break on Through (To the Other Side) Here we see engine streamlined 4-8-2 "Mountain"-type 6847 roaring through the eastern end of the Raindance Ridge Tunnel sometime in the early 1960's. This tunnel was a bottleneck for traffic for many years, but land ownership issues concerning the Native American tribe who originally owned the land on which it sits caused many issues. The land was apparently never sold to the railroads but was stolen and the law requires all railroad land not proved to be owned by said railroad goes back to the previous owner: the Native American tribe. So, after a decade of legal wrangling, the tunnel was sold to the railroad for a quite large sum of money in 1975. This allowed the second tunnel to be built for eastern traffic about a half mile downstream of the original 1880 alignment, with the original tunnel is used only for West bound trains.
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    This model was inspired by set 79110, (Silver Mine Shootout) from the Lone Ranger theme. This tunnel can let tall objects through, such as the official caboose (set 10014, the tallest train I know of), with at least two bricks of clearance between the roof of the caboose and the tunnel ceiling. Also, this plastic waterfall part is not in LDD and is missing from the model in two spots: http://alpha.brickli...309pb01#T=C&C=0 The middle of the model has modular pins to connect to the identical other half needed to build a complete tunnel. it can also be extended with a middle section, but I don't have one available to download like the rest of the tunnel at this time. Proof that this tunnel lets the 10014 caboose through with room to spare. Here is the LDD file for the tunnel only (no caboose): http://www.moc-pages...1463503949m.lxf Comments, Questions and Complaints are always welcome!
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    Thanks. They are very beautiful, but unfortunately I have only seen one in rather bad shape, the one at the St. Louis Museum of Transport: engine number 4918 / renumbered 4918 and painted plain black. They also happen to have the the last P-5 (prototype 4700), the PRR's precursor to the GG-1. It is and also in poor shape, but both engines are at least under cover of a open sided shed. I hope to see a GG-1 in better condtion someday, or at the best possible scenario, have both the P-5 and GG-1 restored to become painted and lighted static exhibits in a place of honor, not shoved on a back side-track well off the beaten path. As a side note, I discovered this neat website on the GG-1's, called the GG-1 homepage, which was last updated in 2002, but features some cool stuff and hard to find info. Here is a link: http://www.spikesys.com/GG1/
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    Thank you, I want to build the bridge in real life, but now that I look at it, it might not work the way i want it too... that part may just stay a digital model.
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    UPDATE: added a nifty luggage trolley to the first post. Just a small US railroad luggage cart I whipped together in 5 minutes.... nothing special. i will be getting two of these with some other small projects, probably at the same time as my streetcars.
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    I think a narrow gauge version would be interesting, and your more than welcome to attempt it, but I think I'll stick with regular old L Gauge. Thanks for stopping by and commenting though! Thanks, and I'm glad you like it! However, I don't have any 9v motors, or any PF equipment no do I plan on getting any. (Hand power is my way!) Plus, it's way cheaper, both part wise and it not being worth redesigning all my trains to accept motors. As a side note, here is a picture and story I've been working on: May 21st, 1966 - The Ironwood streetcar line, isolated and on it's last few serviceable trolleys, hobbles slowly along. On this day, we see Birney Safety Car number 13 bump along on uneven and well-worn track around the corner at River and Main streets. This 1920 vintage streetcar looks worse for wear, with it's faded paint and worn wood-work, it's tired motorman operator looking as sad as the car itself. Nobody knows how long the line will last, as closure is expected at any time. Happily, this line will not close as expected. The trolleys and tracks are rescued by the city of Ironwood itself and a group of pioneering rail transit lovers. Within 3 years, the line will be completely renewed and ready for the next 45+ years of operation, for generations yet to come (as of 1966, that is).
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    Sorry for the late reply, but that looks awesome! On a related note, here is my now 6 wide streetcar, which I call version 3: Comments, questions, and complaints welcome, and the new ldd file is in the updated first post.
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