BrickMusher

Hello, some time ago, I stumbled upon a list with O-Gauge wheels similar in size and shape to the Lago train wheels. Unfortunately I can not find this homepage anymore. When searching online, most offers just say "does fit theese or that model/manufacturer" but don´t say anything about measurements. Does anyone of you have suggestions for metal wheels that are similar to Lego wheels? I just talk about the standard size 16,6mm tread/ 23mm flange diameter. As you might know, the "pizza slicer" flange is essential for Lego track due to the gaps at the connection points. That means, smaler flange diameter wont work poperly. Thanks for your help. Best regards BrickMusher

Hi Sergio, I very much apologize for the delayed answer, I was just off for a while. Before I answer about the rails, I have to mention that the original idea was inspired by french FreeLUG´s LGV as shown at Fanabriques Exhibition 2012. You will easily find Videos on YT from their fabulous train display there. However, I was not able to get hold of the aluminium-rails they used. Also I had the ambition to balast my tracks in a way that makes it more lookalike to original balasted 9V track. And I had to find a reseller. Last part was probably the biggest problem. I think I should make an own thread about building and balasting the tracks, but if you cant wait, just search for "code 250" rails meanwhile. Hope that helps for now?! Once again apologizes for the late reply. Regards BrickMusher

Thank You all for your nice and friendly words!! I have not exspected so many nice comments, especially since this MOC is allready number four of the same type of Loco. And I never exspected the bridge to catch so much attention! I was actually just playing around with the new pieces, when they found together more or less on their own. At the moment, I just have a problem with my photobox. It is just not wide enough for the whole bridge. I try to fix it and make an own thread for my bridges when ready! BTW, what would be the best place for that thread? So far, I have mostly posted within Train tech forum. Any suggestions? @JopieK and @Man with a hat, its longe time since I have seen a Dutch train by myself. So I appreciate your advice and will have a closer look on how I can improve that nose issue @ColletArrow Thank You. Yes, all engines still excist. I´ll do a picture for you of the whole family during the next photosession @monai Indeed, the rails are DIY. Profiles come in straights, but it´s no big deal to bend them into nearly any radii larger than R40. They are full metal and I used them on a display with approx. 15m length for a high-speed train. All my trains run with old 9V motors, that works pretty well with theese kind of tracks. But I think that would also be subjet for an other thread.....

Hallo everyone, here is a new model of my "Nez Cassé" series. This time, it is a model of dutch "Nederlandse Spoorwegen" NS-1600 Series. As with the three other models before, I made slight changes in the outer and inner appearance. On this model, I used some old and scratched bricks to create a somewhat more "used" look than normal. The train is displayed on a truss-girder bridge, build from the new rollercoaster tracks. Altthough the bridge look somewhat fragile, it is unecspected rigid. Please finde some more pictures, including a new flatbed-car, at my flickr fotostream: Click here Hope you enjoy. http://NS-1845 "Middelburg" by Brick Musher, auf Flickr Regards BrickMusher

As allready linked by zephyr1934, there ist no advantage on split-axles. My Brother did a test for me, since I dont want to spent money on the Hidden Side Train. He compared four-axeled coaches equipped with old wheels sets, new wheelset and ballbearing wheelsets. of course, ballbearings performed best, but new all-plastic wheelsets did not even run half the way the old wheelsets did. It becomes more worse in curves. He also said the cars with the split-axles where shacking and vibrating recognizable. In curves, his PU train with new wheelsets lost remarkable speed. All in all no good news So they change motto to "only the ceapest is good enough?"

Exactly this. I see that moving things on a display always catches most attention of visitors. So when ever I had a display with old Monorail, and people asked about it, it was exactly like you have said. To tell them that they have to spend a redicioulus amount of money for hard-to-find parts that are out of production for more than 20 years just creates me a pain. Same with 9V System So, IF TLG will produce this new wheelsets only, and use it on PU trains in the future, everybody should complain at TLG´s customer service about bad performance due to high friction. And everybody should insist on replacement parts. I fear a little that TLG is some kind of advice resistant, therefore warranty requests seem to be the most approbiate way to "teach" them to do better IMHO.

Yeah, for sure. Just send me a bunch and I will test them for you Frankly speaking, I am somewhat suspicious of them. I have refurbished a lot of metal axle wheels with ballbearings to reduce friction, and now TLG is showing up with theese When ever I had used technic axles with technic bricks and train wheels, I had abrasive wear and increased friction after some use (e.g. on exhibitions). I guess the new elements are cheaper in production. But will they also be cheaper in price? And, even more important, will they be suitable for AFOLs use? So I would really like to see a review especially about theese parts!

Hei, I started a year ago or so to build coaches and freight cars with normal plates instead of train-plates. It was just the same as it is with you. I found the trainplates become ridiculouse expensive and sometimes even not available. If you dont build in 6-wide, you have to moc your chassis anyway. So actually I am very satisfied with my solutions. For my flatbed-cars, e.g. I use a snotted chassis with a "upside-down" bogieplate and ball-bearings for the wheelsets. That makes the cars very flat but rigid at the same time. For boxcars and passenger coaches I normally use the standard Lego-wheelsets with a modified bogieplate (because of pin lenght). What kind of freight car do you have in mind?

Hi Holger, nice Where can I sign for it?

Hei, I once bought a vacuum hose from an industrial pneumatic shop at ebay. Since I am metric, the hose was 3mm in diameter wich actually is a little bit to small. An other time, I found a similar hose in a chainlubrication kit for motorcycles that was 3,2mm in diameter. I guess that is somewhat like 1/8 inch?? However, that one fitted very well with the original Lego clips. So maybe you can find something like that more easy at your place (US)? Only minus, all hoses have been glossy. But that probably could be fixed with some fine sandpaper or fleece? It is a pain that TLC does not produce the round Windows anymore. I allways preferred them to the angular ones like in the actual Hogwarts....

Outch, that hurts. My Colorado Eagle ist stil WIP. And now I am outpaced by Tony Sava. Everybody will think I blundly copied your work or at least your idea http://Colorado Eagle med. by Brick Musher, auf Flickr Well, I started with that four or five years ago, so there was plenty of time for me to finish it. Somhow I lost sight of it, so the observation car and the engines A and B unit are still missing. But with your gorgeous Version ahead, I should definitely start to finish it. I love the livery, and in 8-wide, like you did, it has this extra on details I can never reach with building 6-wide. But I am fine with that. Thank You for showing this beauty P.S. One strenuous appeal: Please dont do any scandinavian or canadian trains within the next year, that could ruin my self-confidence (I really have to speed up things )

@dtomsen I do not think that your perspective is so different from the most others here. I have seen your instructions and models online, and I highly appreciate your work. My personal focus is more on creating a Model and taking photos of it, I am not interested in creating building instructions. But if anyone would ask to create it for me, why should I say no? I think what suffers most pain, is when someone sells Instructions or rebuilds of your models and do not even metion you as the original creator. I allready started to publish my MOC pics under CC BY license, so everyone can see what I exspect when using my work for own purpose. But sometimes it is not easy to find the original creator of a MOC. E.g. years ago I found a Railcar-MOC somewhere in the www. It attracted me quite a lot, so I started to rebuild it from two or three pictures I found. I implemeted lights and started to use it on exhibitions. When the discussion started about a year ago here in the forum, I started intensiv search for the original creator and after hours of search I found that it was @Sérgio. So I asked him via flickr-pm for permission to copy his car, and he granted it (thank you Sérgio). He only asked me to mention him as the original creator. And I think exactly thas is the point! Lego is intended to rebuild things you see. That also includes MOC´s. I "copy" things now for the last 35 years, starting with the gorgeous Lego Idea books in my childhood. And the most people here are aware of that. So nearly no one will exspect that his creation will not be copied sooner or later. But a small hint to the original creator should alsways be a natural consequence. However, while adding credits to someone is relatively easy with pictures, how will you do e.g. at exhibitions? I have not found any good solution to do so yet. So if anybody has a suggestion, I would welcome a good discussion regards BrickMusher

@LEGO Train 12 Volts Thank You for your kind words. Bridges just started to be my second favourited theme beside Trains. There will be a new one soon @ColletArrow Also thank you to You. No problem. There will be also a dutch version of this locomotive soon. When doing the photos, I will also take some more of this blue just on tracks for you @Evans Thank You for the info. I did not know that the blue livery was for diesel only, but I really appreciate this kind of informations! Had a look to the suggested "béton" scheme also, but I am not sure if the old dark-grey windscreen will match in colour. On some pictures it looks more like sand-blue?! So maybe I will give it a try when I get hold of two windscreens from the new modular building?!

Hello, and a late "Happy Easter" to all! Maybe you remember guessing about new Lego-Trains in beginning of 2018? By that time, I allready presented two MOC´s of that Loco. 1. Versions Thread 2. Versions Thread Today I´d like to add another Version. Its colour-scheme was inspired by the last Artic-Theme (dark-blue and dark-azure) but I decided to skip the orange. Snotting of the white line around the dark-blue was somewhat tricky, but eventually I am satisfied with the result. When the build was done, I found the scheme reminded somehow to old french SNCF liveries. So my Idea was to call it the "SNCF-Style" although it lacks a determined real-life example. SNCF Loco by Brick Musher, auf Flickr SNCF Loco by Brick Musher, auf Flickr I hope you enjoy As always, You will find some more pics at my flickr account click for BrickMushers flickr-page Regards BrickMusher

Hello to the community. Until today, there was a very famous YT-Channel in germany. Thomas Panke, called "Held der Steine" (Hero of the bricks) is well known for his detailed reviews of new Lego Sets as well as for his retrospectives on vintage sets. He also owns and runs a small Store in the City of Frankfurt, where he sells Lego to the consumer. While he always was searching for the god things, even in the worst sets, he is also well known for his constructive critism on things like Quality, but also management, marketing a.s.o. Today he announced to expand his reviews also to Non-Lego manufactured bricks. Reason for that is that he was admonished in the Name of TLG by a Lawyer for showing a Stud in his own logo! It was claimed that this logo would suggest, he would be TLG.... logo Well, if you don´t understand german, you would properly not know about him. But I loved his reviews and videos, and my personal opinion is that he was usualy had a point with his critsm. And he brought a lot of people, which are not AFOL´s in our understanding, back to the bricks. You can get an owm impression here: facebook twitter 1000steine If everything is true what he says in his actual video, I have to wonder a lot at that issue. Is it only a german thing, or did it happen also to other Lego related youtube channels, Blogs or Vlogs around the world? Cant TLG handle justified critism in an other than this very childish and unprossesional manner? Have you heard about other cases like that? regards BrickMusher

@Henrik V Hi Henrik, since you are new to Eurobricks, you have to add at least 10 coments before you are allowed to write pm. If you want to contact T. Selander here in the forum, just write an "@" followed by his account´s name. Just like I did with yours By the way, do you really think it is a good Idea to share your email and full name here in public? Maybe you should take a little more care to your privacy..... just my two pence... Howsoever, welcome to EB

You are very welcome

Hi Ed, some of the first ever produced Lego Train Wheels have been serrated also. On the first engines, back in 1969, there was no rubber-band around the wheels to improve traction. So my suggestion is that the teeth on top of rail have been created to prevent wheelslip. Intersting about the curves. Inner side of track was smooth, while only the outer side was teethed. I think this was because the serrated wheel was so slip-proof, that the different length of inner and outer diameter created some problems if not one wheel was allowed to spin free. Regards BrickMusher

Hello again, Thank you for all your kind words. My intention was indeed to create a design that fits very "smooth" into the existing train. @Chilis Tusen takk, but the usage of that windscreen is not my own idea. @frogstudio used this part for his 60051 DomeCar about three years ago @Laura Takayama You are halfway right about the train track. The sleepers are original Lego-Parts, but the rail itself is a non-lego, full-metal part. It fits perfect with the original tracks, I can bend large curves on my own, and it is electrically conductiv, so I can use 9V Motors. I am planing to show you how it works in a seperate thread, but still need some more time to pepare everything. So please be patient ;-) @AE bricks The lack of the double concave brick created some headache to me also. I finally solved that issue with theese parts:

Hello Everyone, its some days ago since I last presented a new MOC. And unfortunately I was also not able to participate to this years Octraintober due to some very sad things around me. But I will show up soon with the nearly finished model I created for that contest. But for now, I proudly present my Add On for the new passenger train 60197. It is a Dome Car, following the tradition of the legendary 4547. As always, you are very welcome to have a look to my flickr-page for more pictures! https://www.flickr.com/photos/156473872@N02/ Lego® 60197 Dome Car by Brick Musher, auf Flickr Lego® 60197 Dome Car by Brick Musher, auf Flickr Hope you enjoy. Kind regards Brick Musher

You are welcome About rendering: I imported your .lxf File to Stud.io and used their rendering tool. Maybe there are better rendering programs out there, but I am not so much into that stuff.

Maybe this will be a help? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=25893#T=C&C=12 However, nice idea to tell us about your developing-process on this MOC.

I have already bought two sets of 60197 when they have been on "introducing sale?" by beginning of August. Price was 975 instead of 1399, so for me it was an ok-price.... But my priorities are maybe a little different. I change all my trains to 9V engines, so PU is an interesting new device, but not the main reason for me to buy a set like this. What disappoints me most ist the very limited compability of the PU-App. While the reciver works fine on a quick first test with the included controlunit, the App itself does not work on my Android-Tablet. Had to borough an I-pad to double-check. There the App worked, but it was just normal functions, nothing that was especially exciting. A look to the comments in the G***-Store indicates that I am not the only one with problems like theese. That is really a poor testimonial, way behind other brands that are able to release Apps wich work, and, typically TLC, not state of the art However, the doubled 60197 looks very appealing to me, and I allready started to create an additional car for it. I like it. 60198 is not my cup of tea. I will buy the Loco when i can get it for cheap, but not the complete set if not reduced by 50% or more....

I never had such problems, even with large trains. However, the problems you described might be solved with some research. here the most common problems in order of their observed frequency: Fault: Train runs faster when close to the power-connection, but slows down when the distance becomes bigger Solution: Since conatct-resistance is very high between each of the track-pieces, it is recommended to have power-connections every few meters or so. Keyword: loop wiring system Fault: Train starts fast, but becomes slower when running for a while (within 1-2 minutes). Solution: Hair and dust around motor-axles. By time, a lot of dirt and hair accumulate around the axles. Especially after long term use, it is recommended to open the motor-housing, remove any dirt and lubricate the bearing-points with a plastic compatible grease/oil. Fault: Single/short train runs fast, slows down when adding more trains/motors Solution: Power source. If you run more than two 9V engines on the same power-supply, it just can´t deliver enough current. Change to an other power-source. The original Legocontroller (the black with the yellow turn-thing) can handle up to 1,5A, so you can very easy use an additional power-supply on that controller I have never run PF trains on an exhibition. But a lot of other exhibitors complain about numerous battery-changes. Good luck

UPDATE http://IMGP0679 (Large) by Brick Musher, auf Flickr A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by @AE bricks about more pictures of my NOHAB inspired Loco´s. Meanwhile I got a new camera, build a photobox and fixed my broken Laptop..... so eventually I like to present one of my newest MOC´s I choose the same livery as TLC used for the new cargo-train 60198. And implemented warm white Duo-LED. When changing direction of driving, the lights automatically switch from white to red. As always, you will find more pics at my flickr-page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156473872@N02/ IMGP0682 (Large) by Brick Musher, auf Flickr Hope you enjoy. Regards BrickMusher