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Thanks for your comments. @Max: That's right, normally in 2wide doors, you can build these details. But in dark blue it's a little bit more difficult. Because theren't a lot of snot parts in dark blue, especially brick 1x1 with stud at one side. That's missing and so it's very hard to put the window in the middle and the door a little bit inside. MTM

Kleinplasitzsch - today, you can see passenger cars of the czech railroad in the first time into my small village, called Kleinplasitzsch. Kleinplasitzch has also a polish name called Małe rzeźby because you can find it in a triangle between czech, poland and germany. Today I will show you my first ready passenger train cars in 7wide. Both wagons are 43n long. The first wagon is a B-wagon, because there's only class 2-seats into it. Second wagon ist an AB-Wagon with class 1 and class 2-seats (class 2 is dark green and class 1 is dark red. At the next picture you can see the first version of this wagon, it was 1n longer then the finish product, you can see it next to the right window. the bogies aren't only my idea. Some weeks ago I bought the lego train book from homa and so I found the bogies. But I changed it, because my stairs now war 7wide, not only 6wide. the interior are small rooms with dark green or dark red seats. Under the chassis you can find some very important things for a wagon, but, sorry, I can't explain, what it is. Only this part you need to create a pressure for breaks. the train engine for this train is my T754 - I showed it somes years ago. But because I have drive a lot around the tracks, and because I stored the engine not really good, a lot of parts are broken. I need this parts to fix all the parts, which look in different directions at the train engine. technical facts: lenght: 43n (one wagon) wide: 7n windows: 16 per waggon some rare parts or difficult to buy: 24 blue train windows 44 slope curved 2x4 for one wagon 25 brick modiefied 1x4 for one wagon The color of the wagons (blue, dark blue, white) is the original color of the passenger cars of czech train cars today. The wagons have a weight about nearly 400g, but the train engine can use both of them very easily, also in track switches and curved train tracks. If you want to say something - do it. I like compliments and critc. MTM

I would say, set 4561 is megablocks. I mean, it's nearly the worst set in 9V. I think, 4559 is very similar, but better than 4561. 4561 has a very short one-way-train engine and two very long wagons. The shape of these doesn't look good. When you start with 9V, try to buy set 4564 or 4563 or 4512. With this sets you can add passenger or good wagons, you can put the lokomotive at the other side of the train - and you could runs back. Or, the best ideo, I found: Set 4551 and some wagons. MTM

Dear zephyr, @tankcar / gondola: That's right. Normally. A tankcar isn't any help at this place. But in the originally text at 1000steine.de and in my own blog was wrote (in german): This tankcar waits for his scrapping. But here I forgot this part. Because that there's a tankcar. In the first pictures you can see a short open wagon. I'm happy, that you see the details. I like the washing maschine too. This idea is many years old, but there was no place to show it before the scrapyard. MTM

Hi guys and girls. Here I will show you a diorama built in autumn 2014: a scrapyard. User Taz35 asked me in the thread of my "level crossing - 33 degrees", if I could show my other modules. So I will do this. But this place isn't built in my modular train standard, call LEN, because it was designed months before the standard grow up. In model train communities there is the opinion, that railroads shouldn't drive exaktly parallel to the table edge. So I decide to build a diagonally train track and so the whole place developed also diagonally. In the pick-a-brick wall in lego store leipzig I found a lot of wedge plates. So the idea to build this was born: The scrapyard is designed so, that all side are front sides. There's no back. So observers can take a look at all side into the yard. At the first side, you can see a sidewalk and the huge metal fence (it's in old dark gray). Also you can see a little family with a dog. (and this dog made a doggy do :). At the second side you can see a wall and a lot of plants. Also you can see the sign of the german forum 1000steine.de. There I showed this scrapyard in octobre last year and it gaves me the third place of best mocs in this month. At the third side you can see old tires and containers with a lot of scrap, mostly bionicle and other things inmetallic colors . Also you can see at the left side the biggest tree at this diorama and the huge crane. It's the first version of it and nearly closed to the crane in set 6541, but this one is a little bigger. And at the last side you can see the little bureau and the entrance for cars and buyers. There are a lot of details you can found, like the scrap collectors and the scathing watchdog. But I think, it's better, if I show you some pictures without any comments: A very important part is the track-ending sign (called "Schutzhaltesignal sh_2" in german) at the gate. It's really a original lego part, but it's very very rarely. It's included in set 4306 produced in 1980. Normally it's a part of human girls rings and certainly the most uninteressting part in this set. Today you can't buy it at bricklink. I don't know, why it is so rarely. I hope you're enjoyed about this weird moc. MTM

Hi. Thanks of all. I'm very proud to read all this nice comments. @fred67: Of course, the trees are too simple, but part-builded trees are very complex for me and they're mostly very unstable. So I decide to use the good old firs and apple trees. I like they. @Taz35: There aren't pictures of the other modules. The problem is, I have not enough space to take a photo into my flat. But I will show them in another threads, when I got some pictures. Today I could show you the "scrapyard in autumn". MTM

Hi guys and girls. Today I will show you a wagon I built a few months ago. The first version I built in july 2012 and the first short version of it nearly one year later. In the beginning all my tankcars were used by z-oil (zentral oil), a virtual competitor of octan oil, because the only possible color of the wagons was dark purple. (the white cylinder panel was very expensive, but I could bought some cheap zurg-sets). But I hoped that lego give us these panels in dark or light bluish gray. In march 2015 was the time for this part. I found it in set 76038 and ordered 36 of these cylinders in the united states. So I finally could build some gray tankcars: The gray version drives for a lot of different companys, like "x2" or for a the greek company "oλ" (called o'kronlambda) (filled with compressed air :) ) Now I made a building instruction for this tankcar. I'm sorry, that the text is in german, but you only need the pictures to rebuild it. Here you can find the instruction. Bye. Michael

It's difficult to break the level crossing in more parts, because the diagonally road. The module lay on a wooden board. So it's easy to move with two persons. MTM

Hi, thanks for comments. The size of the module is: 176 studs long and 64 studs wide. This is one module. You can't break it in smaller parts. But I have more modules (not so long, mostly 64 studs long) and I can combine they today to a 5m long landscape. MTM

Hi guys and girls, today I will show you my newest project: It's a road crossing a railroad in 33 degrees: This moc is a part of my modular railroad system, called LEN, and it's a attempt to build some parts of a railroad. Even module is'nt really deep, but a lot of modules could be a very long railroad. The LEN-standard is close to the polish system by papagras. Here you can find the first idea and there a very good resume of the discussions (sorry, it's in german). The most important information is: The train track is in a high of 4 plates. But: Back to the level crossing. The main idea was to build a level crossing, without an angle of 90 degrees between road and train track. So I tried to build it different. The road is build as a copplestone-road with a half stud-wide different between the 1x1 parts in each line. I use these dark gray slopes (double cheese sloepe) to gave the diagional road a straight end. They're also use at the other side next to the train track. To build the road, I needet nearly 2200 1x1 tiles in dark bluish gray. Also I "plant" 1000 crops. Normally the level crossing need 12V to flash the lights. A my pictures I forgot to build the cable. They are lay down under the train track. And sometimes, strange things will happend in this area. I think, it's a very lonely landscape. I hope, you're enjoy and I'm glad about comments and critics. MTM

Nice work, David. I build this thing, but I'm not finished. You need very much special parts. Althought I have many parts, but the most not in dark bluish gray. But at this time, I think, it really works. Thanks for your work. MTM

Dear Alex. It's also possible with one lokomotive (with one 9V-Motor) to pull 14 of these Set-4537-wagons and a few other wagons. There aren't very heavy. And we drive in a "circle" with 25m length. MTM at my train crossing: and

my czech gas-train at an exhibition today. There are 14 4537-cars, I think. MTM

Hi, I have a very special problem: For an exhibition (the day after tomorrow) I will use 12V-lights at my train station. I tried this function with a gray 12V transformator and the switch with the train crossing pattern: (set 5083). Everythings worked and I was happy. Right button turn the lights on, left button turn the lights off. Everything is fine. But: Now I need this remote Control switch to use the train crossing, but I had another set 5081 - remote control witch SIGNAL pattern. I opened (because it was sealed (ovp)) and I tried to use ist. But it doesn't works. I think, it isn't broken. I think the reason is to find into the different between these both switch. The signal one stayed "down", after I pressed the button, and when I press the other button (red or green), the first button comes up. The switch witch train crossing pattern works so: If I pressed any button, the button comes up immediately. Also the train crossing has 2x three holes and the backside, the signal switch has 1x five holes and 1x three holes. Could someone help me to understand the function. And: Why I couldn't connect normal light bricks with the signal switch. Does set 5080 works (Remote control for switch). Or does the switch in set 7862 works? Please help me. Michael

Hi, thanks for your nice comments. @zephyr1934: (1) This isn't my first train moc, I've ever build. I built the BR232 (called "Ludmilla") and some cargo wagons (Tank car Z-Oil big, Tank car gray, and some non-train mocs (ZT 300 and others), before. But it's my first Moc on eurobricks - and also my first moc, I show and explain in english. (2) That's not a 1x4 tile at front. It's a 1x3-Tile. The locomotive is build in 7-wide. I forgot to write this in the first post. @THERIZE: The german name of this train is "Taucherbrille", it also means "swimming glasses". An other name is "Brillenschlang", (translate in czech it's "brejlovec", in english it's "Cobra"). MTM

Hi, this is my first post to show a moc in this forum. (Please scroll down to read this post in german.) I'm proud to present my new train engine - a czech T478. It's a diesel power cargo train engine and this model (in different colors) is very famous in czech and sometimes you can see it in eastern germany / saxony. I build it only with original lego parts. There are no custom parts or custom stickers. Also I doesn't like stickers. If I can't find a decorated part with pattern (not sticker), I build without any pattern. In August 2013 I built the first version of this train - in blue-white with a yellow ribbon around it. But I should see, the locomotive in this color is not used for freight. So I decide to built another one of this train. But this time I would build it with round porthole windows, and I would used the 1x2x2 panels with porthole. The brick builded portholes are too big for this train. But the 1x2x2 panels with porthole are only in three colors: orange, red and light gray. To buy twelfe parts of the light gray version - this was too expensive for me. The first idea was, to use the orange one, because there is a nice color version of this train in orange and white. But in this case I also need one tan colored panel with porthole at each side. And it's also a train, mostly used with passenger cars. So I decide, to build the T478-3283 version. Here you can see it with her blue-white sister. This version is used in cargo trains. The model of this train is the T478 3283 of the czech train company (ČD). Here the Original and a Kühne-model train. It's very closed between the top of the rail and the bottom of the train case. But between this, it's place for the window pane - it's the ladder. Not nice is the color different between the panels with porthole and the other bricks. The panels are not really red, but rather dark red. But it's also not really like the dark red bricks. It was very difficult to find some special parts, like paneels with porthole, the window panes in light gray, or a thin red technic liftarm at the top of the roof: rar parts or parts hard to find - 12 pieces - 4 pieces in light gray (old color) - 4 pieces - used only one time, but hard to find, I think - 2x - I decide to used this parts in light gray, not light bluish gray - also 2x - but it should be the same color - light gray! - 2x - and also in light gray (not so good idea with this color ;) ) Now, boths engines are ready to drive around at my little landscape, called "Kleinplastitzsch" - or "Małe rzeźby". It sounds polish, but I think, it's not really a polish word. But the village "Kleinplasitzsch" could exist at the german border to Poland and Czech. Thanks for reading. I'm happy about criticism and praise comments. You can also find the original post (in german) at the 1000steine-forum, at my blog or here: MTM Hallo liebe geneigte Leser, nachdem ich im August 2013 (so lang ist das schon wieder her), die erste Taucherbrille / Brejlovec der tschechischen Eisenbahn vorstellte, merkte ich sehr schnell, dass ich da zwar eine schön hässliche Lok hatte, die zudem in LEGO bisher kaum gebaut wurde (und auch bis heute nicht), aber: Es war eine Personenzuglok. Ich googelte viel, fand aber in dieser Lackierung (blau-weiß, mit gelbem Streifen) kein einziges Bild mit Güterwaggons hinten dran. Da ich aber vor allem Güterverkehr haben wollte, gab es nur eine Lösung: Ich musste noch eine Güterzuglok bauen. Zum Glück gibt es die tschechischen Lokomotiven in allerlei Farben: Diesmal wollte ich die "Fehler" der ersten Version ändern und deswegen beschloss ich, richtige Bullaugenfenster haben zu wollen. Damit blieben bloß drei Farbvarianten übrig: rot, grau oder orange, weil es dieses Paneel eben nur in diesen Farben gibt. Zuerst wollte ich eine orangene bauen, weil es eine sehr schöne Güterzuglackierung mit orangenem Oberteil gibt. Aber auch hiermit wird überwiegend Personenverkehr betrieben, außerdem bräuchte man noch ein tan-farbenes Bullaugenpaneel... Grau fiel ob des Paneel-Preises und dessen Verfügbarkeit aus (ich brauch immerhin 12 davon) und so wurde es eine rote. Das Vorbild dazu ist eine Version vom Modelleisenbahnhersteller Kühne, bzw. hier in Original. Wieder mit gelber Bauchbinde, diesmal aber nur an der Front. Also weniger Bauchbinde als Zierstreifen. Der Rest sollte eigentlich Routine sein, dachte ich. Die Bautechnik an der Seite ist wohl einfacher als die mit der Zickzackbinde und ich könnte das Modell zeitnah vorstellen, die Bullaugenpaneele hatte ich ja schon vor Jahren mehrfach in Südkorea bestellt, also: Kein Problem - dachte ich mir. Aber dann wurde es wieder schwierig: Die grauen Teile des Fahrgestells waren gar nicht so einfach - und preiswert - zu besorgen. Aber man kennt ja Leute, die ab und an zum Stammtisch kommen und nach und nach wurde es. Dann kamen noch zwei Friends-Sterne für die typische Front dazu und jetzt ist sie endlich fertig und bereit für ihre Einsätze. Nicht so schön sind zwei Sachen: (1) Erstens sind die Bullaugenfenster nicht farbecht, sondern viel dunkelroter als die normalen Steine. Richtig dunkelrot sind sie aber auch nicht. (2) Zweitens: Gibt es die Dreiecksfahnen noch immer nicht in hellgrau. Auf Vorabbildern der 2015er-StarWars-Collection sah es zwar so aus, als würde es hellgraue geben, aber letztlich hat man sich im Set 70166 dann für sandblau ?! entschieden. Ärgerlich! Ironie des Schicksals war, dass ich, als ich mit der roten fertig war, dann doch ein Bild gefunden hab, wo die blaue im Güterverkehr eingesetzt wurde Das war allerdings dann erstmal die letzte Taucherbrille, die ich gebaut hab, glaube ich. Beide werden, die eine als Personenzuglok, die andere im Güterverkehr demnächst in Kleinplastitzsch zum Einsatz kommen. Über Kritik und Freudenschreie bin ich sehr dankbar. Gruß Micha

Hi, nice Set and nice unbagging. But: You build it wrong. In your picture, there's a gab in your wall: You should build the black wall panel and all adjacent parts one stud in right direction. It should be a free stud a the left side! MTM

Hi. Nice layout. Could you show us some details about the hopper wagons? How does the automatic deload works. I think over an function to open and close my hoppers for a while. But there's no good idea to solve this problem. MTM

Hi guys'n'girls. I read this discussion since a few weeks. Today I used google a time and I used the phrase "heavy haul train" and I found some large us-train engines (diesel power) and some chinese and russian double-train engines. It's only an idea, but it is possible, that TLC will give us a train like the 2M62 or an latvian ore train? one big train engine and two small ore wagons? like this: dm 3 1211 2M62 or an claas 66 if it's the "dm 3 1211" so they can use the big train wheels, but it isn't a steam train. this is what I understand under a "heavy haul train". my father has a collection of model trains from a german train magazin. They are one engine and two wagons. like the lego train expert serie. Emerald night, maersk and HE aren't complete trains, while the first part of a train. I'm curious what LEGO show us sometime. MTM

Hi, that was a nice review. The 4543 is my favorite waggon. I own him five times. But the tractor only two times - thats enough. I use the tractor trailer with the 6257 tipper truck. its apart from the wheels the same design. the beste use for the 4543 is to charge him with bulk, like round plates 1x1 (it fit over 400 on it), but for this you should close the little 1x2 holes in the middle of the bottom. Greetings MTM