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Replied. Thanks!

I do understand. I had a similar quandary and ultimately decided to share all my designs with anyone interested. I put them all up on Bricksafe. https://bricksafe.com/pages/sed6 Those designs represent hundreds of hours of work and honesty if someone is interested in building them I'm happy for them to be able to do so. Alternatively if you don't want to share yours with the public you could just share them on an individual basis. I would promise to never share them with anyone nor publish them anywhere :)

Maybe, I haven't looked. But that still leaves me with just one powered wheel...

Agreed! And we'll never know of we don't try. @ProvenceTristram if you're inclined to share your LDD file I'd be happy to have it.

Not silly at all! I did try that. And it did solve the slowing in the corners. The problems with that solution are two; one single tire doesn't provide enough traction to move the whole monorail and, the missing tire means that wheel is now one plate too high causing the car to lean drastically to one side. Any other ideas or solutions are welcome.

Mine too, thanks! Thanks! Haha. I just placed my 100th BL order! Me too, thanks! Thanks! The roof was my favorite part to design. Glad you like, hope you build a few. If so post some pics.

Ooh, I really like this! I like the streamlined look. You've captured this engine well. The silver and black scheme, that might prove irresistible to me. Any chance you'd share the .xlf file?

Another update. I'm getting ready for a train show the 1st of December. My LUG asked me to display and run it my monorail. I've been running it every evening since, working out the kinks. First the best news, it has traveled over 2.25 miles, 3.6 km since completion. This was over ten test runs totaling just over 6 hours of run time. Knowing this, and believing I have <almost> all the kinks worked out I'm confident about being able to display and run it at the show without trouble. It will be part of our large LUG train display. My monorail will run around a small section of a city. I'll post pics and give another update after the show. With all this running I can say definatively that the slow down in the corners is caused by the dissimilar speeds of the inner and outer wheels. Specifically the rubber tire grips too well and doesn't slip much on the track. With the inner wheel traveling a shorter distance than the outside wheel, the inner wheel is essentially trying to drag the outer wheel thru the curve. If I remove the tires and just run it on the rims, it zips right thru the corners without slowing. It has no real traction though so it can't pull any cars. I may investigate this more in the form of a different traction design. The only major change had been the couplers. The old knob in ball plates I had planned were way too tight and would bind in corners. I use a 2x2 turntable exclusively under all my other trains to attach them to the trucks and they prove to work well on the monorail too. The play in the turntables allows some vertical movement of the cars if going over some bumps. The 1 brick gap between the cars looks good to my eye and fortunately it doesn't bind in the corners. Attaching the couplers takes a little practice but I'm good at it now after lots of practice. I also have a lot of battery data that I could share. I've experimented with 1.2v rechargables, 1.5v disposable alkaline and 3.7v lipo cells. They yield quite a variety of results. Thanks for looking. Comments or questions always welcome .

Hmm...for some reason my IRL entry wasn't counted among the 26 entries. I wonder why not?

Wow! This is pretty fantastic. Love the characters and how you're implemented the whole theme. Your video was top notch! Very well done.

Thanks! It doesn't open up, so no cars inside.

Very nicely done!

That's a neat design and a creative solution for joining the cars. Thanks for sharing!

Can you share some or pics of your coupling method? I'm looking for alternatives for my monorail. Very nice work btw. I like the double decker.

Here's another update. In the video I show how I've set it up to run on lipo batteries. I also give a look at my coupling system and the rail guides underneath. Plus I got the cabs striped!

Thanks! Here's a pic up close. Thanks and good eye! I knew something was off in that corner. Agree about the wheel height. Even custom trucks would only lower it a single plate. Perhaps I'll try the really small train wheels. Here's a new screenshot.

Here's my version of a Lego boxcar. There are only a limited number of color combinations possible given the bricks I've selected like the rails, roof and walls. The sliding doors also come in a limited color choice so I chose black with black roof and ladder accents. 6 wide, 28 long and about 12 high. Which color combination do you like the most? Below is a pic and a link to my Bricksafe which has the .lxf for this and all my creations. https://bricksafe.com/pages/sed6/lego-train-boxcar Hope you like! Comments always welcome.

Thanks! 6 wide plus the vertical bars. About... 22 studs long?

Here's my version of a skeleton logging car. These are loosely based on the logging cars my father had on his H.O. layout when I was young. I might build a couple for my 4-4-0 to pull around, but I'm undecided for now. Below is a pic and a link to the .lxf file on Bricksafe. I'm putting out a couple of other cars that I've designed but not built. https://bricksafe.com/pages/sed6/lego-train-logging-car Hope you like, comments always welcome.

I see lots of these around my parts. My new Mustang was delivered months ago by rail, probably in one these. It's 6 studs wide, about 50 studs long and 14 studs high measured from the rail. I'd like to build three but dang they are heavy and expensive. So I might wait a bit. I have a couple of other designs in the works too. Below are a couple of pics and a link to the .lxf on Bricksafe. https://bricksafe.com/pages/sed6/lego-train-autorack-car-carrier Hope you like! Comments always welcome.

I just started using stud.io and the learning curve is...well probably not much worse than LDD. Two questions. Is there a way to get the light to "preview" on the render page as I switch light sources. Mine just stays the same. Also is there a way to change the lighting angle when building? Mine seems to come from left and below, which isn't useful. I need to rotate my model upside down to "catch the light" on the top and really see fine details. Thanks anyone!

Awesome! Love it!

Ah, didn't know that. Thx.

Nice to see you're making progress! I think your front wheels need some attention. It's hard to tell from the pic but it looks like they have only a single pivot point? Back by the main wheels? You're going to need dual pivot points for the front wheels to stay aligned with and follow the tracks. With only a single pivot point the fronts will bind and jump the track. Below is a shot of the Emerald Night instructions which shows an example of how to make dual pivot points. There are many different ways to accomplish this though. Keep up the good work!

Ditto! Your attention to detail is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!