Ropefish
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lovely to see your work again! a nice diverse line up for sure :>
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Edgewood modular railroad station - real world MOC
Ropefish replied to Murdoch17's topic in LEGO Train Tech
you really got an eye for the early 2000's style lego sets! -
Honestly if you can, it'd cost about the same to set up a system using DCC point switches. Number of options there as well!
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Oh this has come together wonderful i recall your progress in the discord server! the use with tenders with this would be something really cool i think!
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[MOC] Northern Pacific A4 4-8-4 #2678
Ropefish replied to thesnoqualmieroute's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Oh wow this looks lovely! so you're using a train motor sideways to drive the whole thing? -
They don’t! This runs only on R104 or larger radius, the main driver set is attached by two of those old wheel suspension bricks that I replaced the springs with, and then locked down onto the driver set.
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Finally got some good videos of it running! don't mind the floor, the cats like to just make a mess of it the exact day we clean their litter boxes :x
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Oh those southern pacific “pacs” are wild! Apparently the vertical ones were terrible and didn’t work well /at all/ leading to at least two or so cars to get dented! lovely solution for the auto car’s tho!! Looked lovely in a long line I bet
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I always adore seeing your builds, super detailed and accurate trains are wonderful but there is something really charming about these old style builds I feel I’d see in a Lego magazine! Wonderful work as always!
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im working on getting a video soon, still been fiddling with the motors to run smooth together! thank you! the 3D printer really came in handy with the build :D
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I feel like more so, the bigger more 'set' feeling GWP's should be sold as regular sets after a period of time.... some of them are just, unreachable with needing to purchase 150-200USD in lego. The price alone is a bit silly at times and ontop of that i just don't want to have to buy more then i need or want, wich is often very little. I suppose there is always the aftermarket of these GWP but sometimes then can be scalped to almost the same price the GWP price threshold was :/
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Thank you! i actually wanted to get the valve gear more accurate but it'd require even more specialization of parts, I got wonderful advice from Glenn Holland about making the gear /feel/ like the real thing then fully function and i think i striked the right balance! I could have gone with a technic piston like other builds but the southern pacific locos of its era all have this lovely shape i couldn't captured without them being brick built! So i think i made the right choice in the end!
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hah hah i am working on the PFE reefers! just gotta get the parts, and yeah to add i had to touch up the files after the fact, but they were a good basis to work off of! if you don't wanna labor for hours in cad software and test fitting/iterating components Zephyr has their shop!
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Thank you! i was surprised it did.
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I have a bit of an idea I’m still fleshing out for the most part I picture the layout in a valley or near the base of a mountain, the little towns primary export is apples and strawberries of some kind so mostly PFE reefers make up the rolling stock in the yard with a few others for other commodities needed. So empty trains likely arrive in the morning, get maintained and PFE’ cars get checked and re-iced before near the end of the day where they get filled a the train leaves near the evening time. Its more all a rough idea and story for now.