Ropefish

lovely to see your work again! a nice diverse line up for sure :>

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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

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 :/

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!

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!

Thank you! i was surprised it did.

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.

Wonderful work! always love when folk find clever solutions for complex shapes! Nice work on the display stands to :>

Thank you! I did infact do so, @zephyr1934’s file repository has cad files for Ldraw and such wich I assembled for the custom set here then printed in PETG light gray ontop of other parts I custom made from bits and bobs. Thank you very much!

Flickr Album Hey all! i finally got the AC-9 to a point were I took some nicer finalized photos and was satisfied with the final build! all in all its been a long journey and for my first physical locomotive im rather happy with how it came out, She can full take R104 curves and has come out at around 9-10W in scale wich is pretty spot on to a number of models and technical drawings i scoured! its a sad thing though that all real life examples of this locomotive have been destroyed. This left me with very little things to build the model with, but thankfully there were a remainder of some real life photos that had been digitized and a rough enough technical drawing to go off of! finer details i compared multiple models to make, getting as accurate as i can. Im proud to have built my favorite locomotive, Many times i almost gave up and felt my skills paled in the shadow of others. But i stuck with it, and i hope to build more in the future!

oh that's unfortunate, i rather liked relying on that for quick posts. but it also makes sense.

How odd! it seems the hosted file i had got deleted somehow!

the single circuit cube is a bit weak on its own, the locomotive won't be able to move much this way. Using two you just got that much more pulling power.

oh! ive been watching your progress with this on Flickr, some really fun techniques used to get this fella working!

well ain't that a thing of beauty...

Oh my thats a lovely gal you have there! adore that you have her running on a slandered gauge track to! have you considered running pickups with the metal rails?

here she is all sticker’d up and running! Only powered by a single circuit cube and she can pull a decent bit.. though I have the option to place ina. Second one and remove cab detail for the control brick! I’m calling this one finished for now.