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I've been in one of these ma and pop shops before.... But imagine it was about a 4th of that size. You've captured it perfectly man. The stickers throw the MOC over the edge!

Jeez that's a bizarre tender. o-o Very nice 12v I hope we get to see them all together when the last one is built.... Oh lord I hope youre not like me who takes apart his last train to build a new one... anyways! JUST ONE MORE TO GO! *pops confetti poppers*

I love all the old windows and the amount of roof bricks you seemed to get..... Lego does't seem all that happy to give out a decent roof in a set >.> There used to be a roof add-on set but they stopped selling it.... It's a little hard to make a house when you can't get any proper red slopes or their in/out cornersEdit Studded roofs makes me sad

The wedges give a broader slope Imo. It also opens up better room for detail with pipes railings and what not....

Yeah.... I guess "style" would have been a better thing to say..... I have another piture saved somewhere that was a 2 4 4 2 using the 4.5v motors and the large wheels. Also Blue era style

Hey Train Tech is this a good shape for a cheese wedge boiler?

The vanilla way to solve that problem. The one I saw literally had just a spring covering the two axles to connect it in the middle. It was for a longer version of the radioactive material wagon in that cargo train set

It's so hard to make a suburb in Lego. It's pretty much Modular or nothing unless you have a ton of space. Tiny house are pretty cool since you can kinda emulate a suburb feel on a smaller scale. Here's a good example from an old idea book when buildings were a much smaller scale

Anyone built any Tiny homes recently. I have become mildly addicted to the tiny house shows.....\ I've got my little tiny house from a couple months ago but that's about it! Have any of you master builders skipped out on a huge modular recently and made a tiny home?

I'm not sure where I saw this.... But someone got around the swivel problem by attaching an axel along the length... I think where it met in the middle he put a sping so when it swiveled enough to get around curves it would go back to the middle.

Hrm Day 4 8:44 pm I have consumed an outrageous amount of stuffed shells and I have slowly worked out what I want the boiler to look like. It looks a little small at the moment..... Maybe It will look better once I get the fru frus going Black represent the walkways and blue is the gearing I'm am still quite uneasy on how this will look. I want to be the best loco I've built to date but it is slowly becoming over whelming. I need to figure out how to get the pipes to fit inside of the boiler, there should be enough room but I cant exactly put it in LDD Edit These plate outlined in blue need to have enough support under and over them to not giveway. They are the bricks that are keeping the piston more or less level

Day 3 7 PM It's starting to shape up. I'm not too sure on how to make the front bit look realistic or the back bit... or the boiler bit.... lego is hard

Erk. Sorry for my inability to describe what I mean. I mean what setup do you use to make the leading truck Swivel? stay connected to the front but. I can't figure out how to do that on the one im working on and the blind/front end swing out a lot. End Erk Edit. Dang it school wifi didn't load the photo.

Day 2. I made about 20 deep fried oreos and roughly figured out where the pistons are located. Amount of work done today 5% amount of oreos consumed 3 Edit! its 4 am anyone want some fried oreos Edit edit. Some gears to make the static wheel no long static

What do you use to have the leading truck wheels things so close to the front

hrm Okay I lied a little the pumps filled the tank until it hit about 20 PSI on the dial then It had trouble and broke itself

Some more examples of Blue Era trains. These few seem to be a lot bigger then the average train we see today....

I trid the Hobson it does NOT work with any sort of force or well anything I put a motor to one end and one of those tiny pumps on the other the Hobson stopped working about 5 second in

I left out a bit of major info on my project....... This was the original model a few years ago. It worked but it worked poorley...... I want to build a train ontop of this mess...... I don't think switchless would work since a large compressor can't fit on a 8x24 platform....

Both really but I think I have the trailing ones figured out

Just a simple topic to keep all my ideas and thoughts in one place while the slim chance of you guys giving me suggestions will be there.... Anyways.... Day 1. The LDD is slowly shaping up I am rather confused on how people get the leading trailing wheels so close with such detail The train I will base it on

At the moment I am thinking of something tileable maybe that would go along the length of some sort of box car/tender Having enough of those fireing at once would give it turtle speed over slug speed. It's going to be slow by nature I think. The other option for more speed would be bigger drivers or more traction. I can't think of how I want a train to look using this system. I would love some input on what style train might look good on a fat pneumatic system.

I ran this by train tech and I'm running by you guys to see if you have any input on my mess. But it works! It's just a simple 2 cylinder engine but I need to keep in on the side because well its a train! I know this is a little out of place for Technic but I was hoping you'd give me input on it's set up, maybe ideas on how to improve and other things. I want to get this top tier before I go about building a train over it. Video of it in action Please of please folks I'm not the best at technic give me imput please!

It would help like crazy the pistons will always be a little jerky because hey its only two and its well simple legos. I need to get LDD going and make a train around this set up then learn how to put BL orders up. I'd need a lot more of those little ones but the two normal pumps I have works quite well for it. If I had more or pumped after I'd go a bit faster

Here we go nearly, nearly... nearly four years now? Anyways here in the new movement valve gear what ever ya called it, the new rod set up I will be using for the next pneumatic train! I am super excited even though its quite early in the build state I am just happy to have it working! This here feels much smoother then big red several years ago and will have a much more compact fit inside of the train.... I am unsure of the size of shape of what the new train will be but right now its looking towards an X-8-X I'll shut up now here are the pictures! It's a bit of a mess in this state but trust me once I work on it a bit more it will be an amazing build. Very few lego trains run or pneumatics or are nearly vanilla built. Here is a video of it in action, It's quite slow because of the mini compressor. Here is the old red wonder the ESCO behemoth. It's set up was a bit more rudimentary with exposed tubing and what not. -Bonus gif- http://imgur.com/ng16s3v Anyways! I'd greatly greatly greatly appreciate some feedback on my ramblings literally anything! Hopefully you folks can sort out my excited nonsense! -ESCO-