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  1. zephyr1934
    The additions look amazing (well, okay, it all looks amazing but the shots on the layout take it up a notch)
  2. zephyr1934
    I don't think you could get any more efficient in your use of space for the locomotive. As for the decouplers, those are brilliant. Right now someone has to view the video to see how they work, I'd suggest you take a few photos of them in action (without trains) so that someone can see the steps they take.
  3. zephyr1934
    Why not use the 9v light brick? Or go crazy disco and add flashing in one direction
  4. zephyr1934
    Simply amazing... Ha ha ha, if you lined all of your lego track end to end you probably have more linear km of track than a few small railways in the world.
  5. zephyr1934
    Another great MOC, really captures the prototype.
  6. zephyr1934
    Top notch work!
  7. zephyr1934
    Great work!
  8. zephyr1934
    Doing an efficient suspended monorail in real life is hard, doing it in lego might even be harder.
  9. zephyr1934
    That is amazing! Really giving some serious functionality to PU. Also like the updated Metroliner in the video.
  10. zephyr1934
    I just skimmed the series 4 yesterday and both of those stood out (before seeing this post and without realizing they were series 3 too). I just wish the American Steam Loco had a few more view angles. It's hard to see all of the details.
  11. zephyr1934
    That looks amazing altogether, as if you broke into the lego photo studios in the middle of the 1980's
  12. zephyr1934
    Actually, Octrainber 2021 still isn't over, BMR never sent the printed award brick or circuit cube
  13. zephyr1934
    Great work and neat to see your multi-layered layout. Though you are actually coming full circle, the idea of using 4.5/12v rail for monorail track is much older than the custom rail system, having appeared in a 1971 idea book.
  14. zephyr1934
    The updated station is amazing! Would love to see it in person some day at a show
  15. zephyr1934
    Nice!
  16. zephyr1934
    No rush (definitely don't make any undue requests on your wife) though I suppose if you had a tripod you could capture a couple of views from a stationary camera.
  17. zephyr1934
    Tell him to bring his new baby and give them a camera (grin) but seriously though, good trains are worth the wait. It will be neat to see it climbing and descending your grades (or even just cruising on the flats) whenever you get the cameras rolling.
  18. zephyr1934
    Neat to hear that this has been in the work for a very long time (I know the feeling) and to be clear, it was readily apparent that your build was a completely different league than the lego set, so at most only the subject (not the design) might had been inspired by the set. I hope nothing to the contrary was interpreted by my question Yes indeed, you have severe mountain grades on your line that no doubt require expert train handling. Looking forward to the videos whenever they come.
  19. zephyr1934
    Looking good, was this already in the works before the lego set, or were you inspired by the lego set to build it? Will videos be forthcoming?
  20. zephyr1934
    Looks amazing!
  21. zephyr1934
    In general, if you shift the track 2 studs relative to the baseplate in one spot, everywhere else on the layout will also be shifted 2 studs. You can fit 1/4 turn on a 48x48 baseplate. The 8 stud wide ties of the track will fall between studs 36 and 44. If you shift that to be between studs 40 and 48 you have shifted the origin of the curve to stud 4. If you do that on one end, you wind up pulling the origin of the curve on the other end to stud -4, i.e., the layout will want an 8 stud gap on the opposite side. You can use 8 stud baseplates to bring the other end in line, or half length track segments. But the easiest solution is to just take your track and build whatever fits your space. When fitting an unusual space that's not a problem if the baseplates do not perfectly fill the space. One thing to keep in mind though, trains need a little space to swing out on curves. So if you build your track with 8 wide ties all the way to the wall, you are probably limiting yourself to relatively short 6 wide train equipment. So before committing to the curve on the wall, test all of the trains you want to run on that track to make sure they fit okay.
  22. zephyr1934
    There's nothing wrong with brown stripes on dark green, it is purely a matter of personal taste. To my eye there isn't enough contrast between brown and dark green so the stripes might disappear at a distance in medium light. A high contrast, e.g., yellow/gold, or medium contrast, e.g., normal green, would make the stripes more pronounced. But there is a time and place for subtlety and this might be such a case.
  23. zephyr1934
    I'm pretty sure the geometry of the 9v system was designed to be as backward compatible as possible. I don't have any of the 12 power rails, but I know that the curved power rails only have a few stops on the underside. Still, the switches of one form are completely incompatible with the trains of the other form. So you if they are compatible, you could only build fully compatible layouts without switches.
  24. zephyr1934
    Of course the transition from 12v to 9v in the early 1990's was meant to have some continuity. You could use the 12v power rails on 9v track as long as you didn't have any switches and the form factor of the 9v motor mostly matches the 12v so that you can simply swap out the motors (but at the loss of a third wheel and rods). So the "purist" solution would simply be put a 9v motor in place of the 12v motor.
  25. zephyr1934
    Very impressive build with an incredible amount of detail
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