Ashi Valkoinen

Really nice Combino tram. Front is a little roboust, but I really like the black wedged part on driver's cab side window, nicely built detail. It is special to me we have Combino trams in Budapest as well, but they are short-articulated versions, without suspended sections. Also I built a CAF Urbos 3 tram with the same arrangement (B'2B'), with two suspended sections, here are some photos: Entire tram: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/Trams/CAFUrbos3/0.jpg Coupling: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/Trams/CAFUrbos3/caf_08.png http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/Trams/CAFUrbos3/caf_09.png I decided to create a double connection, but only on the roof to leave enough space for minifigures. I used SNOT gray panels and slopes to make as close connections as I could.

Really nice SNOT-ful front design. One of the best renders of ICE 3 I've seen these years.

Really nice design, I like the tilted side. The train's nose is really well captured in bricks from sideview, however the front view seems a little boxy for me.

We also have this type of tram in Miskolc (city northeastern part of Hungary), without low-floor middle section modification. As far as I know with the arrival of new Skoda low-floor trams the local transport company sold 12 of them to Praha, where they will be renovated and operated. Miskolc kept 6 of these for heritage tram runs. Do you have photo of your model?

The reason is that putting tiles on the roof will make it exactly 1 plates higher then the model of the real thing needs. Since there is no 6×6 tile for car ends (the tile on the narrowing part can't hold anything), I needed plates there. Also it reminds me and exhibitions visitors, that it's LEGO. :) They supposed to run for at least 15-20 more years since the city of Budapest cannot afford to change all these trams for newer ones. For old-style trams you should visit East-Europe cities, this generation of trams is vanishing from west. I'll make a video of the model, but I'm currently working 200 km away for my LEGO-s so I need some time to do so.

Hi all MOCers, I finished this MOC of Budapest tramway approx a year ago but I never had time to take some photos and show it to the community. So, here it is. The original tram was manufactured by CKD in Czechoslovakia for Budapest Transport company. A total of 322 cars were delivered between 1979 and 1984 (and all of them still running). In the first times they were used to go single (they have driver's cab only on one end so they needed loops on end stations), then with the growth of the number of passangers they started to operate them coupling two or three cars together. Now these trams run in line 1 and 14 with three cars and line 12,17,28,37,41,56,56A,59,59B,61 with two cars. The LEGO-tram runs using its 2 9V train motors, each car has one motor. Other bogie is dummy, however it uses train wheels, because the standard wheel holder part is simply two high for this application. I'm proud on the pantograph design, but I know, some of the purist won't like the cut and curved 3 mm diameter hose. Unfortunately the clip with bar holder doesn't exist in red colour - a red pantograph could be autenthic, however due to weathering and coal-dust from upper part they are only red a couple of days after painting, then they become black. Hope, you like it. Please leave your comments and critics here. :)

Really nicely you used the achievements of 3D-technology to display your LUG's work. It was almost the feeling I'm there, except the trains weren't running. Great job!

It may happen you didn't see this post since I started this topic in december of 2014, and bumped it up once with the updated LDD-model. I was sure I won't build the 6-section train, and now I'm sure I'll finish this ... once. Since the cost of bricks and electric parts will be high I can't tell you, when I finish with it (still having an east-europe salary and I have paralell LEGO and renenacment projects as well), but I'll build it with real bricks. I estimate one year to collect everything. I made couple of tests with SBricks provided by the manufacturer (they are hungarians as well). You can search for them here, but summing it up in two sentence: make sure you have a phone/tablet which handles bluetooth 4.0 standards as standards, and not some cheap chinese one. App communicates with SBrick well on better phones/tablets, while having problems connect multiple SBricks on cheaper ones. The playing experience is very nice with it.

So I took my LDD to redesign the train with four sections and the modification such as KISS2 front design, different colour pattern and new, manually openable doors. Following pictures show the result. This 4-section train is much more affordable, then build a 6-section one, and also fits to my train station's plaforms. Its length will be 16 sections of 9V straight track. However, it won't be cheap, tons of white (and since white bricks often get yellowed, I need new parts) bricks needed. Also the train is capable of 200 km/h speed so I need quite lots of motors driven from separated battery packs to make the LEGO thing move fast. After suggestions got in this topic of SBrick and my experiences with synchronised SBricks in my Stadler FLIRT EMU-s I decided to equip the train with a following setup: Each driving car and one middle car next to it will have its own battery pack and SBrick. SBrick ports will be used for: -Front/tail lights, direction 1 - three white lights for driving car 1, two red lights for driving car 2 -Front/tail lights, direction 2 - two red lights for driving car 1, three white lights for driving car 2 -Interior lights, three pair of PF-LEDs for each car, 1 pair for lower floor, 2 pairs divided by upper floor and waggons ends. -Driving (two PF train motors under driving car, or maybe three motors, two under driving cars, one under middle car, if sum up of 4 motors won't be enough for speed). Since the current limit of the battery pack limits the number of motors I can put on SBrick, and 2 or 3 motors won't give enough speed (and since the estimated weight is around 7 kgs, they will die fast), I need two SBricks for proper speed. Also I'll need some extension cables and polarity switches for motors and lights. Fortunately there will be enough space in the train body itself to hide these elements. And now, photos. For first, the entire train. From this view of point it looks nothing changed on the front, but I changed all the cheese slopes outside to 1×2 45° slopes with cutout. The curve of the front changed, it is visible from this sideview: Door mechanism. The height of the door is 7 studs, which equals to 17,5 plates, while the height of surrounding bricks is 18 plates (6 bricks). The 0.5 plate high gap divided into two parts (top and bottom) and the cheese slopes on door edge allows to open and close them without friction. Once again, stairs, side-door and cafe-corner in middle waggon:

We ran our layout on schedule (with 4× time transformation) in the event of TEMOFESZT (Technical and Model Railway Festival) in years 2013,2014,2015, on 20,30,40 metres long layouts respectively. There was a schedule even for the locomotives and motor units which departure each train takes. And just as in reality, after an accident 20-30 mins of delays occured until the end of the day :D These were arrivals and departures for my station in 2013:

Here I have my luck, Stadler delivered 4-section KISS 2 to Westbahn. The colour scheme is not the beautiful like the previous one was for 6-section trains, and I have to redesign the front part (since KISS 2 trains have new front design as the TSI regulations got stricter in Europee), but only 4 waggons, I have a better chance to collect all those parts for the train! http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/rolling-stock/first-westbahn-kiss-2-emu-ready-for-commissioning.html?channel=529

Thanks man, do you allow me to use this concept in my Combino supra NF12B build, if ever buitl for real? http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiValkoinen/OtherTrainMOC/CombinoBP/combino_wip_07.png

Nice solution! If you need those doors more inside, use blue technic brick 1×2 with one hole at the end of the waggon, in height of the glass in the door, put a half pin with stud inside and you can start the door from there.

I think you should make a try with 3-wide doors, maybe fits better for your scale and also sovles the problem of putting the glass in the middle.

Very nice and realistic waggons you had built! Really nice job!

totally off from this topic, but the cost of L-scale models fits quite good between H0 and LGB in price and scale as well. Bigger, more expensive than H0, but smaller and cheaper then digital LGB-models. I've seen an RhB passanger car set and a vintage loco worth of 3000€-s once on an exhibition, but non-exceptional models cost tons of money as well. But somewhere money should be spent, and I prefer MOCs over cheap replicas. :)

It is sad for me to here they are far away, but maybe I can put the metallic upper part on the 3D-printed plastic part for myself, if I could order the plastic part for the metallic version. H0 won't fit for you, the standard rail height are 2.1 and 2.5 mm, and LEGO tracks rails height is 2 plates (6,4 mm), LEGO train wheels get stuck on H0-height rails. I looked around and found PECO "0" flexible rail for "LGB" will fit the best. However, not a cheap rail.

Nice MOCs in 6W here, you should take some photos with all those lovely trams together. :) Thanks for mentioning my Koncar tram as well.

Hello coaster, I dont know how this site ships to Hungary, but if they do, after next month salary I'll order couple of these PF track pieces. Can you tell me anything about processing these lovely and useful stuff with metal parts on the top? Do you have even a test piece, or you didn't experimented with metalic rails?

Donate them with a single MOC waggon to kindergarten :D They will be happy with those flex pieces!

"couple of days I'll upload a video" It took half year to do so, but here it is, Končar TMK2200 narrow gauge tram working!

Nice video. Am I right, those R104 curves have metal top? Is there any way to buy some of those?

One loco, seven waggons, but three of them replaced with blue ones until I can finish my RailJet train!

Well, coaster, no more doubts, a 9V half-length segment will totally solve my issue mentioned. As zephyr said, the connection between two paralell track with the offset of 16 studs is really missed from 9V-era tracks, really nice to see that real track connections with better radius will be available once in the future. Thanks again for your great effort you put into this project.

I've just noted that the straight part of your point is 40 studs long, which will totally not fit the standard train track geometry (causing a 8 stud offset which could be only solved with 2 pieces of flextracks, but losing the 9V option), or only with using two of this points after each other (2×40 = 80 studs which equals to 5 straight segments). As far as I've read in this topic it takes really tons of screen-gazing process, but I have to ask if you plan to design even longer points with the length of 3 straights. :)