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It's at the end of this video: Start at about 28 minutes. He's basically saying trains on their own don't sell enough so they prefer to combine the train with something else, like Disney or Christmas.

Can we go back to the Crocodile? It's been few pages of just PUP motors and hubs now...

But as soon as BL sellers notice the lego.com price I can see the price on BL going up....

I know there's a bit of circuitry in those motors, but that doesn't cost €20. Until the set is officially published it's all guess work.

Very expensive indeed. PF XL motor is €10.16 so why is the PUP XL motor €34.99? That's an incredible increase. L motor has gone from €13.99 to €34.99. I'll stick with PF for now...

The White House has 1483 parts, the Crocodile has 1271. Comparing a train, with many large specialised parts and a few minifigs, with an Architecture set where the majority of parts are 1x1 and 1x2 is not fair. If the rumoured price of around €100 or $100 then that's a pretty good price for 1271 parts and I doubt that will stop anyone from buying the set. Do you live on a boat? Trains and cars on my shelves don't tend to roll off... Anyway, I'm sure you can add two bricks underneath if that's needed. I'm sure they are watching and I'm sure they are taking note of feedback, but do you really expect them to react and do anything a handful of fans are asking for?

I don't mind the text on the loco too much to be honest. I'm not sure moving it to the first carriage will look any better. You could push the engine to the right and cram all the text on the left. You could scale the train down a few percent and have all the text above it?

Let me know if you'd like me to re-render with a different background colour (nit-picking: it would make the colour behind the windows a little darker ;- )

Thanks @Jim, nice job! The slightly darker sky works well and the logo fits nicely.

Not some. Yes, they are articulated. They'd have to be to get through any bends.

B-models? On Creator Expert? Don't get your hopes up...

In dark green I would have bought a second set on day 1 to finally get started on my E94... How many copies do I need? 0. How many copies do I want? Err... 1... 2... 3... -- -- -- -- -- Having a strong sense of deja-vu reading the comments. We've been here before. LEGO have repeatedly explained why they no longer sell separate car sets. The last few times they tried the sales figure were just disappointing. You can argue that the quality of the cars wasn't great but that's a pointless discussion. LEGO do their market research. Often, and thoroughly. They get it wrong the odd time but overall they know what sells. No matter how big you think the LEGO train fan base is, it's tiny. Trains don't sell a fraction of Star Wars, Marvel, Ninjago or City. For this particular set, they will sell more loco's without cars than with, and they would sell fewer cars than loco's if they produced a set with a single car. "But I would buy 3 of them and so would so-and-so". Sure. But for every person buying 3 car sets there are 10 people who will only buy the loco. Why don't they include instructions for a car, or provide those instructions online? Two reasons: 1. Those instructions would cost time (=money) to develop at zero return on investment. 2. They would get numerous calls and email from people complaining that the pieces for the car aren't in the box. Seriously. Remember when there were pictures of alternative builds on boxes and in instructions? They stopped doing them because they received too many calls from parents that little Johnny could build model X on the back of the box because the instructions were missing. Unfortunately that's the world we live in. -- -- -- -- -- I am really happy that LEGO are finally giving AFOL trains another chance, seven years after Horizon Express. I really hope it will sell well because that's the only way to get another one in future. I'm not sure why they went with brown, I think it would sell better in dark green, but that won't stop me buying at least one.

@*thomas* The ÖBB class 1020 is the DR E94 after they had been transferred to Austria after the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_E_94

Set 4551 looks more like the E94, the German crocodile, while this new set is a model of the Swiss crocodile.

25 people in a forum dedicated to the target audience doesn't prove much about support or demand. We're a niche hobby inside a niche hobby. In that same picture you can see that the hood is 5 wide with a 1x tile on either side so yes, 7-wide.

Considering that Ultimate Collector Series is a Star Wars sub-theme I'd say no... It seems like it's an 8-wide train :-D

Welcome @Bricktasty, you're in good company here.

I assume running on air, not steam? Steam at any sort of pressure will be hotter than what ABS can cope with... If you don't want the noise of a compressor maybe you can add a tanker car behind that hides a 2L PET bottle?

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Wow, that's an impressive beast! The colours made me think German but there are very few of those with 4 driver axles. A friend of mine in the Netherlands built some pneumatic steam engines a long time ago but they were based on American designs. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=rekok

That's impressive! Quite the shape for a first train MOC but well done.

Can't be done in the banner image because those links aren't always in the same place (depends on the width of your screen). @Jim since various other parts the CSS can be customised for individual forums I assume the links can be changed too? You could either make the text dark or give the ul with id="elUserNav" a background color.

Thanks for all the compliments guys. Can't wait to see it up on the site now.

Nice build! For proper modern though you'll have to replace those big old monitors with flat screens ;-)