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A great looking layout and im sure the little one will get to enjoy every bit of it. Life is never easy; but the rewards will be there in heaps. As to the Train Museum track - this could be a nice little side section with vintage locos, running (or stationary?) on blue track with old white plates. A real 'Lego Train Museum' dedicated to vintage age... it was my plan but ive never any space laid out.

I remember someone editing the LXF file and manipulating the xml entries to improve instructions based upon subgroups. I dont know if the model generation algorithm still respects subgrouping, but that would be the most obvious way of getting instructions into a decent approach; and probably faster and easier to handle.

Hmm maybe - but then the husband has a massive collection of toys, childs clothes and other items so more of a marketing ploy.

I dont have any set lists anywhere... and thought I should perhaps start for rebrickable. I exported a basebrick TSV file with 1 Maersk Train and 1 Western Train Chase, and replaced quantity with 3. However the import the amended TSV file failed...

And if your really lucky; it might get picked up by www.railbricks.com - a real accolade!

Welcome to Eurobricks; normally good to post an introduction on the community page; and then more fantastic MOC's to the trains section!

This solution looks pretty close to some of the 1st class cars on the Glacier Express in Switzerland. And someone did a lego model already

You mean you had not quit already? Since the elements fit onto 1x2 panels (trans-clear or trans-black); only the outside section needs to be coloured light grey or red. I should make the point I was fortunate enough to acquire some years ago... but someone else on here recently wrote about making Light Bley and Dark Bley versions of Santa Fe; and suitable coloured porthole stickers would probably be interesting.

Now all you need to do is make red and light grey stickers of portholes to help out those poor Santa Fe buyers...

In Switzerland a yellow streak indicates first class section. Often a line, or on more modern trains, it is a yellow block over the doors.

The owner of the website emailed me to say they are also 8 wide carriages. So definitely custom plates of some sort.

Probably the 4x6 plate with knob directly into one of the empty technic holes in the bottom of the inverted cylinder slopes.... The instructions were included on 7777 redux contest on flicker

You mean like these? http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53064&view=findpost&p=947421&hl=&fromsearch=1 Someone else also posted some pictures a few months ago - perhaps do a quick search of the train tech index

Great find - thanks... they do indeed seem to be very similar; and especially with the username legocastle...

I recently stumbled upon the pictures of some long santa fe cars (44 studs? 48 studs?) undertaken by the brickshelf user legocastle. The proportions look much better than the original Lego versions; especially when compared to realife photos. However I cant see how the bases are done; whether it is two 24x6 train bases together; or custom plate solution. Does anyone know who Legocastle is in order to find out more? I especially like the ones for the superdome

No... but where-else could the idea live? And besides, it is closely related to the digital tools.

I saw this post on Engadget, and thought it could be useful for those people who want to build their own custom bricks, and are not too picky about everything being 100% pure Lego developed. (not a clone brand). http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/04/rolands-imodela-3d-milling-machine-its-a-crafty-tool/ http://www.rolanddga.com/products/milling/imodela/ ($900 to our USA friends) Im sure it could be useful for those missing Musical Instruments for the christmas fayre

Tatertots: 1 Dix: 1 Oky: 2 Darkblane: 1 Some great creations from everyone; but these are the ones I'd spend money on.

That monster fighters train is running with EN wheels! But the City Miners set seems to have older ending rails, at least on the left hand side. (flat end)

Reminds me a lot of the bridges around southern NZ. Especially with the types of locos running over them.

Totally agree. My recent hiatus around New Zealand meant no time but Im also looking at similar setups using many older 12V sets (container loader) combined with 4030 type containers (for the TTX standard) - and im sure 7994 works really well with the 6x18 container standard. However having spent a few days near Auckland docks - there are some mean massive cranes which definitely need to be replicated... So ZuriHB - hope to see more of these combined sets in the future. Just need to find a way to put some large brown baseplates under to lift the dockside up... unless it is an inspiration for some of the Rhine valley barges (e.g. Basel).

F = Force L = initial length A = Area E = extension (under force strain curve) delta T is the change in temperature So it fits copmikes picture pretty well.

So after all the efforts, it was a case of going back to the instructions for model 162, and looking at page 13. Image is link to peeron. There would have been no instructions since it is a suggested alternative mode.

Having put a PP3 inside; I would actually agree with JopieK that this represents the best way of doing it with a 4 stud wide nose / body.

Well if Lego want to re-use the mould for the EN / Toy Story train, then I agree a return to the classic crocodile would be sweet. But who knows; maybe another steam train could easily come along.