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During the second World War, the US Government controlled the railway locomotive builders, one of which was Lima Locomotive Works. The Southern Pacific railroad submitted a order to this builder for 16 new 4-8-4 steam engines, (known to the railroad as 'Daylights') which was turned down due to them being passenger-only engines. Southern Pacific reworked the blueprints to have little streamlining, and not feature the Daylight's color scheme of orange, red and black. These new dual-mode engines were painted in silver and black, and were also smaller. Lima finally built the order in 1943, but with one condition: Six engines would be taken from the order and given to the power-starved Western Pacific Railroad. Because of their smaller size and the fact they were built during WWII gave these engine the names 'Baby Daylights' and 'War Babies'. Officially, the Southern Pacific engines were called GS-6 and numbered 4460 - 4469. (GS meaning General Service or Golden State, and 6 because they were the sixth batch of engines.) Only one of the GS-6 type survives: 4460, often referred to as the Forgotten Daylight when compared to it's famous surviving GS-4 cousin 4449. This last GS-6 pulled the final steam-hauled SP train in October 1958, before being donated to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, where it resides today. You can read more about the engine on it's Wikipedia page. This LEGO steam loco model is the third iteration of this Southern Pacific engine that I've made. It was originally built over a decade ago in eight wide, then was slimmed down a year later in 2016 to 6 wide, and now has been completely torn down and revised to 7 studs wide in 2026, retaining only a scant few ideas from the original MOC. These includes the letters / numbers, streamlined nosecone, and a few other small things - the rest is totally new. As a side note: this engine's original version was the second loco I made from the museum's collection of artifacts, only beaten by the GM Aerotrain MOC from 2014 - nowadays I've got over 30 vehicles made from this location, and I'm starting to run out of things to build that I feel are worthy of inclusion or under-represented in LEGO. The rear of the engine. The ladder to the tender deck should be on the left and right sides, not the rear as has been constructed. I didn't realize this until it was too late in the design process. (Oh well!) Baggage / coach. (NOTE: This car and the rest of the train that follows below are not based on any specific Daylight passenger cars. I just built what looked good with the loco. Also, these 6-stud wide passenger cars are based off ones from when the engine was in revenue service - they are not from the Museum of Transportation!) Two (identical) passenger cars. The dome car. And finally, the observation car. EDIT: Just for comparison purposes, here is the real-world steam loco, as seen back in 2015. Thoughts? -
This early-2000's style Wild West / 1860s 4-4-0 steam locomotive was heavily inspired by pictures of @SavaTheAggie's 4-4-0 from 2007 to which I then added a tender inspired by another Sava loco (his 4-6-0, also from 2007). I made the tender a bit longer. made the front bogie actually connect to the front of the loco, (whereas before in the original Sava design it was totally free-floating and loose) among several other structural / style tweaks here and there to make it my own. The engine is intended to go with the four My Own Train green passengers car (set 10015) MOD's that I own. The front of the locomotive, which is modeled after a coal burning type rather than the wood burner you usually see in Western scenes. The rear of the engine. The printed '10' piece is the dime part from the Minifigure vending machine, and it works rather well here! Much like real a 1860s locomotive, there are not many details inside the cab. The baggage car which is completely my own design. Two of the three coaches. The third coach carries the red marker lights for the rear of the train. Thoughts?
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Here is my own design for a baggage car to add to my emerald night train. Feedback is always welcome. Sorry for the fuzzy first couple pics.
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The look of this train was partially inspired by several 4.5v and 12v-era sets, such 7715 / 7818 for the color scheme and 7740 along with it's supplemental sets 7815 and 7819 for the general look of the coaches. Some parts of this train (the coaches) have already been built from about five years back, while the loco is still a WIP for now. This steam locomotive was slightly inspired by the Rhodesia Railways "15th class" that was used in what is now Zimbabwe. This 4-6-4+4-6-4 Garratt type was 74-units strong and was built by Beyer-Peacock and Company starting in 1940, and after WWII from 1947 to 1952 in seven total batches. You can read more about this specific loco class on Wikipedia. My LEGO MOC version is 'fueled' by oil, whereas the real-world 15th class was coal fired. This is one of the reasons why I said it was "inspired by" and not an exact duplicate of a 15th class. However, the front unit does features a prototypical streamlined casing, and the rear unit partially does too. This LEGO model can take some serious curves (much more than what's shown above!), but that's what you get for building a Garratt: it's one of this type of locomotive's strengths. This picture just shows off the articulation points of my MOC, but technically it could split a switch* and still work just fine with the front engine on one track and rear unit on a second one! *NOTE: Don't try that with a real-world steam loco! The doors on the cab of the loco are supposed to be the 1980's ones with blue print on the lower half. Another missing print is on the oil tank hatches, while number / letter tiles go on the front and rear units. (The front unit gets the numbers, while the rear section gets the letters saying LLR, which stands for LegoLand Railroad.) This baggage / passenger car is called a combine which is short for "combination". All the doors can open on this train, even the sliding ones shown here. The three passenger coaches are identical in every way. The observation car, the rear-most coach on the train, features a platform for sight seeing. The steam loco is still being parted out using pieces from the previous streamlined electric engine and from parts from my collection. Until it's done this is a WIP thread, but suggestions / comments / questions are always welcome no matter the project stage. Drop your thoughts below!
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This VIP / railroad executives' train consists of several different late 1800s / early 1900s vehicles in a variety of color combos. I did the because I got tired of making a few passenger cars for one train all in one or two colors, so i decided to go with every color scheme I could think of that would work on a train from this era. Because of the multiple color schemes used, I dub this 'the amazing Technicolor train'. From front to back, right to left: - dark blue 4-6-0 steam locomotive + tender - tan / brown baggage coach - dark tan / tan sleeper - dark red / dark brown dining car - sand green / dark tan observation car This early 1900s / late 1890s-era dark blue 4-6-0 steam loco is modeled after the bones of the engine in set 7597 (Western Train Chase) from the Toy Story 3 line. I stretched out the frame slightly to include a third driving axle, added a loco tender of my own design, along with new pistons and new studs-up boiler. Rear view of the engine, which is numbered '9'. (To be honest, this tender design I made has been used quite a bit for my early steam locos... but if it ain't broke - don't fix it!) Inside the cab. The tan / brown combination baggage / coach is for my railway executive's train. This car's purpose and paint scheme is actually inspired by a car owned by the (fictional) Wasatch and Nevada Railroad in the 1975 Western / thriller 'Breakheart Pass', based off the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. This dark tan / tan sleeper car was great fun to design. Figuring out a good color scheme while playing off the other three cars in the train and deciding on the fancy woodwork near the base of the car were the highlights! The dining car. I already had the dark red in my collection, but the trouble was deciding on a good secondary color. Eventually (after much thought) I realized dark brown looked best for this car, and thus this model was finalized. This sand green / dark tan observation car was based off the same source material as the baggage car, which is the film Breakheart Pass. In the film, the car was named 'Fairchild', after the fictional Nevada Governor played by Richard Crenna in the film. As to why Abraham Lincoln is standing at the back of the car even though he is actually long dead by the early 1900's, I have but one answer: because I forgot to take him off the model before taking pictures! Thoughts?
