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Hi again, Recently there was an offer on set number 66405 and I could not resist the temptation. Yes the box is huge, which should have been a warning, but only when I had built the engine and the three cars, and laid out all the track on the floor in our living room, I realized that I was in a spot of trouble. See, since we have only little space in our apartment, we'll only be able to have a very small track layout to play with. if it's going to be a (semi)permanent setup, which is what I have in mind. It's not so hard to design interesting small layouts, but running a train the size of 7939 on such a short stretch of mainly bends and switches does not really make sense and is not so enjoyable. The first thing in order then, was to design a small engine that could serve as a shunter loc of some sort. Since it would have to be self-contained with all the PF parts in it, and the amount of system parts in my collection is rather limited, the engine is definitely the biggest challenge to tackle. What follows is an impression of my first shot at making such a small shunter loc. I hope you'll enjoy the pictures. unfortunately, when making the construction to hold the control panel, i broke one of the very old parts in my collection that came from the 857 set (the thing that holds the headlights at an angle) :( The battery box is very easy to take out as it is not attached with studs at all. The cover for the switch is simple but effective :) Happy bricking!
