LEGO LOCOS

Crackingjob · Post by **Crackingjob** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:37 pm

On another blog Lego came up

I have seen several lego Locos over the years using both battery and clockwork (yes they did clockwork..once!!)

Try Dave Wegmullers site...he has live steam AND lego TOGETHER!

http://wegmuller.org/v-web/gallery/Lego

he has serous fun..enjoy the site

Crackingjob

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:47 pm

I've seen that guys video's on youtube. I like his VW Beetle and 4x4 off roader especially! He even pulled a person along with a 45mm gauge Shay!

Crackingjob · Post by **Crackingjob** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:43 pm

Try this link and enter a whole new world

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/searc ... s&stype=fi

Crackingjob

Crackingjob · Post by **Crackingjob** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:03 pm

Give the earlier link time to kick in...its very good

However when you start a blog there are always more out there
and i have been passed these two links....very very very goooooood!

http://www.mocpages.com/directory.php/43

http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/696

http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Lego/train.html

Crackingjob

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:09 pm

Wow he must have a lot of lego! I love the England, Hunslet and DeWinton!

MoelygestLR · Post by **MoelygestLR** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:37 pm

I have a Lego DLG (David Lloyd George) andloved playing with it when i was younger. now it just sits on a shelf. Dont want to break it up! haha

It went on exhibition at harbour station for a week or so.

I thought it looked pretty good for what it was. With all this new lego you can make much more realistic models though!

Sukhe_bator · Post by **Sukhe_bator** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:24 pm

I break my old 4.5v lego railway collection out of the loft most summers, much to my wife's dismay. This year I plundered my son's K'nex collection to testbed some pretty extensive girder work and see just how far I could extend over the garden with limited impact ...

I like the freedom and the on-the-spot problem solving with the platelaying - its like working in narrow gauge and never having been mechanically or electronically minded, it well suits my skill level.

I have the makings of 3 freestyle locos, several coaches and several wagons, cobbled together from sets and spares gleaned over the years all based loosely around European Eggerbahn or provincial standard gauge designed around the limitations of the 0-4-0 motor, having to have a battery box 'tender' and using very tight track radii.

I'm experimenting with some 9v battery boxes and Technic motors and old railway wheels to create some more diesel and petrol driven prototypes to give it a more narrow gauge feel

Sukhe_bator · Post by **Sukhe_bator** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:58 pm

Some examples of this Easter's platelaying. Next time I'll have the gradients better calculated and the track geometry will match the K'nex better. It caused some minor derailments this time round.

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hussra · Post by **hussra** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:59 pm

Crumbs! But you remind me that my very first garden railway (other than my Dad's tinplate on the patio, which I can just remember at about 2/3 years old) was Lego, with the 1980s design grey track, and a battery powered loco. Thanks for rekindling the memories! Don't think I have any photos :-(

laurence703 · Post by **laurence703** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:54 pm

When it comes to Lego trains... I have spent many a year dabbling... I have an original Lego trainset still with its box and some of the newer stuff.
Here's a picture of one of my lego models based on a 7.25" seven lamb loco otherwise known as Pickie Puffer and another of some other Lego locos I have...

Sukhe_bator · Post by **Sukhe_bator** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:57 am

There's some lovely Lego rolling stock out there, but I'm going to have to stick to short wheel base examples for now, but I have just added 2 9v railway motor bogies to my inventory which have the capacity to expand the sizes of motive power considerably. I shall be experimenting and will post pics of the rolling stock in due course
One thing I've always wanted to do was build a Double Fairlie but the hump on the top of the old motors makes modelling the diminuitive boilers on most Narrow gauge and small industrial locos difficult. I've also had a long standing ambition to build a working Shay loco using the Lego technic and railway parts! Now there's a challenge! - I forsee several months of R&D ahead.

Sukhe_bator · Post by **Sukhe_bator** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:05 am

Seems like someone else has beaten me to it - something for Shay lovers out there -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJBMV_Lhv4

TheChestnutLine · Post by **TheChestnutLine** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:25 pm

I have some locos built for 32mm track that I made out of knex a number of years ago.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 3:29 am

So what gauge are the Lego and Lego compatible trains? There seem to be a few traders selling Enlighten railway sets at the moment and I was wondering about buying one or two for experimental purposes.

laurence703 · Post by **laurence703** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:38 am

They're not a standard modelling gauge... its known simply as lego gauge. Track gauge is roughly 40mm to 42mm I've just measured off one of my lego coaches to give a rough measurement. I remember talking about it to a friend at a model railway club... it's the gauge between the two most popular gauges.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:12 am

Because I used to be a Brikwars wargamer I own a huge amount of Lego and Lego clone bricks and I was on the brink of sorting it all out and selling it off. I don't wargame anymore due to change in my personal world view so with dozens, possibly hundreds of minifigs converted into warriors and soldiers as well as tanks, flying machines and steampunk thingummies as well as scenic stuff by the box load in my possession I thought the only thing to do was sell it all off.

Then I started to think about it. I really want to build an indoor layout with all the railway related buildings you'd expect as well as a town and all of it set in an attractive landscape with trees & etc. I was going to do a conventional 45mm gauge layout based on NZ bush tramway practice, but really it's best if I do that out in the garden because I don't have the space to do it properly indoors. And besides if I had 45mm trackwork indoors I would eventually be tempted into running a live steamer on it and burn the house down.

I'm far from being a Lego purist and I'm happy to own clone bricks and sets, so when I discovered an on-line trader here in NZ who sells all the train related sets by Enlighten I made up my mind that some swords were going to get beaten into plowshares and all my minifig soldiers were going to get demobbed and put back into civilian life. All that is except my quite lovely Elf army which I shall keep to display and the skeletons, goblins and other unpleasant types who shall be sold off.
Fortunately a good many of my steampunk chaps are wearing uniforms and caps that won't be at all difficult to change to railway uniforms which is a bonus.
I have problems with my health and when I'm sick I don't much fancy trying to measure things accurately, cut them out with pointy objects and then glue them accurately using messy smelly substances, so brick type construction is perfect for me to keep myself occupied.

I discovered a very useful website too, - Big Ben Bricks. And he makes railway wheels, specifically steam locomotive wheels, that are totally Lego compatible. After looking at the range I actually started to wonder if they would be useful for general railway modelling projects as well.

http://bigbenbricks.com/index.html

Well my first order for Enlighten train block sets is in and paid for so all I have to do now is quiver with anticipation until it arrives.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:46 am

I guess what I'm aiming for is the kind of railway modelmaking that 'Bricktrix' (Carl Greatrix) does with Lego.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bricktrix/

As a one time keen modeller of the LSWR building a layout based on British prototypes would be just soooooo tempting, but what I want to do is build a layout based on New Zealand practice during the very interesting 'small engine, light rails' period before the larger types of loco classes started to appear.

'R' Class Single Fairlie.

The way I see it, large scale railway models are expensive. Take a look at the price of the '0' gauge tinplate repro items that are on the market now as an example. Been there done that got the tee shirt. Gauge '1' is totally out of the question as it's even more expensive. With 16mm scale I long ago figured out that unless I make most of it myself or convert parts from cheap battery trainsets I simply couldn't do it.
Genuine Lego train sets are pretty much out of my price range, BUT with the Enlighten train brick sets I can definitely do this. Unlike Lego Enlighten sells individual locos, carriages and wagons and the track packs are very affordable. The off the shelf Enlighten sets will be just a basis to work on and modify of course, but that's fine by me

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:52 am

Astounding!

I never knew this stuff existed!

dougrail · Post by **dougrail** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:20 pm

I had to double-take at the photo of the GWR station...!

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:18 pm

dougrail:75705 wrote:I had to double-take at the photo of the GWR station...!

It's pretty amazing isn't it. It was those pictures that convinced me that a Lego railway to a realistic standard was possible.

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