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Where I live in New York, both types of trucks are fairly common. The semi's deliver to gas stations, but the single-chassis tankers are out and about delivering heating oil to homes. The review was great, I wanted one of these to go with my 3180 before, but now I really want one. Thanks!

Beautiful. Great representation of the real thing.

Potentially, you could put a cabinet for some signalling equipment. At the station from which I commute to work, the space between the rails is currently occupied by discarded ties and has been for a couple of months. Some station's on Metro-North's Harlem line had (maybe still) some art installations of sheet metal workers.

Very nice! It is a great little light pickup design, and your stickers add a lot.

I got a card in store and another online, because I could not actually register. I called the Lego customer service number and they merged one of the cards points into the other for me.

This is great. I enjoyed following it from just a conveyor belt to an entire scene and story. Looking at the two lines merge into one for assembling the top/bottom is awesome.

Thanks to all for the constructive comments. I would like to have reduced the height just a bit, the extra layer of tiles added some that I didn't really want. The big problem with the height reduction is the combination of the battery and the receiver. They are so close right now that I can't lower the receiver and leave room for the cables to come up from the motor. kyphur, I very much like the proportions of your LDD version of the shell. I'll need to get myself an M-motor to play with. Thanks for looking!

Starting almost as soon as I put together my first train set and saw some MOCs of 9V switchers, I wanted to build my own. I started designing it in LDD and playing with bricks around a few pieces earlier this year. I ordered my first train on January 16th, and the first Bricklink order for this was placed on March 4th. I’ve finally decided that I’m happy enough with the result to post it. I wanted to MOC up a Metro-North yard switcher that is used in the Croton Harmon yard near where I live (it is one station south of mine): Oversized Image The pair of these engines was originally ordered for use in Grand Central Terminal, but because they wheelbase was so small; they would not correctly trigger the signals so are used in Croton and Brewster instead. This is my version: Pulling a blue gondola (a bit of Metro-North rolling stock I will typically pass on my daily commute): The back of the engine: (compare to: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2197673) I’ve gone through 2-3 iterations of the design to balance playability and brick availability with looking like the original; and I have something that I think is recognizable when you put it next to the original, but is more inspired by the original than an actual copy. My kids (4 and 6) enjoy playing with it just like the other trains; so on playability I’m declaring success. It is powered by a 9V battery, which I’ve connected by cutting a PF extension cable in half and soldering to a 9V battery connector: I made two connectors, one out of each half of the extension cable. One of the cables has a fairly long Lego PF section. The other cable, which is inside the locomotive, has just a small section of Lego PF cable-the rest is the two wires of the battery connector. This turned out to work quite a bit better in the cramped interior of the locomotive, as it was a bit difficult fitting the cables from the IR receiver, motor, and also battery all together. My first test runs were with regular alkaline 9V batteries, which is doubly problematic. First, they are about 1 USD a piece, and last for an hour. Secondly, it is a real pain to take the train apart and fit it back together to change the battery. My solution here was to use a rechargeable 9V battery from Amazon. I was concerned that the performance wouldn’t be as good, but the train goes just as fast on a fresh charge (enough that it can easily derail itself). It turns out that the rechargeable batteries last longer when run on speed five for 30 minutes, then flat out until they die (75 vs. 53 minutes). It also means that I can connect the train to the charger easily: One of the changes in the second iteration was to use tiles so that the top piece would come off easily. My Brickshelf gallery, including the LDD file is, is here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=507047 And a video of it in action: More pictures of the original available here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=26915

I only have the modern ones, but I like that for Maersk ones they included a separate mold for the hi-vis vest. I had not seen that before. It would be cool if TLG were to make some torso's with hi-vis yellow/green vests in addition to orange.

My kids like the crane from 7939, but they're too young to know what really works as far as a siding, etc. If the crane were in a circle with no siding they wouldn't care. 7939 was my first set, and I one of the reasons that I wanted it over the red cargo train was that it included switches. I've since caught the bug and bought myself the train station, passenger train, red cargo train, 3 more switch packs, and a two packs of straight/flex tracks. I think that for people starting out having something complete is very important; without a complete set it is hard to know if it is something that will really be of interest to you.

It looks great. I like the top of the hopper very much.

1. Deer (This should work well with Forest Police Subtheme) 2. Eagle (Just cool.) And some farm animals would be nice: 3. Pig 4. Cow 5. Chicken

I love how you did the plow on front!

I think the color change to yellow instead of white makes it fit in better with the TLG maintenance vehicles; which seem to often be this same yellow.

This is a really beautiful looking train; and I think that it would be great for kids. I very much like that you chose the red color scheme to go with.