zephyr1934

That photo speaks for itself. Great trains, great location, looking forward to seeing more of your work!

That looks amazing, and a ton of detailing, great work!

The webpage is also in English Click on "what is included" and you get this list It says available in Aug. Looks like the motor fits in a 6x6x3 bounding box.

Amazing work

It's all a matter of personal taste and mine lean the other direction. At shows the bluetooth of PU can fail miserably. I like the fact that a dedicated controller is available- sometimes you don't want to have to use your phone to run the train and sometimes it is incredibly handy to do so. But I suspect Lego is done with dedicated controllers.

I like the slow and steady, you get to actually see the rods move. Much faster and the rods just start to blur

Okay, that's brilliant and pretty amazing that it works too

Yep, most exist via 3rd party solutions, but I'm just saying they should exist from 1st party. I know they won't, but I've got to complain somewhere...

Very nice! The MOC also reminds me of a personal experience last spring. I drove by East Broad Top in Pennsylvania (abandoned narrow gauge coal hauling railroad that was never scrapped and portions of it have been operated as a rail museum for decades). At the end of the line where it meets the standard gauge (several miles away from where they operate today) there's a dual gauge yard that was full of narrow gauge hopper cars. I was last there 30 years ago and wandered through the yard/forest where the trees had grown up through the cars over the years, very surreal. When I was back last year it is heavily marked with no trespassing signs and I heard rumors the cars had been scrapped. It was really hard to find any sort of view into the yard. But we finally found an embankment where you could still see in without trespassing. Many of the cars are still there. Reportedly, there was even a standard gauge steam engine stored in a shed there but that might have finally been moved to a museum.

Well, there's still room to improve the implementation, e.g., add back in the native option to, "keep going if receiver loses contact with controller," improve bluetooth performance in crowds, add a rechargeable battery, lower the cost on the plain battery box, and bring back the option to control more than one train motor per output on the hub.

Excellent build, and perfect train for the middle of winter.

That's a great tribute

Most kids wouldn't have a large collection of lego trains either then or now (and none of THOSE kids are on this forum... oh... actually I guess I was one of them back then with one train set, one car, and some track sets). Any kid who did build a large collection they would also be developing their skills for working with all the wiring. There's clear evidence that Lego agreed with the view of "all these cables." The 12v system has features that were for more permanent layouts, e.g., the screw holes in the ties. But the best thing about the gray 12v era was all of the selection and functionality available out of the box from sets, independent of the power scheme. Each power system has it's own strengths (except maybe RC, I can't think of anything RC did better than the others). One standout with 4.5v is how the semaphores stopped trains.

I thought the original build looked good, but the new one tightens it up.

Very nice! Interesting that they would take low maintenance stainless and convert it to painted (which is extra hard to maintain) but I guess that's a discussion for the marketing department. I can totally understand why the original operator's compartment would be called a rabbit cage. But enough questioning reality. You've chosen a mundane prototype and hides the subtle detailing put in to pull it all off (similar to the way that a well done landscape never gets appreciated because it looks so "normal" even if it took 5 million hours to build). The directional transitions of the build add a lot of hard to miss complexity. Are you thinking of building these in real life? If so, which livery?