LegoGunInstructions Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Outstanding! I really like the sides of the blue train Quote
LoneBrickerSG Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) Milwaukee Road 261 (more here) You're killing me with this Minnesota hardware. I live very close to Progressive Rail's (MN&S successor) central operations, so I see the same real switchers very frequently. I also really would like to know if you have plans for #261 available. She's the queen of the rails in my neighborhood and I really would like to build a model of it. The GN steamer also looks fantastic, and overall, the decals really help take these the extra length into realistic appearance. How did you make the headlight mounting on this loco? What piece is that? Edited February 11, 2015 by LoneBrickerSG Quote
zephyr1934 Posted February 12, 2015 Author Posted February 12, 2015 You're killing me with this Minnesota hardware. I live very close to Progressive Rail's (MN&S successor) central operations, so I see the same real switchers very frequently. I also really would like to know if you have plans for #261 available. She's the queen of the rails in my neighborhood and I really would like to build a model of it. The GN steamer also looks fantastic, and overall, the decals really help take these the extra length into realistic appearance. How did you make the headlight mounting on this loco? What piece is that? Heh heh, and you are killing me with your taunting from the land of 10,000 lakes. I hope you are taking good care of these fine locomotives in my absence (grin). At the moment I do not have any instructions for the 261, nor had I contemplated making any. Though now that you bring it up, I will start thinking about it. It would probably be a good build for others- the mechanicals are a fairly complicated- she is designed to run well on both the tight lego curves and uneven surfaces often found at shows... all while happily twirling the baton of the valve gear. It was also designed to be a powered locomotive in the 9v era, note the motors in the pilot and trailing trucks. I could take the EN/Maersk/HE approach and provide instructions for a non-powered version, then show how to power it via 9v, then show how to power it via PF in the tender. As for the headlight on the NP NCL F7, that was creative use of a mostly useless part. Quote
LoneBrickerSG Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 (edited) Heh heh, and you are killing me with your taunting from the land of 10,000 lakes. I hope you are taking good care of these fine locomotives in my absence (grin). Hate to say I have never actually seen #261 in person. They do an annual "Fall Colors" trip around October, and the one time I went to see it, they had #4449 pulling the consist for two days before she went on to Michigan. So, I got to see my childhood favorite atleast. At the moment I do not have any instructions for the 261, nor had I contemplated making any. Though now that you bring it up, I will start thinking about it. It would probably be a good build for others- the mechanicals are a fairly complicated- she is designed to run well on both the tight lego curves and uneven surfaces often found at shows... all while happily twirling the baton of the valve gear. It was also designed to be a powered locomotive in the 9v era, note the motors in the pilot and trailing trucks. I could take the EN/Maersk/HE approach and provide instructions for a non-powered version, then show how to power it via 9v, then show how to power it via PF in the tender. I normally don't bother asking for instructions from anyone, but since it was #261 I couldn't help but ask. I'm not so great with figuring out steam engines yet, although I have one Northern mind to build that I haven't seen anywhere else. I was actually looking at your photos and working a solution on how I would use PF train motors instead of 9V. As for the headlight on the NP NCL F7, that was creative use of a mostly useless part. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Edited February 12, 2015 by LoneBrickerSG Quote
zephyr1934 Posted July 16, 2015 Author Posted July 16, 2015 After building the containers to demonstrate the container stickers I was really taken with the look of the large stickers on the side of an assembly. I'm partial to boxcars and wanted to see what I could do with the stickers. I built these two cars for Brickworld. First off, what with my North Coast Limited train (discussed here, and seen in the background of this shot) I just had to build one of the NP boxcars advertising the NCL. based on the prototype And in my quest to redo my MNS fleet based on the prototype Sadly to say, I am now feeling this pull to go and rebuild my roughly 30 other boxcars (grin). Quote
Younge Posted July 16, 2015 Posted July 16, 2015 Fantastic stickers! As others have said, it's amazing how much a little detail like a sticker can add to the realism of the overall MOC. Keep up the great work!!! Quote
zephyr1934 Posted July 18, 2015 Author Posted July 18, 2015 Fantastic stickers! As others have said, it's amazing how much a little detail like a sticker can add to the realism of the overall MOC. Keep up the great work!!! Thanks and indeed, just look at the sides of that blue boxcar, you can't get much simpler than the 6x1x5 panels. It would be nice to get some grab irons or a ladder in there, but I'll save that for a later MOC. (not enough of the right parts to do it in the brick built dark green boxcar and not enough flexibility in the panels used in the dark blue boxcar) Quote
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