Hi everyone!

I chose a very well-known theme for my newest MOC. Almost everyone has a Lego Siemens Taurus at home :D . If you search for it on the net, the number of the matches will be endless. We can find every building method and technique in them. But I guess, I successfully found out new solutions to copy the real one!

The engine works with two M-motors. The gear ratio is 1:1,667.

Hope you like it!

Video:

During the scenes with the real Lego track there is a slower version, I changed the gears after making them. The scenes on the yellow brickbuilt track show the faster speed.

Pictures:

Detailes:

The model and the real one have the round and the square hole, too! The overall shape of this section is also similar to the real one, because of the upside-down 1x2 slope.

The section of the door has two interesting techniques.

Behind the door there is an old 3 brick high panel (without side supports). It prevents the black tiles (the handles) to be at the same plane as the door.

Most of the MOCs and official Lego sets use 1x1 plates with vertical clip to fix the bars (handrails). But the distance is too big between the wall and the bar. I used this part. Behind the wall the previously mentioned 1x1 plate holds it. The bars touche the wall, there's no gap between them.

Many of the older Taurus models don't have good side-windows. The builders often used stickers. But my windows contains olny Lego pieces.

Technical things:

The engine contains two M-motors, an AAA battery box, an IR receiver and a short extension wire. The chassis is made of thechnic bricks, and I used 16 studs to fix the body on it. Between the chassis and the bogies there are the smaller versions of technic turntables. The bogies are selfmade, I used more than 160-160 elements for them. I'm not ready with the LDD file, but I think the whole model contains approx 1400.

Thanks for watching!

Edited October 1, 20159 yr by Gabor

Very cool! But the Taurus should go a liitle but faster imo.

Edited September 27, 20159 yr by THERIZE

Very interesting version and nice bogies too!

Nice. Good work on the Technic bogies.

It looks great, with a keen eye on detail around all of those unfriendly curves for lego.

Great work! Amazing those side windows. Very clever way to keep it pure LEGO without using stickers.

Nice work on the bogies too.

Looks great. Any plans to put the logos on the side?

Thanks for the kind comments! I'm really happy, that you like it!

@THERIZE: Now it's faster than on the Lego track in the video! But a faster speed would be dangerous in the strong bends of this track!

@legoman666: I have no plans. As you can see, the modell has the colour scheme of my own railway company and I haven't got a logo yet. Maybe later...

I like your attention to detail. Nice model!

Looks great. Very interesting

Thank you and thank you!

Hi!

I took a big brother photo for my Taurus, too:

I have seen this locomotive before... where it was? Of course, temofeszt! ;)

Nice work anyways, as I told you in person, but you should do something about the gears to make it run a little faster. Of course, if you plan to built a dozen of heavy freight waggons for it, the current gear ratio will give enough power to the locomotive to pull almost everything. For me the best part is the framework around the bogies.