Budapest CAF Urbos 3 tram (LDD)

[Ashi Valkoinen]

Hello everyone,

new year, time for a new train MOC, which is actually a tram. Budapest bought last your 37 new trams from the spanish CAF vechile manufacturer, some of the trams arrived by now and working with passangers as well. There are 25 shorter ones from the Urbos 3 type trams, with 5 sections, 3 with wheels and 2 just suspended between the other three sections. Longer ones are now actually the longest trams of thw world with their 56 meters, 9 sections with similar arrangement to the shorter ones.

I've designed the shorter tram in my Lego Digital Designer and used technical drawings to replicate the tram as good as possible from LEGO-bricks.

1. Side view. Maybe you notice that the windows have different sizes and positioning, according to the technical drawing I got (unfortunately I'm not allowed to publicate it) there are two different sizes for windows. Another difficulty was the height of the glass in the doors, it obviously end higher than the glass of the windows on the real thing.

2. The entire row for windows is built in SNOT. The SNOT row has 6 studs height, 4 studs for glass, 1-1 studs are black. Doors' SNOT tehcnique is connected to the main SNOT row, but the top of the door is 1 half plate and two plates instead of one stud to insert a trans black tile there for the door's glass.

3. Half plates are connected to the roof. Driver's cab's door is able to opened manually.

4. Driver's cab.

5. Approx. 2300 parts. Won't be a cheap MOC, will it be?

Comments and critics, as always, welcome.

[THERIZE]

Looks good. And more then 2000 bricks is A LOT. I like the the sloped front that narrows. could you show the coupling mechanism?

Ps. What is the other locomotive in the last picture?

[bricks n bolts]

Love the proportions, very clean lines

All the thinking about snot work has definetly paid off with the door and windows.

Let us know when you get the bricklink estimate!

[Man with a hat]

wonderful design. Good job on the driver's cab. Fantastic that you managed that including an interior.

[Redimus]

Hmmm, the front side windows look like they could be rather fragile, might it be worth shortening the windows by one plate and adding some overlapping black plates to sure them up a bit?

Looks wise, it's really cool.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Very cool!

[dr_spock]

Looking good. If money is no object, a 9 section version would be impressive.

[marbleman]

Impressive, could you show more detail about how the door moving?

[Ashi Valkoinen]

Looks good. And more then 2000 bricks is A LOT. I like the the sloped front that narrows. could you show the coupling mechanism?

Ps. What is the other locomotive in the last picture?

The other "locomotive" is my Tatra T5C5 type tram from Budapest. I used it in the LDD-model for height and lenght reference since I'm trying to create my models to be proportional to each other as well.

You can find pictures of it in this folder:

http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=544071

For coupling I used technic beams, one end is put on studs (jumper plates), other end is on 2×2 tile with technic pin. See the picture at the end of this post.

This tram also exist for real, but unfortunately I have simply taken no photos since I finished it last year Christmas. I changed some details, especially the coupling on the tram, later I'll upload the updated LDD-file and screenshots as well.

Love the proportions, very clean lines

All the thinking about snot work has definetly paid off with the door and windows.

Let us know when you get the bricklink estimate!

I guess this tram will cost around 200€ for me, just parts (trans black 1×2 plates could be really expensive and I need 12 of them for each door), and it will need two PF-motors, receiver and battery box as well. I hope I'll find money for this project this summer, but truly said, with salaries in Hungary, paying the same price for LEGO-products as everyone else around the globe, it takes sometimes years for me to get the money for my designs.

wonderful design. Good job on the driver's cab. Fantastic that you managed that including an interior.

Thanks you, interior is always really important for me, I can't imagine my MOCs without trying to give inside details as well.

Hmmm, the front side windows look like they could be rather fragile, might it be worth shortening the windows by one plate and adding some overlapping black plates to sure them up a bit?

Looks wise, it's really cool.

Thanks for comment, the driver's cab's side window has a trans black 1×2 plate inside, and the glass is connected to the yellow part inside the driver's cab. I think it won't be fragile, but fortunately there is enough space inside for more strengthening if it needs it.

Very cool!

Thanks you!

Looking good. If money is no object, a 9 section version would be impressive.

Yes, actually the longest tram all around the world with its 56 metres. OF course, I designed it in my LDD, too. Fun fact, the tram section with two doors is shorter than the other one with one door, and has a third type window, with different size from the other two. :D

Unfortunately money is object, I hope I can finish with the shorter one this summer, and then maybe I'll upgrade it to the longer version.

Impressive, could you show more detail about how the door moving?

It is really simple, just an 1×4 hinge plate which can be turned into 2×2 plate.

[Severus A]

It might take some time but I am sure you will put it on the rails in LEGO version. Good luck!