Electricsteam Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 (edited) This project has been about 4 years in the making, many diffrent designs and ideas have brought me to finnaly being able to produce this train. It's been a long 4 years when I set out making pneumatic trains after not being happy with the trains out there at the time, most of those trains had mostly exposed Technic or just a Technic entirely. No model was really made for show, There was a few like Big Blue and a few G scale train. Anyways I'm proud to present to you.... Drum roll please! The pneumatic 4-8-2 mountain! (Pretend it has the back wheels plz) Got the who gang together for this! Comparison to the city square building/vehicle Comparison to the light rail! Comparison to one of the trains that started it all! I'm so happy to have 90% of the locomotive done! Yes the tender will come later just working out how to fir the pneumatics! I really hope you guys here like the locomotive! -------------------------- History! ------------------- The first pneumatic train started out as a rigid 0-8-0 train. It was incredibly ugly and the only folks who saw it was a now disbanded RichLUG 2012-2013 The ESCO Behemoth A big ugly moving brick! The first train looking pneumatic train! 2013-2014 ESCO Goliath, It never was able to run and it was very front heavy and wasn't suitable for rails. (What gas station was that?) 2015-2016 GOAL COMPLETED. I think I'll always have these things being planned in the back of my head, this has been my longest Lego project ever, I'm so happy to have it just about complete I think I could cry *snif* I hope you guys enjoy! Thank all of you for helping me with this project over the years! Edited March 15, 2016 by Electricsteam Quote
Murdoch17 Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Good work! How many tracks long is it projected to be, as in when the tender is done? It looks like two or three tracks long so far, which is impressive because of the pneumatic equipment installed. What do you have in mind for your next project after the tender is done? coaches or a freight train? a station or engine shed? Can't wait to see what you'll do next! Quote
Electricsteam Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Good work! How many tracks long is it projected to be, as in when the tender is done? It looks like two or three tracks long so far, which is impressive because of the pneumatic equipment installed. What do you have in mind for your next project after the tender is done? coaches or a freight train? a station or engine shed? Can't wait to see what you'll do next! The engine is about 3 tracks long, I am not entirely sure about the tender, I might make it a separate moc depending on how Technic it is. And I have no clue what to do for the next project I was thinking about working on a layout, I got a bunch of cool baseplates at a thrift store I that I really want to use Quote
Hod Carrier Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 Great looking build!! It will be interesting to see how much grunt she's got once the tender is complete. Do you reckon she'd out-drag a PF loco? Just a quick observation about the wheel arrangement. The overhang for the firebox and cab looks big enough to go to 4-8-4 or even 4-10-2 (assuming there's space for another driver) if you wanted. I hadn't realised there was so much space back there until just now. Quote
Electricsteam Posted March 16, 2016 Author Posted March 16, 2016 Great looking build!! It will be interesting to see how much grunt she's got once the tender is complete. Do you reckon she'd out-drag a PF loco? Just a quick observation about the wheel arrangement. The overhang for the firebox and cab looks big enough to go to 4-8-4 or even 4-10-2 (assuming there's space for another driver) if you wanted. I hadn't realised there was so much space back there until just now. I really wanted to stick a medium BBB driver back there on a heavy duty truck. It's going to be a mater of traction i think for the train, right now it has very little grip but a lot of weight and power, I think I should buy from bullfrog snot. If I added another driver it would mess up the fire box so there is that. For the tender I'd need 6 small pumps and 2 air tanks an L motor and a batterybox, The tanks are about 6-8 by 4 wide by about 3-4 bricks tall so thats two of those, then the 6 pumps with the structure to hold them up and move them, then the large motor to drive it all, and of course power. I feel like a 9v adapter thing to PF would save batteries if I decide to bring it to convention. Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 Ooooh sweet conclusion of a very long brain activity ...ok the tender has yet to be made but the locomotive "drumroll" : is amazing! And the topic is totally cool with so many details of your first steps picture and video! I like to see for the first time a real pneumatic locomotive and not a block of pieces without any details. Now we want to see the whole work 100% complete! Quote
Electricsteam Posted March 17, 2016 Author Posted March 17, 2016 Ooooh sweet conclusion of a very long brain activity ...ok the tender has yet to be made but the locomotive "drumroll" : is amazing! And the topic is totally cool with so many details of your first steps picture and video! I like to see for the first time a real pneumatic locomotive and not a block of pieces without any details. Now we want to see the whole work 100% complete! The 100% might take a bit.... Trying to find 6 air pumps for a decent price is hard, its just about 5$ per pump at the moment all spread out over different stores. I should have the two air tanks and maybe 1-3 of the pumps but I doubt I'd be able to find them any time soon >.< Quote
Electricsteam Posted March 17, 2016 Author Posted March 17, 2016 Here is a bit longer video of the train in action guys... Enjoy! Quote
Electricsteam Posted March 20, 2016 Author Posted March 20, 2016 Some folks have mentioned that maybe I should make the train a 4-8-4. What do you guys think? I was thinking about a heavy duty truck there using the medium BBB wheels. Quote
THERIZE Posted March 20, 2016 Posted March 20, 2016 After a quick look on the web I also think a 4-8-4 would look better as it gives the locomotive a more robust and gigantic look. Just google 4-8-4 and also 4-8-2 and I think it is clear that a 4-8-4 with a doubled amount of trailing wheels looks stronger and heavier and that it really needs those wheels to support the giant firebox. So I'd say 4-8-4. Quote
Brickthus Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 I guess the tender will be filled by a motor an a few mini compressors? If you add two of these pneumatic reverser circuits then you can make it change direction and go in reverse: In each case the two hoses bottom left connect to the valve on the side of the boiler and the two on the right to the cylinder it drives. Actuate all 8 valves with a PF motor and some Linear Actuators instead of the cylinders in the picture above and you can make it hands-free. Mark Quote
Severus A Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 It looks great. I wish you to finish soon your locomotive. It would be a pleasure to see it running. Quote
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