Murdoch17 Posted June 21, 2021 Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) Does you track need to be repaired after a major storm? Want to connect Point A to Point B with a brand new rail-line? Did the Flying Kipper have another accident on the main line? Or maybe you want to upgrade the signaling and double track the line at the same time? Call out the Maintenance Of Way (MOW) train to fix all these problems and more! This train consists of a late-1950's diesel locomotive, or a mid-1930's large eight-driving wheel steam engine and six specialty cars: - a (working!) crane car - depressed-center rail wagon - a (working!) ballast hopper - a tanker car - workman's tool car - caboose The 4-8-4 steam loco is new-to-me, and began life as a 2-8-4 Berkshire type built by Plastic_Goth and purchased from Rebrickable a seen here. To make this steamer, I upped the wheel count of @Plastic_Goth's locomotive by another leading axle, making it into a 4-8-4 Northern-type from the original 2-8-4 as built in the instructions. The new piston / wheel assembly is entirely my own work, as is the completely new 7-wide tender. The inside of the cab features two gauges and the firebox door. This model was originally a ALCO MRS-1 built by @SavaTheAggie, but has been so severely modified that it no longer looks like the prototype loco. So I went searching And found another ALCO locomotive, a RSD-12 that looks like my loco. Both my model and the prototype have the six wheels, and the same basic hood and cab design. The long hood of the loco has been designated the rear with a double red light. This car carries liquid weed killer for use after the track has been laid. This stream crane model was heavily inspired by Whoward69's instructions for a set of crane and match truck train cars. I modified the original model seen here. (sadly, it seems his Flickr profile and pictures has been deleted) I originally meant for the crane to have ropes to move the boom, but it got confusing on which rope went where so for now it's moved by the H.O.G. (Hand Of God) method. The crane can spin around in 360 degrees and lift anywhere up to 90 degrees straight up. (Their is a double set of pins keeping the boom from going too low, as well.) The heavy-duty depressed-center wagon has brick-built arms to secure the cargo of prefabricated railroad track in place. This model was inspired by a coal hopper on an older website called LGauge .com. I turned the old finger hinges into new pin-orientated ones and colored the car yellow to match the MOW paint scheme. The hopper's bottom doors open and can dump 1 x 1 round plates / bricks onto the tracks for ballast. This old passenger car carries the workmen and their tools. The caboose features two ladders (one per side) and more of those fancy printed 2 x 4 tiles. If you like what you see in this topic, check out the home base of the train and assorted other vehicles in this thread here! Thoughts? Comments, Suggestions, & Complaints always welcome! Edited July 11, 2021 by Murdoch17 Quote
Barkmi4 Posted June 21, 2021 Posted June 21, 2021 Looks awesome. There is potential to add functionality to the crane. The 60198 crane has quite a lot of functionality in a compact wagon which could help with ideas, if you are inclined to do so. Would be nice to see a video of it in action when complete. Thanks for sharing. Quote
cava Posted June 22, 2021 Posted June 22, 2021 Very nice idea and wonderful building! Thanks for sharing your work. Quote
Murdoch17 Posted June 22, 2021 Author Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) 17 hours ago, Barkmi4 said: Looks awesome. There is potential to add functionality to the crane. The 60198 crane has quite a lot of functionality in a compact wagon which could help with ideas, if you are inclined to do so. Would be nice to see a video of it in action when complete. Thanks for sharing. Thanks @Barkmi4, I'll look into redoing the crane with more functionality. 6 hours ago, cava said: Very nice idea and wonderful building! Thanks for sharing your work. No problem @cava! Thank you for the compliment! This yellow 4-8-4 model has been ordered as of yesterday. Above shows what parts have been found in my own collection. ...and to whoever front-paged me and this topic, thanks! It's my first time ever having that honor since joining Eurobricks in 2010. Edited June 22, 2021 by Murdoch17 Quote
Man with a hat Posted June 23, 2021 Posted June 23, 2021 Nice to see a complete MOW train with all the required wagons. And I see some nice vintage parts as well. Quote
JopieK Posted June 24, 2021 Posted June 24, 2021 On 6/22/2021 at 5:17 PM, Murdoch17 said: ...and to whoever front-paged me and this topic, thanks! It's my first time ever having that honor since joining Eurobricks in 2010. Very much deserved @Murdoch17 Quote
Murdoch17 Posted June 28, 2021 Author Posted June 28, 2021 On 6/23/2021 at 8:46 AM, Man with a hat said: Nice to see a complete MOW train with all the required wagons. And I see some nice vintage parts as well. Thanks @Man with a hat! Those yellow 2422's on the track holder car were a very neat part to work with, among others. On 6/24/2021 at 11:24 AM, JopieK said: Very much deserved @Murdoch17 Thank you @JopieK, you made my month. Written words cannot express my gratitude for this, no joke. (Emoji's might try, though: ) Quote
Murdoch17 Posted July 11, 2021 Author Posted July 11, 2021 @Plastic_Goth's instructions based MOD have finally been built in real life! Here is the loco in all it's glory! …and here is the crew! Left to Right: Conductor: Charles "Charlie" Newman Engineer: Maximilien "Max" Stepwell Fireman: Joseph "Joe" Branson ..also, almost all the photos have been redone, with the weed killer tanker and crew car pictures added to the first post! Quote
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