idlemarvel Posted January 16, 2024 Posted January 16, 2024 Nowhere near as impressive as the 4-6-4 Hudson in another thread, but here is another grey streamlned steam loco. This is a bit of a weird one. The "Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn" (LBE) was a private railway line in North Germany that later became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. In their expansion plan in the 1930s they upgraded the line to Hamburg to allow 120 kph speeds and designed and built stream-lined steam tank locos and double-deck carriages with control car to run push-pull between terminii. One of these locos was LBE 1 (later 60 001) which was a 2-4-2T (1'B'1). http://www.rainerspringer.de/fuhrpark/lbe_lok_gross.jpg It typically pulled a pair of double deck carriages with a shared middle bogie. http://www.luebeck-buechener-eisenbahn.de/images/LBE-Wagen/Bilder/Doppelstock/Wagen_Dosto_Bild_09.JPG My first attempt below. To allow for streamlining the width is 6 plus 1 1/2 plates each side or just over 7 studs. Length is 34 studs. This attempt uses an L motor and City hub where the boiler would be. This makes the boiler too wide really, so I might try swapping the motor and hub around or if that doesn't work I might resort to putting the hub in the carriage as they were almost permanently coupled IRL. There's no room in the model for train crew. The loco livery was grey and it was known the the passengers as "Mickey Mouse". Quote
Darkkostas25 Posted January 16, 2024 Posted January 16, 2024 Very nice engine ! love the looks of it! adore motorization in it! very nice body shaping! Quote
ivanlan9 Posted January 16, 2024 Posted January 16, 2024 Tots adorbs, man. Although I have to say it looks like a steam-powered bratwurst. Quote
Toastie Posted January 16, 2024 Posted January 16, 2024 2 hours ago, idlemarvel said: The "Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn" (LBE) was a private railway line in North Germany Oh my - I love your BR60 >per definition< as I was born about 50 km north-west from Lübeck in Jübek; you should not travel that much to the west though when you go up north, as you soon enough end up in the North Sea That is a very nice rendition of that locomotive I have never seen before! Best, Thorsten Quote
TeddytheSpoon Posted January 17, 2024 Posted January 17, 2024 (edited) Wow, I didn't know they made streamlined tank engines as well! Saves the need to build any pesky running gear very nice model. Edited January 17, 2024 by TeddytheSpoon Quote
idlemarvel Posted January 17, 2024 Author Posted January 17, 2024 There are quite a few German streamlined tank engines. The class 61 (also know as the Henschel-Wegmann train) ran on the Berlin-Dresden line and set the records for the world's fastest steam loco on the Hamburg-Berlin line at 185 kmph. It had a set of 5 matching streamlined coaches as well. See here for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel-Wegmann_Train This was a 4-6-4T, and the second model was a 4-6-6T. Bluebrixx do a model of it, see here: https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/trains/103071/Henschel-Wegmann-Locomotive-BRIX There are other streamlined tank engines, see classes DRG 74 and 77. 22 hours ago, Darkkostas25 said: Very nice engine ! love the looks of it! adore motorization in it! very nice body shaping! 21 hours ago, ivanlan9 said: Tots adorbs, man. Although I have to say it looks like a steam-powered bratwurst. 21 hours ago, Toastie said: Oh my - I love your BR60 >per definition< as I was born about 50 km north-west from Lübeck in Jübek; you should not travel that much to the west though when you go up north, as you soon enough end up in the North Sea That is a very nice rendition of that locomotive I have never seen before! Best, Thorsten 12 hours ago, TeddytheSpoon said: Wow, I didn't know they made streamlined tank engines as well! Saves the need to build any pesky running gear very nice model. Thank you for all your kind comments. As I said I need to make a few more iterations of the design, then I have to think about the double decker coaches, so it will be some time if this ever gets built. But at least it shouldn't be hard to get the coloured parts for the loco as it is 99% dark blue grey! Quote
DAN42BR Posted January 17, 2024 Posted January 17, 2024 Wow, very nice model. I haven't built a streamlined locomotive yet either! Would you share the LDD with me?? Greetings from Austria Quote
zephyr1934 Posted January 18, 2024 Posted January 18, 2024 That thing is crazy (the prototype that is), great start on the MOC too Quote
idlemarvel Posted January 19, 2024 Author Posted January 19, 2024 On 1/17/2024 at 8:46 PM, DAN42BR said: Wow, very nice model. I haven't built a streamlined locomotive yet either! Would you share the LDD with me?? Greetings from Austria Sure I can share the LDD. How do you want me to send it to you? Email, file sharing or Rebrickable? Quote
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