February 19, 20169 yr Here's my 1949 Central Vermont 'Ambassador'. https://www.flickr.com/photos/66991564@N00/21211322638/in/faves-36177188@N03/ It's about 20 straight track segments long. There was a fifth car planned for the train, but I wasn't able to get enough dark red before the show.
March 20, 20168 yr hello all, i saw this topic some time ago and i remembered that i had made a train in LDD which is pretty large, and i have decided to show it to you. I took a total of 11 separated parts, a normal locomotive, a some-kind-of living wagon for the engineers (i dont know the exactly name), a B unit locomotive and 8 normal flat wagons that i made; i made all these parts to be huge, but when i put them together (after my PC almost get freezed), i found that the whole train was 1132 studs long, what is about 29,7 feet or 9 meters long, so yes, it is pretty big and i hope you like it: The locomotive and the "living wagon": http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/imanolB/mega-train/mega_train.png The B unit: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/imanolB/mega-train/mega_train_b_locomotive.png The wagon: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/imanolB/mega-train/mega_train_wagon.png And the whole train: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/imanolB/mega-train/mega_train_completed.png I hope you like it, if there is people interested i may open a topic for it, thank you. Edited April 13, 20168 yr by Rick Please keep embedded images to a max. resolution of 1024x768px
March 21, 20168 yr Yes it's long, but tbh, anyone could go into LDD, design a truck and then copy & paste it multiple times. Heck, I could make one a mile long if I wanted. My point is that it's not really that impressive an achievement in LDD. It'd be much more impressive if you had photos of a REAL long train.
March 21, 20168 yr Here is a long train that might peak some interests but I don't ever see it brick built http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/hex/hex.htm http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/quadruplex/quadrapl.htm Everyone wants a Quadplex locomotive.... End segway.
March 21, 20168 yr Yes it's long, but tbh, anyone could go into LDD, design a truck and then copy & paste it multiple times. Heck, I could make one a mile long if I wanted. My point is that it's not really that impressive an achievement in LDD. It'd be much more impressive if you had photos of a REAL long train. what i mean is that the train, or at least the wagons, would be a nice choice to build long trains without needing too many wagons, you can have less wagons but still have a longer train, so it would look much more real than the normal lego wagons that arent too big, and sadly, i dont have the pieces to build the train, but if in the future i build it, i will post it.
March 22, 20168 yr Here is my long train which was exhibited last weekend in one of my LUG events in Bucharest, Romania. In the video the loco moves six more wagons which were built by my LUG colleague Balogh Laszlo ( the blue platforms ). LEGO Long Train 2 by Severus A, on Flickr LEGO Long Train 1 by Severus A, on Flickr LEGO Long Train 3 by Severus A, on Flickr LEGO Long Train by Severus A, on Flickr
April 2, 20168 yr Finally got of my backside to make a video of my recently completed BR Mk1s. I think it belongs in this thread..?
April 2, 20168 yr Finally got of my backside to make a video of my recently completed BR Mk1s. I think it belongs in this thread..? Wow, that's a really impressive rake! Great colour on the engine too.
April 3, 20168 yr Finally got of my backside to make a video of my recently completed BR Mk1s. I think it belongs in this thread..? Not only long, but indeed very impressive as well.
April 4, 20168 yr Author Pretty impressive indeed.. and, for this thread, it is really long, so yes, it belongs in this thread!!
April 6, 20168 yr My longest trains my NYNH&H passenger train. Though it's only a motor and three cars, it's 13.3 ft long (~4 m) the shortest cars are 54 studs long each. I'm also working on a fourth car for it, of the same design as the dark green one in the video greenmtvince posted a few replies up. This will put it at 16.6 ft (~5 m) long
April 6, 20168 yr Author It hardly looks like Lego, but i really like it.. can you post some extra pictures, that would be nice!! The length is okay for this thread
April 11, 20168 yr can you post some extra pictures, that would be nice!! This is the only other one I have of the whole train together: I've got more pics of the individual cars on my Flickr though: NYNH&H EP-3, RPO-baggage, baggage car, heavyweight coach 41 railcars. And there's Tony setting the bar another level higher ;-)
April 12, 20168 yr 41 railcars. https://www.flickr.c...ie/25759188424/ --Tony You win. How do you get enough traction?
April 13, 20168 yr 41 railcars. https://www.flickr.c...ie/25759188424/ --Tony Wow!! That is really something! Especially impressive is that everything is scratch built. If you look close at about 1 min mark, you can see the caboose on the other side of the table. Has the Mallet been highlighted anyplace? I'd love to see some close-ups of that and know the details of how it is powered. Well done!
April 13, 20168 yr At our show this past weekend, NILTC, we had a loco and tender pull 15 Maersk flat cars with containers, which was a distance of 16 feet and 6 inches... But then Sava goes and blows it away. So now, no point to post the pic...:( But hey, credit to Tony!!! As a side note, the loco pulling the 15 cars was one of Mr. Sava's designs.
April 14, 20168 yr A few months ago I recorded a video where I used long trains. I lost unfortunately most pictures but I have these two left: Edited April 14, 20168 yr by AlmightyArjen
May 18, 20168 yr From PennLUG's most recent show at Philly Brick Fest 2016. MVI_5813 by Cale Leiphart, on Flickr A new locomotive I've been working on. Cale
May 18, 20168 yr Digging through my archives, from about 9 years ago I do have a 47 car train that ran for a few hours and a 51 car train that ran for a few loops. Both used 9v motors and standard lego curves.
May 18, 20168 yr This is the only other one I have of the whole train together: I've got more pics of the individual cars on my Flickr though: NYNH&H EP-3, RPO-baggage, baggage car, heavyweight coach And there's Tony setting the bar another level higher ;-) As if we needed a stronger argument against the 6-stud standard. Wow.
May 19, 20168 yr Here is pirzyk's train running last weekend at our show. It was 42 cars but not nearly as long as Tony's. Depending on the layout size, we plan to go bigger at Brickworld, especially with ME curves.
May 19, 20168 yr Well crap, I don't have a photo of my longest train thus far. I ran three PF locomotives on 8 heavy freight cars the other night (batteries were dying, hence 3).
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