Posted June 24, 201410 yr A video made by Scott Miller of some of the trains running on the PennLUG/Texas Brick Railroad joint layout at Brickworld Chicago 2014. --Tony
June 25, 201410 yr I loved that video and so did my 19 month old daughter. Tank! by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts (awesome choice of song BTW) got her dancing and then she wanted to see what the music was all about, so I showed her and she was pointing out the trains and counting cars and saying colors. We had to watch it two more times (fine by me!,) then go see Daddy's trains, and then go build some of her own with her junior megablocks. First time she really took an interest in the LEGO trains. Though I may have to re-gear my 2-8-0 for more speed and less torque to be like some of the locomotives in the video that really caught her attention.
June 25, 201410 yr yeah,Though I may have to re-gear my 2-8-0 for more speed and less torque to be like some of the locomotives in the video that really caught her attention.thanks Edited June 25, 201410 yr by yuesrcegbs
June 25, 201410 yr I have space envy... Looking great. Just wish I had the space to run long trains like that...
June 25, 201410 yr Long trains are nice, but you don't need em to be too long to look impresive in L Gauge, especially if you're used to 00 or N, they look so big in comparison.
June 26, 201410 yr I had seen the pictures and I love the setup. The first time I saw the plans of a joint layout I was quite sure it would be awesome but it turned out even better. :thumbup:
June 26, 201410 yr Author Early during Brickworld, but sadly not on video, we had my Allegheny pulling 28 cars. Not a record though, and we should have tried for one. My current record for the Allegheny is 32 cars, which stopped there not because of the locomotive but because of the tight LEGO curves - the cars were falling over from the lateral stress. With an all Grand Curve layout that issue would have been resolved, and we could have really tested her. Dangit. --Tony
June 27, 201410 yr Early during Brickworld, but sadly not on video, we had my Allegheny pulling 28 cars. Not a record though, and we should have tried for one. My current record for the Allegheny is 32 cars, which stopped there not because of the locomotive but because of the tight LEGO curves - the cars were falling over from the lateral stress. With an all Grand Curve layout that issue would have been resolved, and we could have really tested her. Dangit. --Tony I was fortunate enough to run some of my long cars on the BW PennLUG layout last year. The curves are fantastic, but at least for my long cars they actually created more drag than the normal lego curves. For example, my full set of superliners only made it around once or twice before the IR receiver started cutting out, I can sometimes go a complete charge on normal lego curves with the same train. It looked great in the photos though (grin). Nate was way too accommodating of my son (thanks again) so I did not want to hang out there too long debugging my train. It could be made to work, it would just need a second IR receiver, but I'm digressing, the one thing I THINK it shows is that those curves can have more drag. (Come on ME Models, come on) So you might not have been able to hit a record anyway.
June 27, 201410 yr These look so good. I would love to be able to get to a show like this at some point, but I do not think I have ever seen anything like this advertised locally. It must be really good to be there knowing that you have created such a big layout with such nice looking engines and wagons able to run them on such a large circuit.
July 7, 201410 yr This event always brings us nice views from its layouts and MOC trains. It's cool to see the trains making the curves!
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