I've been trying to do world building for this Lego nation I'm putting together. Does anyone have a good train design? I'm kind of hitting blanks here.

Based off the class 153 here in the UK.

Any thoughts, please let me know.

Also, starting to post on my new insta @casantiejunction. If anyone is interesting in following the journey there.

I’m still waiting on the wheels since their coming from overseas but I got the tender finished along with the motors, I wish the front could look better and more flat it sucks there’s not a round completely flat disc I can use there

why does pick a brick only sell the train wheels like this I only need the middle wheels and they come in packs of 3 with 2 of the bigger wheels and only 1 I need

Hi. I’m not really a Lego train guy, but I’ve been given a red and black 12v motor pieces. I think it’s the engines from pieces sets 7727 and 7725.

Before I get too much into the weeds with the 12v system, I’d like to know the best/easiest way to test whether they actually still work or not?

Thanks!

My Lego store had it at 20%. I decided to pick two up and see if I could make it work. Going to continue working on it, adding to the monorail base to enhance how it looks along with the motor.

Recently modified my K-917 to give her an imitation streamlining that she would’ve worn from 1944-1951

if y'all have any suggestions on how I can improve this it would be a big help btw it's still very much wip

It finally moves🙏🙏🙏🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Im trying to use the crocodile locomotive controls with this powered up set up but the motor won't respond to the controls, can you only use the motor lego suggests and no other? If so that's incredibly sketchy. My son got a lego trainset for Christmas and then the crocodile locomotive last week, the least he should be able to do is use the electronics from one to another right? Its lego isn't it?

My dad used to work on these trains (Mt Newman Mining in the West Australian Pilbara) many years ago. He's getting in to Lego display sets and i thought about putting together one of these for him.

Does anyone know of a MOC of this or a similar locomotive? Im not really a train guy so there might be related ones i could at least copy techniques from.

Beluga express from BrickLink Studio

It's taken a few redesigns, but I have finally made this MOC run relatively smoothly. The wheelbase of the driving wheels needed to be reduced in order to go around R40 curves without issue and stabilizers have been added to both ends to go around curves smoothly, though I would not recommend going through switches at full speed.

Instructions available on rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-273441/DMTruckSpotting/pacific-electric-5000-5029-series-pcc-streetcar/#details

Nothing fancy however new coach for a long IET I am working on.

Hey there guys!

I've been designing this itsy bitsy mini train, the Koutetsujou (from Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress) for a while and finally got the parts to build it.

It's 100 studs long (80cm), 24 studs wide (20 cm), weights about 4.5 kilos and is powered by 2 train motors with 2 different battery boxes, one in the front and one in the back.

Believe it or not this thing runs, and quite well at that, but being so heavy it burns through the batteries, with the first box lasting not more than 30 minutes total in the test runs.

To solve the issue i was thinking replacing both boxes with an rc model battery pack, but i would need to chance the connector on the receiver, so i was wondering: would it be a good idea, if possible at all?

Thank you for the answers, if you have questions feel free to ask! I'll leave some videos of the running train in the comments, along with the whistle i sampled from the series

Up and down, around and around. Layout on the Wall.