More train MOCs.

A couple of freight cars i've been working on.
These will be part of a future train set.







Each one is 24 studs long and uses about 90 1x2 tiles.

Your carriages look very impressive, I am looking forward to seeing your completely finished creation

AWESOME rolling stock 'Red_Five'.....keep going and Brick On !

Looking great, Do the doors open?

Ajax wrote:Looking great, Do the doors open?

No, like my other train creation these doors are fixed.

Very nice looking carriages Red_Five! To me they wouldn't look out of place in a wild west setting.

Red Five, great wagons.

I am very impressed by the use of discoloured bricks to show ageing on the grey wagon.

Well done!

BrickManLJ wrote:Very nice looking carriages Red_Five! To me they wouldn't look out of place in a wild west setting.

Thanks, but I don't have any plans for a wild west train. Not yet.
For some reason the Americans always favoured 4 axle wagons.

Excellent goods vans Red Five, the weathered appearance is a great touch.

Red_Five wrote:For some reason the Americans always favoured 4 axle wagons.

In the west it was most likely a result of keeping the axle load down. Since European railroads were more likely to be shorter and state funded rather than private, the extra expense of building the track to cope with greater loading was less of a problem, so two axle cars are more common.

peterab wrote:

Red_Five wrote:For some reason the Americans always favoured 4 axle wagons.

In the west it was most likely a result of keeping the axle load down. Since European railroads were more likely to be shorter and state funded rather than private, the extra expense of building the track to cope with greater loading was less of a problem, so two axle cars are more common.

10 out of 10 for that answer.
And I should have known that.

A small update.
This one is somewhere between 7 and 8 wide, still a work in progress...


I used a Lego rubber band and two 1x2 plates with arms to connect the axles.

Another boxcar, this one is refrigerated .



Based on this model, I feel my version is slightly too short.

Nice fridge car.....true, a bit longer might help.
Brick On 'Red_Five' !

Nice work with your refrigerated boxcar Red_Five. I guess you're right about the length, only I do wonder if you'd have problems getting it around Lego curves if it was longer.

Another little part (a structure) for my future train set. This building is a gatehouse and it will sit next to a level crossing.



I'll need a ton of dark red 1x2's. Used about 50 of them so far.




There is a piece of metal wire inside each pnuematic hose, so they stay bent.

That's a very appealing little gatehouse and i love all the little details. The roofline certainly adds character and small flower garden and the flagstone paving are nice touches that make a work-a-day structure plainly a place where somebody cares about keeping their workplace a pleasant place to be.
I've been tempted to make walls from 1x2s as well because they look so good, - only you need so many of them to build a decent wall and it can be a pain trying to find enough of them.

Locomotive Annie wrote:That's a very appealing little gatehouse and i love all the little details. The roofline certainly adds character and small flower garden and the flagstone paving are nice touches that make a work-a-day structure plainly a place where somebody cares about keeping their workplace a pleasant place to be.
I've been tempted to make walls from 1x2s as well because they look so good, - only you need so many of them to build a decent wall and it can be a pain trying to find enough of them.

Sorry, I failed to read your previous post! Those axles on my 'fridge car are about 16 studs apart, like the other boxcars I posted, and it tends to slow down the loco when going through corners and switches/points. Making it longer should not be a problem, as long as you have a flexible connection between the axles.

Finding enough 1x2 plates for a structure can be frustrating, yeah, but Bricklink.com should solve all of that.