Santa Fe SuperCap (Super Chief + El Capitan) build in Lego
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- After getting my hands on a Santa Fe Pleasure Dome railcar, I found out, that instructions for a B-unit and a full El Capitan consist exist. Over the timeframe of about 3 months, I've gathered all the light and dark grey bricks, that I needed to build these.
The entire consist are 2 limited edition 10020 Santa Fe EMD F7 locomotive, 2 F7B B-units (each with a 9V motor), 3 x 10022 (dining, observation and sleeper car), 2 x 10025 (railroad post office and baggage car), Pleasure Dome and 6 Hi-Level El Capitan railcars (I build 2 Transition Coaches, one for each end).
To be able to even move this train on my fairly large layout, I need 3 regulators along the track and I had to replace the magnets with stronger ones, which were sourced from Bevins Bricks and Lifelites.
The stickers on all cars, that aren't official sets, where sourced from BrickStickerShop.
00:00 Introduction
00:21 The original Super Chief sets
01:35 10022 Santa Fe EMD F7
04:02 Inside the locomotive
05:07 Inside the Super Chief baggage car
05:22 Inside the Super Chief postal car
05:34 Inside the Super Chief dining car
05:47 Inside the Super Chief observation car
06:38 Inside the Super Chief sleeper
07:07 The Santa Fe EMD F7B B-unit
07:38 Inside the B-unit
08:39 The Super Chief Pleasure Dome
09:10 Inside the Super Chief Pleasure Dome
11:37 The Santa Fe Hi-Level El Capitan
12:11 The El Capitan Dormitory Baggage car
12:34 Inside the Dormitory Baggage car
12:40 The El Capitan Transition Coach
13:09 Inside the El Capitan Transition Coach
13:51 The El Capitan Coach
14:02 Inside the El Capitan Coach
14:10 The El Capitan Dining car
14:21 Inside the El Capitan Dining car
15:12 The El Capitan Sky Lounge
15:33 Inside the El Capitan Sky Lounge
16:05 Trains in motion - Авто та транспорт
This belongs into a Lego museum! Wow
I remember badly wanting the Super Chief sets when I was a kid. Thanks for the effort of bringing this all together and showing it to us
I wish I had got more stuff from James when he was active with Lego trains - nice to see these actually running and not just a render. Impressive
It took a lot of effort to get the whole consist running. Stronger magnets were the key and in the future wheel bearings. It's a shame, that James isn't active anymore. There's lots of interesting things on his brickshelf.
17:02 my mind just blew away, when i saw this🤯 incredible!
Very nice! My only suggestion to get the right "look" would be to move the Super Chief's baggage car to the front of the train when combining the Super Chief and El Capitan. Also, whenever the 2 trains were combined they left out the observation car and had a standard sleeper as the last car, the Super Chief herald being placed on the outside of the last vestibule on the last car. Alternatively, you could also replace the observation car with a baggage car as that variation ran sometimes as well. The combined Super Chief-El Capitan originally ran during the off-season (probably during the late fall and winter months) when ridership for both trains would be lower and it made sense to combine them, the rest of the year (through the spring and summer) they ran as separate trains. By the end of passenger service on the Santa Fe and the start of Amtrak, though, the combination had been made permanent due to overall lower ridership because of the airlines and interstate road system. The train would operate in this combined configuration like this for several years under Amtrak until Amtrak refitted the whole train with new Superliner cars which are still in use today on the Southwest Chief. The name remained as the Super Chief-El Capitan under Amtrak until Santa Fe requested Amtrak change the name due to a decline in the quality of service which the Santa Fe thought unfitting of the Chief name, so in response Amtrak changed the name to the Southwest Limited. Once the train had been refitted with Superliners and the quality of service had sufficiently improved Amtrak was given permission to revive the Chief name and so renamed the train to the Southwest Chief as it is known today.
The limited edition ones were all originally shipped with a separate bag with the correct bars. Most resellers don’t realize this and some people that bought these and never opened them either forgot or didn’t pay attention to why a bag of parts was included in the box with the order
I sort of like the dark grey bars. They basically tell the story, that it's a real limited edition one.
Thank you for sharing this with the community. Cant wait to see Bricktsar finish the B unit.
This has answered some of the obscure coaches I've been looking for. Thx!
Such a beautiful train, shame we probably won’t get anything like it again, at least not for a while.
Super cool and expensive 😮
Awesome work! Amazing to see it all come together, I loved the history overview as well 👍
I had intended even to bring in some historic footage for a comparison, but I couldn't get a clarification on the copyright. Maybe another time.
Very impressive!
Excellent stuff, you did a lot of good work here. 😍
I learned a lot with this video. Thanks for taking the time.
12:36 a dorm car is for employees to sleep. As you pointed out, these train journeys are more than a day long. Employees cannot be expected to stay awake and functional the entire trip so dorm cars are provided for their rest periods. Some larger trains might have more than one dorm car depending on the number of employees needed to staff the train. On smaller trains employees do not need an entire car so the function could be combined with, in this case, the baggage car.
Thank you for that piece of information. Makes perfectly sense.
Fantastic video and overview.
Firstly awesome video I love these designs. I agree with brickzar make a video about that James Mathis book. Thanks for sharing
I really want the El Capitan coaches. You need to make the instructions public, or redo them.
I will try. But i won't do so, unless i get a positive yet. Sorry.
@@BricksWorks It’s alright, thanks for considering.
Nice!
It's a good thing that I own one
Fact
I wanted this set so bad when i was kid. I got one of the engines, but no cars.
How can we get the parts list for the locomotive? Thanks for this crazy build!
Are those 3rd party magnets at 8:45?
They are indeed. They are from Bevins Bricks, about 4 times stronger than the Lego ones and you can pass power through them for lights. etc. Standard Lego magnets aren't strong enough for a consist as long, as I did build here.
I thought the red windscreen was also used in Lego 3677 a Lego city cargo train
They are different. The Santa Fe loco has red with clear glass. 3677 has red with tinted glass and is often a little bit cheaper.
Is there any way to get hold of that book by James , google didnt help me much??
Maybe email him. I tried to DM him on Flickr, but wasn't succesful. There is a MIT email address floating around for him, I might try and dig that out again and mail him. He has not been active on Eurobricks since 2019, unfortunately. His website is still available on the way back machine.
Do you have instructions for the B unit? I wasn't able to find them on Mathis' old site
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=74306 is what we're left with, but plenty detailed to build it.
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=74305 click into each image for the more detailed build pictures.
@@BricksWorks thanks so much!
just a tip- im not a train person so this title and thumbnail were like a foreign language to me, the train is so small on the thumbnail its hard to tell its a train. im a lego person and i enjoy this video but you might get more engagement from not train folks if you mentioned that it was a train somewhere in the title. without that its gibberish.