For lovingly-crafted instructions and stickers for the trains in this video, check out: eggybricks.com ➡ (including a much-improved Polar Express!) Btw, we fixed the Polar Express and made a few more GE Evolutions - check them out in our newest video: ua-cam.com/video/zhdeid_V9Ks/v-deo.htmlsi=12gkiWcWKlBlu6zm&t=167 🚅 We missed you all, thanks so much for watching!!
love the "brick science city is flooded at the moment" referencing brick science's 30 day building a lego city series, along with the micro scaled daily bugle!
So honored to be featured, and I'm glad all the trains made it here! Your builds are truly beautiful, you all are setting a new standard for Lego UA-cam in both video quality and custom build quality. 5 custom trains in one video is simply ridiculous. Loved the micro build also :)
This is genuinely one of my favorite channels on the platform right now. One of the few creators who really take the LEGO brick to its limits without absolutely ridiculous amounts of studio space, or amounts of brick. Love the idea of every city being connected, too!
@@eggybricks I have a request for the next Lego train video make a Amtrak GE Genesis in Phase VB paint and make sure you make a travel Mart sticker for the GE Genesis
Fun fact: The Shinkansen was so fast and loud coming out of tunnels that it was creating sonic booms and was becoming a real problem to people who lived near the tracks. The company who made it wanted to fix this so they put a team together to fix the problem. One of the engineers was a birdwatcher and noticed that the kingfisher bird had a specially shaped beak that allowed it to smoothly cut through water. He showed the rest of the team that and they remodeled the nose of the train, and the problem was gone. There were no more loud sounds whenever the train came out of tunnels.
one other thing they did was to make holes in the top of the tunnel exit allowing the air thats being pushed in front of the train to vent out the top.
This makes me cry tears of joy, but could you raise the roof of the cab of the Polar Express by a bit? and i will definitely be using that 3 axle bogey design
I’m amazed at how much you two continue evolving your quality despite already setting such a high standard. My mind was blown at the technique used at 6:17. You’re approaching god-tier status at Lego YouTubing.
Thank you so much for the encouragement as always!! We have a lot of dark nights of the soul about this channel so really appreciate it. Thanks so much for watching!
I have to say it, probaby someone said before. There is a great formula in this channel for a Lego Masters team. Lego love + Lego technical ability + team work + organisation + storytelling! + willingness to go out of comfort zone. I don't know that kind of exposure is in your alley but it would definitely grow the channel. In that scenario your only weakness might be perfectionism, I dont know. I don't know. This channel became my favorite lego channel.
Very impressive build on the steam train. It's sad that Lego don't take their current Lego trains seriously. Back in the 80's and 90's the Lego Train System was a proper train system with all the correct bells and whistles. Todays Lego trains always feel like they are made to a price and are usually lacking the stuff that makes model trains awesome.
I absolutely loved this. A few comments if I may... 1, Lego trains can get very expensive, very quickly, as I am sure you've realised. But they're completely worth it in my experience. 😊 2, Jacob's bogies look great, but for Lego trains with many curved tracks they rarely work well. Due to the tight curves, the rolling resistance of a single bogie with a longer wheelbase, maybe 4 or 5 studs between the axle blocks, will be significantly higher than that of two short wheelbase bogies where the axle blocks are adjacent or only one stud apart. (Try rolling the bogies down a straight slope with a long curve at the bottom.) 3, A secondary problem is that true Jacobs bogies have the pivot points for both carriages located at the centre of the bogie. With Lego implementations that is almost impossible to achieve and the pivot points end up being several studs apart. This is in part due to the tight track radii placing the carriages at significant angles, creating clearance issues on bends. The result is that carriages with Lego Jacobs bogies still tend to move laterally relative to each just as much as with conventional bogies when moving through S shaped bends, such as those created when using the turnouts. 4, For smoother running of bogies with metal axles, a tiny drop of silicone base lubricant on each bearing surface in the axle block can make a big difference. I have used lube sold for Rubiks Cubes (for speed-cubing) with good results. It's designed to be safe with plastics, compared to conventional mineral oils. Please don't take these points as criticism, though. Rather, I just want to share what I have learned, having already gone down this path. I always look forward to your future videos.
10:46 That is not the Polar Express. That is a Union Pacific FEF with the wheel arrangement slightly changed with the words "Polar Express" on the side
@Legomaker1245 no he’s right, the rest of them look great but the engine on the steamer is god awful… also don’t be so derogatory he could be a master builder and you don’t know. Yes, he was a little blunt, but not wrong. Steamers are an art form and are hard to master correctly, and for a first time, this isn’t bad. It’s not god by any standard, but it’s not awful. It’s just too tall, wide, the arch is unnecessary, and bulky. The wheel train and tender are great though.
Well, technically, I have one Lego steamer but it’s not the best, so yes, I can agree that making steam locomotives can be difficult. Also, if you want to see the Lego steamer I have, well she appears in a couple of videos of mine (I’M NOT PLUGGING MYSELF)
It's my first time watching this channel and I have to say that this is so high quality!👏 You are both so skilled and creative. My favourite is probably your metro or the polar express.
They're all incredibly cute and creative, especially since you've done them all freehand. And big props to the gearbox of the polar express, it's always a struggle to make something small look good while also being functional. A criminally underrated channel with two awesome people, I can't wait to see what's next!
This was a cool video. Being Canadian, the CN train is my favorite. Another thing is how that I was surprised that this video is so new! Usually this videos would be 4-8 years old being watched in a school classroom (I predict it will because its so good) Great job! :D
Watching this channel's videos, I feel an enjoyment I haven't felt in a while. It reminds me of watching my favorite TV shows when TV was still a thing. It's just so nice and so well done. Just the right amount of flair without feeling overproduced. Anyway thanks :)
what i love about this vid is a few references that railfans like me might notice. - Canadian National Decals on the Freight Train. - Polar Express - The JR 700, (the livery on it was possibly inspired by the Rail Star Livery) - San Francisco Tram also there's a slight error at 10:46 the locomotive seen in the sketch is actually an FEF Design by the Union Pacific. Not a Berkshire design. but beside that error the polar express model did come it pretty well, even though with the incorrect sketch.
The 3 wheel bogey assembly is particularly inspired - I would love to hear about how you came up with the design, and iterated toward that particular solution!
I first remember coming across it while seeing the build for the Orient Express that just came out, sure it's been around a while though in the moccing community.
Thanks so much!! We started with a straightforward Technic version (using train-wheels-with-axle-holes on a Technic axle going through two adjacent Technic plates-with-hole). This worked, but didn't have /enough/ friction - it would slip around whenever we moved the train around, which was annoying. (Plus using Technic in an obvious way is never our favorite solution, but that's a personal bias.) So we tried brick-building the slider, with door rails in bricks-with-groove. (We really like this part combination - we also tried it for sliding doors in the metro, and as a fun way to attach the side detailing on the Polar Express, but took both of those out in later iterations.) This had the lateral friction we wanted (and felt fun). Then just iterated on different ways to constrain the axle laterally, hold the assembly together, and attach to the train body. (Plus after that, to make sure we actually liked our solution, we tried a few other versions with weirder brick-built and system-plus-Technic assemblies. None worked well for the bogie, but we might use them for mechanism in some buildings later)
6:36 you can also use a normal technic motor and some gears to have 3 axles but powered. middle wheel needs to be without flanges, using plate round 2x2 and the fitting tile round 2x2 with a hole in the center.
@SimonBauer7 Thanks so much, this is a great point! We tried this briefly (using a modification of the design from Railbricks issue 6), but decided we didn't want to sacrifice any of the body shaping to fit a Technic motor + geartrain in the body. (We got really attached to our tapered radiator cab.) Maybe we should try again though!
@@eggybricks Also the only MOC builders on UA-cam who don’t say “I’m really happy with how this turned out” every 2 minutes 😉 (aside from hachiroku24 of course)
I am an avid LEGO fan all my life, and with that comes the inevitable of watching videos about it on UA-cam. I don't even want to think about how much I've seen... and a lot of it is great. However this is- without a shadow of a doubt- one of the absolute best LEGO videos on the platform right now. The editing, shot composition and staging of your MOCs, and on top of that you two have an exceptional grasp of how to build with and talk about LEGO. Every one of your MOCs shown here is stellar, and I like that they feel like they could easily be officially produced or licensed LEGO sets. Genuinely impressive builds. Amazing work, this absolutely gets my imagination turning for my own builds I'd like to do regarding LEGO trains and railed vehicles. I wish you a million followers and more, this is top-tier work.
You two never disappoint! You have already set the GOLD standard for LEGO UA-cam with your first few videos and you still continue to amaze us every time! 🚀
11:00 all emu, dmu, diesel and electric locomotive, diesel rail car fans rn. A real train fan knows trains aren’t only steam. Especially not American ones. - proud British European
Incredible work! The fact that you designed multiple stunning train models from scratch is such an amazing feat of design and engineering! And the engineering techniques that went into making it all work on such tight radii is amazing. The only critique I would give, is that it would be even better, if you somehow managed to get the stickers to only cover a single piece, instead of multiple. Lego also used to include multi-piece stickers in old sets, but I believe they abandoned this approach in the 90s. That way the pieces can be disassembled without removing the stickers.
Thanks so much for the kind words!! Good point! We agonized over this, but in the end we couldn't accept the compromise of having the design broken up (if we used a bunch of smaller stickers piecewise) or using bigger pieces that weren't shaped ideally (to make the piece size match sticker size). (We were probably influenced by not loving the way the Gringotts Bank sticker in 76417 looked) It's a really good point, though, and someone else might make a different tradeoff! We know we're particular in our own way
The two of you keep blowing me away with every video you make. The time and effort put into the builds, the video production, and the overall final product is truly amazing. I've never had the interest to do a Lego train, but I do now (my bank account is furious)! Fantastic stuff!!!!
This channel is a breath of fresh air in a sea of dime a dozen "content creators". The production quality is great, the content is interesting, and you guys dont put on some over the top silly persona just for clicks. Artistic integrity does still exist! Good job
As a train lover and someone who loves designing Lego trains, I love that you based your trains on real trains The GE ES44 or evolution series is not quite proportioned right though At 6 studs wide and 9 foot 11 irl The train would need to be 43 studs long (73 feet irl) yours is only 32 studs long making it subby looking but other than that i love the design i would have never thought to put the battery in the cab The Polar Express is also comically short the tender is almost as long as the train The designs look really good keep making great Lego content ❤
look forward to all of your videos. amazing as always. love that you two are nerdy and convey your knowledge and interests while also making aesthetically pleasing and funny videos. can always expect that you two will go above and beyond in terms of effort and production value. love the cute stop motion interludes on this video, for example.
Thanks so much! We made instructions for it but we decided at the last minute to rebuild it again to run better, hah. (We want these models to all be perfect) It'll be up soon!
This channel is so good. I ADORE your sentiment that all of our Lego cities are connected via trains!! Reminds me of the time I learned that the stars in D&D are other people’s games 🥲
It would be cool if there were lego technic bricks small enough that you could code them to the motors, and have them make routine stops at train stations, activated by either timing, light sensors, sound, etc.
These trains are the best Lego trains ever and they look sooo good. But how did you make the stickers? I really want to know since I am making custom mocs too.
Thanks so much!! For stickers, do you mean the designs or the prints? If it's the printing part, we added some quick notes on how we do our sticker printing here, in case they're helpful: eggybricks.com/pages/faq (if you scroll down to the "How do I print stickers?" section, sorry that this page isn't formatted super well). It took us a while to find a printer/paper/color profile/laminate combination we liked so we're pretty happy with these choices!
It's always a treat to see an eggybricks video appear on my feed. Clever solutions, beautiful builds and some of the best production value on youtube. With your focus on quality over quantity you might not be the biggest LEGO channel, but you're definitely the best.
@eggybricks Builds the Polar express 2-8-4 (Berkshire). Railway nerds & Steam train lovers on the internet (including myself): I vow to you. I can't recall the OG meme 😅
❤️ (By the way we spent a while after this video fixing the design, if you want to see the improved version! ua-cam.com/video/zhdeid_V9Ks/v-deo.htmlsi=RIVRiw0N5DLwPQvZ&t=167)
A few fun facts in chronological order: Jacobs bogies (named after a German mechanical railway engineer), do reduce rolling resistance, and are also used to put more weight on driving wheels, while also reducing overall train weight. They can perform tighter turns, and have the smooth ride of separate bogies without the additional mass and drag (more mass means higher inertia, which reduces acceleration). Talgo trains used a modified concept of the Jacobs bogie, with the wheels able to spin independently of each other (wheels are normally joined by a fixed axel), which eliminated hunting oscillation. Jacobs bogies are most commonly found in trams and urban trains. Instead of sliding wheel sets, locomotives with a long wheelbase often have what are called 'blind drivers', which are wheels without a flange (this can be seen later in the video). This is much more common with steam locomotives, where all the driving wheels have to be in line, and on narrow gauge lines, which have tighter radius curves (or both). They rely on the wheels either side of them which do have flanges to stay on the track, but have been filmed overhanging the track by a wide margin (which would obviously derail the locomotive if those wheels had flanges). The Shinkansen, or 'Bullet Train' used to have a shorter nose, but residents near tunnel entrances (and exits) found that when a train would enter a tunnel at track speed, it would create a sonic-boom-like effect, which was quite disturbing, so designers came up with the extremely long nose you see in the modern trains (derived from the kingfisher bird) to mitigate this issue. The aerodynamics of both are relatively equal, but the sound when entering a tunnel is greatly reduced with a longer nose. The 2-8-2 configuration refers to the amount of wheels in the leading truck, the amount of driving wheels, and the amount of wheels in the trailing truck respectively. Leading and trailing trucks of steam engines are primarily used to reduce hunting and derailing at higher speeds (leading trucks reduce this for forward movement, and trailing trucks for backward), since with these trucks, the driving wheels are guided down the track. To get the maximum power out of a locomotive, you want only driving wheels, since then all of the weight is on them, and they have the highest traction with the rails that they can get, but this also greatly reduces stability (as Hyce refers to it: the 0-6-0 dance). You will often see faster locomotives with leading and trailing trucks, and slower ones, such as tank engines, without. Tank engines are often used as yard locomotives ('switchers' as referred to in the states, and 'shunters' in the UK, with switching and shunting being the associated terms for moving cars around a yard respectively), since they don't have to move as fast, and benefit from the higher traction, acceleration, and power achieved from having all the weight on the drivers, without the drawback of speed limits and limited fuel capacity. Trailing trucks are less important for most tendered steam locomotives, since shoving through a tender is generally not a good idea at high speeds or high power, so you may also see locomotives with a 2-8-0 configuration, or 4-8-0, or 4-8-2, which puts more emphasis on the leading wheels. Modern DE (diesel-electric), electric, DM (diesel-mechanical), and DH (diesel-hydraulic) locomotives do not have leading or trailing trucks, as each wheel can be independently powered whilst also being on a bogie (except for DM locomotives, but these are often smaller and don't require bogies). This results in all the benefits of a tank engine style construction without the drawbacks in regards to stability. They are also much more mechanically simple, so require little maintenance, and are much more fuel efficient than steam locomotives of comparable tractive effort. I enjoy both trains and lego, and it's great to see creators pairing them together for those such as myself who wouldn't be able to afford it, keep it up!
Ok so the the wheels with no flange are separated by wheels with flange because that’s not how it would be in the real world it would be configured with the flanged wheels on the outside in the non-flange wheels on the inside.
Ive never encountered a problem with 3 axels derailing on a corner track, i use the older axels with the metal bar. I use the 3 axels on my lego unstoppable train and it works just fine but anything over 4 is derailing for sure. But there might be a diffrence between having 3 axels on the older and newer axels
while building the GEVO (GE Envolution seiries) locomotive, you called the rear of the locomotive "the radiator cab". It is actualy called the Long Hood End as the nose is refered to as the Short Hood End.
Your hills in the track layout are horrible. For two reasons: 1. Always put the supports at the joints between track pieces. 2. Start and end the slopes gradually. The best way is to start with one plate, then a brick and continue with adding bricks. At the top of the hill add two plates instead of a brick before reaching the highest point where you do add a brick. Before going down again, make at least one piece of track level. However, I know that building slopes like that is nearly impossible for small layouts like this one, because a hill with a height of just one brick already takes up 5 track pieces.
For lovingly-crafted instructions and stickers for the trains in this video, check out: eggybricks.com ➡ (including a much-improved Polar Express!)
Btw, we fixed the Polar Express and made a few more GE Evolutions - check them out in our newest video: ua-cam.com/video/zhdeid_V9Ks/v-deo.htmlsi=12gkiWcWKlBlu6zm&t=167 🚅
We missed you all, thanks so much for watching!!
i agreed
plz be soon also is it possible to send you re lego creation to france bcs im french
The Shinkansen needs swivel chairs as the Japanese do not believe in travelling backwards.
Would you ever try to build a british class 43? I think you'd make our HST's look pretty in lego
@@tripwire3992 Oooh very pretty train!! Great suggestion
love the "brick science city is flooded at the moment" referencing brick science's 30 day building a lego city series, along with the micro scaled daily bugle!
Timestamp? I couldn’t seem to find it
@@thepensivepenguin daily bugle at 2:14 and brick science plays directly after at 2:18
They did such a good job making the micro cities
@@Scrumgus thanks a lot!
A city has fallen into the river in LEGO City!
So honored to be featured, and I'm glad all the trains made it here! Your builds are truly beautiful, you all are setting a new standard for Lego UA-cam in both video quality and custom build quality. 5 custom trains in one video is simply ridiculous. Loved the micro build also :)
Thanks for inviting us to New Brickerton!! It was hard to choose just a few things for the micro build but we hope we did it justice. Thanks so much!
@@eggybricks You absolutely killed it, I want to make my own😁
This is genuinely one of my favorite channels on the platform right now. One of the few creators who really take the LEGO brick to its limits without absolutely ridiculous amounts of studio space, or amounts of brick. Love the idea of every city being connected, too!
Thank you so much for the encouragement! ❤️
completely agree
@@eggybricks I have a request for the next Lego train video make a Amtrak GE Genesis in Phase VB paint and make sure you make a travel Mart sticker for the GE Genesis
Fun fact: The Shinkansen was so fast and loud coming out of tunnels that it was creating sonic booms and was becoming a real problem to people who lived near the tracks. The company who made it wanted to fix this so they put a team together to fix the problem. One of the engineers was a birdwatcher and noticed that the kingfisher bird had a specially shaped beak that allowed it to smoothly cut through water. He showed the rest of the team that and they remodeled the nose of the train, and the problem was gone. There were no more loud sounds whenever the train came out of tunnels.
one other thing they did was to make holes in the top of the tunnel exit allowing the air thats being pushed in front of the train to vent out the top.
"We could draw on our years of experience engineering vehicles in real life."
Well, that explains a lot.
It does
As a Canadian, I'd say your CN GE ET44AC looks wonderful! Love how you sculpted it with the limited width you had! Keep up the amazing work! :)
Amazing video, thanks!
Wow thanks so much!!
This makes me cry tears of joy, but could you raise the roof of the cab of the Polar Express by a bit? and i will definitely be using that 3 axle bogey design
Thanks! We did just rebuild the Polar Express and the cab is a tiny bit higher now!
The door mechanism using the droid arms is simple and elegant, big fan of your work!
I’m amazed at how much you two continue evolving your quality despite already setting such a high standard.
My mind was blown at the technique used at 6:17. You’re approaching god-tier status at Lego YouTubing.
Thank you so much for the encouragement as always!! We have a lot of dark nights of the soul about this channel so really appreciate it. Thanks so much for watching!
@@eggybricksNew Viewer here, Could I get to know more about you guys? I'm already subbed 😜
I have to say it, probaby someone said before. There is a great formula in this channel for a Lego Masters team.
Lego love + Lego technical ability + team work + organisation + storytelling! + willingness to go out of comfort zone.
I don't know that kind of exposure is in your alley but it would definitely grow the channel. In that scenario your only weakness might be perfectionism, I dont know.
I don't know. This channel became my favorite lego channel.
Wow that's extremely nice of you to say - thanks so much!!
Very impressive build on the steam train. It's sad that Lego don't take their current Lego trains seriously. Back in the 80's and 90's the Lego Train System was a proper train system with all the correct bells and whistles. Todays Lego trains always feel like they are made to a price and are usually lacking the stuff that makes model trains awesome.
I absolutely loved this. A few comments if I may...
1, Lego trains can get very expensive, very quickly, as I am sure you've realised. But they're completely worth it in my experience. 😊
2, Jacob's bogies look great, but for Lego trains with many curved tracks they rarely work well. Due to the tight curves, the rolling resistance of a single bogie with a longer wheelbase, maybe 4 or 5 studs between the axle blocks, will be significantly higher than that of two short wheelbase bogies where the axle blocks are adjacent or only one stud apart. (Try rolling the bogies down a straight slope with a long curve at the bottom.)
3, A secondary problem is that true Jacobs bogies have the pivot points for both carriages located at the centre of the bogie. With Lego implementations that is almost impossible to achieve and the pivot points end up being several studs apart. This is in part due to the tight track radii placing the carriages at significant angles, creating clearance issues on bends. The result is that carriages with Lego Jacobs bogies still tend to move laterally relative to each just as much as with conventional bogies when moving through S shaped bends, such as those created when using the turnouts.
4, For smoother running of bogies with metal axles, a tiny drop of silicone base lubricant on each bearing surface in the axle block can make a big difference. I have used lube sold for Rubiks Cubes (for speed-cubing) with good results. It's designed to be safe with plastics, compared to conventional mineral oils.
Please don't take these points as criticism, though. Rather, I just want to share what I have learned, having already gone down this path. I always look forward to your future videos.
Seeing a Canadian National train made me irrationally excited lol. Excellent job as always!
I wish there were 100 eggy bricks videos so I could watch forever!!!
YESSSSSS
Awesome video!
10:46
That is not the Polar Express. That is a Union Pacific FEF with the wheel arrangement slightly changed with the words "Polar Express" on the side
I really love that Polar Express model
it’s trash
@@beccajohnson-choma1762 didn’t ask plus it’s better than you
@Legomaker1245 no he’s right, the rest of them look great but the engine on the steamer is god awful… also don’t be so derogatory he could be a master builder and you don’t know. Yes, he was a little blunt, but not wrong. Steamers are an art form and are hard to master correctly, and for a first time, this isn’t bad. It’s not god by any standard, but it’s not awful. It’s just too tall, wide, the arch is unnecessary, and bulky. The wheel train and tender are great though.
Well, technically, I have one Lego steamer but it’s not the best, so yes, I can agree that making steam locomotives can be difficult. Also, if you want to see the Lego steamer I have, well she appears in a couple of videos of mine (I’M NOT PLUGGING MYSELF)
It's my first time watching this channel and I have to say that this is so high quality!👏 You are both so skilled and creative. My favourite is probably your metro or the polar express.
The sliding middle axles... so genious.
They're all incredibly cute and creative, especially since you've done them all freehand. And big props to the gearbox of the polar express, it's always a struggle to make something small look good while also being functional.
A criminally underrated channel with two awesome people, I can't wait to see what's next!
The effort put into these videos is beyond what almost anyone else is doing in the Lego community and it really shows.
This was a cool video. Being Canadian, the CN train is my favorite. Another thing is how that I was surprised that this video is so new!
Usually this videos would be 4-8 years old being watched in a school classroom (I predict it will because its so good)
Great job! :D
Watching this channel's videos, I feel an enjoyment I haven't felt in a while. It reminds me of watching my favorite TV shows when TV was still a thing. It's just so nice and so well done. Just the right amount of flair without feeling overproduced. Anyway thanks :)
Nice work!
0:37 I love the detail that it’s exactly how far from this moment the trains are made
you rock. this is unlike any other lego youtube on the scene right now. I love this and I cannot wait to see more
what i love about this vid is a few references that railfans like me might notice.
- Canadian National Decals on the Freight Train.
- Polar Express
- The JR 700, (the livery on it was possibly inspired by the Rail Star Livery)
- San Francisco Tram
also there's a slight error at 10:46
the locomotive seen in the sketch is actually an FEF Design by the Union Pacific. Not a Berkshire design.
but beside that error the polar express model did come it pretty well, even though with the incorrect sketch.
The technic for therailings for the freight train was impressive. Very cool trains
The tram and the polar express made impression for me. Would love to see a full train or tram system with that theme.
wake up and smell the inperfections
literally every train fans dream
I'm blown away by how how quality this is. You guys are wonderful!
The 3 wheel bogey assembly is particularly inspired - I would love to hear about how you came up with the design, and iterated toward that particular solution!
I first remember coming across it while seeing the build for the Orient Express that just came out, sure it's been around a while though in the moccing community.
Thanks so much!!
We started with a straightforward Technic version (using train-wheels-with-axle-holes on a Technic axle going through two adjacent Technic plates-with-hole). This worked, but didn't have /enough/ friction - it would slip around whenever we moved the train around, which was annoying. (Plus using Technic in an obvious way is never our favorite solution, but that's a personal bias.)
So we tried brick-building the slider, with door rails in bricks-with-groove. (We really like this part combination - we also tried it for sliding doors in the metro, and as a fun way to attach the side detailing on the Polar Express, but took both of those out in later iterations.) This had the lateral friction we wanted (and felt fun). Then just iterated on different ways to constrain the axle laterally, hold the assembly together, and attach to the train body.
(Plus after that, to make sure we actually liked our solution, we tried a few other versions with weirder brick-built and system-plus-Technic assemblies. None worked well for the bogie, but we might use them for mechanism in some buildings later)
6:36 you can also use a normal technic motor and some gears to have 3 axles but powered. middle wheel needs to be without flanges, using plate round 2x2 and the fitting tile round 2x2 with a hole in the center.
@SimonBauer7 Thanks so much, this is a great point! We tried this briefly (using a modification of the design from Railbricks issue 6), but decided we didn't want to sacrifice any of the body shaping to fit a Technic motor + geartrain in the body. (We got really attached to our tapered radiator cab.) Maybe we should try again though!
This is a cool channel :) Love the small animations in between the clips
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
That sliding 3 wheel bogey is pure genius.
The EMD FT would be a fun challenge with the iconic bulldog nose
That sliding middle axle! 🎉 So cool!
I have no idea why trains are so interesting, but something about them makes me intrigued.
WOW! This video is honestly so high quality. Very, very well done!
Thanks so much!!
Incredible stuff from you two-again! You’re like no other LEGO UA-camrs I know. Terrific material.
Thank you so much!
@@eggybricks Also the only MOC builders on UA-cam who don’t say “I’m really happy with how this turned out” every 2 minutes 😉 (aside from hachiroku24 of course)
You deserve more subscribers. So much love and attention put into your builds and videos.
I am an avid LEGO fan all my life, and with that comes the inevitable of watching videos about it on UA-cam. I don't even want to think about how much I've seen... and a lot of it is great. However this is- without a shadow of a doubt- one of the absolute best LEGO videos on the platform right now.
The editing, shot composition and staging of your MOCs, and on top of that you two have an exceptional grasp of how to build with and talk about LEGO. Every one of your MOCs shown here is stellar, and I like that they feel like they could easily be officially produced or licensed LEGO sets. Genuinely impressive builds.
Amazing work, this absolutely gets my imagination turning for my own builds I'd like to do regarding LEGO trains and railed vehicles. I wish you a million followers and more, this is top-tier work.
Thank you so much for watching, and for such kind words - it means a lot!
@@eggybricks Easy to give compliments when your work is this good.
You two never disappoint! You have already set the GOLD standard for LEGO UA-cam with your first few videos and you still continue to amaze us every time! 🚀
I love the idea of every LEGO city being connected. Reminds me of the imagination I had when I was 8 😂
11:00 all emu, dmu, diesel and electric locomotive, diesel rail car fans rn. A real train fan knows trains aren’t only steam. Especially not American ones. - proud British European
12:32 where can I buy that plow on the train?
It's LEGO part 90201 - you can get it from BrickLink: www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=90201
Thanks
That way to motorise the Steam train,, that is ingenuity, I have never seen anyone motorise a train like that, incredible!
This is incredibly well produced. Can't imagine just the filming and editing time it took alone. Fun watch!
Incredible work! The fact that you designed multiple stunning train models from scratch is such an amazing feat of design and engineering! And the engineering techniques that went into making it all work on such tight radii is amazing. The only critique I would give, is that it would be even better, if you somehow managed to get the stickers to only cover a single piece, instead of multiple. Lego also used to include multi-piece stickers in old sets, but I believe they abandoned this approach in the 90s. That way the pieces can be disassembled without removing the stickers.
Thanks so much for the kind words!!
Good point! We agonized over this, but in the end we couldn't accept the compromise of having the design broken up (if we used a bunch of smaller stickers piecewise) or using bigger pieces that weren't shaped ideally (to make the piece size match sticker size). (We were probably influenced by not loving the way the Gringotts Bank sticker in 76417 looked)
It's a really good point, though, and someone else might make a different tradeoff! We know we're particular in our own way
10:50
Wait, but that's a Union Pacific 4-8-4 "Northern" FEF-3
10:48 what is this?
“Polar Express: West of the Mississippi”
The two of you keep blowing me away with every video you make. The time and effort put into the builds, the video production, and the overall final product is truly amazing. I've never had the interest to do a Lego train, but I do now (my bank account is furious)! Fantastic stuff!!!!
Thank you so much, it means a lot! Hope you enjoy trains!!
As an EMD fan myself I would want you guys to build an SD70ACe.
This was very interesting to watch as a railfan.
I wish I could be as smart as you two. Y’all’s problem solving abilities are so casual which makes it all the more impressive
Very nice layout. Even without the 3D-printed Trixbrix infrastructure.
This channel is a breath of fresh air in a sea of dime a dozen "content creators". The production quality is great, the content is interesting, and you guys dont put on some over the top silly persona just for clicks. Artistic integrity does still exist! Good job
Really like all of those builds, especially the polar express and seeing the engineering you put into making that work. Thanks for sharing.
i love how much effort was put into these builds! Keep up the awesome work :)
As a train lover and someone who loves designing Lego trains, I love that you based your trains on real trains
The GE ES44 or evolution series is not quite proportioned right though
At 6 studs wide and 9 foot 11 irl
The train would need to be 43 studs long (73 feet irl) yours is only 32 studs long making it subby looking but other than that i love the design i would have never thought to put the battery in the cab
The Polar Express is also comically short the tender is almost as long as the train
The designs look really good keep making great Lego content ❤
I love the attention to detail and realism! Great work!
I couldn’t help but leave a comment with the pure dedication you put into your Lego projects
Fantastic video as always, it was well worth the wait! Excited to see what you both come up with next!
@BatteryPoweredBricks Thanks so much!! Means a lot coming from a real train expert :D
I can hear grumbling from Electro-Motive Diesel on your choice of building the GE Tier 4.😂
Y’all these videos are so impressive!!! I love you guys and am so excited to see this channel grow
What a triumph.
Phenomenal job producing this video in every aspect. I am blown away by your creativity!
i think you guys make the best lego content on youtube fr
Nice video! liked it.
look forward to all of your videos. amazing as always. love that you two are nerdy and convey your knowledge and interests while also making aesthetically pleasing and funny videos. can always expect that you two will go above and beyond in terms of effort and production value. love the cute stop motion interludes on this video, for example.
awesome! no polar express instructions?
Thanks so much! We made instructions for it but we decided at the last minute to rebuild it again to run better, hah. (We want these models to all be perfect) It'll be up soon!
G O O D
You outdid yourselves. Spectacular video!
Thanks so much!!
This channel is so good. I ADORE your sentiment that all of our Lego cities are connected via trains!!
Reminds me of the time I learned that the stars in D&D are other people’s games 🥲
It would be cool if there were lego technic bricks small enough that you could code them to the motors, and have them make routine stops at train stations, activated by either timing, light sensors, sound, etc.
Ooooh you might like our next video
@@eggybricksI’m definitely interested!
These trains are the best Lego trains ever and they look sooo good. But how did you make the stickers? I really want to know since I am making custom mocs too.
Thanks so much!!
For stickers, do you mean the designs or the prints? If it's the printing part, we added some quick notes on how we do our sticker printing here, in case they're helpful: eggybricks.com/pages/faq (if you scroll down to the "How do I print stickers?" section, sorry that this page isn't formatted super well).
It took us a while to find a printer/paper/color profile/laminate combination we liked so we're pretty happy with these choices!
I have an idea
If you want to expand your layout and include a Mail train, I suggest making a class 325
Or a varamis class 321
great builds and video. i liked the incorporation of real information comparisons.
Built well and informing - a train guy
It's always a treat to see an eggybricks video appear on my feed. Clever solutions, beautiful builds and some of the best production value on youtube. With your focus on quality over quantity you might not be the biggest LEGO channel, but you're definitely the best.
Aw, thanks so much!!
@eggybricks
Builds the Polar express 2-8-4 (Berkshire).
Railway nerds & Steam train lovers on the internet (including myself): I vow to you.
I can't recall the OG meme 😅
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(By the way we spent a while after this video fixing the design, if you want to see the improved version! ua-cam.com/video/zhdeid_V9Ks/v-deo.htmlsi=RIVRiw0N5DLwPQvZ&t=167)
A few fun facts in chronological order:
Jacobs bogies (named after a German mechanical railway engineer), do reduce rolling resistance, and are also used to put more weight on driving wheels, while also reducing overall train weight. They can perform tighter turns, and have the smooth ride of separate bogies without the additional mass and drag (more mass means higher inertia, which reduces acceleration). Talgo trains used a modified concept of the Jacobs bogie, with the wheels able to spin independently of each other (wheels are normally joined by a fixed axel), which eliminated hunting oscillation. Jacobs bogies are most commonly found in trams and urban trains.
Instead of sliding wheel sets, locomotives with a long wheelbase often have what are called 'blind drivers', which are wheels without a flange (this can be seen later in the video). This is much more common with steam locomotives, where all the driving wheels have to be in line, and on narrow gauge lines, which have tighter radius curves (or both). They rely on the wheels either side of them which do have flanges to stay on the track, but have been filmed overhanging the track by a wide margin (which would obviously derail the locomotive if those wheels had flanges).
The Shinkansen, or 'Bullet Train' used to have a shorter nose, but residents near tunnel entrances (and exits) found that when a train would enter a tunnel at track speed, it would create a sonic-boom-like effect, which was quite disturbing, so designers came up with the extremely long nose you see in the modern trains (derived from the kingfisher bird) to mitigate this issue. The aerodynamics of both are relatively equal, but the sound when entering a tunnel is greatly reduced with a longer nose.
The 2-8-2 configuration refers to the amount of wheels in the leading truck, the amount of driving wheels, and the amount of wheels in the trailing truck respectively.
Leading and trailing trucks of steam engines are primarily used to reduce hunting and derailing at higher speeds (leading trucks reduce this for forward movement, and trailing trucks for backward), since with these trucks, the driving wheels are guided down the track. To get the maximum power out of a locomotive, you want only driving wheels, since then all of the weight is on them, and they have the highest traction with the rails that they can get, but this also greatly reduces stability (as Hyce refers to it: the 0-6-0 dance). You will often see faster locomotives with leading and trailing trucks, and slower ones, such as tank engines, without. Tank engines are often used as yard locomotives ('switchers' as referred to in the states, and 'shunters' in the UK, with switching and shunting being the associated terms for moving cars around a yard respectively), since they don't have to move as fast, and benefit from the higher traction, acceleration, and power achieved from having all the weight on the drivers, without the drawback of speed limits and limited fuel capacity.
Trailing trucks are less important for most tendered steam locomotives, since shoving through a tender is generally not a good idea at high speeds or high power, so you may also see locomotives with a 2-8-0 configuration, or 4-8-0, or 4-8-2, which puts more emphasis on the leading wheels.
Modern DE (diesel-electric), electric, DM (diesel-mechanical), and DH (diesel-hydraulic) locomotives do not have leading or trailing trucks, as each wheel can be independently powered whilst also being on a bogie (except for DM locomotives, but these are often smaller and don't require bogies). This results in all the benefits of a tank engine style construction without the drawbacks in regards to stability. They are also much more mechanically simple, so require little maintenance, and are much more fuel efficient than steam locomotives of comparable tractive effort.
I enjoy both trains and lego, and it's great to see creators pairing them together for those such as myself who wouldn't be able to afford it, keep it up!
Love your videos! These were awesome trains! Your videos are helping inspire my son and I in making our lego city.. Can't wait to see more!
Ok so the the wheels with no flange are separated by wheels with flange because that’s not how it would be in the real world it would be configured with the flanged wheels on the outside in the non-flange wheels on the inside.
Would it still make it easier to turn on the sharp turns
Amazing! The techniques for building the wheels in each use case was particularly impressive
Ive never encountered a problem with 3 axels derailing on a corner track, i use the older axels with the metal bar. I use the 3 axels on my lego unstoppable train and it works just fine but anything over 4 is derailing for sure. But there might be a diffrence between having 3 axels on the older and newer axels
This is so well made, all of the sets and the video! Love it
while building the GEVO (GE Envolution seiries) locomotive, you called the rear of the locomotive "the radiator cab". It is actualy called the Long Hood End as the nose is refered to as the Short Hood End.
So cool that you guys are in the bay too!
I eagerly await the Polar Express instructions. It's one of my favorite movies! I love your content by the way! You ladies really set the standard.
Wake up
I like how realistic you make all the trains, you even got all the names right, great job!
This video was so much fun to watch! Thank you!
Incredible work. Not just one, but 5 great trains! Wish we could like this video more than once. Can't wait for your next update!
Your hills in the track layout are horrible. For two reasons:
1. Always put the supports at the joints between track pieces.
2. Start and end the slopes gradually. The best way is to start with one plate, then a brick and continue with adding bricks. At the top of the hill add two plates instead of a brick before reaching the highest point where you do add a brick. Before going down again, make at least one piece of track level.
However, I know that building slopes like that is nearly impossible for small layouts like this one, because a hill with a height of just one brick already takes up 5 track pieces.
Excellent builds and a wonderful video. Well done 👍
Wow, the stop-motion master himself!! Thanks so much! It means a lot to hear that from you.
Wow this is one of the best Lego videos I’ve ever seen. The art and effort put into this is incredible.
Thanks so much for the nice comment!
This slider technique for the three wheel train thingy was unbelievably smart 😮
I can tell you're really passionate about this topic. Your enthusiasm is contagious!