New LEGO 9V Train Solution; Santa Fe Super Chief; ft
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Running my LEGO Santa Fe Super Chief Train. Plus an alternative to 9V track from FxBricks. Also more info on the ILTCO train poster from someone that had a big influence on my interest in vintage LEGO trains
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The FX Bricks track is really exciting, I believe they are hoping to bring out a 9v motor too in the future.
I can’t wait for them to release their custom geometry switch tracks and all new 9v train motor. One thing I’d love to see would be some 9v wheels that could supply power to something like a PF L or XL motor so the emerald night and crocodile locomotive could be converted to 9v
I mean, you could just rebuild the Emerald Night's tender to ride on the motor bogie.
That’s an awesome train for sure.
Once they put out the motors and the reviews are good i'm going to go all in.
Santa Fe Super Chief is the best Train. LOL The FX Bricks stuff looks great! I will be getting some of the 9V wide radius from them. Sounds like we need to get Stiegsfeld "Ben" on the Podcast.
I'm here. Give me a call or let's set up a Microsoft Teams Meeting... ;-)
Maersk is the best 😁
@@csharp57 Or even Emerald as number one?
5 years from now the Crocodile might be among the top 5. For now it is just underrated, because it is easy available... I only wish to see a decent fright wagon to go with it.
@@Stiegsfeld Same here!!! I'm going to create some. I looked on ebay for some rolling stock cars for the Crocodile but I feel they are too expensive
Agree 👍🏼
This is a fantastic looking train. Honest to God Lego you must re-release this train in the future.
Yes they should. It would not affect the value of this one I think since it is old grey and the new one would be light bluish gray
The person I have learnt a lot from is...YOU ;) Thank you for showing me things I never knew about Vintage LEGO and all the past BrickLink stuff to ;) + I could watch Trains going around and around for days :D it's so hypnotic :P (I don't know why) :D
Man I just busted out the Railway Express and the wires are all dry rotted too! So much fun watching that little 9v roll around!
Saw some of their adds and just waited for a train builder to review. Glad to see it was my favorite channel first!!!
Wow! that train could pay for a year of my sons state school
Lego really needs to make a new cross-compatible 9V/PF train system, with single pickup bogeys to remove the need for giant battery boxes, but also IR transmitters on the control panel so you can control separate trains' speeds and directions with a single controller. Best of both worlds, the non-battery requirement of 9V but the customization of different wheel bases and individual control of PF.
That Santa Fe is a beauty. You are totally right, the 9v curves irritated me allready as a child, how the trains took, for my feeling, a 45 angle turn... Now with these FX tracks, it sure looks like a beauty. So nice.
Can`t wait to see them out and about and displayed.
Thanks for sharing!
We need Lego to reproduce this
Beautiful trains!
I'm super lucky my parents bought me this set years ago when it first came out
back of the poster with that product line-up is absolute gold. super chief, green intercity train, cargo train, my own train, LEGEND Metroliner, LEGEND Club Cars, the red train garage, world city train station, world city level crossing, and also the LEGEND Main Street.
Do you remember an article online in the late 90s about a guy in Japan(?) who built Star Wars storybook scenes from (regular bricks available to anyone from store shelves)LEGO blocks of the original trilogy(this is just before LEGO released news of their Star Wars LEGO sets)? I was first online in early 2000, so I was late to experience the golden years of LEGO fans online, but I thought that guy's custom LEGO builds were more interesting to me than the LEGO Star Wars sets on the shelf from 1999-2003! I have found memories of those years! In early 2000 my grandmother returned from a trip with The Ultimate LEGO Book, and WOW, it really shocked me , because before that I only seen LEGOLAND on an Inside Edition television story and from the set instructions pamphlet. Leave to my grandmother to influence me to get back into LEGO in the early 2000s!
If I can find the printouts of some of his early custom LEGO Star Wars builds, I will put them with any old internet address on your Instagram. I don't have the original download images, since I was using a coworker's computer to surf online, its hard drive crashed and with it all of those images and sceneshots of the early LEGO custom build websites...!
I want the Santa Fe more than anything!!! My most favorite is the Maersk train.
I'll get that Santa Fe one day
Really excited for the FX bricks track, didn’t order the straights but waiting on the curves. But also really waiting on their 9V motor they come out with, can’t wait to see how that will be
I get why LEGO sticks to just the one radius. No, it's not realistic, but it makes starter layouts a lot more space friendly (especially given how big LEGO trains are). It also works better for track pack box sizing. Curves can easily be widened by use of extra straight track, if need be. And the 16-stud straights actually work better for fine-tuning like that.
But this is still good for availability purposes. *Especially* if they make replacement 9V cables.
Even with the larger radii you might have trouble running the pretentious 7-stud stuff.
Wow what an awesome train, love It! You definitely know your train stuff!
This is my Second most wanted LEGO set!
What's the first?
It would we cool if fx Bricks did a 9v motor as well.the packaging is very well done.
I’m so hyped for the FX Brix track system. Hope they are able to release everything as planned including the new 9v motor.
Why do Lego undervalue the potential for their train systems old and new?
I still have my Santa Fe Loco! Love seeing it in action on your channel.
Good one Jaabo. Trains are cool. Keep up the good work!!!!!
for actual lego train layouts, 9v is a must since you have better slow control for say an operating session.
Now we just need a new motor and connector alternative.
The Santa Fe superchief might not be my favourite train but put together with all the add on coaches piece for piece is probably the best train LEGO ever made.
Ask LEGO bring back monorail bring back 9volt. LEGO: we’re gonna focus on failed themes like chima and boring broken apps like hidden side and vidiyo instead. Give the people what they want
Love your background..☘
I knew it... And I was waiting for this video !!!
Never did engage on 9v train time period in 90's and early 00's. Was my dark age of lego. Wish I really had, seems great!
Good times.
Nice run through. I don't - sadly - have any 9V trains (yet) but I saw this and thought it looked useful for anyone that is lucky enough to have them. Surprised the cost is so high though unless it's just due to production numbers now maybe? Last I checked they'd only done straights. Are they up to junctions yet? And love hearing your LEGO memories. Good to see that awesome train running around the tracks. One day it will be mine!
My ultimate dream would be having double-radius 12V track.
I'd like to see Lego power functions/powered up components powered by the 9-volt rails in some way.
my favorite train engine and cars. i think LEGO tried to address the different raidius with the flex track, if i remember correctly. I got 1 limited edition super chief engine, 2 unlimited edition superchief engines, and I got a 5 pack of the train engines. I also scratch built 2 b-units and I converted 1 of my 10002 club cars into a superchief club car.
I didn't know about this I will have to get these when they come out with curves!!!!
Hi Jaabo,
I had written some 30 lines as reply, but it seems to be lost now. (in case you have received that via e-mail notificatiion before it vanished, feel free to re-upload!)....
:-(
Anyway: kudos to you, Jaabo, for dropping my name. Feel very pleased and honoured. 1000 thanks!
It's way past midnight now here in Germany. Will follow up soon on this. Admire the content you are publishing constantly. That's what I wanted to let you know in first line....
Best wishes for now!
Leg Godt!
Ben
P.s.: back in those years I have been in the lucky situation to be in pretty close contact to James Mathis. (After his move to Hawaii he kind of became invisible to the Lego train community. James if you are out there - please leave a comment!).
He was the one who made the "SNOT"-building technique popular to me. And I was in the lucky situation to be in a team with him, Holger Matthes, Pierre Normadin and Steven Barile (and further Lego train stars) when Lego invited a team of train enthusiasts to work on 10183 train set.
I had the chance to meet all of them in diverse train shows in advance and it has been a great experience to collaborate with them and an official Lego team in development of a real set that could be purchased as a result of our works.
James had experience in this on this Santa Fe engine and the suiting waggons he designed.
I still own some signed posters of his art and I can recommend to look out for his Dome Car for Santa Fe Train. It is a great addition.
Leg Godt!
Stiegsfeld (or Reinhard "Ben" Beneke in real life)
Thank you very much! I don’t get emails on the comments anymore. I’ve had that happen too where I typed something then lost it. I would like to talk more to you one day.😎
One of my big regrets is a few years back James offered to sell his LEGO collection he had in storage I think in Oregon. He made a lan offer that if he had it on the east coast of the US I would have done it. I couldn’t work it out to go pick it up so I missed out
@@BrickTsar I wonder what happened to it. It would have been interesting to see any development mocs he had and track layouts.
For old websites maybe the "internet archive" can help...
Those used to sell for EUR7.52 a piece. Two sets are more expensive than one currently-available passenger train. I'll pass.
Awesome rare lego sets there, I subscribe your CZcams channel there.
I am glad you picked up some Fx bricks track, I am going to put in an order but I was waiting to see what your thoughts were on the product, plus I need to find a controller and motors to got with it. My wallet and wife are going to hate me lol.
Very good news for newer collectors like me, because we cannot afford real vintage 9v components.
Hi Jaabo! I actually have a santa fe super chief set with tracks that should have a new home. Where would be the best place to find someone who would be interested in the set?
There is the B-unit ??? 🤔😉👍
A sleeper (2 by 8) is 8 studs wide, right?
But how wide is a wagon, coach or locomotive?
6 studs?
Im jealous
FGLTC found. 1999 long time ago.....
Hey Thorsten, lass mal über Ostern telefonieren! - And guys believe or not: This has been the one of two persons who pulled _ME_ into the advanced level of hobby and who gave me the push to publish my (in)famous April fools joke in 1999...
The only downside to 9v is if you have reverse loops
Any update? Does FX make a new power lock on’s?
FX Bricks
Nice! :-)
There are quite a few altenative plastic track producers out now, for example TrixBrix in Europe. You can get several radii up to r120 and r104 switches.
Tip: you can convert plastic track yourself to 9V by putting copper tape on it. (some video tutorials available on CZcams)
Copper tape is fragile and limited results. TrixBrix I don’t buy for personal reasons. This is the closest to 9v I’ve seen.
Bricktsar, would you say that trains are fun?
Can I swith the old 9v motor (both of mine are broken) to a modern PF motor and hubb and run the train on the old 9v tracks? This seems to be impossible to find any answer to ANYWHERE! The most simple question - I mean ALOT of people must have the old 9V trains that do not work anymore! MY GOD! I HAVE SEARCHED FOR AN ANSWER FOR TWO DAYS AND COME UP WITH NOTHING! 😭😭😭😭
Is there any other company like fxtrains that does powered track and motors that are Lego compatible? It's a real pain, and not very environmentally friendly to be forever replacing batteries and dumping the old ones. Also, battery boxes add extra weight for the motor to pull, hence extra strain and power wasted just to pull the batteries. In our more aware modern times, it doesn't make any sense to use batteries in a situation where they're not essential.
The reason for this is child safety. But I don’t agree Because you can’t get a electric shock from it.
Actually I prefer Power Function and Powered Up against 9V. It adds so much fun to have reverse loops and as many independently driven trains as you like (typically 5...10 when playing with my and some neighbourhood kids). I own 60+ eneloop rechargeable batteries. They do work for years and years and years.
The extra weight actually helps with traction. Some old LEGO trains actually included weights! It comes down to a matter of preference. As Ben mentioned - reversing loops become a problem but there are creative ways around that. I don’t know of another company doing 9v. There was one in the past but I think they went out of business
@@BrickTsar I was thinking more along the lines of the Hornby trains style. I think it's 12v but I could be wrong. The argument about child safety doesn't make any sense, since Hornby make sets aimed at children, such as the Thomas sets. Most big toy stores have Hornby sets. I'm guessing the weights to improve traction was what they did before the rubber bands on the wheels. It is a bit odd why it only happens with older Lego sets. That was probably more to do with there only being one speed, instead of a proportional speed controller. Unless Lego completely screwed up the geometry and centre of torque, which could be possible. The older style magnet couplers could have been a problem too, since they don't allow the downforce of the carriage behind the engine to give it traction.
Do they sell that set in stores do you know
Think of any discontinued item from any type of product. Where do you look for those types of products? That’s the stores that would have it
I'm cautiously optimistic about the FX track, on one hand its about time, on the other the last company to attempt 9V track took the money and ran on the later orders. Before the announcement I saw talk and planning from FX, they understand the difficulty of the process, but you never know.
Ultimately if the clone track is going to happen I'd prefer that it comes out of China generics due to cost and long term availability. I don't support Lepin by any means, but when it comes to things like road plates, esp the green ones, that are no longer made I'm far more forgiving.
That’s just cruel!
It's so lame Lego stopped making this type of track. The new powerless track sucks! It's an absolute joke to anyone that knows anything about toy trains.
Wait...are you buying fake Lego?
😂