Vlog #32 - Motorizing the Orient Express!
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- I realized I've showed it but I never really talked about it because I've been slowly building it since July and even the motorization part was drawn out over a week or two, but here's my take on the Lego Orient Express and the motorization process I chose to do.
Below are the links to Danjo Trains' video about this and rebrickable instructions. Give him a follow and a look!
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My name is Travis and I'm an AFOL! I've been serious collecting Lego since 2021. I collect a little bit of everything from Star Wars to Fabuland to Pirates to CMFs. My biggest continual project is my city. The city is currently about 112 baseplates and always in constant evolution. When I started out with the city it was 21 baseplates and I never imagined when I started it would grow to this size. My collection has quickly overtaken my office that I now call the Lego Room. My favorite themes are Vidiyo, Dreamzzz, CMFs, Pirates, and anything I can use in my city.
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Great review, thank you for sharing Danjo’s Rebrickable design.
He’s done some amazing stuff. I also have his design for a retro style electric train I hope to build someday.
Just noticed that the stripes around the boiler look way better on yours. mine are a bit outa whack, yours look perfectly straight.
This could be because I think the boiler is a stud or so wider. Again, I didn’t build the original version so I can’t speak to that, but I thought he said that in his video. He has two videos regarding this subject. I linked part 2, but part 1 is equally informative. There’s sooo many videos out there of people trying stuff and I watched about all of them lol
@@_travis_bricks Its the gold stripe printing with mine, Lego had great difficulty printing straight on those curved 1x4 bricks so when i look at it I can see they are well outa whack, same with a lot of others ive seen...but not yours, they did a great job with yours.
Just built it and ive been looking at how to do it because there is no spot for bogey plates and I only have train motors that use bogey plates. Also the wheels are very stiff in turning because of not using bogey plates. The decision to not use the magnets to connect the carriages is also annoying, my skinny fingers still struggle to get in that gap to connect them. They are my two main issues, I think I will replace the connectors with magnets as they are so much easier. I cannot recommend getting two enough, four carriages looks magnificent, we know this is not a cheap set, but this is basically the new Emerald Night, only with better carriages and you will regret not getting two to complete the train. Long ago I bought the Santa Fe and BNSF and two carriages...yes, just TWO carriages! What was I thinking, why didnt I buy at least 8 so each engine had 4 carriages???? I do not know why, had the money just did not buy more, and now they are just far too expensive, do not make my mistake if you have the spare cash, there is barely a time I look at the BNSF with its no carriages and do not have huge regret (the santa fe gets both carriages, so bnsf gets none) do not make my mistake.
What if I put one motor under the Tender and another under a carriage? Does the vid you mention try using two train motors? My last motor like the ones you used stopped working but I never liked doing it the way you show because the train made so much noise and was so slow, I like the normal train motors, I have a feeling they wont be enough. Bet you I end up buying the same motors as you and doing it your way in the end, never done it with two and a diff gearing. Great vid! have a nice day and keep on building.
I want a Santa Fe so much, but I just can’t justify the price. I barely justified the price to get an Emerald night, and now I’ve been looking to get more carriages and those windows are so expensive. I’ve found some builds that use something different than the original windows and it drops the price significantly. It’s on the list.
I’ll probably try to pick a second copy up used in a year or so. If I have happen on a good deal, no rush, but I’ll definitely get it before too long.
I KNOW I saw a video where someone had done the tender and the carriage test, but I don’t remember if they tried them together… I also don’t remember if it was Danjo’s video or not, but somewhere I saw that the weight was too much for the magnet connection, especially when adding more cars. But I agree the current way is very clunky even for my smaller than average hands. What I’ve found is the just prop it up with my finger and “slam” the car into it. Not efficient, but it works. You’ll notice I actually used a technic lift arm for the connection between the engine and the tender. I didn’t wanna risk the engine separating from the tender and pulling plugs and the whole thing get stuck somewhere dumb. If I can find the video with the motorizing the carriages, I’ll drop it here. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
@@_travis_bricks So i looked into 2 train motors and it aint happening, I hoped to replace the 6x6 plate in the carriage with a 2x6 technic plate and a 4x6 plate, but its too close to the end and far too much of the motor sticks out, looks all sorts of awful. The Tender also looked awful and one motor does nothing as soon as you get to a corner, so I removed the train motor. I have ordered 4 motors, wanted to order them from Lego but they have nothing, everything is retired or out of stock. Cannot say I am all that impressed with the replacement for Power Functions, no extension cables, limited inputs, less motor types. Other than the Bluetooth connection everything is a downgrade, I knew where I was with the old system, it had the medium and large and extra large motors plus the servo motor for points and the train motor, thats 5 motor types, all lego had in stock was train motors which I have and cant use. I had a feeling I was going to be doing it your way, plus I will take your advice on the connectors and go with technic pins that are easy to connect and never fail. So now I am stuck looking at my gorgeous dark blue train that wont move for another 10 days when my 4 motors are expected to arrive.
The Emerald Night is in my view the greatest Lego train they have released, I could almost justify ANY price for it. The reason I have ordered 4 motors is because I intend to also put 2 motors with the diff in my Emerald Night and have it pull a few Orient Express carriages. The greatest engine pulling the greatest carriages, now that is going to be simply magnificent, a ten outa ten all day long! Why not give it a try? You could even make a vid out of it, have fun building, all the best!
I got mine second hand with the PF motor in it but I don’t have a remote, but I’m debating upgrading it. I love the the thought of the OE cars with the Emerald Night… that may happen soon. Thanks for the comments!!