Mountain_King
Catching Rocks
My entry for the ROCK & ROLL contest.
Category ROLL — L A R G E
The Team of Atherton Swift has been roaming the rails of the great desert plains for days in search of a flock of floating rocks that has been recently sighted. With a newly acquired Royal Clockwerks Streamliner, usually running high speed freight, they have enough pulling power to tow several medium sized rocks to Ballatine docks.
5 Years ago Atherton Swift came up with the idea to collect floating rocks with the aid of a zeppelin and a locomotive.
The zeppelin is tethered to the train with a long cable.
The zeppelin itself is equipped with a harpoon gun to capture the floating rocks.
If the position of rocks is not know precisely often the zeppelin is used as a lookout.
There is a rail car with a strong steam powered winch coupled in front of the zeppelin docking car, to recover the zeppelin and his catch.
Also there is a lookout and landing lights for operations in the last light of day.
The docking car is crammed full with supplies, cargo and other paraphernalia, to get as heavy as possible preventing it from derailing due to the upward pull of the zeppelin and its haul.
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INFO
This is W.I P.
I wanted to include Rock and Roll in one entry for the master builder award. So I came up with the idea of a steam train based crew that catches floating rocks with the aid of a zeppelin and tows them to a dock where can either be mined or made habitable.
The train is still missing a rail car for the crew to live and sleep in and one with galley and dining room. Also a floating rock is missing. I'm gonna add all those things in the future.
I have been sick for two weeks and simply had no holidays at all and therefore no time to build them.
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FEATURES
Power Functions XL Motor
4 headlights
2 marker lights
1 light in the cab
glowing firebox
2 rear lights
2 landing lights
options for power on every rail car
working "fake" 6 cylinder drive and gears
The locomotive is equipped with an IR receiver and a rechargeable battery. The tender with a battery pack to power the rail cars
The whole train can ride the lego rails including curves on its own power. I haven't tried switches yet
Catching Rocks
My entry for the ROCK & ROLL contest.
Category ROLL — L A R G E
The Team of Atherton Swift has been roaming the rails of the great desert plains for days in search of a flock of floating rocks that has been recently sighted. With a newly acquired Royal Clockwerks Streamliner, usually running high speed freight, they have enough pulling power to tow several medium sized rocks to Ballatine docks.
5 Years ago Atherton Swift came up with the idea to collect floating rocks with the aid of a zeppelin and a locomotive.
The zeppelin is tethered to the train with a long cable.
The zeppelin itself is equipped with a harpoon gun to capture the floating rocks.
If the position of rocks is not know precisely often the zeppelin is used as a lookout.
There is a rail car with a strong steam powered winch coupled in front of the zeppelin docking car, to recover the zeppelin and his catch.
Also there is a lookout and landing lights for operations in the last light of day.
The docking car is crammed full with supplies, cargo and other paraphernalia, to get as heavy as possible preventing it from derailing due to the upward pull of the zeppelin and its haul.
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INFO
This is W.I P.
I wanted to include Rock and Roll in one entry for the master builder award. So I came up with the idea of a steam train based crew that catches floating rocks with the aid of a zeppelin and tows them to a dock where can either be mined or made habitable.
The train is still missing a rail car for the crew to live and sleep in and one with galley and dining room. Also a floating rock is missing. I'm gonna add all those things in the future.
I have been sick for two weeks and simply had no holidays at all and therefore no time to build them.
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FEATURES
Power Functions XL Motor
4 headlights
2 marker lights
1 light in the cab
glowing firebox
2 rear lights
2 landing lights
options for power on every rail car
working "fake" 6 cylinder drive and gears
The locomotive is equipped with an IR receiver and a rechargeable battery. The tender with a battery pack to power the rail cars
The whole train can ride the lego rails including curves on its own power. I haven't tried switches yet