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No 50007 Sir Edward Elgar had an unusual livery applied when unveiled at Paddington on the 25th February 1984, to mark the 50th anniversary of the composers death, that of Great Western lined green with cast brass GWR badge, nameplate, number plate and double arrow logos applied under the non-driving side cab window.
I have to say if only BR had done more of these types of liveries at the time it would really have given this otherwise dull and boring livery era a real splash of nostalgiic colour.
My MOC has a 9volt motor fitted and seems to run well if a little temperamental over points. The grills I would have prefer to be in Earth green to match the body colour but I'm unable to source them.... how I miss Bluebrixx.
With today being the return of daylight saving time, it’s also time to change the backup batteries in our smoke/carbon monoxide detectors.
This box is just aswome. The tracks come packed like this, just like in the good old 12V days. Not that I can remember those (9V already just had regular Lego cartons) but I can definately feel the experience here. The cardboard itself is very high quality, it doesn't feel flimsy or hobby-like AT ALL. Really, I can't think of ANYTHING where corners were cut. It really feels like high quality, maybe even higher then Lego themselves lately.
Just getting them back in the slots is a bit tricky when you aren't trained in it, but then again, you are supposed to play with them, not stash them in your closet.
I liked the looks of the piggy back cars and wanted to add one to my collection.
Thanks to PNW Steam Shop and BMR for their instructions.
Custom decals by OKBrickWorks
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Swedish company NOHAB built this locomotive in the 1950-1960:s for DSB (Danish national railways).
Here presented as a 6-wide and approximately 32 studs long, power functions version with 3-axle boogies, like in the original NOHAB design. Thanks to using PF-elements and a brick-built powertrain, it has been possible to make a locomotive with a design and functionality much more similar to the original, compared to using the 2-axle 9Volt or PF-train motor.
Cab has the characteristic round nose, which is pretty awkward to copy in lego, and also features working PF-LED lights (one end only). A big part of the cab structure is SNOT:ed, and hand rails are hold in place by tile clips, to sit as near the body as possible.
And then there were two. Currently operating 9volt and will be converted to Power Functions with a needed tender just before the Tampa show. #808 was first built and got numerous tweaks, partly for structure and partly so that #822 can be expedited and matched. If I didn't allow the necessary tweaks, the 822 wouldn't be done until November.
A duplicate to the first was built last week and powered with PF stuff just recently. Plus, modifications and corrections to the first unit. A video to be linked below shows both of them in active service.
My newest bridge, designed by Brick Musher. One track for 10 wide Steam Locomotives & the other 9volt track for 8 wide locomotives.
My wife and I backpacked in to Shi Shi Beach our second night on the Olympic Coast. It was not the easiest task getting here. Not that it was a tough hike, but the prep was a little difficult. When I called the Wilderness Information Center in Port Angeles in preparation for our trip, I was told I could only obtain backcountry permits and a bear safe from the Lake Quinault ranger station. I guess I should've asked which one, because I just assumed it was on the North side of the lake. Anyway, we had arrived to our campsite at Kalaloch too late to stop at the ranger station on our way North. So, the next morning, before hiking to Point of Arches, we had to backtrack a half hour back down the road to the ranger station...and there was no one there. There was an iron ranger to collect fees for backcountry permits, which didnt' specify any cost, so I just left $5. Looking back on it now, that probably just meant it was free...but we still needed a bear safe. So, we got back in the car in hopes to find someone with some information. We stopped at the little ranger station near Kalaloch and this ranger was very helpful. She told us we could rent a bear vault in Forks and told us specifically where to go to get a permit to park on the Makah Indian Reservation.
After stopping in Forks we drove another hour to Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation and bought our recreational permit there for $10. I am really glad we had GPS and had the trail head location geotagged, because those roads did not make any sense. There is no overnight parking allowed at the trail head, for some unknown reason, so we had to unload our gear and park another half-mile down the road in someone's yard. They charged $10 per day! Those people probably never have to do anything else to earn money...Finally, we were on the trail! Sadly, at this point, the cloud bank started to roll back in and turn a lovely sunny day into a dark, dreary one, as happens frequently in this region. It wasn't far to Point of Arches. And the hike was quite nice, despite the muddy trail. Oh, and there just happened to be a permit station at the Olympic National Park territory borderline. How convenient...not that anyone else we saw were following regulations. No one else had permits displayed and we didn't see anyone else with bear safes, either. What a waste of time it was, following all those rules! Haha! Once we got down to the beach, we noticed a ton of debris that had been washed ashore. We saw a plastic box with Japanese writing on it. My Aunt later told me that it may have been from the Tsunami. Pretty crazy that it drifted so far.
Anyway, it was a long walk along the beach to Point of Arches on the South end, and there were dozens of other campers set up in various locations. We had just enough time to setup camp and eat dinner before the sun started to set. Except, the only reason we knew it was setting was because it gradually started getting darker, as we never actually saw the sun that evening. I was making the best of the situation and planning to take some more shots of 'blue hour' when a couple other photorgraphers showed up. They started talking to my wife while I was further out into the surf taking shots. As I was about ready to quit, she told me that they were planning to light some steel wool and that they would let me freeload on their action! How generous!
I hadn't really had much interest in shooting with this technique before. But, after spending some time with these guys and seeing these results, I think I might actually get into it more! Very unique. This was the first shot we took. The guy (I really don't remember their names :-( ignited the steel wool inside a whisk at the end of a cable with a 9volt battery. Then swung the whisk around in this orb-like shape. He had set his composition on his camera already and his friend triggered the shutter for him. Unfortunately, he had smashed his LCD so wasn't able to look at his shots...so, like shooting film basically - tortuous! We took a few more shots after this, but this one definitely turned out the coolest, I think. I love the silhouette of the seastacks in the background. And the symmetrical volcanically formed striations in the foreground are cool too!
Long time since I've had this one run but sadly she is now a push along as I've no metal rails for the 9volt motor she was fitted with to use. Another tricky rebuild inorder for a new RC motor to be fitted in the future.
No 50007 Sir Edward Elgar had an unusual livery applied when unveiled at Paddington on the 25th February 1984, to mark the 50th anniversary of the composers death, that of Great Western lined green with cast brass GWR badge, nameplate, number plate and double arrow logos applied under the non-driving side cab window.
I have to say if only BR had done more of these types of liveries at the time it would really have given this otherwise dull and boring livery era a real splash of nostalgiic colour.
My MOC has a 9volt motor fitted and seems to run well if a little temperamental over points. The grills I would have prefer to be in Earth green to match the body colour but I'm unable to source them.... how I miss Bluebrixx.
This is a homemade LED ring light attachment that my husband assembled for me yesterday to use with my macro photography. It took a while for me to obtain all the parts for the project as the LED lights were ordered from China and I had to figure out which other parts to get. I followed an idea I saw online (metku.net) and thought it would be super easy but in the end, I really needed the help of my husband whose experience as an electronics technician makes DIY projects like these so much quicker;) However this one took him a better part of the day to get it 'right'. Total cost was around $30.
The parts we used:
120mm diameter 39-light LED
80mm diameter 24-light LED
A DVD/CD cake box
2- 9 volt batteries
2- 9 volt battery connectors
Length of wire (instrument wire) and wrapping for it (he used leftover heatshrink and some coil wrap)
Voltage regulator to convert the 18volts from the 2- 9volt batteries down to 12 volts
Male and Female DC jack
Container to store batteries, regulator and to install female end of jack (I used a tin that a sample of herbal teas came in but the website shows someone used an Altoids mints tin.)
Filter ring in size to fit your macro lens (we used a 55mm UV filter and took the glass out)
Hot glue gun to glue the 'cut to fit' DVD box pieces to the filter ring and the lights to the back.
Also, we had a 12 volt adapter not being used which happens to fit the jack so this can be powered by a wall plug as well.
That's all I can remember at this time but if you want to make one of these and have any further questions..fire away!
Our Daily Challenge "Energy"
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It's taken much longer than anticipated trying to figure out my printer, graphic software, cricut machine and different vinyls, but I finally settled on a printed orange that is as close as I can get to Lego orange.
This is based on Barduck's City of Denver consist.
R72 curve curving around on my desk. Just like Ben Coifmann noted on EB there is a very slight cant on the tracks, as you can see in the inside of the curve. However, it doesn't affect the track at all when you put them in actual play mode (meaning a nice christmas-tree layout with a metroliner zooming over it).
I'm fascinated by the amount of engineering that went into these parts. Getting those aluminium rails clamped into the rails isn't a task you can do by hand as far as I know, and it requiers a lot of precision tooling to get this done by machines. However, nowhere do I feel like this isn't a finished product, nowhere it feels rushed. The metal sits firmly on top of the plastic rail, feels very sturdy, and is really one piece.
Well, let me just say it like it is: It feels like Lego.
It's taken much longer than anticipated trying to figure out my printer, graphic software, cricut machine and different vinyls, but I finally settled on a printed orange that is as close as I can get to Lego orange.
This is based on Barduck's City of Denver consist.
What to do with a bunch of Dark Purple Train windows from the Harry Potter Knight Bus? Turn it into a British Rail Pacer Train. But because the wheel arrangements on the original meant frequent derailments on standard Lego curves I modified it from single fixed axles to double articulated bogies. There's nothing complex about this 6-wide build, but it was fun and it looks good trundling over the tracks.
The Battery box Trick DOES work
I have just tested it.
This gives a total LEGO solution to running 9-volt train with Power Functions Control
Parts required
1 x 9 Volt Train Controller 2868
1 x 9 volt Train Transformer 9833
1 x 9 Volt to Power Functions adapter cable 8886
1 x Power Function Standard Battery Box (NO BATTERYS INSTALLED) 8881
1 X Power Functions IR Receiver 8884
2 x 9 Volt to Power Functions adapter cables 8886
2 x 9 Volt Track Power Cables 5306
1 x Power Functions Variable IR Controller 8879
Procedure for setting up and using the 100% LEGO solution for getting Power Function performance and control with 9-volt trains.
1 Connect the 9-volt Train Transformer 9833 to the 9-Volt Train Controller 2868.
2 Power it On the Green Led should light up on the 9-Volt Train Controller 2868.
3 Turn the speed dial of the 9-Volt Train Controller 2868 to full.
4 Connect the 9-volt end of the 9-Volt to Power Functions adapter cable 8886 to the 9 Volt Train Controller 2868.
5 Connect the Power Functions end of the 9-Volt to Power Functions adapter cable 8886 to the Power Function Standard Battery Box (NO BATTERYS INSTALLED) 8881.
6 Slide the Power Switch of the Power Function Standard Battery Box(NO BATTERYS INSTALLED) 8881 until the Green Led on the Power Function Standard Battery Box (NO BATTERYS INSTALLED) 8881 Lights up.
7 Connect the Power Functions IR Receiver 8884 to the Power Function Standard Battery Box (NO BATTERYS INSTALLED) 8881 The Green Led on the Power Functions IR Receiver 8884 should light up.
8 Connect the Power Function ends of the two 9 Volt to Power Functions adapter cables 8886 to the Power Functions IR Receiver 8884.
9 Connect the 9-Volt ends of the 9-Volt to Power Functions adapter cables 8886 to the two 9 Volt Track Power Cables 5306.
10 Connect the two 9-Volt Track Power Cables 5306 to two lengths of 9 Volt track.
11 With the Power Functions Variable IR Controller 8879 You should now be able to take advantage of using Power Functions Control to control your 9-Volt Trains.
And then there were two. Currently operating 9volt and will be converted to Power Functions with a needed tender just before the Tampa show. #808 was first built and got numerous tweaks, partly for structure and partly so that #822 can be expedited and matched. If I didn't allow the necessary tweaks, the 822 wouldn't be done until November.
It's taken much longer than anticipated trying to figure out my printer, graphic software, cricut machine and different vinyls, but I finally settled on a printed orange that is as close as I can get to Lego orange.
This is based on Barduck's City of Denver consist.
Ok so I was at ohm and bored, then I had this positively electrifying spark of an idea which induced me to snap a pile of batteries 'cos pile is french for battery plus it reminded me of the first nuclear pile built by Fermi from graphite and uranium blocks, but on the negative side it's not the most exciting thing to describe or look at so I ended up with this current of shockingly bad puns ... I'm addicted ok? Resistance is useless, it's not my volt, please put me back in my cell now!
For the OCD's amongst you note how the terminals of (nearly) every battery are alternated ;-)
Reached Explore #173 - i'm shocked ;-)
Articulated electric locomotive on four bogies of which one is a 9volt motor.
the pivot points are halfway the nose, on the front of the 2nd bogie, and under the cab.
runs smooth like a snake trough lego-curves. could be fitted with up to 4 motors for the heavy haulers. Also very often used for pulling the Emerald Night Express.