cAse studIes In desIgn Designing a Model of a real-Life Train Track Design and Layout T ips for curves Ballasting Track Plan Your Layout with BlueBrick 103 103 106 107 109 110 Gathering information about the Original 110 111 set Yourself a challenge 111 First Draft second Draft 113 113 Final Model The regional-express Bombardier Double-Deck coaches The challenges First Draft Finishing Touches siemens Vectron electric Locomotive The challenges The cab Doors with side handrails The Trucks Full Power Final Thoughts steam engine Br 10 The Original The challenges The Undercarriage Driving Wheels First Try Driving Wheels second Try Pistons and rods 114 115 115 116 116 118 118 120 121 122 123 123 124 125 125 126 127 128 viii
BuIldIng InstructIons Leading and Trailing axles shaping the Body The Boiler The Driver’s cab The Tender 128 129 129 130 130 133 135 inter-city express 136 ice 3 Trailer car ice 3 Driving car 148 Fitting the Power Functions components 168 173 alternative Designs for the W indshield 180 a simple Gondola swiss electric Locomotive Be 6 8 crocodile Vintage Passenger car steam engine Br 80 online bonus Index 186 214 228 231 ix
Acknowledgments On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of LeGO trains in 2016 i published my first book LEGO Eisenbahn Konzepte und Techniken für realistische Modelle now the english version The LEGO Trains Book is available after Jake Mckee’s book Getting Started with LEGO Trains this is only the second book entirely dedicated to LeGO railways and building your own train models i could not have made this book without the support direct and indirect from many people that i would like to thank here First i must mention Gabriel neumann from dpunkt verlag who came up with the idea and gave me the opportunity to create the book another big thank you goes to Tyler Ortman and riley hoffman from no starch Press who worked hard to make this book available for the international audience This english version wouldn’t have been possible without ronald Vallenduuk’s translation and Michael Gale’s reviews Both contributed their expertise to make this book a great resource for all LeGO train fans Thanks also to the numerous LeGO fans around the globe who create their MOcs and present them online even as a longstanding LeGO fan i still regularly wonder how certain details were created and i am always fascinated to see new creations Thank you to BrickLink shops big and small who supply me with the raw materials and who by parting out many sets make it possible to acquire large quantities of certain parts Thank you to all the invisible volunteers in the LeGO fan community who contribute to the various databases such as the parts catalog on BrickLink and the programmers and parts authors who create and update the open source virtual building programs Without them it would have been impossible to create my own building instructions a personal thank you to the photographers who let me use their pictures to create a link with the real world These photographers are Jürgen heegmann ralf hiesgen steffen rau Luis rentero armin schwarz and siemens aG www siemens com press x
special thanks go to roland Dahl who patiently answered all my ques tions about rendering images in POV-ray gave me many tips and brought the Monorail picture to life Many thanks to my friends and family They motivated me kept an interest throughout the process and very importantly cast a critical eye on the devel oping book The biggest thank you goes out to my old friend and master photographer andy Bahler www andybahler de without whose pictures this book would have been useless his commitment night after night was above and beyond expectation and the undiscovered broken coupling on the 7740 brought him right back into my LeGO world Thanks andy Andy Bahler at work enjoy the book and build holger Matthes www holgermatthes de bricks xi
