Holiday Train - Breakdown - a photo on Flickriver

A decorative holiday train for the mantelpiece. It started out inspired by wooden toy trains, but more realism crept in while building.

I don't really know trains, but the loco was inspired by some Art Deco era designs such as this one.

Fun trivia: The part of a railroad car that the wheels attach to is called a "bogie". You typically wouldn't see the wheels this clearly because the "side frame" (the black 1x2 plates in this build) would be on the outside. A real bogie would pivot on its center, whereas these pivot on one end, because that was the most compact way to attach them in a 2-wide build. The tender should probably have four wheels on each side, but I ran out of 1x2 black plates.

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Taken on: December 6, 2013

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Sets appears in: • Breakdowns • Holiday Train I

Groups appears in: • Featured on The Brothers Brick • 2-wide lego train mocs

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