FatalTrainBuilds

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then. The valve gear improvement is the thing I'm most proud of, though the smoke deflectors are a close second. The steam pistons were a bit of trouble to connect. The new pistons are offset by a half-stud, which made connecting the pistons to the chassis challenging. By using some technic pieces and jumper plates, I successfully connected the pistons securely to the chassis. My inspiration for the project is from BritishBricks' LNER P2. The streamlined LNER P2 was fun to remake. I took the recent regular P2 model and deleted the loco's boiler roof and smokebox. I reused the smoke box and boiler roof from my LNER A4 model since the streamlined P2 and A4 have similar sloped smokeboxes. Plus, the sloped boiler roofing is missing on my last model. I also added the valve gear that was absent from the previous model.

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then. The valve gear improvement is the thing I'm most proud of, though the smoke deflectors are a close second. The steam pistons were a bit of trouble to connect. The new pistons are offset by a half-stud, which made connecting the pistons to the chassis challenging. By using some technic pieces and jumper plates, I successfully connected the pistons securely to the chassis. My inspiration for the project is from BritishBricks' LNER P2. The streamlined LNER P2 was fun to remake. I took the recent regular P2 model and deleted the loco's boiler roof and smokebox. I reused the smoke box and boiler roof from my LNER A4 model since the streamlined P2 and A4 have similar sloped smokeboxes. Plus, the sloped boiler roofing is missing on my last model. I also added the valve gear that was absent from the previous model.

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then. The valve gear improvement is the thing I'm most proud of, though the smoke deflectors are a close second. The steam pistons were a bit of trouble to connect. The new pistons are offset by a half-stud, which made connecting the pistons to the chassis challenging. By using some technic pieces and jumper plates, I successfully connected the pistons securely to the chassis. My inspiration for the project is from BritishBricks' LNER P2. The streamlined LNER P2 was fun to remake. I took the recent regular P2 model and deleted the loco's boiler roof and smokebox. I reused the smoke box and boiler roof from my LNER A4 model since the streamlined P2 and A4 have similar sloped smokeboxes. Plus, the sloped boiler roofing is missing on my last model. I also added the valve gear that was absent from the previous model.

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then. The valve gear improvement is the thing I'm most proud of, though the smoke deflectors are a close second. The steam pistons were a bit of trouble to connect. The new pistons are offset by a half-stud, which made connecting the pistons to the chassis challenging. By using some technic pieces and jumper plates, I successfully connected the pistons securely to the chassis. My inspiration for the project is from BritishBricks' LNER P2. The streamlined LNER P2 was fun to remake. I took the recent regular P2 model and deleted the loco's boiler roof and smokebox. I reused the smoke box and boiler roof from my LNER A4 model since the streamlined P2 and A4 have similar sloped smokeboxes. Plus, the sloped boiler roofing is missing on my last model. I also added the valve gear that was absent from the previous model.

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then. The valve gear improvement is the thing I'm most proud of, though the smoke deflectors are a close second. The steam pistons were a bit of trouble to connect. The new pistons are offset by a half-stud, which made connecting the pistons to the chassis challenging. By using some technic pieces and jumper plates, I successfully connected the pistons securely to the chassis. My inspiration for the project is from BritishBricks' LNER P2. The streamlined LNER P2 was fun to remake. I took the recent regular P2 model and deleted the loco's boiler roof and smokebox. I reused the smoke box and boiler roof from my LNER A4 model since the streamlined P2 and A4 have similar sloped smokeboxes. Plus, the sloped boiler roofing is missing on my last model. I also added the valve gear that was absent from the previous model.

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then. The valve gear improvement is the thing I'm most proud of, though the smoke deflectors are a close second. The steam pistons were a bit of trouble to connect. The new pistons are offset by a half-stud, which made connecting the pistons to the chassis challenging. By using some technic pieces and jumper plates, I successfully connected the pistons securely to the chassis. My inspiration for the project is from BritishBricks' LNER P2. The streamlined LNER P2 was fun to remake. I took the recent regular P2 model and deleted the loco's boiler roof and smokebox. I reused the smoke box and boiler roof from my LNER A4 model since the streamlined P2 and A4 have similar sloped smokeboxes. Plus, the sloped boiler roofing is missing on my last model. I also added the valve gear that was absent from the previous model.

Lego LNER Class P2

Slightly on a LNER locomotive binge again, finally made a change to the P2 designs. For the regular P2, I wanted to remedy the squashed look it had. I remade every asset, as I didn't want to rely on old methods since I had learned more techniques since then.

Lego Railway Water Trough

This was completely random, and the build happened to go well. Although I think I over-engineered the trough a bit, I will likely change some elements.

The LNER Tornado has always been a favorite of mine, especially afterwards, when I got it on Train Simulator Classic. I created a few versions, but I never really liked them since some aspects didn’t sit right with me. This time around, I realized it was mainly the front portion of the locomotive that I struggled to design correctly. The buffers looked smushed, the smokebox was too short, the step up on the running board was chunky, the running towards the front was too short, causing the pilot wheels to look out of place, and the smoke deflectors were sometimes hovering. Besides other small fixes, I can genuinely say that this is the Tornado I’ve wanted to design after building it.

The LNER Tornado has always been a favorite of mine, especially afterwards, when I got it on Train Simulator Classic. I created a few versions, but I never really liked them since some aspects didn’t sit right with me. This time around, I realized it was mainly the front portion of the locomotive that I struggled to design correctly. The buffers looked smushed, the smokebox was too short, the step up on the running board was chunky, the running towards the front was too short, causing the pilot wheels to look out of place, and the smoke deflectors were sometimes hovering. Besides other small fixes, I can genuinely say that this is the Tornado I’ve wanted to design after building it.

The LNER Tornado has always been a favorite of mine, especially afterwards, when I got it on Train Simulator Classic. I created a few versions, but I never really liked them since some aspects didn’t sit right with me. This time around, I realized it was mainly the front portion of the locomotive that I struggled to design correctly. The buffers looked smushed, the smokebox was too short, the step up on the running board was chunky, the running towards the front was too short, causing the pilot wheels to look out of place, and the smoke deflectors were sometimes hovering. Besides other small fixes, I can genuinely say that this is the Tornado I’ve wanted to design after building it.

The LNER Tornado has always been a favorite of mine, especially afterwards, when I got it on Train Simulator Classic. I created a few versions, but I never really liked them since some aspects didn’t sit right with me. This time around, I realized it was mainly the front portion of the locomotive that I struggled to design correctly. The buffers looked smushed, the smokebox was too short, the step up on the running board was chunky, the running towards the front was too short, causing the pilot wheels to look out of place, and the smoke deflectors were sometimes hovering. Besides other small fixes, I can genuinely say that this is the Tornado I’ve wanted to design after building it.

The LNER Tornado has always been a favorite of mine, especially afterwards, when I got it on Train Simulator Classic. I created a few versions, but I never really liked them since some aspects didn’t sit right with me. This time around, I realized it was mainly the front portion of the locomotive that I struggled to design correctly. The buffers looked smushed, the smokebox was too short, the step up on the running board was chunky, the running towards the front was too short, causing the pilot wheels to look out of place, and the smoke deflectors were sometimes hovering. Besides other small fixes, I can genuinely say that this is the Tornado I’ve wanted to design after building it.

The LNER Tornado has always been a favorite of mine, especially afterwards, when I got it on Train Simulator Classic. I created a few versions, but I never really liked them since some aspects didn’t sit right with me. This time around, I realized it was mainly the front portion of the locomotive that I struggled to design correctly. The buffers looked smushed, the smokebox was too short, the step up on the running board was chunky, the running towards the front was too short, causing the pilot wheels to look out of place, and the smoke deflectors were sometimes hovering. Besides other small fixes, I can genuinely say that this is the Tornado I’ve wanted to design after building it.

Lego LNER Peppercorn Class A1 ‘Tornado’

Lego Rolling Stock Wagons 01

I've been improving my rolling stock variety for a couple of weeks. I also been going back to older MOCs to see what I can improve. The Cordon tankers were a fun challenge to make, and correcting the bogie wagons' names/designs was satisfying.

Lego PF Controller Steam Interface MOC (Update)

Scrounged around my Lego bins for parts, and the PF Controller Steam Interface meets reality. Everything works as intended and performs like the prototype MOC.

Lego PF Controller Steam Interface MOC

After revisiting an old Smith Movies video, I wanted to see if I could make a Lego controller that looks like a steam locomotive control panel, with both knobs, direction switches, and stop buttons operational.

Lego Railway Gantry Crane

I had trashed the gantry crane build ages ago since I was never 100% on how it looked/worked. I've always liked the color scheme and detailing, but it always came out too skinny, if that makes sense. I never got the inkling to retry the build til recently.

New Faryce Junction

I finally got things situated for this build; I've been planning and/or building this diorama since April.

New build & Video

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Lego SR Q1 Class

An extraordinary locomotive, despite its nickname.

#lego #legotrains #legolocomotives #legobuild #moc

Lego Railway Turntable

While losing the turntable build sucked, the payoff of having hindsight for its redesign was great.

#lego #legorailway #legoMOC

Lego LNER Class A3 Pacific

Remade the A3 again; I also made Gordon too

Forgot that I had this page

1st Lego Railway Diorama of 2025

I finally made a diorama for this year. I'm planning a bigger one, but I wanted to put something out.

It has taken too long, but I finally discovered what this coaling tower is named. I made the Carnforth Concrete Coaling Tower last year, but I used model replicas as reference material, so some key details were missing from my model. I learned the name when I was doom-scrolling Google for "concrete coaling tower." I immediately went to stud.io and started building since I now had direct reference materials/photos. I also took some liberties since I wanted the coaling tower more structurally sound.

Lego Carnforth Concrete Coaling Tower

I remade my Shrewsbury Severn Bridge Signal Box because I finally found IRL photos of the interior. The old model of the signal box design wasn't awful by any means, but I wanted to give it a touch-up. I fixed some of the inaccuracies and redid the interior.

Lego Shrewsbury Severn Bridge Signal Box

The LMS Fowler Class 4F is one of the deceptive builds. It looks easy, but minuscule errors can ruin the entire build. I built maybe 10 chassis/bodies to make this build look correct. The sitting height of the running board, boiler, firebox, cab, and funnel made this build more challenging than I initially thought. The tender was another challenge within itself. I wanted the tender arches to be smooth when built, so I went through numerous designs till I built one that looked right. I wanted to include a design feature from earlier versions that I omitted from the latest ones, so I added the coal blockers to the tender again. I also put the receiver in the tender and hid it by building coal around it. Remaking the LMS Fowler Class 4F was a fun build. Plus, since I figured out the tender arch design, I can now use the design in future projects.

Lego LMS Fowler Class 4F

The LMS Fowler Class 4F is one of the deceptive builds. It looks easy, but minuscule errors can ruin the entire build.

No matter how much experience I have in building Lego locomotives, streamlined locomotive builds are annoying. This build was fun, but hooking up the boiler to the chassis was a pain. The boiler sloping kept clipping into other pieces, the wheel arches were hard to connect, the connecting system for the boiling needed fixes, the nose went through many alterations to look right again, and adding two larger motors was laborious to install in an already crowded space. Worth it though; I got the result I wanted and got a locomotive that matched the detailed tender.

The dark ages

No matter how much experience I have in building Lego locomotives, streamlined locomotive builds are annoying. This build was fun, but hooking up the boiler to the chassis was a pain. The boiler sloping kept clipping into other pieces, the wheel arches were hard to connect, the connecting system for the boiling needed fixes, the nose went through many alterations to look right again, and adding two larger motors was laborious to install in an already crowded space. Worth it though; I got the result I wanted and got a locomotive that matched the detailed tender.

No matter how much experience I have in building Lego locomotives, streamlined locomotive builds are annoying. This build was fun, but hooking up the boiler to the chassis was a pain. The boiler sloping kept clipping into other pieces, the wheel arches were hard to connect, the connecting system for the boiling needed fixes, the nose went through many alterations to look right again, and adding two larger motors was laborious to install in an already crowded space. Worth it though; I got the result I wanted and got a locomotive that matched the detailed tender.

No matter how much experience I have in building Lego locomotives, streamlined locomotive builds are annoying. This build was fun, but hooking up the boiler to the chassis was a pain. The boiler sloping kept clipping into other pieces, the wheel arches were hard to connect, the connecting system for the boiling needed fixes, the nose went through many alterations to look right again, and adding two larger motors was laborious to install in an already crowded space. Worth it though; I got the result I wanted and got a locomotive that matched the detailed tender.

No matter how much experience I have in building Lego locomotives, streamlined locomotive builds are annoying. This build was fun, but hooking up the boiler to the chassis was a pain. The boiler sloping kept clipping into other pieces, the wheel arches were hard to connect, the connecting system for the boiling needed fixes, the nose went through many alterations to look right again, and adding two larger motors was laborious to install in an already crowded space. Worth it though; I got the result I wanted and got a locomotive that matched the detailed tender.

Lego LNER Class A4 Pacific 'Streaks'

No matter how much experience I have in building Lego locomotives, streamlined locomotive builds are annoying. This build was fun, but connecting the boiler to the chassis was a pain.

Howdy, y'all; revamped an old building yesterday. The music store I made last year was decent from an exterior perspective but lacked interior care. So, it was time for a revamp. The store's front mostly kept the same look, although the other exterior walls had a redo. The old design for the walls was flat/boring, so I started experimenting with greebling again. What came out were walls that had texture/character. Also, I added a few more windows so the shop could get 'natural lighting.' The interior was the most crucial aspect of this rebuild, so I had to be considerate of the space I was working in. I built the checkout counter first since I needed a fixed point to build around it. Then, I built the two drum sets; I wanted the drums to stand out more, so I added colorful mock drum rugs beneath them. Once the larger builds were in place, I filled the access room with guitars and amps. I did the same with the second floor, but since the instruments were smaller, I copied/pasted them to fill the room. I had a blast rebuilding the music store; it also gave me perspective on how to detail a railway station. The second, larger, drum set is based on Lars Ulrich's Black Album drum set.

Howdy, y'all; revamped an old building yesterday. The music store I made last year was decent from an exterior perspective but lacked interior care. So, it was time for a revamp. The store's front mostly kept the same look, although the other exterior walls had a redo. The old design for the walls was flat/boring, so I started experimenting with greebling again. What came out were walls that had texture/character. Also, I added a few more windows so the shop could get 'natural lighting.' The interior was the most crucial aspect of this rebuild, so I had to be considerate of the space I was working in. I built the checkout counter first since I needed a fixed point to build around it. Then, I built the two drum sets; I wanted the drums to stand out more, so I added colorful mock drum rugs beneath them. Once the larger builds were in place, I filled the access room with guitars and amps. I did the same with the second floor, but since the instruments were smaller, I copied/pasted them to fill the room. I had a blast rebuilding the music store; it also gave me perspective on how to detail a railway station. The second, larger, drum set is based on Lars Ulrich's Black Album drum set.

Older deign from last year.

Music Palace (City Building 1)

I have been wanting to remake this building for a while.

#lego #legoarchitecture #legobuild #MOC

I am back; let me explain what happened over the last few days. Warning computer jargon Last Thursday night/early Friday morning, my friend and I were recording footage for a new video; when the recording ended, my computer blue-screened while rendering. It booted back up normally, like the last three times, so I thought my PC didn't like the file size. I went to bed, not worrying over it since it happened before. Later Friday, my PC performed like usual for most of the day, but my computer suddenly crashed and refused to boot to Windows. What caused the crash was that my HDD (hard disk drive) died. I was sad since it died before my backup save date, so I lost all of my recent projects but not the old ones. The same night, my brother (in law) graciously bought me a 2TB 2.5" SSD. Since I was tired, I went to bed. The next day, I installed the drive, but it didn't show me the "enter the BIOS screen." I thought my PC was fried (done for) altogether, so most of that was waiting to see what my brother could do after work. He later showed up to see if he could fix the problem. He started spam-pressing the F2 & F10 keys on the keyboard, and the BIOS finally showed. I was bewildered at that moment since I did the same thing with no results (he was faster, which worked). From that point, I redownloaded Windows from my old thumb drive and set up my PC. I had to update Windows a bunch of times to have it up to date, but it didn't take long. I then redownloaded my old apps/programs and set them back up. The last two days have been getting my things back in order. I lost a lot of stuff in that crash, so things are going to be slow around here for a minute. Although, I am overjoyed that my entire PC didn't become unusable. See you later FatalTrainBuilds/Thomas.

I am back; let me explain what happened over the last few days. Warning computer jargon Last Thursday night/early Friday morning, my friend and I were recording footage for a new video; when the recording ended, my computer blue-screened while rendering. It booted back up normally, like the last three times, so I thought my PC didn't like the file size. I went to bed, not worrying over it since it happened before. Later Friday, my PC performed like usual for most of the day, but my computer suddenly crashed and refused to boot to Windows. What caused the crash was that my HDD (hard disk drive) died. I was sad since it died before my backup save date, so I lost all of my recent projects but not the old ones. The same night, my brother (in law) graciously bought me a 2TB 2.5" SSD. Since I was tired, I went to bed. The next day, I installed the drive, but it didn't show me the "enter the BIOS screen." I thought my PC was fried (done for) altogether, so most of that was waiting to see what my brother could do after work. He later showed up to see if he could fix the problem. He started spam-pressing the F2 & F10 keys on the keyboard, and the BIOS finally showed. I was bewildered at that moment since I did the same thing with no results (he was faster, which worked). From that point, I redownloaded Windows from my old thumb drive and set up my PC. I had to update Windows a bunch of times to have it up to date, but it didn't take long. I then redownloaded my old apps/programs and set them back up. The last two days have been getting my things back in order. I lost a lot of stuff in that crash, so things are going to be slow around here for a minute. Although, I am overjoyed that my entire PC didn't become unusable. See you later FatalTrainBuilds/Thomas.

Lego Glock 17/18c

My first build after my HDD died.

Lego LSWR S15 Class 'Arthurs'

After I built this locomotive in 2023, I was embarrassed by it, so I let it fade into obscurity. Since I know more techniques now, I decided to give it another shot.

#lego #legotrain #creator #builder

British Rail Class 52 'Westerns'

The BR Class 52 build is now the most tedious locomotive I have built. I have been experiment-building the loco off and on for more than a year behind the scenes. After much-tested patience, I can now say the BR Class 52 is render-ready.

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I've used the same design steps for the Lego BR Class 37 since 2022, and compared to my other designs, it looks dated. So, I gave Class 37 an overhaul in design. First, I wanted to eliminate the toy-ish look for this version, so I ignored most of my previous version. For reference material, I went to the Accurascale website for photos. Using the images, I created a foundation to build upon and began to outline the details. I started with the nose first since the last version was too big. I shrunk it down, plus added details to make it look like the hood doors were present. I also used a different technique for the angled windows since I needed the space in the hood for the hood detailing. The body was moderately simple to build, but I didn't want chunky details, so I used sideway-building techniques to slim down the body. For the motorization of Class 37, I used more technique pieces to get a better running system. I also made sure that I included the fan in the mechanism gearing. The wheel bogies are mostly the same, but I added a few details to make it look busier. The roof was tricky to build since I wanted two sections of the roof to poke out. I had to ensure the roof didn't clip into the locomotive, so I had to work with some restraints. At last minute, I colored the roof Dark Blueish-Gray since I like the look better.

Lego British Rail Class 37

I've used the same design steps for the Lego BR Class 37 since 2022, and compared to my other designs, it looks dated. So, I gave Class 37 an overhaul in design.

#lego #legotrain #legobuilder #creator