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The MOC Builder Issue
Issue 2 - Winter 2008
TM
PEAK INTEREST
INSIDE:
The BrickMiner Shows Us
How the West Was Won
The Tale of the Catfish
Pierre Normandin’s
SW1200 Instructions
s
BRIAN DARROW’S LAYOUT OF
All Aboard!
The Brickworld Team invites you to
be a part of our new 5,000sq.ft. train room.
Contact Jeramy Spurgeon for your boarding pass.
June 19-22, 2008 • Chicago, Illinois
www.Brickworld.us
CONTENTS
Issue 2 - Winter 2008
The Whistle Stop.........................................................4
New Products.............................................................5
Pf Trains...................................................................6
Flashback.................................................................8
Builder Spotlight - Justin Carmien....................................10
Track Layouts...........................................................16
Build Instructions - EMD SW 1200 Switcher..........................18
Tale of the Catish......................................................24
Factory Built - Part I....................................................28
Builder Spotlight - Factory Built Part II..............................30
Reverse Engineering Challenge.......................................34
Builder Spotlight - Brian Darrow.......................................37
Builder Spotlight - Young Builders.....................................42
The Long Haul...........................................................48
Instructions - Mini Steam Engine......................................53
Track Modiication 101.................................................58
Trainspotting......................................................62
FRED’s View..............................................................63
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All Aboard!
The RAILBRICKS Team
Well, here we are, the sec-
ond issue inished, even if it’s a
bit later than we’d planned. We
hope we made up for that delay
by packing a bit more into this
issue. Hopefully the wait was
worth it. As you can see, I’ve had
my hands full lately. I must say
that I truly have a great team,
even when I got busy with life,
they pushed forward. I want
to personally thank Didier En-
jary, Benn Coifman, and Jordan
Schwarz.
Senior Editor:
Jeramy Spurgeon
Staff Editors and Writers
The “Think Tank”:
Erik Amzallag
Steve Barile
Matt Bieda
Benn Coifman
Tim David
Didier Enjary
Holger Matthes
John Neal
Mark Peterson
Larry Pieniazek
Jordan Schwarz
We also realize that the challenge email was not working, so if
you got discouraged by your contest entries not getting to their
recipient, rest assured that we have ixed the problem. Benn has
put together another great Reverse Engineering Challenge, so take
a look and get those entries submitted.
Content Contributors:
Justin Carmien
Brian Darrow
Richard Lemeiter
Pierre Normandin
Tom Paul
As we begin a new era of LEGO trains and say goodbye to the 9V
system, we here at RAILBRICKS will strive to keep the LEGO train
community active. I feel that, even though the new system may
not be what we wanted, it will provide us with many opportunities
to further blur the boundaries between LEGO and traditional scale
railroad modeling. As always, this is a community built around
sharing ideas, so if you have an idea for an article, submit it to
.
Copy Editing/Prooing:
Chris Spurgeon
Play Well!
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Printed issues of RAILBRICKS will be available at
Instructions and Tips & Tricks articles within RAILBRICKS fall into
one of three categories:
B
I
Intermediate
A
Advanced
Beginner
NEW PRODUCTS
Mark Assi
shares with RAILBRICKS the inspiration behind his custom sets.
To purchase these and other sets, visit
Gondola - Santa Fe
100
+
pcs. - $35.00USD
I started building LEGO trains by building the refrigerator car
from the instructions in Jacob McKee’s “Getting Started With
LEGO Trains” book. This is still the basic design for the current
refrigerator cars I build, but I changed the side details to better
accommodate my stickers.
I have always favored box cars, so I adapted the refrigerator
car design to build my custom freight cars. This freight car was
intended to be a less costly design that also looked a little more
contemporary, while the refrigerator car was meant to have a
more classic look. This allowed me to go to a much cheaper slid-
ing door, which is also more readily available. I would prefer to
use a black door, but due to cost and availability, the gray door
is a compromise.
Next, I started looking at what to build, and I saw that people
seemed to like gondolas, so I irst created a MOC gondola on a
6 x 28 train base. I didn’t ind this design to be very popular, and
the gondola always seemed a bit too large to me, so I took the
design and adapted it to the shorter 6 x 24 train base. This de-
sign lowered the cost and seemed to be a hit. I have to admit, I
was a bit surprised, but happy. This design is not really based on
any Santa Fe designs, but I tried to give it some real detail on the
ends, which I felt was not very well done on other MOC gondolas
I have seen. I also chose to use reddish-brown LEGO parts, be-
cause I always imagine gondolas to be rusty and well used. The
reddish-brown brick selection allows you to capture that rustic
look, but still look good.
My latest MOC was inspired simply by the fact that it seemed
that the rest of the world, unlike me, is crazy for grain hoppers.
I still prefer box cars, but I started looking around for a Santa
Fe grain hopper design, and found exactly what I hoped for. I
don’t think reality could have provided a better design for me
to recreate as a LEGO MOC. It was also very fortunate that LEGO
came out with its large space shuttle set a while back, and that
they went on clearance at all the Targets about a year and a half
ago. This created a massive surplus of the required parts at super
good prices! I couldn’t believe my fortune. So I ordered the parts
I thought I would need and wanted to try using, and after get-
ting my irst couple of BrickLink orders, sat down to build. With
a picture of the real grain hopper in hand, and a pile of parts in
front of me, the design came together in about 2 to 3 hours; it
felt like it almost put itself together. This has been the design
that I think really started to get my trains noticed out there, so
needless to say, I’m really pleased with it.
Grain Hopper - Santa Fe
200
+
pcs. - $75.00USD
Refrigerator Box Car - Santa Fe
400
+
pcs. - $70.00USD
Cattle Car
400
+
pcs. - $60.00USD
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ISSUE 2 - WINTER 2008
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