Hopper and Container Wagons

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:01:12 +0100

I’ve been playing around with LDD this weekend for a bit.

Via bricklink I’ve bought enough pieces to build a second goal hopper car:

Coal hopper from 60098.

Now these hopper cars are somewhat short, so I decided I need a longer version with a bogie on each end. After a couple of false starts this resulted in:

Hopper rendered view.

Some more images (that haven’t been rendered):

Hopper above view.

Hopper side view.

Hopper side/above view.

Also, intrigued by the Maersk train, I wanted to recreate the container wagon … (to build myself one day):

Triangular Warren Truss Bridge in LEGO

Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:27:12 +0100

Lately I have been playing around with LEGO (again). To pretend that I am an adult I’m designing models with Lego Digital Designer. It took some getting used to, but it is a nice tool. Also it runs perfectly in Wine (on my Mac running Linux).

I’m toying with a plan to build a LEGO train triangular Warren truss bridge.

Triangular Warren truss bridge: front view.

Not having build it, I can’t really say if a train passes under it (think it does), and if it is structurally sound (again I think so).

Ldd on Miek Gieben

Hopper and Container Wagons

Triangular Warren Truss Bridge in LEGO