Your LEGO city series have been long overdue, hope new videos will be released soon!

Is there a way to find out what the cost would be for parts BEFORE I buy building instructions? My young son wants to build one of your trains but as he would need to contribute some of his allowance we need to know the cost beforehand. Thanks. Even a rough estimate would be helpful.

Make more Lego train

I think you should've used the steam train as an opportunity to teach about the many volunteer run heritage railways.

3:50 Where are the lights?!

Have you thought of working on the tool you mentioned in this video? It would be really great to have an easier way to find the bricks we need.

Thank you for choosing my railroad for the freight train!

i kinda would want to see eggybricks collab with brick science

I can tell you're really passionate about this topic. Your enthusiasm is contagious!

Maybe you could attach the tram to a string and then pull the string🙂 new sub btw!

I cant help but bring forth the error on the polar express bit, you got a blueprint from an entirely different loco class, it aint Pere Marquette 1225 thats UP 844, not only that but the plueprint is missing a set of wheels

A few fun facts in chronological order: Jacobs bogies (named after a German mechanical railway engineer), do reduce rolling resistance, and are also used to put more weight on driving wheels, while also reducing overall train weight. They can perform tighter turns, and have the smooth ride of separate bogies without the additional mass and drag (more mass means higher inertia, which reduces acceleration). Talgo trains used a modified concept of the Jacobs bogie, with the wheels able to spin independently of each other (wheels are normally joined by a fixed axel), which eliminated hunting oscillation. Jacobs bogies are most commonly found in trams and urban trains. Instead of sliding wheel sets, locomotives with a long wheelbase often have what are called 'blind drivers', which are wheels without a flange (this can be seen later in the video). This is much more common with steam locomotives, where all the driving wheels have to be in line, and on narrow gauge lines, which have tighter radius curves (or both). They rely on the wheels either side of them which do have flanges to stay on the track, but have been filmed overhanging the track by a wide margin (which would obviously derail the locomotive if those wheels had flanges). The Shinkansen, or 'Bullet Train' used to have a shorter nose, but residents near tunnel entrances (and exits) found that when a train would enter a tunnel at track speed, it would create a sonic-boom-like effect, which was quite disturbing, so designers came up with the extremely long nose you see in the modern trains (derived from the kingfisher bird) to mitigate this issue. The aerodynamics of both are relatively equal, but the sound when entering a tunnel is greatly reduced with a longer nose. The 2-8-2 configuration refers to the amount of wheels in the leading truck, the amount of driving wheels, and the amount of wheels in the trailing truck respectively. Leading and trailing trucks of steam engines are primarily used to reduce hunting and derailing at higher speeds (leading trucks reduce this for forward movement, and trailing trucks for backward), since with these trucks, the driving wheels are guided down the track. To get the maximum power out of a locomotive, you want only driving wheels, since then all of the weight is on them, and they have the highest traction with the rails that they can get, but this also greatly reduces stability (as Hyce refers to it: the 0-6-0 dance). You will often see faster locomotives with leading and trailing trucks, and slower ones, such as tank engines, without. Tank engines are often used as yard locomotives ('switchers' as referred to in the states, and 'shunters' in the UK, with switching and shunting being the associated terms for moving cars around a yard respectively), since they don't have to move as fast, and benefit from the higher traction, acceleration, and power achieved from having all the weight on the drivers, without the drawback of speed limits and limited fuel capacity. Trailing trucks are less important for most tendered steam locomotives, since shoving through a tender is generally not a good idea at high speeds or high power, so you may also see locomotives with a 2-8-0 configuration, or 4-8-0, or 4-8-2, which puts more emphasis on the leading wheels. Modern DE (diesel-electric), electric, DM (diesel-mechanical), and DH (diesel-hydraulic) locomotives do not have leading or trailing trucks, as each wheel can be independently powered whilst also being on a bogie (except for DM locomotives, but these are often smaller and don't require bogies). This results in all the benefits of a tank engine style construction without the drawbacks in regards to stability. They are also much more mechanically simple, so require little maintenance, and are much more fuel efficient than steam locomotives of comparable tractive effort. I enjoy both trains and lego, and it's great to see creators pairing them together for those such as myself who wouldn't be able to afford it, keep it up!

Very impressive build on the steam train. It's sad that Lego don't take their current Lego trains seriously. Back in the 80's and 90's the Lego Train System was a proper train system with all the correct bells and whistles. Todays Lego trains always feel like they are made to a price and are usually lacking the stuff that makes model trains awesome.

10:46 That is not the Polar Express. That is a Union Pacific FEF with the wheel arrangement slightly changed with the words "Polar Express" on the side

python coding really is the keys to the kingdom, still amazingly popular considering it's been around since the 80's

For someone who is just getting into building MOCs, I'm finding your videos super educational and learning the "math" of SNOT bricks really has helped me get an idea for how I can use these techniques in conjuction with normal brick building. Where did you learn all this stuff, do you have any resources you could share that would help me on this journey?

…. THEY ARE TOYYYYYSSSSSSS THEY ARE NOT REAL HOW WOULD THEY MOVE TO OTHER CITIES THEY ARE CHILDS PLAY THINGS!!!!!!!!!!

Can you build a lego Canadian pacific engine like the cn freight train

You realise that Lego has an entire piece dedicated to make the bogey turn to go around curves this is a good solution if you are out of those parts but still Worth it to get those

9:09 The real reason why shinkansen's have long noses is because without them they make really loud noises going through tunnels and when the problem hit Japan they remodeled the fronts so its pointy, that means it wont be loud going through stations or tunnels. Other high speed trains don't require them due to their country's terrain. (please correct me if I'm wrong)

sorry i stopped listening. please do something about your voice. I can't stand this way of speaking. listen to good actors from the 70's...

you are using your voice in a bad matter. In the past it was a way to attract clients for whores.. 2nd. this way of 'talking' and speaking can cause vocal chord cancer. It has to stop , use your voice normally.

Love the video and soon Lego will release a new tram in August of this year and im hoping to get 2 of them to use as the main Metro in my Lego city

always love your videos!

Can you send me a link to your Polar Express model design? I have a similar train I just scored on Ebay

What I'd REALLY like, is for the Train to actually play the sounds that one can hear through the App (like, the Horn, Whistle or Bike Ringing Sounds). Any way for that to be done?

I like how they slowly unravel the scam that is variable prices for the same piece of plastic. Not to mention plastic products should never cost that much.

Very nice, like

This review is amazingly well done. The production is really really good. Thank you for all the time and effort put in to making this video and informing me on my decision to purchase this set. Crossing my fingers it is mold free ;)

Love your lego trains , I can understand ( as a modeller) how this can become totally absorbing ! ( and it will run outside .)

Oh No, the locomotive did detail 🤧 Still nice job on building it

Great Vid, do you sell or share instructions for the sliding bogie?

admit it. You only made this video because you wanted to say "snot" over and over

The older set is not from 1987, it’s from like 1977. Things were vastly different in 87, including cars with headlight bricks with studs on the side.

I always thought snot was putting Lego in between the studs

What is the model that uses the 'door rails' at 12:30? - it looks really good!

EggyBricks make “The Flying Scotsman”

Excellent video, Yeah, I knew all this stuff, but I would recommend this to anyone who is new to the concept. Also: I was unaware SNOT bricks were in need of defense. :)

Love you guys! Awesome video!

The real "Polar Express" pm 1225 is local to me, super cool model

Great video guys. so glad I found your Channel

I have no idea why trains are so interesting, but something about them makes me intrigued.

I'm really surprised you didn't mention thrift stores or garage sales. It's a great way to get a lot of stuff cheap if you wanna just have a good base to build from rather than targeting a specific thing.

Historically, most of the advancements in regards to this very topic were made by lego fans first, at public displays, and then were SLOOOOWLY integrated in Lego builds, but System for example took A LOOOOONG time before implementing tricks and tools that were used in MOCs from 10-15 years prior

Why was a train blured out btw it was on paper

I hope it isn't controversial to say this feels like a PBS video. I liked it.

Ain't no way in facebook meta these people are real.

Very good video. However, I disagree with you on the brackets. In their usual form I think they are great, with the small exception that their half-plate is rounded at two corners, which, when built into a wall sideways, gives this little nook, which is irritating when building "smooth" surfaces which have to have certain measures. But my main point is the following, which I learned while creating an octopus and then later when Tiago Catarino mentioned it in his "Illegal LEGO Techniques" Video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIjXi4iwoNuEaKc at 2:45): You should not turn them around on their half-plate, neither with regular brackets nor with inverted ones, which otherwise makes for really nice and slim stud reversers, to a point that even an official Lego set uses this illegal technique (76989 Tallneck, at steps 234, 248 and 274 in the head)! Because of this subtility, my goto parts are regular 87087s and its variants and also 99206s (or I guess 4304s), which can be reversed without stress and also look better from the side.

I am loving this channel and content.