How I made a Motorised LEGO Narrow Gauge Train Car - Larry’s Lego
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00:00 Background
00:37 Problems
01:57 Circuit Cubes
04:13 First Build
06:19 Designing
09:36 Second Build
12:26 Problem Solving
13:17 Final Testing and Build
14:17 Reveal
14:52 Running Session (For real this time!)
17:15 Footnotes
18:05 Outro
Music used:
Toy Tennis [Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics]
Larry Rouse - Divergent • Larry Rouse - Divergent
Theme of Rocky Ridge [Sonic Free Riders]
Ruins [Super Mario Odyssey]
C418 - Mall [Minecraft]
Late Arcane - Take Off
Digga-Leg [Super Mario Galaxy 2]
Sneaky Spirits [Rhythm Heaven Fever]
Luxury Elite - Cool Miami
Late Arcane - 25 Rims
Collision Chaos [Sonic CD]
Tableturf Main Theme [Splatoon 3]
Clickbait (1st Deep Cut Concert) [Splatoon 3]
ConcernedApe - Distant Banjo [Stardew Valley]
Alley OOP [Regular Human Basketball]
ConcernedApe - Winter (Nocturne Of Ice) [Stardew Valley]
Bowser’s Galaxy Generator [Super Mario Galaxy 2]
DS Tick-Tock Clock [Mario Kart 8]
Water Park [Mario Kart 8]
S.A Music - Cityline Cruiser • S.A Music - Tyme Machi...
Athletic Theme - New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Thomas The Tank Engine 'Percy' Mashup) by S.A Music • Athletic Theme - New S...
Richard Jacques - Challenge Mission 5 [Sonic Generations]
Scenic (Ambient) [Wii Photo Channel]
Richard Jacques - Challenge Mission 5 [Sonic Generations]
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2:26 The wheels aren't the only problem. The worm can't be moved on that way, it is physically impossible, it is a gear specially enginered to transmit the movement to another gear by spinning itself. But the movement only goes on thet direction, if you try to spin the gear to move the worm, it blocks.
Thats how many gear actuators works on real life.
I was hoping to see someone else say the same thing.
Ah wow! It was doubly impossible then haha
@@LarrysLego you can put the worm gear on the output of the motor and make that drive a regular gear, but not the other way around.
There's also small rubber bands that you put around the wheel to give it more traction.
@@LarrysLego Hi may I ask what Lego peace is the rail?
i mean its not completely impossible but there is way too much friction
17:06 "Outta the way!" *Knocks Annie over* "You're all mine now, Blue boy!"
That van has a mind of its own... :0
RIP Annie 😂
Don’t need you useless coach anymore
Thomas: Aaaaaaah
@@LarrysLego o: what if you made a ww1 armored train thing
If you retheme it as an caboose, you can use it to pull trains, and then reverse the footage to make it look like the other end is pulling the wagons
The ultimate Larry's Lego video.
Glad ya think so 😁 I think it might be my proudest yet!
@@LarrysLego It's cool to see the truck/car pushing the engines and rolling stock, it fits in extremely well when used in a goods train.
I have spent many years attempting motorisation of almost anything, so I can confidently say well done!
Small train wheels have a lot of friction, so that would be putting extra unnecessary strain on the motor. I haven't seen it done anywhere else but I use a silicone spray to lubricate the axles which removes almost all friction and can more than quadruple the distance rollingstock can roll. It also gets rid of the annoying squeaking that it sometimes makes. It might not be the biggest issue or make the biggest difference for you because you use custom track and your models are quite light, but at the scale I build things it makes an insane difference.
Thanks Max! And oh that's good to know. I'll have to try lubricating the axles :) And yeah I can't imagine how needed that would be with how big and heavy your creations are!
@@LarrysLegoIt's possible to drive all four wheels. Use a Lego Technic cross axle to connect opposite train wheels and mount a bevel gear on the cross axle. Position the bevel gear to interlock with the bevel gear on the shaft running along the length of the box(car). Maybe that'll let it go over points without (a) problem(s).
Also ask Circuit Cubes to make a smaller train motor brick to motorize narrow gauge locomotives. Worth a try.
Graphite powder for lubrication.
Always on the lookout for new project ideas, might have a go at making some motors.
In the mean time I might play with my old lego shuttle monorail
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@LarrysLego I might be able to design and print a 1X4 brick with a 6mm planetary gearbox motor, power and control would have to be a different brick.
Imagine having a few of these specifically to make LEGO recreations of different Thomas scenes/episodes! Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Totally!
The music and sound effect choices are a delight to hear with the matching visuals. Everything from the Mario Bros Wii select and cancel sounds, to the music just having such a wonderfully light tone with the trains going around. It’s like a fun side game of trying to remember where each song and sound originates from
Thank you so much!! I put lots of thought into the music and sound and it's so nice seeing it appreciated 😄 Glad it can be a "fun side game"!
The music choice is always on point. The world 1, lvl 1 theme from New Super Mario Bros Wii but its been remixed to fit the Thomas n Friends theme, dude that's awesome. Then the sonic R soundtrack for the end is great🥰
Thanks so much! :D (Outro is the theme of Sonic 3D (Saturn/PC) recreated for Sonic Generations). Nice to see the choices appreciated!
If you wanted to make it into something like the tv series it could work really well as a sodor mail van and it would have the benefit of looking better with passenger trains
The bad news is that the mail van design is so complex that that would just not be possible. But the good news is that I know this because I am building a mail van ;)
@@LarrysLegonice
You can use those big wheels for Gordon & henry
Could also hide the circuit cube in the tender
I might do indeed!
What an amazing build! Truly shows anything is possible in Lego. It was quite cool to see the live footage and the troubleshooting to fix the problems aswell. If I could suggest, would be cool to see decals made for it in the style of the van you based it off, or ever considering it’s size, maybe express coaches?
All in all great video! Very fun and incredibly satisfying to see it running in the end!!
Thanks so much, Geoh! Glad that was all interesting to see and that the end was satisfying 😁 Ooh, who knows, express coaches might not be impossible!
You continue to impress me with these wonderful models!
Glad to hear it, Horsewoodtrains! 😊
@@LarrysLego 😄😄
Glad you got it working; it was fun watching you in live streams and trying to figure it out. I learned quite a bit from you because I am looking at doing something similar in the near future.
Thanks Bricktrician! You really helped me out there haha. I'm glad you could learn from me, too :) I'd be interested to see what you'd make!
@@LarrysLego You would have figured it out sooner or later.
Every mini rolling stock you build is somehow outstanding, Larry! I can't wait what's coming next.
Thank you so much! :D Cant wait to show you
It looks so good pushing the trains because if you don’t know it’s motorists you think their driving on their own❤❤❤
Glad that's the case :D
12:45 Thank you for using Franky for this meme, that was absolutely *_SUUUUPEEER_* of you!
Appeared in my recommendations for NO REASON, and I watched it fully. Amazing build, now it's time to make 2x2 moving train >:D
Oh shoot :0 Thanks! Glad it ended up being interesting to you! :) Haha, next up, a 1-stud-wide motorised train...
Model railway enthusiast here. If you really want to see some tiny trains, look up T Guage. It’s three millimetre wide track and you need special tools to put it on the tracks.
This design is genius!
It's amazing that you got all the components that compact
Thank you so much!
glad i made it in the livestream. This was sick!
You know, this little box really gives us the illusion that the engines themselves are moving on their own. Well done, friend! :D
Thank you Jan! :D
This is amazing! I love seeing the whole process of trial and error that led you to the finished model. Keep it up!
Why thank you Jessica! Glad to hear that was all fun to watch 😊 Will do!
Beautiful, absolutely magnificent
This build is so cool! I am very impressed by such Lego masters! It is straight up beautiful!
Thank you so much!
This is a feat of engineering in of itself! Great job with it. Will definitely build one in the future.
Thank you :) I hope that goes well for you and you enjoy it!
I've actually been making small Lego trains four studs wide recently, and placing them on roller coaster track, which allows them to roll surprisingly well I might add. Good to know I could motorize the little engines if I ever want to. Thanks for showing us your process of making this!
That's really cool to know! No problem at all. Glad you can now motorise them if you wanted to 😁
Awesome work mate!
Thanks so much mate! 😄
Thanks for taking my suggestion^^ and glad it worked! I plan to use circuit cubes for my standard LEGO engines (that are also Thomas) so glad I could help u with it
Thank *you*! That's really cool, hope it goes well 😄
@@LarrysLego me to!
@@LarrysLegohey I was just thinking that if you make a express coach you might be able to make a motorized one with how you made this
Awesome
Wait a minute, that isn’t Thomas’ theme at the end-
Bro I caught on too, it's the world 1, lvl 1 theme from New Super Mario Bros Wii but 4 been remixed to fit the Thomas n Friends theme.
Some of the engines could probably fit just the motor! An idea to play with 🤷♂️😁
So cool!
Cool
3:25 ayyy that me! (i made one out off scratch, but being a poor dutch person i never bought circuit cubes. sooo i scraped it)
ik snap je
Your Thomas MOCs looks absolutely amazing!
Oh my goodness hi! Thank you so much!! I absolutely love your videos, man :D
A motorised 4-wide LEGO train…
I have officially seen the light XD
Circuit Cubes are great for lego and are great to mess around with🎉
I got a idea! so because you have to use larger wheel on the motor. You could possibly and motors to bigger engines like Gordon or Henry and still use the large wheels
The BT on the circuitcube is crazy, the amount of uses of it!
The motor car has arrived.
Amazing!
Wow, I can't believe how far it's come since the first livestream! Always thinking outside the box! 😄 Pity it doesn't explode anymore though, would have been so TV series accurate 😢🤣
Thanks QP! Indeed it has, especially with how fragile it was... which I feel doesn't come across as clearly in the video! And haha, yeah a real shame that it doesn't detonate randomly 😢
Lego have a lot of small motors. But you still need battery box. Also you can use lego bars (that can fit in minifigs hands) for making wheels smaller.
Great design! Love it.
Thanks! :)
I had a thought. If you were building a full size steam engine, you could put the motor in the tender and run a drive shaft to the locomotive. The large wheels will actually enhance the look of the engine. The catch is making the engine heavier with some more non Lego components.
I believe it's possible! Would take some major work, especially with somehow driving multiple wheels
@@LarrysLegoth-cam.com/video/J-ohpzpcWzw/w-d-xo.html Here's how Bachmann did it.
Keep the good work up man
Thank you man :)
i have never really been a fan of lego trains or trains in general but for some reason i found this video enjoyable
Wow! Well I'm glad you did :)
Charming builds
Why thank you!
I’m excited for the next video now🗣️🗣️‼️‼️🔥🔥
Glad to hear it! :)
Never have i been happier to see a grey brick moving down a track
Lol!
Circuit Cubes is game changer for Lego builds, because more smaller option for motorised sets or MOCs, example Speed Champions sets or train sets(City).
Lego will make smaller option for motorised sets, because they actual have oversize parts(example motors and battery boxes), if you don't want use old Power functions system with micro motors, maybe older Lego System Electric system(interesting solution for Lego City sets).
Nice work on this! Also, shoutout to using the Sonic CD OST and Peggle sounds.
Thank you! And haha, glad those are appreciated :p
love it! I have a driving narrow gauge double fairlie that is very fun but I simply don't own a complete loop to drive it around on
Good job 🎉
i love your trains, theyre so awesomeeee!!
Thanks so much :D Glad you like em!
Love the peggle sound fxs
Amazing job! I’ve been working for the past year or so trying to get a good motorization mechanism for my Disney inspired monorail. Definitely some food for thought!
Thank you! That's cool :D Hope this helps you
That satisfying mario bros wii cross percy theme really suits this lovely video🙌
Glad you thought so! Even if there's no Percy (yet...) it was too fitting not to use 😄 S.A Music is so great
Very cool 😎
Good work! Thanks for the mention - very cool! I found that problems going over points and around curves increases with increased wheel base length.
I reduced my wheel base on the locos to 8 studs total, which is the shortest I can go using the 20 tooth bevel gear mounted vertically driving a 12 tooth bevel gear on an axle powering both set of wheels. (I hope that all made sense.)
My narrow gauge rollingstock is based on that used in Queensland on sugar plantations and our local amusement parks - 2’/610mm industrial tramway gauge, so rollingstock is disproportionally wide, often at or more than twice the track gauge itself.
I look forward to seeing what else you come up with!
No problem! Ah yes that makes sense - don't worry, it all did
Oh that's cool! I did not know that loco had a basis, nice one :) That also explains the disproportionately wide loco
Thanks Coaster Blocks, likewise!
Amazing work Larry
Thanks!
@@LarrysLego You're welcome
Oh boy, time to get going on roller coaster track again...
Haha, glad to have seemingly inspired you again ;)
17:07
the van realy said "Thomas is mine"
Love ur vids keep goin!
As a Technic aficionado and future engineer, seeing you struggle with the gears and not taking the cables into account when designing was quite infuriating, but I’m glad you figured it out 😅 Great vid Larry
I bet! I am not an engineer 😅 (I even had cut dialogue saying this...) But having people who knew it more in live chat helped!
I’m not even a engineer but I feel like it common sense that when a gear rotates another gear, the other gear rotates in the opposite direction.
So entertaining
Bro im new and these builds are epic
Welcome! I'm glad you like them :)
Seeing that early gear train, 🥲
Nice
Very cool.
Thanks!
Idk why, but I feel like you could have made Hector be the powered truck.
Mostly got that after seeing the powered van being in the middle of Bill and Ben, like Hector was.
Would love to see how it would be possible with all the empty space at the bottom lol
@@LarrysLego He could be full of coal.
10:31 AND SPLATOON MUSIC
An idea for a locomotive design challenge: put the motor in the engine with a dedicated coal car behind to house the battery.
Cool video - It was nice to see you learn along the way.
Something you could possible do to give it some details, is get some custom stickers printed for it.
Maybe something like a sliding door?
The lowered bufferbeam is actually what the Thomas crew had to do to many wagons in S1 to be compatible with Thomas, including Annie. Quite funny you had to do the same lmao
I thought so too! haha
This was fun
Glad it was! :)
this is a great video, subed
Thanks! More to come :)
You should build two and have one pulling and one pushing
11:45 I don't think it's just number of wheels, but also weight of the pusher- your first design was so light that it didn't really have much pulling/pushing ability before the wheels would spin without traction. The second design did add an extra traction axle, but also added a lot of weight (via other bricks) to help the wheels grip
You can always remove the shell of electric components to save space. I did that with a technic controll plus hub to only be one brick high instead of 5-6.
my favorite part is the slightly not copyrightable thomas/mario overworld theme
tryna watch a lego train video and got jumpscared by franky one piece, might be the best YT channel of all time
Hahahahaha
You might be able to get it to fit into a standard train by swapping out the battery box with a small pouch cell li-on and having a discrete switch to turn it on and off. Also you could add some weights to give it some extra traction.
I got a six stud wide mock switcher I'mma gonna try this on. I already have the gear-train figured out, all I'd have to do is cosmetic modifications.
Would be great if you could redesign it as a brake wagon which was seen on almost every train
You've got me thinking how I can motorise Stephenson's Rocket with these...!
Ooh good luck!
Lovely build. If you want to make it fit in with rolling stock, then making it a red express brake coach with printed decals on the side could be a good idea. It could also double as thomas' special coach from the missing coach
I bought their tank kit off amazon after watching your video. So 2 motors and a battery. Surprisingly 1 motor is enough to move a fairly big 6 wide train. Also because i have more space, playing with gear ratios you can get them to go fairly fast.
Nice one! Hope you are having fun with it. I know some use them for 6-wide trains too :)
You know when I saw this, I thought, "What about putting it in Boco?" Random fun fact: Hornby used it's (Vintage) model of Boco's basis (With removed buffers & presumably other changes) as a motorized boxcar!
I think the word you used for Torque you need is Tractive Effort. They are very different, as tractive effort is an Indicator of pulling power. Basically, weight and amount of powered axles are good if they are higher
Ahhh!! I meant to fact-check that I was using the right term there... Oops 😅
@@LarrysLego Don’t stress, it still communicated the point well. Also very well done with the build, it seems very useful indeed
@@zacharykoplin6543 I'm glad. Thanks for informing me! And thank you :)
yup, there was loads of torque (torque is a rotational 'strength' , the wheels were often spinning despite the lack of forward motion) but that was not being translated into a tractive ( a linear 'strength') force. A bit of additional weight on tractor unit * might* have helped.
That was a lovely video. It looks like you learned a lot from the process. The final (for now) powered van is very neat. I wonder if there's scope to move the wheels closer, which would help with points.
Thank you! I sure did
I should have more directly mentioned in the video that I didn't *want* the wheels to be so far apart, it's just that putting the components between them seemed to be the only way to fit it all in and that forced them to be exactly that far apart.
That was cool, fair play.
I didnt know they did track in 4 stud wide.
Would be worth lubricating the wheels of all the rolling stock with graphite powder (pencile lead) pinewood deby cars use this.
that must've been quite the engineering headache to design!
(also thanks for giving me direct inspiration to design some 4 stud wide Lego trains of my own!)
Indeed it was! And no problem - I'm happy to have inspired you :)
That GTA 4 pause screen sound effect when you said this video wasn't sponsored was epic
The lowered buffer beam does make it more a like to some of the Season 1 rolling stock or the Season 4 Skarloey Railway.
I wonder if you can put really small o-rings/rubber bands on the flats on the outside of the wheels?
Something to add a little more traction, and maybe handle track seams on points a little better?
You should make a Lego 4 stud wide train layout and the tracks are balasted and have ties.
I would love to see a motorised version of the hst type lego creator passenger train. By making it TGV/AVE/former eurostar style (two locomotives with carriages in beetween instead of having traction spread along the train like the german ICE 3). You could keep a homogenous appearance while hiding the traction inside.
nice
your thrown together version had less mismatched colors than an official lego set
If you want more traction, you can also put rubber bands around the wheels where they have contact with the rails