Trolleys

Trolleys

Here is my first 8-wide trolley. This is a prototype trolley car designed for the Millyard project hosted by the SEE Science Center in Manchester, NH and sponsored by LEGO and Dean Kamen.

Everyone loves a little red trolley, especially me. This trolley is six studs wide and twenty-two studs long. It is smaller that the standard NOLTC stock, which is eight studs wide, but, since it is a trolley and not a coach or some other piece of mainline rolling stock, it does not have to be the same size. (This is a cop-out; I just didn't want to redesign my trolley because I like it so much.) The neatest features of this trolley are the lights. There is a light bulb behind each of the 1x1 clear yellow round plates. It is not LEGO® light bulb; it is a mini-12v lamp. The light bulb sits inside a 1x1x1-side-stud brick. Details of the light bulb attachment can be seen here; these pictures will also show you how the front window is attached to the trolley. You can also see a side view here. Now, you can download an ".ldr" file of this trolley.

I wanted a green trolley, so I built one. The design is the same a the red trolley, so this trolley is also six studs wide and twenty-two studs long.

This trolley was my first trolley. The hardest thing about making the trolley was rounding off the front end. The ends are made by attaching a 2x1 brick to a single stud and angling it in toward the middle. Hey, Ben Fleskes did this first...I went back and looked at his trolley and there they were...2x2 windows attached at an angle! Anyway, we did things differently when it comes to the joining of the windows to the floor and the middle window. Ben used another 2x2 window and I chose a 3x2 window. The middle window is suspended by a connection to the light piece. Oops, the conductor is not looking at the camera. Because I wanted to use those precious doors the trolley was redesigned.

My inspiration for my trolleys are the street cars that run on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans. My trolleys don't look like the St. Charles Ave. street cars; they are just inspired by the St. Charles Ave .street cars.

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		Here is my first 8-wide trolley. This is a prototype trolley car designed for the Millyard project hosted by the SEE Science Center in Manchester, NH and sponsored by LEGO and Dean Kamen.

		Everyone loves a little red trolley, especially me. This trolley is six studs wide and twenty-two studs long. It is smaller that the standard NOLTC stock, which is eight studs wide, but, since it is a trolley and not a coach or some other piece of mainline rolling stock, it does not have to be the same size. (This is a cop-out; I just didn't want to redesign my trolley because I like it so much.) The neatest features of this trolley are the lights. There is a light bulb behind each of the 1x1 clear yellow round plates. It is not LEGO® light bulb; it is a mini-12v lamp. The light bulb sits inside a 1x1x1-side-stud brick. Details of the light bulb attachment can be seen here; these pictures will also show you how the front window is attached to the trolley. You can also see a side view here. Now, you can download an ".ldr" file of this trolley.

		I wanted a green trolley, so I built one. The design is the same a the red trolley, so this trolley is also six studs wide and twenty-two studs long.

		This trolley was my first trolley. The hardest thing about making the trolley was rounding off the front end. The ends are made by attaching a 2x1 brick to a single stud and angling it in toward the middle. Hey, Ben Fleskes did this first...I went back and looked at his trolley and there they were...2x2 windows attached at an angle! Anyway, we did things differently when it comes to the joining of the windows to the floor and the middle window. Ben used another 2x2 window and I chose a 3x2 window. The middle window is suspended by a connection to the light piece. Oops, the conductor is not looking at the camera. Because I wanted to use those precious doors the trolley was redesigned.

		My inspiration for my trolleys are the street cars that run on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans. My trolleys don't look like the St. Charles Ave. street cars; they are just inspired by the St. Charles Ave .street cars.

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