This is phenomenal! It’s the pinnacle of Lego Engineering I love it! The little details like the pulley brake system, coupling between trains etc. everything is hands free! It’s what I wanted from my Hornby train sets when I was young :) Great job again!
Thanks! I love making the improvements. The first build was without the braking system so it was useless haha. I have been working on the steam train so now it's got 2 compressors with 24 air pumps in total. It's still not fast but it is driving with more power. I will upload a video in a couple days I hope.
Oh great, I look forward to it! I was blown away when I first saw your trains as I never expected the tracks to work as well as they do. Nice to see this video take off as well :)
Hi guys, my train elevator was a bit inspired by the super cool Ship Lift in Belgium (Strepy Thieu). That lift lifts a whole ship and water bucket up 73.15 metres! My train elevator is actually even more difficult to balance because the ship lift can use the water to make the water bucket + ship the same weight as the massive concrete counter weights. So thats why I made some counter weights that can be lifted/dropped to match the train weight with the counter weights. Check out the ship lift Strepy Thieu here. ruclips.net/video/pTTaKkMmZRI/видео.html
These variable counter weights are the most impressive to me. Beautiful! I'm curious how often this construction broke down before you took this footage. 😀
Note that trains lift existed (appart thoses on mine shafts). The Waterloo & City line of the London underground was only accessible by a pair of lifts; And yes, a train fell down the shaft one day.
Thanks! You can build curves from straight Technic Beams and I am so crazy to modify straight beams so they are slightly bent so I can make smoother curves. In this video on the shelves are the curves with straight beams but in other videos you can also see the smooth curves. The process to get the beams slightly bent is pretty funny but it's maybe a bit too crazy for Lego fans. When 100K people subscribe I will make a video about the beam bending! On my Rebrickable page a free pdf instruction for the curve with Technic Beams. Links in the notes. rebrickable.com/users/Technic%20TRAIN%20Man/mocs/
I remember watching your first video a few days after it came out and thinking “damn, this guy has some pretty cool trains”. I never expected to see a whole damn train elevator. Amazing job.
Thanks for keeping watching my videos! I haven't made videos for about half a year so it's great a lot of people watching my videos again. There are still so many cool trains to build! I can't wait to start on a Technic Crocodile Train. Will be sweet!
I actuality miss the 20th century train Lego, with the automated points and signals. I suppose this is also what happens when things like that get discontinued.
I love the custom track and custom trains! These kinds of creative builds make me want to create something similar myself! Though I don't really have the money or space to do something of this scale, perhaps a miniature railway could be possible?
I have never been a big fan of LEGO trains but I do have to admit this is ingenious and very well executed considering its limitations. Looking forward to checking out your previous videos and your future videos.🚂🛤
nice dude must have taken a lot of your days making and fiddling with the design to get it to this point. good job! would think if i was you i would just have used switches and a lot of cabled inclines, a LOT. so good job!
This is amazing … watchingbit adjust the counterweights as the center of mass shifts, and the lift brakes adjust for runout… just wow. Oh and built it’s with Legos 😵
Thanks! That schnabelcar is actually too small. It should be 2x bigger with at least 4 wheel undercarriages instead of my 2. So everything 2x bigger, that should look even better! In the beginning the construction started to bend under the weight but I have made some improvements so maybe I should build the 2x bigger version!
How long did the string (cabel) work take it must have been a very precise and fine tuning experience and for your gears aswell when so many things shall work at the exact same time and in sync with the wheels to hold the string 😀
Everything done in a couple days. Actually getting everything to work was pretty easy, that's how good Lego is! Haha. The biggest challenge was to get it to hold level and not drop or jump up. So therefore I installed worm gears, a brake system and counterweights.
@@legotechnictrains8999 Are the smaller counterweights for fine-tuning? I didn't really understand why they kept on going up and down, just because the points changed.
@@nomadMik afaik yes, they provided a counter balancing mass to keep the force the upper lift segment needs to exert to a minimum (since the small weights on the ground don't add any force while those higher up do) You can also see the need for readjustment when the engine was disembarking on the second floor (counting the lower one as "floor one"): The entire bridge jumped up slightly because it suddenly became lighter than the counter balancing weights and almost destroyed the continuity of the tracks
Lovely! I think I should try fiddling with these soon, I have a few train bits lying around. Your works on steam locomotives and train lifts has me inspired!
Every time I thought "I wonder if I can build that?", and every time it turns out better than expected. I'm not an expert builder so it's the fantastic Lego that makes it possible. F@ck Ya!
Building your own rail system and then building your own train system is a really great thing, I hope there will be more from you and your great trains.
I gave a couple nice medium size Technic Lego sets to my 10 year old nephews and half a year later the Lego boxes were still perfectly sealed. When I gave it they thanked me politely and went back to their laptops hahaha. My sisters sent the boxes back to me haha
A real would heavy lift elevator would glide along vertical rails and would clamp or bold fixed when stationary. However your weight balancing is very impressive.
Thanks! In the begin I thought about vertical rails but it would need to be a big structure. But maybe only rails and a small clamp system would be a nice addition. If you design it I will build it!
@@legotechnictrains8999 some mechanism like téléphérique use guides only at some places. the large movement on cables is free to have shift, and hard guides are used only at arrival with conical receptacle. so only add guides at each floor, it would help aligning the rails before you close them.
I actually had some simple guides. I just screwed a couple bent liftarms in the wood at both sides so the lift would always be at the right spot. But I removed them because it worked also without them as you've seen.
Idea: american/russian knuckle couplers. Not only does this scale lend well to making them, id mean you dont need a motor for coupling. Also 10/10 trains & video! Cant wait to see the steamer again!
Thanks! I would like to build some knuckle couplers but I think they will be too big. I tried to find a clear drawing how they are made but I can't find it. But if you can send me a link to a good example I will try to build it. At the moment I only use a single beam to connect the a wagon and loc. The benefit is only 3 studs between them.
What is 8 smaller blocks used for? sometimes you drop it on the ground, sometimes you pull it up with the counterweight? Is it used to change the weight of the counterweight?
Yes you are right. Those baskets are around 300gram heavy so I can change the weight of the counterweight by 600-1200-1800-2400gram. I will probably make another video with some more details. Thanks!
@@andreaszetterstrom7418 probably kinda needed counterweights are pretty essential in elevators and since they can be shifted the weight of the train as it changes will allow the brakes to do less work and put less strain on motors
The counterweights are really needed because the braking system is not strong enough. And if the brakes were strong enough the strings would slide over the big wheels if there is too much weight. I also put some rubber bands on the wheels so they have more grip on the strings.
Hoi Edward, thanks, heb je de video gezien met de Robel met kraan? ruclips.net/video/hXps9BUrz6k/видео.html In de toekomst zal ik nog een video maken van de Robel met kraan. Het kraantje is een beetje duur want er zitten 4 micro motors in.
i think its not. twice the mechanisms encontour an issue, goes back and tries again (like lowering rails after lifting elevator 1st time ), and the timing of these retries don't sound regular. also even if all this is amazing I can't find where he could have put probes to detect these issues. if all this was fully automated it would be more fluent.
@@Benoit-Pierre Perhaps, I thought the error detection could be similar of that to an elevator door, or a shopping store, where there is a preset distance it has to travel, and akin to a stepper motor, It will know if it has travelled that length or not. Ie How an elevator door opens and retries if it's blocked.
@@GoodFunIndustries does lego have encoded motors ? Author does not use official bricks, but he only uses bricks that are compatible with official design.
@@Benoit-Pierre I am not sure. While I enjoy watching Lego videos on YT, I do not own any personally. But with MindStorm or similar lego equipment, I'm sure something can be programmed in there.
@@GoodFunIndustries after looking other vids, it's all manual. Just a fact. Not saying it can't be automated, it's probably not possible to automate it using official parts, or even compatible. Or it may be very complicated (official sets include IR barrier that can be transformed into position probe using a reflector . But this feedback needs to be returned to central unit ). Encoders can be an issue with démultiplication as you may have so much power that plastic bends to the point your encoder tells you you have reach arrival, while you in fact bent every thing. Encoders are reliable when used with current probes. And for sure, Lego don't provide current probes.
you should make a switch track the when the switch is in the middle you go straigh when its closer to the entrance left and farther a way right so a 3-way switch track
This is phenomenal! It’s the pinnacle of Lego Engineering I love it! The little details like the pulley brake system, coupling between trains etc. everything is hands free! It’s what I wanted from my Hornby train sets when I was young :) Great job again!
Thanks! I love making the improvements. The first build was without the braking system so it was useless haha. I have been working on the steam train so now it's got 2 compressors with 24 air pumps in total. It's still not fast but it is driving with more power. I will upload a video in a couple days I hope.
just so cool! :D
Oh great, I look forward to it! I was blown away when I first saw your trains as I never expected the tracks to work as well as they do.
Nice to see this video take off as well :)
Came for the Lego trains stayed for the counterweighting. Exceptional build.
Hi guys, my train elevator was a bit inspired by the super cool Ship Lift in Belgium (Strepy Thieu). That lift lifts a whole ship and water bucket up 73.15 metres! My train elevator is actually even more difficult to balance because the ship lift can use the water to make the water bucket + ship the same weight as the massive concrete counter weights. So thats why I made some counter weights that can be lifted/dropped to match the train weight with the counter weights. Check out the ship lift Strepy Thieu here. ruclips.net/video/pTTaKkMmZRI/видео.html
super cool :D
I was wondering why you added those little weights - thanks for the explanation, that makes so much sense now.
@@BrokenCurtain counterweights :D
These variable counter weights are the most impressive to me. Beautiful!
I'm curious how often this construction broke down before you took this footage. 😀
Note that trains lift existed (appart thoses on mine shafts).
The Waterloo & City line of the London underground was only accessible by a pair of lifts;
And yes, a train fell down the shaft one day.
I love that you have Dutch NS trains in there.
The fact that it doesn’t shake a lot is already cool
Making my own trains and tracks with technic was always my dream, but I never had enough pieces. So im really happy to see that now here
The Lego community will never cease to amaze me, gj on this one
Also a 👍 for the track layout. Took me a while to see how you have made the curved track.
Thanks! You can build curves from straight Technic Beams and I am so crazy to modify straight beams so they are slightly bent so I can make smoother curves. In this video on the shelves are the curves with straight beams but in other videos you can also see the smooth curves.
The process to get the beams slightly bent is pretty funny but it's maybe a bit too crazy for Lego fans.
When 100K people subscribe I will make a video about the beam bending!
On my Rebrickable page a free pdf instruction for the curve with Technic Beams. Links in the notes.
rebrickable.com/users/Technic%20TRAIN%20Man/mocs/
I remember watching your first video a few days after it came out and thinking “damn, this guy has some pretty cool trains”.
I never expected to see a whole damn train elevator. Amazing job.
Thanks for keeping watching my videos! I haven't made videos for about half a year so it's great a lot of people watching my videos again. There are still so many cool trains to build! I can't wait to start on a Technic Crocodile Train. Will be sweet!
This is what happens when LEGO fails to provide wider train track.
next we have the gustav gun lmaoo
We’re all just a bunch of standard gauge engineers living in a narrow gauge world aren’t we
I actuality miss the 20th century train Lego, with the automated points and signals. I suppose this is also what happens when things like that get discontinued.
What do you mean, fails to provide? You can see them right there!
@@JasperJanssen perfect! :D
"No comments, no music, just a lot of plastic and little motors!" - In other words, the perfect video!!
own Tracks, Trains and a Train Lift and some parts i never have seen: amazing
I reckon this is like watching a "Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds)" version of a Lego railway. Love It!
I LOVE THIS SETUP!!! Holy moly, I've never seen anything like that!!!
I simply could not stop watching until the end!
Thanks! I've made a couple improvements so I'm about to make a new video. _Action!_
10/10 - absolutely fantastic both to watch and appreciate the engineering/thought behind it. Give yourself a big pat on the back.
Haha thanks! I've made some improvements so now it's working even better. I will make a new video and move some trains around.
I love the custom track and custom trains! These kinds of creative builds make me want to create something similar myself! Though I don't really have the money or space to do something of this scale, perhaps a miniature railway could be possible?
I have never been a big fan of LEGO trains but I do have to admit this is ingenious and very well executed considering its limitations. Looking forward to checking out your previous videos and your future videos.🚂🛤
That couterweights are masterpieces. :)
nice dude must have taken a lot of your days making and fiddling with the design to get it to this point. good job! would think if i was you i would just have used switches and a lot of cabled inclines, a LOT. so good job!
This is amazing … watchingbit adjust the counterweights as the center of mass shifts, and the lift brakes adjust for runout… just wow. Oh and built it’s with Legos 😵
Ingenious. Simply fantastic.
Awesome, also love that custom NS 'koploper'
This is just... insane.
Very nice! This is the great thing about LEGO, your imagination is your limit. Here a very high limit! Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
When I was a kid 35 years ago Technic Lego had limitations but not anymore!
IKEA shelving is useful for so many things!! :)
This is amazing. Holy hell. I love everything about it
By far the coolest shit with Legos. Thanks for gracing my eyes with this work of art
That is ingenious
And a schnabelcar to boot
Absolutely fantastic!!
Thanks! That schnabelcar is actually too small. It should be 2x bigger with at least 4 wheel undercarriages instead of my 2. So everything 2x bigger, that should look even better! In the beginning the construction started to bend under the weight but I have made some improvements so maybe I should build the 2x bigger version!
Yoooo that is a neat way to do the tracks. Love it. Ty yt algorithm
Bro this is so sic keep up the awesome work (:
Thanks! Will do!
How long did the string (cabel) work take it must have been a very precise and fine tuning experience and for your gears aswell when so many things shall work at the exact same time and in sync with the wheels to hold the string 😀
Everything done in a couple days. Actually getting everything to work was pretty easy, that's how good Lego is! Haha. The biggest challenge was to get it to hold level and not drop or jump up. So therefore I installed worm gears, a brake system and counterweights.
@@legotechnictrains8999 Are the smaller counterweights for fine-tuning? I didn't really understand why they kept on going up and down, just because the points changed.
@@nomadMik afaik yes, they provided a counter balancing mass to keep the force the upper lift segment needs to exert to a minimum (since the small weights on the ground don't add any force while those higher up do)
You can also see the need for readjustment when the engine was disembarking on the second floor (counting the lower one as "floor one"):
The entire bridge jumped up slightly because it suddenly became lighter than the counter balancing weights and almost destroyed the continuity of the tracks
it is truly amazing!! I would like to see the shelves made of LEGO as well although I understand it will be prohibitively expensive
This has got to be the coolest IKEA hack ever
Leuk om te zien hoe je het Gebouwd hedt😄 met de lift top
Absolutely fantastic
Exceptional counterweight! Keep it up
Sensationell 😁, very impressing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Lovely! I think I should try fiddling with these soon, I have a few train bits lying around. Your works on steam locomotives and train lifts has me inspired!
its amazing... great Train and built in Technik, very cool🥰
Didnt look for this vid, but hey, credits for the build!👍👍💪 great job
Non ci sono parole!! Fantastico!!!
Looks expensive as hell, but I like it!
I don't have a girlfriend
Love it. Well done! :)
This is absolutely incredibubble 😂❤👍👍🇬🇧
Heel mooi! Blij om te zien dat je terug upload!
Bro said “fuck it” and built a technic train system from the ground up. Tight fr 🥵🥵🥶🥶
Every time I thought "I wonder if I can build that?", and every time it turns out better than expected. I'm not an expert builder so it's the fantastic Lego that makes it possible.
F@ck Ya!
2:50 - Tell me this isn't the first time you've tried this without telling me it isn't the first time you've tried this.
That’s one strong (but kind of slow) lift!
It was even slower haha. It's is powered only by one L motor so it's at max at the moment.
Amazing
Unbelievable, I am very Impressed 😮Kind regards, Dieter
This is brilliant :)
Building your own rail system and then building your own train system is a really great thing, I hope there will be more from you and your great trains.
Spectacular 👌
WE NEED MORE
At first I read GRAIN elevator !!
If my grandkids see this I'm done. This is out of this world
I gave a couple nice medium size Technic Lego sets to my 10 year old nephews and half a year later the Lego boxes were still perfectly sealed. When I gave it they thanked me politely and went back to their laptops hahaha.
My sisters sent the boxes back to me haha
wow! all i can say is that's amazing
Super Geiles Video. Absolut TOP.
Amazing :) great work
first time seeing custom tracks let alone a whole elevator
absolutely amazing
Just... WOW!
Amazing work. So cool more over your own track system, fabulous
A real would heavy lift elevator would glide along vertical rails and would clamp or bold fixed when stationary. However your weight balancing is very impressive.
Thanks! In the begin I thought about vertical rails but it would need to be a big structure. But maybe only rails and a small clamp system would be a nice addition. If you design it I will build it!
@@legotechnictrains8999 some mechanism like téléphérique use guides only at some places. the large movement on cables is free to have shift, and hard guides are used only at arrival with conical receptacle. so only add guides at each floor, it would help aligning the rails before you close them.
I actually had some simple guides. I just screwed a couple bent liftarms in the wood at both sides so the lift would always be at the right spot. But I removed them because it worked also without them as you've seen.
Subscribed for sure ❤
Amazing work
Underrated
You could fully automate that to have perfect timing between trains so the lift is 8n the right place
amazing , great job, thx for vvideo👍
Excellent!
Idea: american/russian knuckle couplers. Not only does this scale lend well to making them, id mean you dont need a motor for coupling.
Also 10/10 trains & video! Cant wait to see the steamer again!
For once, I agree with america on this one. Tightlock couplers are good.
(Dellner couplings are better irl tho)
Thanks! I would like to build some knuckle couplers but I think they will be too big. I tried to find a clear drawing how they are made but I can't find it. But if you can send me a link to a good example I will try to build it.
At the moment I only use a single beam to connect the a wagon and loc. The benefit is only 3 studs between them.
Sean i cant see how he could built American coupler principle in Lego AND make it fully automatic.
Fantasic!!🥳🥳🥳🥳😱😱😛😛
hmm would like to see the koploper also in action if that is possible, by the way great work... a pitty that lego is not supporting bigger wheels....
There are a couple videos with the Koploper:
ruclips.net/video/nPN_2je--tM/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/hmtfNA3F5wM/видео.html
Enjoy!
Very super job
Amzing video my deer❤
Thanks 😅
Super wonderfull
What is 8 smaller blocks used for? sometimes you drop it on the ground, sometimes you pull it up with the counterweight? Is it used to change the weight of the counterweight?
Yes you are right. Those baskets are around 300gram heavy so I can change the weight of the counterweight by 600-1200-1800-2400gram. I will probably make another video with some more details. Thanks!
Is it really needed though? Or is it more because it's cool?
@@andreaszetterstrom7418 probably kinda needed counterweights are pretty essential in elevators and since they can be shifted the weight of the train as it changes will allow the brakes to do less work and put less strain on motors
@@legotechnictrains8999 This reminds me of the sandbags in the hot air balloon that change the weight of the balloon
The counterweights are really needed because the braking system is not strong enough. And if the brakes were strong enough the strings would slide over the big wheels if there is too much weight. I also put some rubber bands on the wheels so they have more grip on the strings.
prachtige brug! en het werkt zo goed!! zou het mogelijk zijn om een kleine video te make van die kraan op die locomotief die te zien is op 5:00 ?
Hoi Edward, thanks, heb je de video gezien met de Robel met kraan? ruclips.net/video/hXps9BUrz6k/видео.html
In de toekomst zal ik nog een video maken van de Robel met kraan. Het kraantje is een beetje duur want er zitten 4 micro motors in.
@@legotechnictrains8999 oh nee nog niet, bedankt!
Impressive! 👍
Amazing 👍
How many remotes did this take?!
Crazy indeed: 2x iphone, Lego PF and 2x Fake PF.
fascinating
おかえりなさい！！
とてもとてもお久しぶりです！ 長らく更新されてなかったので、昨今の情勢もあり心配しておりました。
エレベーターと言えば固定のカウンターウェイトと動滑車および縦方向のレール（あるいはラックレール式）で構築される方が多いですが、そちらのは車輌の移動に合せてカウンターウェイトを動かし水平を保つ設計で、芸が細かいですね。
変圧器を運ぶ吊りかけ式の大物車（Schnabel car）は、我が国ではついにシキ800型（type "shi-ki" 800）を残すのみとなってしまいましたが、列車砲を思わせるダイナミックな構造が好きな貨車の一つです。
Lego Technic TRAINS様の路線では、長く現役で運用されていて欲しいですね。
私のビデオを見てくれてありがとう！
夏はレゴで遊ぶには暑すぎますが、これでまた始められます。
Nice Train
This is Fascinating! I love it!
Is it all completely automated?
i think its not. twice the mechanisms encontour an issue, goes back and tries again (like lowering rails after lifting elevator 1st time ), and the timing of these retries don't sound regular. also even if all this is amazing I can't find where he could have put probes to detect these issues. if all this was fully automated it would be more fluent.
@@Benoit-Pierre Perhaps, I thought the error detection could be similar of that to an elevator door, or a shopping store, where there is a preset distance it has to travel, and akin to a stepper motor, It will know if it has travelled that length or not.
Ie How an elevator door opens and retries if it's blocked.
@@GoodFunIndustries does lego have encoded motors ? Author does not use official bricks, but he only uses bricks that are compatible with official design.
@@Benoit-Pierre I am not sure.
While I enjoy watching Lego videos on YT, I do not own any personally. But with MindStorm or similar lego equipment, I'm sure something can be programmed in there.
@@GoodFunIndustries after looking other vids, it's all manual. Just a fact. Not saying it can't be automated, it's probably not possible to automate it using official parts, or even compatible. Or it may be very complicated (official sets include IR barrier that can be transformed into position probe using a reflector . But this feedback needs to be returned to central unit ).
Encoders can be an issue with démultiplication as you may have so much power that plastic bends to the point your encoder tells you you have reach arrival, while you in fact bent every thing. Encoders are reliable when used with current probes. And for sure, Lego don't provide current probes.
This is amazing!
This is amazing! I have another question as well, are your custom rails compatible with the regular lego rails or is your all set just custom?
That's kewl
Now how do you do that with a regular model railroad set???
very cool❤
Too cool
SUPER Mega,Nice, Love IT.Kai Germany ,Hessen.Great.
Wow 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 ABO and LIKE from
Modell Bahn Agenda
Awesome
Cool
you should make a switch track the when the switch is in the middle you go straigh when its closer to the entrance left and farther a way right so a 3-way switch track
Thinking of making a 3way switch track already gives me a headache.
@@legotechnictrains8999 oh well then we'll they do exist irl you could prob use their designs to not give you such a headache
cool
Did you make the shelfs yourself? I am wondering cause i like woodworking just as much as legos.
the cheapest IKEA Heijne haha but it's solid wood so all good I think
Glorious
Cooool!
IVAR the engine (lift)! (I'll get my coat)