World Record - Longest pulled LEGO Train: 126 cars!

[MyKubotaAUS]

now i don't drink i don't smoke and i don't swear O SHIT I LEFT MY SMOKES AT THE PUB! lol!

[coollegoworks]

this is really cool and all but will it blend?

[anywherefish]

長い・・・

[MegaMojemoje]

i.llgbh kpppppmbalx.l

[MegaMojemoje]

.i

[thegreatgramcracker]

Shelton Cooper would be proud

[chadro85]

ha i would like to watch that thing go down a hill.

[DragonsREpic]

126 at $12

126 at $15

$1512 - $1890 holy shit man! u should of got me a new comp - at 7 years old i think im behind, and i call myself a gamer, GTA4 LOWEST settings...1fps

HDD: 160GB - WD1600AAJB

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (5GHz total)

RAM: 2GB

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@DragonsREpic

Hahaha! Good joke!

Maybe ask any smoker you meet: they pay 5$ per day => that is 365×5 = 1825 $ per year.

Other thought: you game computer will loose it's worth within 2...3 years. Then it's crap.

The waggons have increased their worth within 12 years.

Lesson learned: smoking and computer just burn money. LEGO is better than any fu...ing bank account. :-)

Greetings + nice try,

S.

[haloguy09]

clearly they didn't have video cameras in 2000

[njs43]

i think i can i think i can i think i can.

[ho312723]

thomas

[TipsyTaipan]

Dammit now I need to go buy a train set

[tene2bush]

i

 hate trains

[DiamondFinder55]

I like trains.

[TheLink8003]

i would hate to be a lego guy in a lego car watching for this to go by...

[jakopskubalewski]

sory wrzucił

[jakopskubalewski]

niezłe ale ile kasy gościu w to wżucił

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@jakopskubalewski

(google translater:)

To po prostu moje hobby. Nie pieniądze zgubił, bo mógłbym sprzedać te samochody w końcu.

That's just my hobby. No money got lost, since I could sell these cars in the end.

S.

[EmperorZelos]

@jakopskubalewski Idiot, speak english

[NERFYNERFGUNS]

how much money did you spend???

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@NERFYNERFGUNS

Cant tell at all. Only 50+ waggons have been mine. The rest belonged to fellow fans of the German Lego fan community.

I guess I had to spend in average 12...15 $ US per waggon. Maybe even less.

S.

[ShortDood908]

Pretty cool... other than this was edited on a toaster.

[zyckser]

1:32 lol

[digimaks]

technically you can make longer train, but do a smart coupling, like real ones do - putting helper engine in the middle of the train, and at the tail. Longer trains usually distribute engines at 25%, 50%, 75% and tail of the train. Then you will avoid chances of ripping the connection or derailing first few cars.

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@digimaks

I should emphasize, that such a record with 178 cars exists since Oct. 2011. A French club made that record by adding a middle engine every ~20th waggon.

So this is just a record for the special boundery condition:

- engines only at front (just pulling)

- 100% original pure LEGO

- no glue

- no cheating with neodym extra magnets

- no lubrication

These are the rules we had agreed on, when we started with record trains 15y. ago. Otherwise much longer trains are possible.

S.

[paperinik77pk]

Nice nice nice...let's couple some locomotives with 4.5v motors (Esso set and 112/113 set) and break this record again!!! :) :) :)

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@paperinik77pk

Thanks for your positive response!

Limiting factor has not been the pulling force (3 x 9V motors has been enough), but magnet forces (cheating theoretically possible by glue or neodym disks inbetween) and derailing in 180° turns.

I should try to beat this record in summer. Have to invite a couple of friends with lots of waggons......

S.

[liamdudeeee]

I come to youtube for videos not slide shows.

[james2lego]

How long is that train!!!!!

[WorldOfNothin]

actually seeing it run would be a lot better then photos!!! I mean anyone could put 126 lego cars on the track and take a pic saying its being pulled!!! Not saying that your lying just I would rather see it running!!!

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@WorldOfNothin

I could not agree more - unluckily none of the 30+ LEGO-fans - who have partizipated in this LEGO train event - has owned a video cam 12 years ago.

Digital photography had just started to become popular and 2 Mega-pixels have been the latest invention..... I would like to repeat this test at any time in future, but I myself have sold off most of my tank cars years ago.

S.

[ausgar1]

were do they get those kind of trains

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@ausgar1

In the late 90ies some friends and me have met occasionally to share our hobby. So it was kind of cool joke to carry together as many same waggons as possible.

The used models have been mostly original sets you could by from LEGO 12 years ago. Mostly prominent among these has been the set 2126 (4 waggons for commonly not more than 40 Euro - or 80 DM at that time). I myself owned 15+ copies of that set and exchanged waggons with friends to have just a maximum of tank cars.

S.

[fastdrive55]

Wow. I can barely believ that the wagons didn't tilt in the curves... Amazing.

[43legoman43]

PURE AWESOME!!!!!! I wish there was video. Try to beat that record!!!! lol

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@43legoman43

I know about the weakness of showing a diashow in this case..... But this event was 10 years ago.

Nevertheless: I am pleased that you liked this and left feedback - THANKS!

S.

[43legoman43]

@Stiegsfeld how do you know who likes your videos?

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@43legoman43

Nice question. Simple answer: I have no idea who likes or dislikes any video.

This video is in fact stunning: it is the most disliked video but at the same time it is the one with the most hits among all uploads of mine.

I do not understand this.

S.

[43legoman43]

@Stiegsfeld oh, well you were right (I did like it), I was just wondering if there was a way to find out who liked/disliked my videos, and if there was a way, how to get to that website. Thanks for answering anyway!

[smoothboy17]

how many volts did you put on the electro engine?

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@smoothboy17

We used in all cases 100% regular LEGO stuff.

The 100cars record had been achived with one 12V engine (2 motors) on 12V track with one 12V transformer (waggons of 9V wheel type).

All the other records have been achived with 9V engines at front (up to 4 motors in total) on a 9V track oval and with a number (2, 3 or 4?) of 9V transformers. These were operated simultanous and spread around the long oval.

So the actual record of 126 pulled cars has been done at 9V.

S.

[a1b24844]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[markandrews6]

Without video, how can we tell it actually managed to pull all those cars?

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@markandrews6

Sorry, but you have to trust in me and the witness reports given by 30+ visitors of this event. The former FGLTC (First German Lego Train Club) hosted this early LEGO-fest. However - 10 years ago video footage has been quite uncommon. I would love to have a video of this: the sound - while crossing a baseplate beneath a track section has been amazing

But there have been discussions at the 1000steine discussion board about this and are still there.

S.

[GeebMachine]

Man! Did this make it into the Guinness World Record Books yet?

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@GeebMachine

No. This has been just for the fun of our LEGO fests. These have been the very early times of internet, when adult fans of LEGO found that they were not alone with such an obscure hobby. ;-)

So we met very informal. There has been no support from the LEGO company. All waggons have been private owned (many of the event visitors brought theirs: be it one ore many).

This has been the Gold-rush era of fan communities. Ebay was not there, no databases on sets, instructions etc.

S.

[DBZSTARWARSFAN]

sweet video

[Maersklegofan]

a new record in the french exhibition Festi'briques with 170 lego train cars :

30 october 2011

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@Maersklegofan

Wow! Have just looked at some photographs at brickshelf. If this long train actually ran, this old record is obviously atomized! Congratulations to the French LEGO Fans!

[dansto67]

@Stiegsfeld

The train in France ran more than 15 loops on a 60 meters long railway partitionned into 20 sectors (each having its own power supply). Look for my videos Longest LEGO train WR on this website.

At the first run, there was 150 wagons and at the end, 170 cars were running.

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@dansto67

Thanks for giving your feedback and input here. Your videos regarding that 170 waggon train are awesome!

S.

[tylerrip11]

:O your so awsome Im your bigest fan .

[cyrieldani]

nice

[churchilproductions]

Congratulations!

//Viktor

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@churchilproductions

Thanks for your input. It's apreciated!

While looking up 10 years old pictures to find these documents among thousands of others I remembered how much fun we had then. And I wondered how easy we have been impressed by both Lego masses and building talent. Today both is so much more visible all over the world, but at least I forgot to wonder about it.

To make me speachless today, a model has to be really special. I should try to regain that old spirit and attitude again.

S.