Vintage set of the week: Steam Locomotive (Push)
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 126 Steam Locomotive (Push), released during 1970. It's one of 7 Trains sets produced that year. It contains 60 pieces.
It's owned by 457 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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A push locomotive? I wanted a remote controlled one!
Needs more steam.
I think they mean shunt, instead of "push"
Pusk me and then just touch me
Till I can get my
Satisfaction
Here comes the baby locomotive!
@Jotahesse1 said:
"I think they mean shunt, instead of "push""
It is a push along train, as opposed to a battery operated one.
Unlike some other push trains (such as 117) this wasn't designed to be easily upgraded to take a motor. I found that it was easier to do the upgrade with a 1980s-style 12v motor than the larger period-accurate motor.
I love this type of train.
My wish is to assemble all the parts and build one as a "statue" to be on display in a city square.
@Jotahesse1 said:
"I think they mean shunt, instead of "push""
You leave the House Robots out of this!
Ah push it! Push it real good!
I like how 4559 : Cargo Railway had a suggestion in the instructions of a locomotive like this on a 9V chassis.
Which honestly looked better then then the build from 3225 : Classic Train
"It's one of 7 Trains sets produced that year" ... I miss those years.
It's a vintage set ... yes ... you have to push it.
But don't trains usually pull?
@MCLegoboy said:
"But don't trains usually pull?"
You have to push the locomotive to pull the wagons :)
@MCLegoboy said:
"But don't trains usually pull?"
Some trains aren't designed to be able to do anything but pull, like the old western style American trains with their cowcatchers. Some trains operate with a second engine, which may be paired at the front, or may be located way towards the back where it would be mostly pushing. A shunt engine probably also does a lot of pushing. Any train that's reversing is also going to be pushing.
one of them 457 owners! Yes, I am old
@Screamager: You should have claimed to have bought it on eBay. That's how I got my hands on 858, which came out the year I was born. Incidentally, @Huw, when I went to look at my owned sets, and sorted by "Date released," the oldest sets listed were from 1996. Besides 858, I know I have sets older than that. And when I went to 858's page in the database, it wasn't showing that I had it. I double-checked to see if it still listed 1682 (as a random pick) as owned by me, and it was (so maybe I just accidentally unchecked the owned box on 858), but when I went to look at where it was on my Town sets, still sorting by "Date released," it showed up after sets released before it and after it.
TRAIN! (and a steam loco to boot!)
You can't beat it, so don't even try!
No one mentioned that this is the basis of the GWP of 40370
60 pieces. Just saying.
Actually 40370 is a replica of 7810 but it’s still similar to this one
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Screamager : You should have claimed to have bought it on eBay. That's how I got my hands on 858 , which came out the year I was born. Incidentally, @Huw , when I went to look at my owned sets, and sorted by "Date released," the oldest sets listed were from 1996. Besides 858, I know I have sets older than that. And when I went to 858's page in the database, it wasn't showing that I had it. I double-checked to see if it still listed 1682 (as a random pick) as owned by me, and it was (so maybe I just accidentally unchecked the owned box on 858), but when I went to look at where it was on my Town sets, still sorting by "Date released," it showed up after sets released before it and after it."
Sorting by date released is unreliable for old sets because we don't have an exact date released, only a year. So, sort by that instead.
@Luthercpa said:
"Actually 40370 is a replica of 7810 but it’s still similar to this one"
My favourite ever GWP!
Salt-N-Pepa approves!
Got one too, despite it being released 8 years 8 years before I was dropped onto this world.
With apologies to the memory of Little Eva:
Everybody's doing a brand new thing now
(Come on, baby, push the locomotive)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a push now
(Come on, baby, push the locomotive)
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier than learning your ABCs
So come one, come on
And push the locomotive with me
@Zander: You got to click your bricks, now
Come on, baby
Push up, push push back
Well I think you've got the knack
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Push it, make the bricks go harder
Push it, make the bricks go harder
@SDlgo9 said:
"Unlike some other push trains (such as 117) this wasn't designed to be easily upgraded to take a motor. I found that it was easier to do the upgrade with a 1980s-style 12v motor than the larger period-accurate motor."
It could be motorised exactly the same way as 117, using the same plate with cutout to hold the motor. While the instructions didn't clearly show the steps to do it, they did show a drawing of it, and it was easy enough to do.
Wouldn't it be nice if all sets had bricks with the set number embossed in gold?
Where did it go wrong... Maybe they were pushing it too much at the time.