Vintage set of the week: Locomotive
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 727 Locomotive, released during 1977. It's one of 3 Trains sets produced that year. It contains 134 pieces.
It's owned by 249 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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1560-2 is the real Lego 727.
Oh yeah, look at those STAMPS. Precious, precious, restrictive STAMPS.
Oh this is a good thing
Change the windshiled with a modern 2x6 and there you go, goos as new. So well designed.
INT. Europe? With that size and heft looks far more like it’s a STR or CON Europe to me
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UNox0G3xY
Good old Deutsche Bahn
Switching out for a modern windscreen is a good shout, and that roof is a bit studded for modern tastes, but it’s not bad is it
@stefwaffles said:
"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UNox0G3xY
Good old Deutsche Bahn
Switching out for a modern windscreen is a good shout, and that roof is a bit studded for modern tastes, but it’s not bad is it"
The guy in that video looks like Toby Maguire Peter Parker. DB can also stand for Dailiy Bugle.
Looks really good for its time. The shutters and printed windows really help. And probably the angle and stamps.
Somebody loves stickers and hate printed parts, others love printed parts and hate stickers. But we can all agree that STAMPs suck.
@biffuz said:
"Somebody loves stickers and hate printed parts, others love printed parts and hate stickers. But we can all agree that STAMPs suck."
Agreed!
@biffuz said:
"Somebody loves stickers and hate printed parts, others love printed parts and hate stickers. But we can all agree that STAMPs suck."
Yeah, I mean stickers on 1x1 pieces are annoying, but they don't render huge chunks of your collection unusable for building anything other than the model the set was intended to build.
This is beautiful.
And it has rocket engines/photon torpedo launchers on the roof.
@biffuz said:
"Somebody loves stickers and hate printed parts, others love printed parts and hate stickers. But we can all agree that STAMPs suck."
Someone recently posted about using the TLM2 sticker roll as a way to attach parts that don’t have compatible connections.
Probably want to make it a brick taller to match minifig-scaled trains like 7740, and add doors and an interior. I think I've seen a photo of a MOC based on this model where someone did that.
My initials are DB. Being born in 1980 and completely unfamiliar with Deutsche Bahn I thought it extraordinary good luck that LEGO made an entire series of train sets just for me.
Interesting last 12v motorised locomotive just before the full mini-fig 12v trains and carriages which must make this short lived. Was this just a continental European launch as never saw in UK? You really needed to already have the conducting track from 726-1 or 725-2 to be able to use this though.
I own one with instructions, sheet and box and one without box. They run very nice after 49 years. It looks a lot like DB classs 218