Disclaimer: The Phantom III was a Lionel trainset from 2002. The description is also from the original trainset itself.
By the 1920s, the automobile was steadily growing in popularity as a means of transporting passengers and hauling freight. It was clear that this revolution would threaten the railroad industry. In Pratt's Hollow, Missouri, a clandestine group of professional railroad designers secretly collaborated to develop a modern locomotive that would triumph over the automobile by employing many new technologies in the design of railroad equipment. To the Pratt's Hollow group, efficiency was paramount in competing with the auto industry, but not at the expense of style. Until the designs were completed and patented, these new ideas were carefully guarded from public knowledge. Mysteriously, this never happened.
Controls:
Trim: Forward/Reverse
FireGuns: Horn
AG1: Toggle Bell
Additional Notes:
First and foremost, this WILL NOT work well on normal roads, it's compatible with hpgbproductions's North Railway map, and Scratchoza's SPR map
Top speed is 94 mph (151.2 kph) on level track.
Accelerating and braking is quite slow, beware around curves.
You can use reverse while going forward, simulating dynamic braking.
There is an extra orbit camera on each car.
On the rear of the locomotive, there is a plaque that reads ''Built 2022 by SpartanSR91''. This is not a typo. I originally built this around Christmas 2022, just shelved it until now.
Specifications
Spotlights
- YarisSedan 2 months ago
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 9.6ft (2.9m)
- Length 278.8ft (85.0m)
- Height 15.0ft (4.6m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 56,687lbs (25,713kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading N/A
- Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
- Drag Points 0
Parts
- Number of Parts 374
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 2,998
@Cereal @DeadlyDialga I did a bit of research on the different iterations of Snowpiercer, and it looks like a chicken and the egg scenario. This almost perfectly matches the original 1982 graphic novel's color scheme, but not the boxy shape. I can also see the similarities between this and the 2013 film and 2020 series.
@Cereal
That’s exactly what I thought too. I’m going like ‘I’ve seen this train in a movie or animated show or something’. It really does look the Snowpiercer train.
Snowpiercer?
@SpartanSR91 yo man, you should make more lionel trains in the future
@Kerbango The fact that is a physical prop is insane. It also looks like a fun idea to build.
Have you seen the steampunk gear train in Wicked?