Comments on: Emerald Night is Here!

By: Nigel Stephens

Nigel Stephens — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:21:30 +0000

Thanks Bill. I previously tried substituting the rear bogey section on the locomotive with 12v motor; involved drilling a hole in the baseplate. Although the train would move along a straight, it came to grief on bends, as the “replacement” powered bogey had a fixed rather than a floating point as in the original.

I’ll try the tender, although I am attempting to retain as much of the original look as possible; I would hate to lose the suspension mouldings as a for instance.

Thanks again.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:09:57 +0000

I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. Here in the US the old 12v system is pretty rare, since it was never sold here. But someone in my club has made a version that runs on 9v tracks. The easiest way would be to put the motor in the tender and have the locomotive just be unpowered.

By: Nigel Stephens

Nigel Stephens — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:09:55 +0000

Do you know if anyone has converted The Emerald Night to the old 12v system. The train is wonderful, but I have a vast amount of the 12v system, all in good working order, the gauge is the same, so it would be a shame if I couldn’t get it run with all the other loco’s. I had one brief go at it, but it was not successful.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:35:30 +0000

Thanks for the update Greg – that sounds likely. Hopefully they’ll get it back online soon.

By: Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:43:00 +0000

The Emerald Night with power functions doesn’t appear to be available. You have to buy the power functions separately. I wonder if it’s related to the recall of the power functions recall.

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09753.html

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:29:39 +0000

No, it’s available.
http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=10194&cn=419&d=328

By: robert

robert — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:25:53 +0000

can not find this set anywhere??? any suggestions?? lego site said that it is discontinued…

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:34:34 +0000

It’s the same IR receiver as in other Power Functions products, like the dinosaur. it’s embedded into the boiler – if you look at the pictures, there’s a black 2×4 bit in the middle. The instructions have you build it unpowered, and then there are supplemental directions that have you remove a few details, and replace them with the PF parts.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:55:30 +0000

One more question if you don’t mind. How big is the IR Receiver, and where is it built into the Emerald Night?
Thanks

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:53:01 +0000

The big issue would be delivering power to the wheels. The Emerald Night uses a Technic drivetrain to power the wheels: the rearmost main driver wheel is powered, via gears, by a PF XL motor. The other four driver wheels (unflanged middle and flanged front wheels) are driven by the connecting rods from that axle. So your steam custom MOCs could do the same thing. For diesel MOCs the easiest solution would be to get a PF to 9V adapter and power the train motor (either 9V or IR motors should work).

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:33:18 +0000

So how hard would it be to work the power functions into our existing custom trains?

By: Dennis Price

Dennis Price — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:09:54 +0000

Thanks for the quick update — it looks like the loss of sleep was well worth it!