Builder: Joseph "cheeseinthepie" Oziem
Region: Americas
Category entered:
Year entered: 2022
Brand of building bricks used:
LEGO
Since 2026, the Brick Train Awards have accepted models created with other LEGO®-compatible construction brick systems.
About 0-6-0 Switching Engine by Joseph "cheeseinthepie" Oziem
I built this model well over a year and a half ago for my YouTube channel, "Joseph cheeseinthepie", a channel that features LEGO content, mostly shorts, nowadays. It was heavily inspired by a Davenport 0-4-0 ST that worked for Wayne County Roads in the 1920s. The locomotive now resides at the John D. Dingell Transit Center.
This locomotive of mine also took inspiration from some late 19th-century steam locomotives, including a GNR 4-2-2 for the smokebox, D&RGW Mikado #464 for the smokestack, and locomotive used for parts inspired its current color scheme. (This locomotive used to be a much different-looking 0-4-0, but had a sloppy color scheme, and nowhere near as much realism.)
I explain the whole story more sufficiently (in some areas) in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UO-UxMUrWY
Thank you for viewing, and I hope you all do well in the competition, fellow master builders! 🎩👌🏻