Builder: Pieter Post
Region: Europe & Middle East
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 Prussian G12 in Royal Württemberg colours by Pieter Post
The G12 (later Baureihe 58) was developed during the Great War. From a servicing and maintenance point of view, it was a great disadvantage for each German state railway to have its own locomotive classes with no standardization. Even spare parts for locos of the same class often did not fit their sister locos. This fuelled the desire for a standardized, fast and powerfull goods locomotive.
The result was the G12, a 1’E 2-10-0 goods train locomotive. Between 1917 and 1924 approximately 1490 copies were build. With 1.520 HP and a top speed of 65 km/h the G12 was capable of pulling big goods trains.
My LEGO renditon is powered by a single L motor in combination with a Buwizz battery and receiver. The tender has the same decoupling mechanism as my G8.1 powered by a Circuit cube engine. The loc has LED lighting; two front and rear lights and a signal light fore and aft. The colours can altenate between yellow and red depending on the driving direction and the signal lights between red and green. Big thanks to UrbanErwin for making this possible.
The colour scheme is based on the Royal Württemberg colours. In reality the dark blue should probably be a bit more black but with Dark Bluish Grey being way to grey/light I choose this as a nice compromise.
Brick build smoke inspired by Owen Meschter, the stag by Grandmasters.