Builder: Donát Raáb
Region: Europe & Middle East
Category entered:
Year entered: 2026
Brand of building bricks used:
LEGO
Since 2026, the Brick Train Awards have accepted models created with other LEGO®-compatible construction brick systems.
About Sand Railway TB5 electric locomotive by Donát Raáb
This creation is definitely one of the smallest working LEGO-locomotives! The original locomotive served on the Hungarian "Sand Railway", shunting freight cars in the sand mine. The locomotive had a rod pantograph, it was necessery for the mining site, since the overhead wire was offset from the centerline of the train track, so the freight cars could have been filled from above.
The LEGO-creations features Circuit Cubes Bluetooth battery box and a Circuit Cubes motor, these are much smaller than LEGO-components, but it was still very challanging to fit them into the locomotive. The locomotive is 4 studs and 1 plate wide, and the CC battery box inside (completely hidden) is 4 studs wide. The stickers for the black-orange stripes are original LEGO stickers, however some of them was halved for the right pattern. All bricks are LEGO-bricks with the exception of electronics.
Year of build: 2025
Month of build: October
Video of Sand Railway TB5 electric locomotive
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