World Record: Train with the most uniform waggons (text by Reinhard "Ben" Beneke) (Notice: That record has been broken for at least two times since then.) On July 2nd a record attempt was started by the First German Lego Train Club at fine weather in Braunschweig. The three founding members of the FGLTC met to make up the longest train with uniform cars. The choice felt on the tank car from set 2126, which has been collected since our last meeting in december 99. That time we had a so called beer train with "only" 12 waggons of this type. You may find a picture of them on the 4th event page, first day. With some collecting we got owner of 61 tank cars in total till now. And that should be a little record, so we decided to bring these cars together, try if a engine could pull them all and to take some pictures of it. After putting together the small amount of 9V track (we have been all collectors of mainly 12V track at that time) the train has been put on the track. At the front there's the P10 steam engine and a faked flatbed with an additional motor. This has been followed by sixty-one (!!) tank cars with wooden barrels (of course without further motors). Surprisingly the engine had no problem to pull all the waggons although the last eight ones where standing in a curve when the train was driven into the straight line of track, like seen in this picture. Since we were short of track there has been only one straight line in the track "oval". To mark how many waggons have been used small signs with FGLTC logo demonstrated the lenght of the train. In this picture you can see all waggons appearing in nearly the same size since Jan took this - and the following two - chemical photos with his strong 400 mm telephoto lens over a quite long distance. To our amazement the train was able to start without loosing any waggons. Here it is just passing by the first 160° curve. While the train came into quite high speed without any problems like unleashing magnet couplings or derailing, it had no chance to pass through the wiggly line of pure curved track. So an engine (in fact a very useful one, designed by Larry P. himself) at the end of the train had to help out and push from the rear end. The wavily track is quite well to be seen here again. In the background there are Karin, Sinja, Torsten and Jan (who was doing some high quality pictures with his chemical camera). Some of his pictures have been scanned and published above. One short remark: Sinja is Karin and Jan's daughter and had her first birthday when we made this small meeting on July 2nd 2000.... This picture has been taken from the 5th train event page. At that time (in late 2000) there have been pulled 108 beer waggons by two front engines. In a test run on 12V track there have been pulled 100 partly different waggons some days before, but at the X-mas event there was enough 9V track to make up a huge complete oval. The both engines have been able to make some rounds with these 108 identical waggons. Later the train was prolonged up to 126 pulled waggons in total(!!), but 18 of them were of a different kind. The 180° curve has been made up by alternating use of curved and straight track sections. (Text taken from old FGLTC.org page)