Hi all,

First of all, sorry to everyone, but I can't speak croatin, but I wanted to share my new WIP creation with your community about a tram which is known by everyone in Croatia. If you want to reply, you could do it in croatian, I have a friend who could translate things for me.

I spent a long weekend in Zagreb and got inspired by the trams running in the city. they were produced by the croatian Koncar company and are 100% low floor, in 2007 more then 140 of these trams were operating in the capital of Croatia. Additionally, the whole tram network in Zagreb is narrow gauge (1000 mm), which means more fun while designing this tram. I used some solutions from my previous narrow gauge MOC, Stadler GTW.

Pictures, please note, that this tram is still in WIP phase, so slight changes will be made on it:

View from the side, only three cars have boogies, two other sections are suspended:



Front design, original tram has lot of curves, to make it harder to build from non-curved parts:


Reference pictures for the tram:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiV ... -b-800.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AshiV ... -a-600.jpg

the gauge is still question for me, the train is 7W, so I could set up "standard" LEGO narrow gauge (when two studs between rail elements, like indiana jones and alien narrow gauge curved tracks), but it fits better to IRL 760 mm tracks than to 1000 mm. To create 1000 mm narrow gauge track I'll need to create tracks for the tram, with 3 studs between rail elements.

For driving the tram I plan to use the Power Funtions system, driving the middle section of the train. The distance between the axles is the same what the PF Train Motor has, instead of using gearing and M-motors to drive the tram I'll try to set up with SNOT technique the PF Train Motor above the middle boogie, connecting it with simple 12 tooth bevels, so there will be less energy loss, keeping the speed of the dedicated train motor.

Moar pictures later, I hope I will have the money to buy all the things I need for this creation.



Please leave comments and critics!

very nice build!
did you have a nice time in Zagreb?

welcome to forum
i hope you had nice stay in Zagreb.

and that is one nice build! cant wait to see it in bricks and motorized

Great! very good !
Welcome!

Greetings friend! Hope you'll stay on the forum and show us more creations. Enjoy.

This creation looks brutal, Im looking forward seeing this made of real bricks

Fantastic work, you have done great job designing it so far, can't wait
to see it finished.
Welcome to the forum

Very nice, but where did you get this info?



A hundredth tram was built in 2009 so there couldn't have been 140 in 2007

What a great creation! If you could build this for real it would be even better! Very nice work and looking pretty close to the original!

Hello to all,

thanks for your words, guys, I've chosen this forum to introduce my creation because it's related really to Croatia. I've worked today on the first section of the train IRL, but lots of bricks still missing, tomorrow I'll finish this part and I'll share pictures, too.

I had really nice three days in Zagreb, and will be go there again in the next four weeks.


Yes, I misunderstood the wikipedia text, Koncar built the first 70 trams until 2007.

To admins or to those, who are familiar to the forum rules: should I open another topics for my another (hungarian train-related) creations or may I use this one, renaming the topic's title to "AshiValkoinen's creations"?

Welcome to forum !

U can use this topic for all your creation's ..just rename it
It will be nice of u, if u tell us something about yourself

Cheers and have a pleasant time on the forum