Comments on: Converting the Emerald Night to 9v

By: nuno2500

nuno2500 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:53:21 +0000

Hi. Thanks for sharing your Mod of Emerald. Based on it i have made my own Mod.

Here are the steps:

1) Open the 9V motor and carefully remove the electric motor. Close it again.

2) Install a PF XL motor on Emerald.

3) Connect a PF conversion cable to the 9v train motor plug. This will give you power from the rails.

4) Connect the XL motor plug to the PF conversion cable.

5) It´s done.

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Best regards from Portugal

Nuno

By: Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:34:07 +0000

The only place I know to buy additional passenger cars is from BrickLink. They will probably be expensive as BL sellers will have purchased them from LEGO and broken them down for resale. There is a thread on Eurobricks.com (which I can’t find) where Jamie Beard, the LEGO Designer of the Emerald Night, stated that additional cars would not be made available. It is unfortunate but a fact of LEGO business.

By: Drewdude608

Drewdude608 — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:45:45 +0000

Hi in you blog post you say that the emrald night would look better with more passenger cars… well I agree. I was wondering if you knew where to get more passenger cars without having to buy a whole new set? I would apprechate your reply,
Talk to you soon!
~Drewdude608

By: Michael Huggins

Michael Huggins — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:27:16 +0000

Hi, ive had success by gearing the two sets of flanged wheels together. I had to make some modifications to the base but not too many. I had to cut an 8 axle to 7.5 to fit it in between the two axles of the wheels, but it stops binding, and also make no difference between 90 or 180 degrees apart. To see the difference try just rotating one wheel… it will bind quickly, once the gearing is in place it can never bind in this way.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:30:15 +0000

It took quite a bit of trouble shooting to address the multiple friction issues with this train, but i finally have the EN running quite smoothly, even with multiple carriages (although like you, i still have to add weight to the tender, like a roll of quarters). Your axel pin idea actually lead me to the reverse, which works great. Anyway, most of my solutions and the solutions of others are all consolidated in one long post near the end of this forum string:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37906

Feel free to check it out and tell me what you think.

Pete