These are the instructions for building the LEGO The Lone Ranger Constitution Train Chase that was released in 2013. Download These Instructions as PDF: BI 3016 60/65g 79111 V29 1/2 [9.56 Mb] BI 3016 60/65g 79111 V39 1/2 [9.56 Mb] BI 3016/56 79111 V29 2/2 [10.46 Mb] BI 3016/56 79111 V39 2/2 [10.46 Mb] View which pieces you need to build this set ) which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this siteMake a high-speed rescue on rails with the Lone Ranger! The chase is on to save Rebecca and Danny from Butch Cavendish and his gang of henchmen onboard the speeding train, Constitution! Help Tonto to place the dynamite and blow up the water tower to stop the speeding train in its tracks! Jump aboard the highly detailed locomotive with 3 cars and dodge the gatling gun! Uncover the secret coal wagon hideout, blow the prison wagon door with the dynamite and escape to safety with Rebecca and Danny! Includes 7 minifigures with weapons and accessories: the Lone Ranger, Tonto, Rebecca Reid, Danny Reid, Butch Cavendish, Latham Cole and Captain Fuller.
Just wanted to let those three little words sink in for a second. Most on this site would agree that this line, with a couple exceptions, is not among the best of choices to place your investment dollars. I tend to agree with that sentiment. I am also a fan of building sets and as such this line is pure gold. The sets are reasonably priced, have great builds, and come together as a group nicely. For the record I have grabbed a few of these sets at an extreme markdown just in case people forget about the "Lone Ranger" aspect and see them for what they are, excellent Western themed sets.The best investment potential in this line is undoubtedly 79111 Constitution Train Chase, but, it also suffers from having "Lone Ranger" as part of its name which makes very reasonably priced among Lego trains. As of early March of 2014 it is still available for under $100. For that you get a 37 " x 22" oval track and an excellent western style engine and tender. The rest of the set is nice, but not to the same standard as the engine.
My only true complaint about this train is the lack of power functions, or even the ability to easily add power to the set. What's a Lego builder to do... You may have guessed by now that this blog is less about investing and more about how to add power to a train set. Although, a brief eBay check did bring up several sellers with listings for instructions only in the $30 range and one seller with a powered coal tender MOC for $109. So if you think outside the Lego box, there is money to be made here;)My intention was to add power while still having the set look as close to its original design as possible. With this set there is simply no way to add power to the engine without drastically changing its appearance so my first thought was to use the coal tender but decided against it. Again it would have to be modified to the point of no longer looking like the same car and I simply had no extra pieces of the dark green color so I couldn't enlarge it if I wanted to. The flat car was also out for obvious reasons.
Luckily the prison car lends itself nicely, it's a large open box, perfect to hold a battery box. The above shots shot the car in its original state, the "box" portion rests on a 6x14 plate with the wheels attached underneath. I started with a completed car and removed the 6x14 and everything underneath it. I then took a pair of 4x4 black plates and added two 1x4 tiles to them along the outer edges. I added both to opposite sides of the train motor, but it looked "empty" so I also added a 2x4 brick to each side. When I was done it looked like this.I then added the magnetic couplers and a 4x6 plate to each side to hold the top portion of the car.Now for the battery box.I then placed the box over the battery box and decided to add a 1x6 to each side to make it look like the original 6x14 was still in place. This is the finished product.The result looks about as good as I had hoped, while the internal jail door had to be removed the functionality of blowing of the back of the car still works fine.
What I was unprepared for was the speed default on Lego train motors, turns out that if you don't have a speed controller they are set to around Mach 5 and will send a small train such as this flying off the tracks, much to the delight of my seven year old. Looks like I'll be getting the IR sensor and remote after all. There is room inside the car to add it and the wire can run through the existing hole where the lever is.I hope y'all enjoyed this little tutorial and who knows there may even be money to be made adding power to sets like this and flipping them, if anyone tries that let me know how it goes.1. Lego Set 79111 Constitution Train Chase2. 2x 3032 4x6 plate dark blue/grey3. 2x 3666 1x6 dark blue/grey6. 2x 3001 2x4 black brick7. 88000 AAA battery box $12.9910. 8879 IR Speed Remote $12.99All the parts are common and inexpensive, I had all of them in my parts bins, the electronics I ordered from Lego for a total of $55.00. This was a fun and fairly inexpensive little project that yielded a nice little powered train, or at least, it will once the IR receiver and remote arrive.
Packaging (L × W × H): Standard: 21.10 x 11.00 x 3.50 Metric: 53.70 x 27.90 x 8.90 Weight: 3.37 lbs / 1.53 kg 79111-1 Constitution Train Chase Price Guide Values $ 118.38 (0.69% ) $ 85.80 (4.59% ) $ 0.17 PPB New $ 0.12 PPB Used $ 0.14 PPB Retail £ 125.67 (3.35% ) £ 72.33 (9.81% ) £ 0.18 PPB New £ 0.10 PPB Used £ 0.11 PPB Retail € 151.80 (3.27% ) € 0.22 PPB New € 0.16 PPB Used € 0.14 PPB Retail $ 176.07 (6.15% ) $ 0.26 PPB New $ 0.25 PPB Used $ 0.20 PPB Retail Price guide data is based of "SOLD" listings, not current live listings. If you still feel that the above set values look "off", please notify us and we will investigate. If you would like to add/edit information for this set listing, click here! Value of 79111-1: Constitution Train Chase Most recent new and used values of 79111-1: Constitution Train ChaseIn this Brick Breakdown series I review official LEGO sets, from the perspective of looking at interesting building techniques we can all learn from.
Today we will be looking at one of the LEGO Lone Ranger sets, the #79111 LEGO Lone Ranger Constitution Train Chase. You can also check out the previously discussed LEGO building techniques found in official LEGO sets (including other LEGO Lone Ranger sets) at the end of this article. So it’s time for the largest LEGO Lone Ranger set to be broken down and examined. And as nice as the small exploding rock-pile is, and as fancy as the collapsing water tower can be, the real interest in this set is of course the train. I will admit that the #79110 LEGO Lone Ranger Silver Mine Shootout feels like a larger set due to its size, but the difference in the price comes from the fact that you get a whole circuit of train-tracks, as well as three cars attached to the train-engine. Most LEGO train sets will only have two cars attached, so this is a nice bonus. Thanks to these factors we can have a clear example of the LEGO technique called “front-loading”, and we also get to talk about a technique that is train specific. S
o let’s get into the details! ➡ FRONT-LOADING A LEGO MODEL Put together any set by LEGO and you’ll notice that certain areas of a model look better than others. These areas usually are those sections that are in the front, or the ones that get looked at the most. This is what’s called “front-loading”. This technique is not often employed by LEGO fans. After all, if you go through the trouble of building a LEGO model, why wouldn’t it look good from every possible way? Well, LEGO does not have that luxury. LEGO designers have a price-range to stay in, which means they’re limited by the number of parts they can use. The LEGO Lone Ranger Constitution Train Chase is a perfect example of front-loading. Simply look at the engine and then the rest of the set. Just by examining the set you can see where all the detail and attention went. And it makes sense; we are naturally inclined to admire the train-engine first and the longest. What this ultimately teaches us as LEGO builders is to pick the aspects of our creations that we think are most important. T
his is where we need to spend the majority of our designing and building time. Sure, you can spend hours on recreating a small interior that only you will enjoy, but if you are displaying your LEGO creation for the pleasure of others, or if you are limited by the number of LEGO elements you have, you may want to use front-loading as a way to structure your priorities. When you examine the LEGO Lone Ranger Constitution Train Chase, you may notice the wheels for the train-engine are divided into two parts. This is partly due to having an engine that can hug the track well, but there is a more subtle stability concern demonstrated. The back three large drive-wheels only have two grooved wheels on each side. The middle wheel is different than the outer wheels. Plus the outer wheels are roughly 10 studs apart. So let’s start by talking about that missing groove. Notice that these wheels are created to be fairly rigid. There is no bend left or right to their possible movement. This rigidity transfers to the track directly in how the wheels hold on. I
n this case, you would have a strong firm connection which is great on a straight track, but would be a disaster when the train comes to a curved track. The wheels are fixed and will remain fixed. The curved track is the same way. Therefore, when the two meet something has to give and it will most likely cause the train to derail. The missing groove however allows some play when the engine is going over a curved track. Now let’s look at that 10-stud space. Here, we are talking about 10 studs in between the center of the wheels. In fact, both the train-engine and two of the train-cars have this same spacing. The thing to note is that all the wheels are rigidly fixed. This doesn’t mean that they can’t handle curves, but they can be prone to be unstable. LEGO has worked out that a 10-stud separation for fixed wheel-bases is about how much a train car can handle safely. Spreading the wheels beyond this limit runs into the same problem as having too many grooved wheels. If you do need to go beyond 10 studs, you’ll need to build your train-wheels with the ability to turn – kind of like the front of this train. R
eal-world trains face this same limitation. Think of when you hear a train turning on a curved section of track. There is typically a lot of squealing. That is the sound of wheels and rails fighting one another for space. ➡ APPLYING WHAT YOU LEARN Front-loading is not a technique you’ll employ in a fan made LEGO creation too often. LEGO fans typically like to make their LEGO models perfect from every side. However, this technique makes an excellent tool to focus your efforts and priorities in the right area at the right time. To use this technique in the right way ask yourself, “Will this section of my LEGO model be seen the most?” If the answer is “no” you might not be using your LEGO elements in the most efficient way. You’ll want to start with the most seen areas and then you can examine which area is the next most seen and so on. As for LEGO train wheel-spacing, this is a technique we as LEGO builders don’t get a lot of practice in. Let’s face it; LEGO trains can get pretty expensive. G