Step into the world of gears with our crazy long LEGO® gear train project! In this video, we’ll guide you through the process of creating an impressive, extended train of interconnected LEGO ...

You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own ...

Each year, train lovers and model train enthusiasts who are members of the Arizona Big Train Operators (ABTO) welcome thousands to their Annual Trains in the Garden Christmas Open House and Tours.

But spur gears have some disadvantages. The axes of spur gears all have to be parallel to each other within the gear train, so there’s no way to transmit power to another rotational plane.

A compound gear train uses intermediate gears to connect the input and output gears, allowing for greater speed and torque changes compared to simple gear trains.