Fellow blogger Cecilie has created an amazing Winter Mountain Village:
Check out the topic on Eurobricks and see all the great pictures of this amazing layout!
Norwegian Winter Mountain Village
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Category Archives: Trains
10233 Horizon Express
10233 Horizon Express
Check out the exciting new Train set due out in January, 2013. See set details and many pics at Eurobricks.com
French Town Royville
Henrik Hoexbroe has created a lovely diorama of a French town – Royville – in the 1960s. It features – among others – an art-deco style petrol station, a Citroën car dealer, a hotel, and a train station. It’s very much ‘alive’ because of the many little scenes and Henrik’s brilliant car MOCs.
The French town of Royville
Go to the Eurobricks Town forum for more eye-candy.
Reviewers Academy 3 Year Anniversary
From the Eurobricks Reviewers Academy:
“Dear Eurobricks Community,
The Eurobricks Reviewers Academy was created three years ago today! So today we’re celebrating.
Over the last year five six new Teachers have swelled the ranks, and many students are carefully working towards becoming Teachers as well. As always, plenty of sets new and old have been reviewed, adding to the already massive amount of Academy approved reviews.
Since the creation of the Academy, reviews have been held at a high standard, one that we have maintained consistently these three years. As Teachers, we continually strive to meet this high standard ourselves. After completing the nine required reviews and graduating, Teachers remain active, helping the next wave of students and writing their own reviews.
We’ve got twenty new reviews for you to read. Be sure you read them all so you don’t miss the fun!”
To see the twenty special edition reviews or join the academy or just comment on the anniversary, join the discussion on Eurobricks.
And don’t miss the Special Edition reviews of these Classic Town sets:
6409 Arcade Island
6409 Arcade Island by The Cobra
10015 Passenger Wagon
And congratulations to the Eurobricks Reviewers Academy on 3 years of great successes. We, at Classic-Town, wish you many more years to come!
Heuston Train Station Dublin
Dfenz builds an amazing Train Station and shares it with us on Eurobricks:
Dfenz builds the Heuston Train Station
Some large MOCs hold back on the detail, but not this one. This is a huge SHIP (Seriously Huge Investment in Parts) and must be quite the labor of love for Dfenz. It was displayed at Dun Laoghaire (Dublin) model railway exhibition and you can see more pictures and join the discussion in this topic on Eurobricks.
Pizza Corner
Eurobricks member kost u grlu brings us an excellent new MOC, Pizza Corner:
Pizza Corner
Check out the thread on Eurobricks here.
Back to the Twentieth Century
More joy for the train-loving Classic-Town.net readers: Nathaniel Brill (a.k.a. Shuppiluliumas) has (almost) completed his work on the 20th Century Limited.
Totally makes you miss the 20. century, now doesn't it?
The beautiful engine spearheading this legendary train is an EMD E7A, but naturally there’s also a healthy number of cars that make for quite a long composition. Nathaniel’s NYC 4027 is definitely a sight to behold, but he’s still planning on adding a couple of other cars – while also considering options on how to power this whole string of train niceness. Should be an interesting task, but I’m already looking forward to the finished article.
More Maersk Magnificence
Andreas Groegel switches from banking endeavours to container shipping. And shows Maersk some love while at it (as if they don’t get enough from LEGO fans anyway)…
Only thing missing? The Maersk ship.
This MOC covers four baseplates and features everything you’d expect to see at a container terminal facility. Oh, and of course – a decent bunch of containers to top it all of. I’m guessing that’s pretty much what heaven looks like for CopMike, considering the recent container frenzy he set loose all over Eurobricks’ Train Tech forum.
Train Stations Galore
With all the trains I’ve been blogging recently, I sense the need for more train buildings to accommodate those. Fortunately, there’s been a remarkable amount of beautiful train stations being built lately. After this one, here’s another retro-styled station that just screams Classic Town.
Rhombs and diamonds all the way...
City & Castle expert MrTS‘ work evokes memories of quiet mountain towns that seem to be full of travellers every weekend and then return to normality once Monday comes. And there’s certainly a lot going on in this MOC as well – both in terms of activity and architectural design.
The hustle and bustle of Bojan Pasvic‘s train station, on the other hand, actually seems to be the usual way of things around there.
Euro-styled central station
Which, of course, is no wonder, seeing as he’s partially based his modern station on the designs of Paris and Berlin’s busy central train stations, among others. And it’s not only the design – the multi-layered structure is also kept in this MOC, with Bojan’s station comprising of no less than 3 separate levels.
All this variety begs the question – quiet rural or busy urban, which one fits your style?
Sliding Doors are the Next Big Thing
A year ago, Esben Kolind published pics and videos of his great idea of putting Power Functions in LEGO trains to proper use by allowing the minifigs to actually board all those cars. His design has been continously evolving ever since – and this is the latest result.
Spacious cars for all urban commuters. Bliss!
This time Esben has managed to pack all the Power Function-ing goodness in even less space – and if he were to continue with this trend, his PF-ful designs would verge on wizardry. Not that they don’t already – just see for yourself.
No muss, no fuss – these space-saving sliding doors can turn every jam-packed train platform and car into a happier place. Head over to Eurobricks to thank Esben for his solution to public transport problems.