When I saw Brickshelf user, legofrik’s classic town cars cargo on rail transportation, the simplicity of the design of the cargo trailer and the various Classic Town cars design simply made me wants to find out where the cargo is heading to.
Bringing Classic Town cars across the country
No, don’t worry, this one has nothing do to with Space MOCcing. In fact, the ET91 is as “Town” as they get – a brilliant electric train from way before my time.
ET has brought along a blue-collar friend.
The Glass Train, as it was known, only travelled the German rails for recreational purposes, so it should come as no surprise that its design aims to please both onlookers and passengers. Sekiyama, a seasoned Trains veteran, has done great to recapture that leisurely feeling and he’s even made sure that travelling minifigs can enjoy all the amenities they’d usually be entitled to on a recreational train trip.
Eurobricks member, Esben Kolind’s latest creation has made my jaws dropped wide open. This is not a joke and you have to see it to believe the complexity combined with the Power Function for this amazing one of a kind Commuter Train with automatic sliding doors. It even comes with a working front, interior lights and a moving platform. He is a genius to come up with such incredible advanced techniques and it have certainly made Train Lovers going nuts about it.
Commuter Train with automatic sliding doors
Be sure to check out the video below in which Esben Kolind demonstrates all the functionality he built into his commuter train. You will not feel regret after watching this short clip.
Inspired by some recent train set purchases, Eurobricks user tunamint creates this classic-looking goods train. The design is reminiscent of 1980s LEGO train sets and I bet anyone growing up browsing LEGO catalogs in those days will be struck by nostalgia watching the pictures. The train features a small diesel loc in bright red, a ballast wagon, a working tipper wagon, and a box car.
Got that nostalgic feeling yet?
Head over to Eurobricks Train Tech to find out what that box car is carrying.
Eurobricks user Pepa Quin (aka Matt De Lanoy) has just posted his first “real train” MOC and he has come out of the station with something amazing! This is a 6-wide rendition of the popular “Daylight Special” train that was popular in the 1940’s and early 1950’s. It’s a really well built MOC, but what I find most interesting was the way he went about building it and researching the prototype. From his notes, he indicates that fellow Eurobricks member Eilif, found a vendor selling cheap old/broken model train cars at a recent train show that they both attended. The idea was to get one of these cheap models and use it as inspiration to build a Lego model. Matt saw the genius in this and went to that vendor and came away with his inspiration for this MOC.
The "Day-Glo Special"
The coaches are really well done here with their recessed doors and the fantastic observation car dome, but as a fellow train builder…the engine totally grabs my attention. The boiler design is spot-on and the use of wings and plates to create the streamline look really works. The color scheme is Matt’s own design and works really well to grab the viewers attention and direct you to all of the exciting details. Be sure to stop by the Eurobricks thread and let Matt know what you think. He also has more pictures of this great train set on his Flickr account.
Gerrit Carstensen has built one of those things you just don’t see everyday – especially in person. It’s a track inspection car, inspired by an actual Buick used back in the day by Maryland and Pennsylvania, now preserved at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.
Rolling down the track and getting work done in style.
I’m not sure if these are still in use (such cars in general, not the particular Buick), but in any case they present a cool way of moving around while on the job and I’m sure track inspectors must have felt pretty good about their unique ride.
Fellow Classic-Town contributor and huge Town & Trains fan The Brickster has been on a Wild West roll recently. So far, he’d set up a beautiful Mexican Village, which was built with so much attention to detail it could easily have passed as a separate LEGO theme. And now, there’s finally some wheels of steel (literally) to liven that place up!
Big wheels keep on turnin'
After much work, The Brickster’s Santa Fe Western 4-4-0 #4 is finally ready to start making its way to Mexico – and will surely bring lots of changes to the local communities. Keep an eye on this train, because I have a feeling its cargo will definitely be expanding before it reaches its destination!
Brickshelf user JimB buit this Lego rendition of Vienna’s U-Bahn station Pilgramgasse. The station building captures all the intricate details of the original, such as the decorations around the entrance and the detailing on the walls on both sides of the entrance and on the roof. And that’s just the street level. The actual U-Bahn runs one level lower and stops at one of the two platforms with those characteristic arched ceilings.
Vienna U-Bahn station Pilgramgasse
Be sure to also check out the subway carriage, with its opening doors and lovely interior, which would easily deserve a blog entry of its own.
Subway Carriage
Thanks to Ricecracker for the blogging tip!
No, we’re not comparing sets here. This is literally a physical altercation between the LEGO Holiday Train and Eurobricks user LEGO9Vtrainfan’s ICE and Eurostar high speed train MOC’s. I suppose I should start by talking about the great MOC’s that LEGO9Vtrainfan has built here. He has put together three of the best high speed train MOC’s I have seen and has captured their shape and colors perfectly.
Eurostar, TGV, & ICE
But what fun are LEGO trains if you don’t play with them? LEGO9Vtrainfan has also put together a nice layout throughout his house to test the speed of these trains on. Using HoMa’s “long curve” method that was highlighted in a recent issue of Railbricks, he has managed to put together some great video of these trains that illustrates their true speed capabilities. But what really got me was this video illustrating the horror that could occur if the high speed trains were to meet the poor little LEGO Holiday Train at a cross-track.
I can just imagine the huge amount of Minifig carnage. It’s a good thing LEGO City has so many Fire/Rescue sets! Be sure to head over to the thread on Eurobricks and let LEGO9Vtrainfan know what you think!
With their ever-increasing arsenal of machineries, you’d think Power Miners are the primary market for lime pieces and all things subterranean. But Nathan Proudlove has certainly done his best to defy this stereotype – and leave us wondering how come no one had ever thought of such a combination before.
It’s green and chibi (which is the manga way to say “cute & small”), and from certain angles you might say it’s even a bit chubby… Oh yes, and it’s precisely one of those sights that could make or break your day if you were a minifig and had to see it in person on a daily basis – depending on what your thoughts on lime green are.
The Train of Lime and its incredible windscreen wiper
Obviously, I’m a fan of green goodness and this has definitely been included in my list of cool lime creations I’d have loved as a commuter in a LEGO town.
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