At the risk of stroking Anthony Sava's ego I bring you his latest Steam Engine. The Pennsylvania Railroad T1 The Pennsy T1 was in my opinion one of the finest looking streamlined steam engines to ride...
Ronald Vallenduuk has uploaded a new set of instructions to our Build Instructions portal. A simple, but beautiful hopper design. Get them now.
Hi all, I've started my agenda on the lego ambassador forums. I'm looking to either keep production or start production of train friendly elements. I doubt I will make a huge impact, but any energy in...
g-rat3 has been gearing up for the Eurobricks Train Tech Building Contest with some cool entries. For us steam fans out there he has come up with this delightful Chesapeake & Ohio Berkshire and passenger...
A few weeks ago I promised to share my train-related photos from BrickFair 2009, which was held just outside Washington, D.C. At the end of August. While I haven't had time to write-up a summary of...
For the record, I can say that at Brickworld this past summer, it seemed that Cale's PF-powered locomotive could pull anything it wanted in the train pull contest. Now, based on Tony's video of the Allegheny,...
Previously, I've discussed how to use Power Functions to their full potential, but sometimes seeing is believing. Well this weekend I was giving the opportunity to get some video of my Power Functions...
At Brickworld 2009 my table backed up to the www.lifelites.com folks. I got to talking with them and the eLite Jr. kit was just neato cool. Okay, the eLights in general are neato cool, but at $20, the...
A lovely steamer appeared in the Flickr LEGO Trains group today. Andrew Harvey (Flickr user technoandrew) presented his rendition of the Peppercorn class A1 Pacific steam locomotive Tornado. What's...
Tim Gould has started up a new challenge over on the Flickr LEGO Train Group. After seeing several successful attempts at weathering techniques, Tim has decided to start the Mini-challenge 1: Weathering....
I just returned last night from BrickFair 2009 in the Washington, D.C. area (more on that once I sort through my photos), so I'm doing a bit of catching up. I spotted this one last evening. Eurobricks...
For those of you who follow my Flickr Photostream, you know that I frequently use image editing software to scale and map out the locomotives I want to build. I'm a very analytical person, so this process...
The Ten Commandments of Model Railroad Yard Design by Craig Bisgeier is one of my favorite webpages concerning model railroading. Mr. Bisgeier is modeling the Housatonic Railroad in HO scale, and... Wait...
Another introductory post for folks. My name is Elroy Davis, and I'm the newest member of the RAILBRICKS blogging team. I live in the U.S., in the tiny state of Vermont. I'm an active member of the...
Now that most of you have had a chance to read the latest RAILBRICKS issue (and I hope you liked it) it's time to get back to some blogging. So is your layout looking a bit deserted? Do those wide open...
