• Speculation Continues...
    Mar 13, 2011, 0 Comments

    There's been a lot of buzz about ME Model's images of workers laying track.  They posted an update to the website yesterday. From the ME Models site: "By now, there has been a lot of speculation as...

  • Art Deco
    Mar 04, 2011, 0 Comments

    Eurobricks user Catanas presents a couple of really cool art deco style train posters today.  My favorite is the Metroliner pictured below.   This is something I would really love to see hanging...

  • Power Functions Train Motor and Battery Box on S@H
    Mar 01, 2011, 0 Comments

    LEGO Shop @ Home is now offering the Power Functions train motor and AAA battery box. And the price ain't that bad, either. Get building!

  • RAILBRICKS Issue 8 Available for Download!
    Feb 28, 2011, 0 Comments

    Download the latest issue of RAILBRICKS now! Issue 8 is now available for download!  In this latest issue we focus on yard services.  There’s an overview of what keeps those steam trains running,...

  • LEGO Designer Pierre Normandin talks about the Maersk Train
    Feb 23, 2011, 0 Comments

    AFoL and now LEGO Designer Pierre Normandin talks about his latest creation, the 10219 Maersk Train.

  • Trams in Torino
    Feb 12, 2011, 0 Comments

    When it comes to trams, streetcars, and buses built from LEGO bricks, one builder's name immediately springs to mind: Luca Giannitti (lucajuventino). This time, Luca has built an entire diorama themed...

  • An older Maersk set
    Feb 05, 2011, 0 Comments

    In RailBricks Issue #8, to celebrate the Maersk Train set to come, we featured the Maersk sets that have been released along the years since 1974. But an older Maersk Set exist and Brick-Historian Gary...

  • Maersk Train and PFS
    Feb 02, 2011, 0 Comments

    The Maersk train set appeared at a dutch store. (but the set is not yet available and no price is tagged)From the front side of the box, the set parts count is 1235. And more specifically, you learn that...

  • Maersk Train
    Jan 23, 2011, 0 Comments

      We dreamt of it. LEGO did it. It's not official yet but as the set appears in the official LEGO Shop Website cache, it seems this model is a forthcoming set, LEGO exclusive set numbered 10219. I...

  • LDraw Cow Catcher
    Jan 15, 2011, 0 Comments

    RailBricks is pleased to bring to you the LDrawed "Cow Catcher" part (Plate, Modified 2 x 6 with Sloped Bars). This modeling job is an order from RB to Philippe "Philo" Hurbain, who has done the job...

  • Like Lightning
    Jan 08, 2011, 0 Comments

    The New York Central, from roughly the mid 1940's to the early 1960's, used a striking grey on grey "lightning stripe" livery on their locomotives that MocPages user Rahkshi Poopi has captured very well...

  • What do you get when you cross a jet plane with a train? The M-497...
    Jan 02, 2011, 0 Comments

    Alekander Stein brings us this weird and wonderful blast from the past. The New York Central's experimental M-497, the "Black Beetle". Flashback to the mid 1960's. Railroad passenger traffic is declining...

  • To Weather or Not To Weather?
    Dec 29, 2010, 0 Comments

    One of my favorite builders, Peter Norman (aka Swoofty), has taken at stab at giving one of my favorite locomotives, an Alco RS-1, a well-worn weather-beaten look.  The build has brought up...

  • NXT-G PF train control is coming soon to an NXT near you.
    Dec 23, 2010, 0 Comments

      You've likely heard about the mindstorms NXT programmable brick, and know that you can hook up all sorts of sensors and actuators to it. You might even know that HiTechnic makes the IRLink Sensor...