Expansions to town with trains

[simonwillems]

Hello My Fellow Eurobrickers!

Some time ago I showed you my city in this thread.

Many things have changed ever since, I rebuilt most of the houses after ordering lots of white windows and black bricks. I changed the houses to the style used in Amsterdam between 1600-1800.

I also improved the traintrack layout so I can 'park' the trains outside the city.

So now I basically have a piece of Amsterdam built on rocks (which are not quite common in Holland), it may seem strange from an historical point of view, but I think it looks great :-) .

Let's take you guys on a guided tour:

Here you see a small overview, I left the corner building intact, only added a floor

The red building on the corner, housing a small 'Bijoux' shop selling diamonds. This building is the heighest in town,

The big black house next to it, with hoisting arm and stairs in front, there's no interior in most of the houses, and no back wall (if you look closely the nob of the central heating in my room is visible through the center window X-D ),

This picture shows a store consisting of two separate houses, the right one being the house I am most satisfied with. It shows the sign of Amsterdam (the three crosses in white, black and red),

a detailed photograph of the front of the house, showing the same sign,

and a detailed view of the house next to it,

I did not change the policestation in the middle, so no new pictures of that and we are all familiar with Marketstreet, so moving on to the house next to MS.

This one has an extra floor inside the first one (visible through the windows in the top of the white section),

the roof was the hardest part on this one, and connecting it to the front was a real pain because everything consists of SNOT techniques....

a view from the side, showing that these houses are all very short and how Marketstreet sticks out of the layout,

a view from the other side, showing that there's no interior on the top floors (there's not even a third floor! ;-) ), and some of the cables used to feed all the 9 volt lights in the houses.

here we see the train transformer used exclusively for powering the lights, together with part of the technic structure holding the top part of the layout. The traintrack connects the 'train parkinglot' with the main layout, through a switch inside the tunnel.

top view of part of the layout, showing the different roofs on the houses together with a 9 volt light unit (half underneath the closest tree),

view of the above mentioned light unit, the cable runs underneath the streets and the light shines on the red corner building,

some of my trains, parked behind the layout, the rails connect to the switch inside the tunnel.

In this Brickshelf folder there are some nighttime (9 volt) lighting pictures, they are of the 'old' town.

The entire Brickshelf folder. of both old and new houses in my town.

And that concludes our tour, I hope you enjoyed it, I did. Reactions are welcome.

:-)

[Minifig Lecturer]

Fantastic layout you have there. Really love the shop fronts, very realistic!

[WarnIcarus]

I love Amsterdam, what a beautiful city. The SNOT techniques used on the roofs are very impressive. I wish you would have given us a more detailed tour of the street, and show us what's going on there!

[simonwillems]

I love Amsterdam, what a beautiful city. The SNOT techniques used on the roofs are very impressive. I wish you would have given us a more detailed tour of the street, and show us what's going on there!

That love is mutual I can assure you.....

For the details of the street I am happy to point you to this Brickshelf folder, I took some pictures of this city before, I only changed some of the houses, the street is still the way it was.

Thanks for taking the tour...! :-)

[Asuka]

A very wonderful layout indeed! *y*

All these buildings

[alex54]

Wow!

It's really pleasant to see our first version of a moc, and to compare it with ameliorated version. So you can realise the work and progress that you have done. And you can imagine the next level that you will have with some other hours of work on it.

This is why I love LEGO so much: you can always improve your moc with new bricks and new idea.

Now, back on your layout.

Your builings look so much better now! They look stronger and lighter: they look better built.

The details that you have put in the "top roofs"are really nice!

Maybe some sand red buildings will go well with your black and red houses. But I know that it's a really rare color...

Thanks to share this with us!

[casewindu]

Great additions to an already stunning town Simon, i really like builders who make huge towns! I like to see

how the official sets (market street) fit in with the builders moc buildings and in your case I have to

congratulate you, they are stunning!

i really like great towns like this also because I like to look at others techniques and copy them a little bit into my buildings (im a bit of a cheat really ;-) )

I hope to finish my town soon and to take pictures to show to you all! *y*