Kalahari134

I'd love to see brick-built stained glass. It would look amazing with a lighting kit.

Use some of the Architecture Skylines sets as the basis for the artwork

The usual "one plate per track section" advice will be targeted at the lowest common denominator - someone pulling heavy loads with one loco for example. As in real life if you have a high ratio of powered to unpowered bogies you should be able to manage steeper gradients.

Plenty of department stores and cinemas in towns around here

I did get invited by Lady McAlpine back when Sir Bill was still alive, but at the time I worked weekends (at Legoland Windsor as it happens) so couldn't go, despite it being close to where I was living at the time. Wasn't Beeches already dismantled in preparation for a move (and Carrabassett sold as it would be too big for the new line) before his diagnosis? Someone I used to work for has hired Statfold in a couple of weeks so I'll be making my first visit

Beyond garden scale live steam are the people who operate passenger-carrying models at 5 inch or 7¼ inch gauges. And yes there are some with a full-size trainset in their garden: Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway, Adrian Shooter's Beeches Light Railway, Graham Lee's Statfold Barn Railway, John Cameron's Lochty Private Railway, Rev Teddy Boston's Cadeby Light Railway and John Gartell's Gartell Light Railway are just six examples of private railways past and present I can think of in the UK. Not all of them were millionaires either, Rev Teddy Boston was an ordinary Rector of a church who found an abandoned steam engine locked in a shed and bought it. That's not even counting David Smith and Jeremy Hosking who each operate their locomotive collections on the main line. It's not just a UK thing either. There's Sandstone in South Africa and of course Walt Disney had his Carolwood Pacific Railroad. A friend knows someone in California with an extensive 15 inch gauge set up too.

Some of us fill our model trains with water and something flammable (butane/meths/coal) before setting them on fire.

City and Icons are different markets. Could do it if they're realistic about what to include. Think cottage hospital. I'm going to mod NHM into one, substituting the olive green with white. Well we've had a prohibition bar and a pub, each pretending not to be so it's not an impossiblity. Not likely either though, there's not a lot interesting about them.

I assumed that it was a set.

I was browsing my local toy shop recently and it struck me how 75387 resembled the platform of a Tube station. Modding potential? https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/boarding-the-tantive-iv-75387

"Oh these? I've had them for ages, haven't you seen them before?"

What about reefers? Though those were usually painted white.

I liked the stackable connectors, but found infrared to be too unresponsive compared with bluetooth, so I only use it for static models like the fairground rides. The best of both worlds would be great.

Lego's policies discourage depictions of fossil fuels in contemporary sets, but are more relaxed for historic themes. Thing is though that City is not a historic theme. Steam engines belong in Creator (or Icons etc.).

The freight train and station are already listed as "retiring soon" online