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    I'd love to see brick-built stained glass. It would look amazing with a lighting kit.
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    We've had a pub and a speakeasy
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    Use some of the Architecture Skylines sets as the basis for the artwork
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    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.
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    Plenty of department stores and cinemas in towns around here
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    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
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    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.
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    Some of us fill our model trains with water and something flammable (butane/meths/coal) before setting them on fire.
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    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.
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    I assumed that it was a set.
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    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
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    "Oh these? I've had them for ages, haven't you seen them before?"
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    What about reefers? Though those were usually painted white.
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    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.
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    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.).
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    The freight train and station are already listed as "retiring soon" online
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    The only obviously heterosexual minifigures in the modulars (that I can think of) are the courting couple in Parisian Restaurant and the bridal party in Town Hall. None of the other minifigures have an explicit orientation.
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    Is there a real-life inverted corner building that people could point to as inspiration? Most of those I can think of are part of a much larger building, something you couldn't do in 32x32
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    I love the bookshop, and the hotel is a beautiful set. I also like the police station's facade, though I wish that it was full width.
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    Parked next to it was 4079 Pendennis Castle, a noticeably smaller locomotive, but which bore a notice proclaiming it to be the most powerful passenger locomotive in the country. This was later proven in exchange trials.
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    Which will be a relief to the wheelchair-user in the set.
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    I haven't seen the inside of a hospital in years. Most people don't spend much time in them either. So my perception of them comes primarily from films and TV. For example, Mr. Bean going to have a kettle removed from his hand, Hattie Jacques as the strict Matron, and Ken & Alan's wheeze to get a TV into the men's ward to watch the football - all lighthearted fun. On top of which there is the potential for many interesting builds - operating theatres, examination rooms, x-rays etc. Besides, this guy really needs patching up:
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    The Garratt design wasn't about water capacity (if water supplies were limited they used tank wagons), it was about power. An NGG13 was preserved at the Schinznacher Baumschulbahn in Switzerland but is now in Wales. European use was fairly limited, it was colonial railways that really needed the sheer muscle the machines had.
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    No, they're pretty generic and forgettable designs. The 0 Series Shinkansen on the other hand was pioneering and is instantly recognisable, just like the orange TGV Sud-Est which LEGO have previously modelled.
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    How do you account for the battery-sized void in the tender then? Plenty of posters have successfully motorised the set.
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