Laura Beinbrech

Oh, I thought you meant some way of creating customized select category list.... Superkalle: Thanks for the heads up about LDD Manager... I'm downloading it right now (probably going to take a few hours with my slow internet connection), and give it a try... Anything has to be better than going into building guide mode and manually ticking off the number and types of bricks used (like I said, the whole process, not counting checking my current brick inventory against the list I made prior to ordering, took a good three hours...)

That is one impressive layout, and I really like how you mounted the video camera into the locomotive for a track-level view.

I'm surprised that no one else posted this, but LEGO, for the love of Mike, PLEASE add a window or page to the building guide mode or SOME kind of net-list of bricks used in the design (i.e. 10x 1x2 Bley bricks, 2x 1x6 black bow slopes, etc) so I don't have to spend about 4 hours manually tallying the bricks... Such an inventory (say, like the one that appears at the end of every official LEGO instruction booklet) would make finding which pieces you need to order off PaB (or Bricklink) vs what you already have MUCH easier. If they don't change or fix anything else in LDD, I'd be completely happy! Oh, and thank you Eurobricks for posting how to access LEGO Universe mode in the old version and the Extended Mode in the latest version, you guys rock!

The stripes and white color make it look like the Japanese Shinkansen, but I agree that the set looks much better in white than red.

Excellent work as usual, Sava.

€2000?! Good heavens! That's a lot of money! The sets that I own are: Toy Story Great Western Train Chase (currently being heavily modified... So far I've re-built the coach on a standard 6x24 train base, re-made the boxcar into an armored baggage car based on the mail car in the 7722 set, and re-built the caboose at a more realistic scale, with a funcional cupola) The 2010 Hogwarts Express (currently acquiring parts to modify/build additional coaches built along the lines of the Emerald Express coach) In addition to that, I have a custom Narrow Gauge steam train and two-bay tilt-dump ore hopper car (I'm planning on making additional rolling stock for that as well), and have just ordered parts for building a custom "what-if" modern re-make of the PRR GG-1, called the GG-2a, in Norfolk-Southern livery... I USED to have the 7722 1985 steam train set (with custom PRR decals made by my dad) when I was a kid, but I unfortunately gave it away (along with all my extra gray track) when I went into my first dark age in 1995 :( I'm also planning on possibly getting the Maersk Train and/or Emerald Express as well, but I generally prefer to just design custom stuff in LDD and eventually order the parts from Pick a Brick and build it myself... BTW, I've seen these little train pics in peoples' signatures, how do you make something like that?

That is quite an excellent train you have there! I'm really liking the coach on this one.

Thanks for the compliment... BTW, have you found any decent solution for NG switches?

Hello, This here forum was the reason I finally registered at Eurobricks... I've been interested in trains since I was little (one of the few remaining narrow-gauge railroads in the US, the East Broad Top Railrod, is not far from my house, and I first rode it when I was 4 years old), and when I was 11, my parents got me the 7722 4.5v battery-operated train, for which my dad made some custom Pennsylvania Railroad decals :D Unfortunately, I ended up giving it away when I went into my first dark age. More recently, I got back into LEGO trains when I discovered that they were actually CHEAPER than most N and HO scale stuff, not to mention more mod-friendly. ;) I bought one of the latest Hogwarts Express sets at the local Borders at a significant discount (should have probably bought two, but oh well), and the Toy Story train... Both of those are currently undergoing significant revisions (I'm designing new/improved rolling stock for the Hogwarts Express, and trying to turn the Toy Story Train into something more realistic looking to serve as my "Wasteland Express" for my post-apocalyptic dieselpunk setting), and thus far, I've only managed to get three cars done on the Toy Story Train revision. Elsewise, I've been taking major advantage of Pick A Brick's availability of train parts to design/build custom trains... The first one that I've completed was my Balin & Sons Mining Company RR narrow-gauge Heisler locomotive and Ore-Hopper car (made by combining the two ore carts from the Indiana Jones set): NGTrain2 by Hikaro Takayama, on Flickr ...and my next major project is to place a PaB order for parts to re-build the Hogwarts Express coach into a First-Class/Dining car and build an additional Coach as well as to build this: LDD GG-2a LEGO Locomotive by Hikaro Takayama, on Flickr My GG-2 Electic Locomotive (it's supposed to be in the Norfolk-Southern livery, NS being one of the few major corporations to survive the Final War), which I came up with as a retro-futuristic re-vamping of the Pennsylvania RR GG-1 locomotive (i.e. additional headlights, modern-style pantographs, etc)... I'm happy to find a forum for fellow LEGO Train enthusiasts... I recognize Sava the Aggie from Classic Castle, though. ;)

Not really... I have a Heisler style Narrow-gauge locomotive I made, in minifig scale, like my other trains, but for the Indiana Jones tracks: NGTrain2 by Hikaro Takayama, on Flickr One of the reason I'm partial towards Narrow Gauge railroads is the fact that one of the few remaining Narrow Gauge railroads in the US is about an hour from where I live, namely the East Broad Top, and I have plans to model their 1960's GE 55-ton diesel in LEGO in the fairly near future... Even though I generally don't bother with motorizing any of my trains (I'm a cheapskate that way), I do like where AussieJimbo is going with this... Looks like I'm going to have to place an order for straight tracks from ME Models in the near future (well, once I get some more rolling stock put together, that is)....