Peter L

Great MOC! Fantastic detail. Would you be willing to make the Lego style ads you used available. They are pretty amazing.

Brilliant stuff! I especially like the presentation of the bricks on the black cloth. Really makes it pop.

Great layout. It really conveys this great urban vibe. The soundtrack on the video helps too. I watched it with the sound on and then again with it off. It's amazing how much the soundtrack seems to add vitality and a sense of bustle to your model. Great stuff.

Amazing stuff. I especially like the detail in the Butcher's Shop. And no - no one messes with the nurse

They are both very nice sets. I think we need to know what you are planning on doing to make a better determination. For instance - the red set can be pretty easily modified into one of ALCO's RS series engines. The Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio had many RS-1s and had a red scheme making it an excellent conversion choice. The Yellow set on the other hand is a great starting point for a cowl-cab unit. Santa Fe had F45s in their Blue and Yellow scheme. GMO RS-1 outside...Chicago? ATSF F45 in the 'Yellow Bonnet' scheme edit: spelling

Hi all; I'm Peter - I'm a native Brooklynite and life long Lego and train guy. And now I've gone and combined those two. My brother (also a railfan) decided to buy the 7936 crossing and after he had built that we both got to thinking about various layout ideas. With the thanksgiving Toy R Us sale we got the Yellow Cargo train, built it, pulled it apart and he is now rebuilding it into a modern outline TTX intermodal train. I on the other hand have been doing a lot of tinkering in LDD to develop a Baldwin 0-6-2. I have an operations oriented outlook to model railroading so expect anything from me to be geared down for slow speed operations and my layouts to be geared toward switching challenges as opposed to tail-chasing. I also have no problem painting my bricks or adding brass or styrene parts or whatever. I view bricks as the medium I'm working in as opposed to the means unto itself. I have a few projects in the pipeline at design stage that I hope to share with you all soon.

I'm brand new to Lego trains as a hobby - though we had them in the house when I was a kid. We also had more traditional trains (HO scale layout of Conrail's River Line.) Trains have just been the family hobby. In college I dabbled in Gn15, On2, and some other odd scales. L scale is just the latest stop in that journey. Hmmm - now that I've finally broken my lurking spell I guess I should go sign the registry...