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OK, so I got all 12 modules together in my garage for Halloween and finally got around to uploading some pics and a video tour to Flickr, here you go good people: Here's the full layout, not the best photo I've ever taken but space was a bit cramped! And a couple of shots of the newer sections: One of the features I like most about the new section is the main station is set up with signals that work for trains running in either direction on either the through line or the siding. The lights are synced to show green or red in both directions on the same line. Lastly, a video tour of the whole layout - not quite a 360 as I could only get around one end of it due to clutter in the garage! Enjoy! -
Congrats on the Brick Train Awards win with the simulator!
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Nope, Ashland, VA @trucks3 And wow, I'd forgotten the original design of that section with the ineffective candy conveyor for Halloween, now replaced with a castle that can have a ramp added for candy distribution.
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@jeanclaude Welcome to Eurobricks! We're all happy to help wherever we can, but my French is poor and Google translate didn't do a great job with your post, so I hope my reply is helpful. Lego no longer make train tracks that are electrically powered, all their current trains are battery powered. All of my trains date from the 1970s to the 1990s... There is a network of Lego User Groups around the world, FreeLug is based in France and would be happy to help you out as well - https://www.freelug.org/ @Toastie Thank you. I have a few of the 4.5v lights and will be using them and some trans orange and red bricks to add some seasonal glow to the 4.5v section when I set it up for Halloween next month.
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Thank you @Legownz, it's nice to know people are enjoying the thread when posts are only every few months. The orange and black train is based on locos and coaches from Ireland, the coaches were built 10+ years ago along with the orange and black loco on the lower level, the mainly black loco I built earlier this year and needs a period accurate (1960s) set of coaches to go with it...
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As always, excellent stuff. I'd seen the garbage train on Instagram, but missed the two build challenge submissions, I love the simulator idea, it's worked really well.
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Ok, sorry for the delay with the latest update, but I have been busy! I've completed 2 more modules, and with that closed the loop on the 12v city section. Here's the map of the completed sections, I've taken the upper level track out to make it easier to see the lower level loops as the upper one crosses the lower ones in several places. Module 11 is the 4th of the city modules, with mostly official modular city sets but I did add a MOC "Pink House", which my 5 yo daughter loves! 02 The Signal Box took a few rebuilds before I was happy with a design, the street scene is fairly straightforward. 01 Module 12 is centered around a beach and is at the back of the layout, so won't always be easy to see at shows and so on, but it was a lot of fun to build, particularly as I lowered the wooden frame for a 6 baseplate area so the beach and sea are actually lower than the land! And here it is in lower light with the 12v light bricks making their presence known! Lastly, the beach itself. I've seen water done in several different ways, all very impressive, but on the basis I already had a vast amount of trans light blue round 1x1 plates from a previous project I decided that was the way to go for this on. And with those two modules complete, and the 4.5v and 12v lower level loops complete, it will be on to the 9v loop next! It'll be a while though as I need to make the legs and frame to display all this on next...
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@Lego48 I didn’t have a lot of time at Brickfair, we were there with my 5 year old daughter so attention spans can be short! I’m very familiar with the 12v system, the layout I’m working on will take 3 or 4 of the grey era transformers to power it, all run off a voltage converter… I’m in the Richmond area and active in RVALUG, some of the NoVaLug guys are in our Discord and brought some of the boardwalk to our public day in February, I suspect our paths will cross at some point!
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Question from a person just starting with LEGO
Andy Glascott replied to Guy's topic in LEGO Train Tech
Morning Guy, Welcome to the world of Lego trains! Depending on where you are in VA I'd recommend checking out one of the Lego User Groups in the state if you haven't already, these are the ones I know of. They're all very welcoming and delighted to offer local support and advice. Most, if not all meet in person and online, so even if you aren't local to one of them there are ways to be involved and find out about local events that they are participating in/displaying at. I know RVALUG and Hardlug both have a number of train builders involved, not sure about the 2 northern groups. Richmond area - RVALUG. Hampton Roads - HardLug Northern VA - NovaLug DC area - WamaLug Andy -
I’m pretty sure one of the Great Ball Contraption builders uses one, if you look up the Beyond the Brick GBC videos from Brickfair he gets a mention in one of them but I don’t know which one I’m afraid. I saw it sitting behind a module at Brickfair VA last month but three was no one nearby to ask about it.
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Thank you. I didn’t know this livery existed until earlier this year but when I saw it knew I could come up with a reasonable rendition of the colour scheme, this one is from the 1960s. Later Irish locos have more orange and more curves in the paintwork, much harder to do in 6 wide!
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This weekend the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland are relaunching their Class 141 loco B142 after an overhaul (details here if you're interested, and more on the loco itself here), so I figured it was time to share my rendition of it. As with all my 12v stock it's 6 wide, which limits the detail that can be included! I had figured out a way to brick build the curved lines on the front, but that would have left a very flat front of the cab - Irish diesels have an awful lot of flat planes to the cab ends so the compromise was to use some slopes but keep the orange and white lines straight. I'm getting more used to stickers, and am reasonably happy with how the stickers on the 2x2x6 windscreens came out to give the three front windows. Overall, I'm really happy with how it turned out even if the details I did get in don't accurately match the original. Anyway, here are the pics, starting with my main reference image. 142_01 Side view: 01 The doors on the real thing are the diagonal panel on the back of the cab, 1 stud wide slopes on my model, so I created doors on the side while staying as true to the design as possible - a minifig has to be able to fit through the door! Front view: 04 And the classic 3/4 view: 02 The pics were all taken on a stored module of my bigger layout, hence the wooden sky in one or two of them! Lastly, a short video of it running on a temporary loop recently: B142 Hope you all enjoy it.
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That looks fantastic!
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Yeah, you can run them in a chain no problem. That said, I’ve only ever connected 2 or 3 in sequence so I don’t know how many you can connect that way in total. Before you put them on your layout just connect them in sequence and see how many you can do. You can either plug the connectors into the back or side of each other, or, to save connectors, you can fit 2 wires into one connector, just strip a little more of the grey plastic off and twist the copper wire together before putting it back into the metal plug.
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Here you go - https://flic.kr/p/2pLJC3U
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I’m pretty sure a 1 wide plate will stick to the underside of the track along the length of the track, maybe try that? I can’t remember what the underside looks like but do remember the metal connectors are underneath so it might not be possible to run a couple of 1x8 plates the length of it… I’ll have a look at mine later and see if there’s anything else I can think of. Update Yes, I was able to put a 1x12 plate under the crossing, across the gap where the metal connections are, attached to the underside of the rail.
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It is possible to run two trains with one transformer but when running both at the same time they will be slower than running one at a time. If you want to run two trains your best option is to have 2 distinct loops, such as the layouts Tassier posted, otherwise you will have to make sure you can stop one easily before it catches up to or crashes into the other (no two trains run at exactly the same speed!). Two loops connected by points/switches will always have power in the 12v system, though another option would be to have two loops that aren’t physically connected and run wire from the transformer to each loop.
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Lego track doesn’t easily work with corners that aren’t 4 sections of curved track, so the irregular corners top right are what are causing the misalignment. 3 curves followed by 1 straight and then 3 more curves turning the other way do align with the regular geometry.
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I’m not familiar enough with the components to name them accurately but it’s easy enough to make a switch that will isolate a section of track for you in a siding. First, place a piece of tape between two sections of track where they connect, just on one side of the track, then repeat this further down, say 2 track sections or 32 studs, again on the same side of the track. This creates a section without power. Second, connect one end of a wire to the track on one side of one of the pieces of tape, for arguments sake, about 12 inches/30 cm long and connect the other end of it to the track on the other side of the tape. This bypasses the tape and provides power to the “dead” section. Now fit a simple on/off switch in the middle of the length of wire. When it is on, power reaches the dead section of track, when it is off, it doesn’t. Use a longer length of wire to have the switch closer to your control panel. The old 12v track system uses exactly this set up. If you use this in a ladder situation you only need one piece of tape as there is no power reaching the track from the end of the siding.
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TRAIN TECH Help, General Questions & Talk to the Staff
Andy Glascott replied to WesternOutlaw's topic in LEGO Train Tech
I brought my collection of 9v and 12v trains over from Europe to the US and have run multiple controllers off a voltage converter with no problems. -
Thanks @Murdoch17. I’ve found that working on a section at a time has really helped me focus on getting things like that right, it went through a few changes when I first built it and then again after a couple of shows.
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Ok, photo update! I had the whole layout at my LUGs show on Saturday, the first time I've seen all nine completed modules together, so yes, I took pics! I had hoped to stitch some together to make a single image with the whole thing from the front but that didn't work out, so here are the 4 pics that would have made that image up: (I'm hoping at this size they'll come out side by side...) These two show the full layout from either end/corner on: And then a few pics of different areas/angles: There are a couple of other images over on Flickr too. I hope you enjoy the images, it's been a fun build so far, with a bit of luck the whole thing might be finished for Brickfair VA in August. Of 2026!
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Thanks @Electricsteam, I took so,e pics yesterday and will sort through them and get them posted by tomorrow evening.
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Thank you @zephyr1934
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Thank you. I'll be setting them all up next weekend at our LUG's show so will take pics of all 9 modules together then. Events are typically the only time I can put it all together.