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This is a railroad wrecker crane I've been working on for a while that is inspired by the one in 2018 CITY set 60198 - Cargo Train. I changed the colors scheme and got rid of the string + reel for the lowerable hook and replaced it with a permanently fixed one. (This is because the string is extremely difficult to get onto it's reel and doing so hurts my fingers.) This change is not a great loss to playability because I'd never lift anything with the hook anyway! Here we see the crane with boom raised and outriggers extended. The boom can also be extended out a fair distance, but I forgot to showcase that when I took the picture. Front of the crane with boom lowered and outriggers retracted. One downside to this model is that the boom overhang the carriage's end by a bit, and the hook holding the crane platform straight is impossible to keep attached for a length of time... as soon as the hook detaches, the thing swivels to the side and starts taking out everything trackside. The crane has a dial on the back for raising or lowering the boom, as in the original set. Thoughts? -
This switch tower was inspired by 2003 set 10027 - Train Shed - from the World City theme. My MOC features a removable roof and a second floor with a lot of details. I also put a sign saying "Tower 17" out front. (If the numbers on that sign look weird to you, that’s because it’s an upside down “L” and an "I"… the LEGO parts I chose don’t have any numbers, so I made do!) Here we see the trackside portion of the tower, and the two operators standing outside. The Senior operator is wearing the dark red hat, while the other figure is the Junior operator. The rear of the building. The upper floor features a computer terminal for tracking trains, plus a handful of Armstrong interlocking levers for controlling switches and signals in the area. The bottom floor is currently empty. Thoughts?
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This British Railways class 37 diesel locomotive LEGO model has been heavily modified by me from a file by LazarusBricks that I bought off Bricklink back in 2013. I recently rediscovered it and added opening doors, blue paintjob, yellow ends, an new roof, and a sliding center-wheel bogie design derived from an Sava Railways design, among other things. The engine's number is D6757, which is based on a real world operational loco still used in service to this day (albeit under a different number), some 66 years after being built! Although, I don't know if this specific blue livery was ever worn by D6757, but as a lot of it's classmates did wear it for a time, I decided it was probably good enough to use on my MOC. The other end of the loco. I wasn't sure where the tail lights were, and looking at pictures didn't really make it any clearer as to what lights were for what on the real locomotives. I hope somebody with experience seeing these locos in the real world can help me understand what needs to change on my MOC. (Please and thanks in advance!) The cab doors at both ends open and you can place a figure at the controls. Thoughts?
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This 1910s interurban streetcar MOC was digitally designed on a whim for my brother by me in green and based off set 10308 (Holiday Main Street) and another MOC I have of a real-world streetcar. Sadly, my brother didn't need / want that version as he has other plans for his LEGO town layout. I really didn't mind, but rather than let a good model go to waste, I built it for myself in yellow and tan! There is a movable trolley pole at both ends of the car on the roof. The car is designed to be bi-directional, but is sadly not able to be motorized due to the XS sized Big Ben Bricks wheels that are used and the design of the MOC. Inside view of the streetcar. The model features interior details and a removable roof, with seating space for six passengers and standing room for one driver at either end. Thoughts?
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For this MOC of London and North Eastern Railway 4472, I have taken Harry Potter set 76423 - Hogwarts Express and Hogsmeade Station - and heavily modified the steam engine portion of the set by a lot. I stretched the model out a bit into a 4-6-2, specifically Flying Scotsman, AKA the first steam locomotive scientifically proven to reach 100 MPH. The loco MOC is in it's pre-British Railways ownership LNER 'apple green' look (with a single chimney and no smoke deflectors) as used from it's construction in 1923 to it's repainting in war time all-black in 1943, or, more accurately from 1935 to 1943, as it doesn't have the long-distance corridor tender it used before being bumped from premier service by the new A4 class in the mid-1930's. This dating of the loco also means loco is in it's original A1 form, not the latter rebuilt A3 form that was finished in early January 1947. rear of the engine Flying Scotsman is the last survivor of the A1 / A3 type in the world... unless we count Gordon from the Thomas and Friends TV show / The Railway Series books, who is canonically the brother of Flying Scotsman. (Technically, Gordon is a A0, a fictional 'hush hush' prototype of the A1 class that Flying Scotsman is, that had several problems that weren't rectified on him but on the latter production-series engines, but Sir Topham Hatt managed to fix these issues upon buying Gordon.) The three set 10194 style coaches are all identical. The brake coach, which was inspired by this Rebrickable MOC. Here's the inside of the passenger cars with the roof segments removed. There are three copies of the coach on the right. The brake coach is shown on the left. Sadly, the coaches are inaccessible right now. So no new group shot with coaches and engine. also, the previous engine design donated a lot of parts to this new redesign... but you can still find the original pictures of it in the spoiler below! Thoughts? EDIT 8/1/26: Real world pictures added of revised engine and first post totally restructured!
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For this MOC (my second attempt at this subject!) I have taken 2023 Harry Potter set 76423 - Hogwarts Express and Hogsmeade Station - and modified the steam engine portion of the set quite a bit. I stretched the model out a bit into a 4-6-2, specifically Gordon from the Thomas and Friends TV show / The Railway Series books. In fact, I changed so much of 76423, that there isn't much of the original engine left! The four passenger cars are in the style of 2009 set 10194 - Emerald Night, but are four studs shorter and in the colors of the 2026 CITY set 60511 - Vintage Train. Each car has a removable roof and inside seating. The car closest to the camera is a brake coach inspired by this Rebrickable MOC. Gordon in both books and TV show is based on the London and North Eastern Railway A1 steam locomotive class. The last real world survivor of the A1 / A3 type in the real world is Flying Scotsman (LNER loco Nr. 4472) which is Gordon's brother in both written and visual media. The rear of the loco. The tender is my own design, and uses a sliding center wheel to keep it from binding. These are three identical express coaches. All the doors of this train open, and the middle roof sections come off for access to the inside details. Here is the brake coach, where passenger's baggage is stored and the guard has a bit of space to rest and keep an eye on the train's progress. The three coaches have identical insides, and the brake coach is mostly the same, up to the halfway point where the luggage area and guard's seat are. Thoughts?
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This is my second attempt a building Duck from The Railway Series / Thomas and Friends. My first (failed) version of this 5700-series pannier tank engine you can find here. I had to give building him another go, as there are two ways of doing things - the Great Western way and the wrong way. Duck is Great Western and I felt I had an obligation to do him justice! The rear of the engine. In the cab is a printed control tile and a trans-red brick for the firebox. Thoughts?
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Here we see Henry the green engine running along the line pulling the Flying Kipper fish train, as seen in the Railway Series books and Thomas and Friends TV show. This train consists of five goods vans filled with fresh fish, and a break van for the conductor. Before anyone says anything: Yes, I know Henry is in his post-accident shape, which is inaccurate for the specific story that introduces the Flying Kipper train. However, as Henry regularly pulls the Kipper after his rebuild, this isn't really a issue. To create Henry in his latter form from the Thomas and Friends TV show / The Railway Series books, I took set 76423 (Hogwarts Express and Hogsmeade Station) and modified it quite a bit. I revised the boiler design, added two plates to the cab height, devised working pistons, up-sized the front bogies' wheels, and changed around the tender a tiny amount. Recently I rebuilt his front bogie to be a bit shortened in length, along with the area around the headlamps also being shortened. The rear of the tender, which now features a sliding center wheelset, which makes it much easier to roll compared to the old, fixed-in-place 4.5v / 12v era wheels I originally used. The doors on the five identical goods vans can open to load things inside. Just a regular British break van from back in the days of steam. There's not much else to say about it, really... Thoughts?
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This UK style train station is inspired by 2023 Harry Potter set 76423 - Hogwarts Express and Hogsmeade Station. I added a back to the building, changed up the color scheme from red to green, added a removable roof and second floor. (The reason I added second floor to the model is a nod to Goathland station - AKA the first station to be used as Hogsmeade Station in the Harry Potter films.) The station's location name of St. Cleve is fictional - there is no place with that name anywhere in the UK, although I can't take credit for it: I got the name from the cover art of the 1972 Jethro Tull album, 'Thick as a Brick'. The platform side of St. Cleve railway station, which features: twin benches, two lampposts, a couple trashcans, and a few fire buckets. There is also a clock and arrival / departure board mounted to the wall. The street facing side of the station with phone box and statue of a local historical figure. The Stationmaster's office is on the second floor, and features a desk with swivel chair, coffee maker, and fireplace. The ground floor features a bathroom on the left, ticket counter in the center, and on the right is a luggage holding area with each part having features such as toilet and sink in the bathroom, counter and cash register in the lobby, and various crates in the luggage area. A clock and fireplace are also on this level. This classic K6 type telephone box is placed right outside the station. It is inspired by the one in 2022 set 76403 - The Ministry of Magic... but unlike the one in that Harry Potter set, the inside of mine can't fit a minifigure. All the separate sections of this MOC, together with minifigures of the station master and ticket agent. Thoughts?
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This is my MOC of Great Western Railway (GWR) number 5909 'Newton Hall', a 4-6-0 'Hall' class steam engine, based on the real loco with the same name / number that was built in June 1931. (Sadly, the real 5909 no longer exists, having been scraped in July 1962 after a working life of just over 31 years. ) My LEGO version of 5909 is basically a recolor / MOD of my model of the Hogwarts Express loco - 5972 Olton Hall. The MOC is a hodgepodge of different Hogwarts Express sets and ideas I've had over the years... you might be able to spot some of the sets I used as inspiration. The rear of the loco. The middle axle of the tender slides back and forth to go over switches and curves. For those wondering, I chose the number 5909 because I had 99% of the numbers already - I had everything except a single number 5, which is why it took a while to complete this loco. Thoughts?
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Originally, me and my dad made me a passenger train way back in the early 2000's as my first train MOC. At my request, he got rid the bright colors of the original 1980's train sets it was inspired by with more subdued tones. The black and red are what became the standard color scheme for my fledgling railway for a good many years. In 2024 I added the newer windows and a different 4-6-2 'Pacific' steam loco... well, now I added bogies to all the coaches (they were originally just two wheeled cars) so they roll better and put a brand new 4-6-0 'Ten Wheeler' steam loco at the head end. I decided to downgrade the loco from a fast main-line express loco of the 4-6-2 variety to a more laid-back 4-6-0 because the train isn't an express - it's a local on a branch line. You can see the original Pacific-type loco here. The whole train together. This oil-burning 4-6-0 steam engine is in a throwback livery that's based on my first custom train from way back in 2002-ish. The MOC is also slightly based on my first steam loco MOC I designed and built (circa 2012) that was constructed for the same train this engine pulls. Granted, that original MOC was technically a 4-4-0 and a total failure (no real world pictures exist of it), but I learned a lot from it! The rear of the loco. This baggage car is inspired by set 7722 (steam cargo train set) and the red / yellow guard's van. These three coaches were inspired by the red and blue coaches of set 7715. (Push along passenger train) The observation car is my own design. ...and here is what it all looked like originally. (picture circa 2017) The diesel at bottom left is long scrapped, but the original 0-4-0 steamer survives to this day. This tiny loco was inspired by set 7722 (steam cargo train set) while the steam engine's tender was inspired by 3742 (My Own Train series) from 2001. Thoughts? Post updated 6/26/26 with new steam engine and updated passenger cars. The whole post has been changed around too.
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This Santa Fe passenger train has been sitting around long enough that I thought I should get pictures taken and uploaded. So, without further ado, here is my Warbonnet styled Alco PA / PB led passenger train. Note: Please pardon the dust in some places.... as I said, these have been sitting out a while. These engines has been around in one form or another since 2011, when I saw a MOC of a freelance diesel by user 'valgarise', which you can see here. I made my own version of the MOC with an added B unit in black / red in 2012, but it was eventually (2017?) remade it in green and black instead. This previous version was disassembled in 2024 or so, and now I redesigned it totally to better match the actual Alco styling. With this latest update to the MOC, I added a sliding middle axle to each bogie, and a Warbonnet style paint job inspired by set 10020 - Santa Fe Super Chief - from 2002. The rear of the two units. They aren't perfectly aligned with the Alco style, but it's as close as I could reasonably get. The cab roof comes off to place a minifigure at the controls. (This is the only play feature on any of these models.) The baggage car. Three identical coaches. The observation car. The whole train together. (I apologize for this crappy picture, but I don't have a layout right now, and my available free space isn't big enough for the whole train to be on tracks.) Thoughts?
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This clothing alterations and repair shop that I call 'Swift Tailoring' (See if you get the joke! ) is modified from the smaller building in 2024 Harry Potter set number 76439 - Ollivanders & Madam Malkin's Robes. It has been heavily modified and features a new back half and revised interior. Here we see the building and it's owner. The rear of the building. Please excuse the badly discolored purple 1x6 brick. I chose the best side for the front, forgetting the back would also be visible at some points. The inside of the building. The lower floor has three mannequins for displaying clothes and a cash register, while upstairs has a workshop area with sewing machine, a table, some boxes, plus another mannequin. "Fun" fact about constructing this building: I broke three or four window glass trying to get them into the purple window frames. How, you ask? Apparently at some point while this part was made (It's only in one set), they changed the mold and it wasn't made right with the glass opening being slightly too small for some panes of glass. (they replaced this mold after a while with a fixed version) I managed to get all the glass in, but before that I had to raid my parts supply for more - which I then found out I only had a single spare left! (Luckily, that last one wasn't needed.) Thoughts on this MOC?
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These two railroad Maintenance of Way (MOW) hi rail vehicles are modified from two different sources. The pickup truck on left is highly modified from the red vehicle in set 21354 (Twilight - The Cullen House) with an added camper shell of my own design, while the defect detector van is a slightly edited Brick Train Depot design which can be downloaded from that site for free from the bottom of this page. The front of the defect detector van. Rear view of the van. Drivers seat of the van. The body of the van itself (behind the drivers seat) is totally empty and can't be accessed. The front of the heavily modified pickup truck. The rear of the truck. The truck with the tailgate open. Thoughts?
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"You are now entering the Blacktron sector! This is the absolute limit of the Classic Space quadrant! You have been warned!" ...sorry about that. Had to get the legal stuff out of the way first! Anyway: Blacktron long-range fighter "Buzzard" Above is the two copies of the Blacktron XL-15, which are now dubbed the "Buzzard" type starfighter. So back in January of 2023, I decided to convert the XL-15 spaceship from the film "Lightyear" into original Blacktron colors. The blue became yellow, and white was turned to black, with all the trans-green removed. I added laser blasters under the wings where some technic pins are and put a different control tile in the cockpit. I was thinking about building a second ship, but then again, getting some of the parts from Bricklink was a total pain due to extremely low quantities in the needed color. (I'm talking about you, 3 x 3 wedge plate in yellow!) Thankfully, I bought one too many of both kinds of the yellow 12 x 3 wedge plates, as they are very rare as well with only one store selling four of each kind in the USA, which made making the second one easier later on. Blacktron command vessel "Executor" In addition to the two Buzzards, I wanted a Blacktron capitol ship. I had no ideas of my own ship, so I spent most of the afternoon of 10/5/23 taking Benny's beloved spaceship from The Lego Movie and corrupting it into a twisted, evil version. I revamped the nose, removed the expanding wing assembly and snub fighters. Of course I then recolored it almost exclusively in black and yellow. (some gray was unavoidable!) I armed it with a turret on the top rear where the sensor array once was, and put the commanders office below where the wing mechanism used to be. To keep with the one-word naming scheme of the original Blacktron, I borrowed the name of Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer, decreeing this ship the Blacktron Executor. I struggled to think of an engine flame color that fit OG Blacktron, but eventually trans-light blue was selected. Since the wings don't extend anymore, I added a third section for figures with a turret on top in their place. The rear-most section lifts away, but the rest of the roof sections are supposed to fold open. The ship seats seven troops and 1 commander. Blacktron cargo transporter "Vendetta" The Blacktron Vendetta is finally finished! I combined the Renegade with a new cockpit modified from the Blacktron Cruiser GWP, with added parts from a free Rebrickable MOC's instructions for a Cruiser / Renegade adapter . The cargo pod is reverse engineered and modified from one posted in a Brickset article. You can view the Rebrickable MOC by user Brickstertwo here while the Brickset article about modifying 10355 is here. The rear of the vessel. I changed the engines flames from trans-red to trans-light blue to match the rest of my fleet. Same thing with the yellow technic wheels becoming light bluish gray. The cockpit seats one mini-figure, and has two laser cannons just outside the canopy. The removable cargo pod is inspired by one in a Brickset article from late December of last year. It works beautifully with the ship's drop mechanism. The top lifts open on a hinge so you can put cargo inside. Blacktron two-man snub fighter "Avalanche" These ships are Blacktron 1 versions of a classic Star Wars speeder design is mostly taken from set 75204 - Sandspeeder, with portions taken from other snow-based versions of the type as well. All this is wrapped up in a new black and yellow paint job with a trans-yellow windscreen from 75414 - The Force Burner Snowspeeder. I call this ship type the Avalanche class snub fighter, and they will be going with my heavily modified Renegade set and the rest of my Blacktron 1 MOD's. Rear view of the two ships. This type of short-range fighter is usually assigned in massive quantities to defend critical planets with Blacktron bases on them, whereas the much more capable and deadly Buzzard type is usually for capitol ship escort duty, and can take on much bigger vessels with only a dozen or so fighters. The inside seats two figures. Blacktron armored ground transporter "Marauder" The 2021 Star Wars set 75311 (Imperial Armored Marauder) has been transformed into a Blacktron 1 version, complete with revised guns instead of those annoying flick-fire things. I couldn't use space seats inside this one, but there are plenty (four) 2x2 modified tiles with just enough room for air-tanks in the model... at least I hope that will be the case! The rear of the hover-vessel with the laser turrets rotated. There are eight total opening hatches on the all four sides and top to place figures / store cargo. One figure sits in the rotating rear turret, two troopers sit in the main body of the vehicle, while the last fig sits in the drivers seat. Blacktron giant robot "Destructor" For this model, I used parts and ideas from the Eternals line's "In Arishem's Shadow" set 76155 (body / head / upper legs / upper arms) along with claw from the old Agents 2.0' "Robot Attack" set 8970. The lower legs and laser arm are (modified) holdovers from the "Build Better Bricks" Iron Giant instructions. (I need to fix the laser arm's elbow joint but I keep forgetting!) Blacktron "Shadow Runner" space car Recently, while I was on my Blacktron kick, I decided I needed a vehicle for the commander. So, after a few false starts with other models, I dusted off this old TRON Legacy Light Runner model and went to town modifying it. The model originally was made five years ago (was 2018 really that long ago?!?), and is based off the two-seater TRON set 21314 MOD that was made by BrickBrosUK and posted on Brickset here. The name Shadow Runner is a play on the Light-based vehicles from TRON. Blacktron minifigs 1x commander 4x officers 19x troopers 1x robot (E.D.G.A.R.) (Thanks to my brother for giving me ~10 of his unwanted Blacktron torsos from the old GWP that were purchased from Pick-A-Brick back in 2023.) Blacktron robot "E.D.G.A.R." This model is recolored and modified from the E.R.I.C. robot from set 76831 - Zurg Battle - from the Pixar film Lightyear. I call this one E.D.G.A.R. which stands for: Electronic Data Gathering / Assimilating Robot Blacktron space base "Outpost 13" This sandwich-looking model was built from an 2002 Alpha Team set 4795 (Ogel Underwater base and AT sub) but heavily modified to fit into the Blacktron I theme. I had to fill in the spots where the flexible plastic "window' pieces were, replace the skull logo with the upside-down Tri-Force logo of Blacktron I, find ways to make the model almost totally "air tight", and add on a radar dish instead of a harpoon gun. I also made the building a lot deeper - about eight studs. The rear of the model. I took out the fancy spinning wall of the original set and replaced it with a bank of windows. The radar installation and it's tower are my own design. As on the original set, the logo folds down, where it can be used as a ramp. Also as on the original set, the MOD folds open to access the inside details. Special shout out to Jon Mo who designed the brick built Blacktron logo I used on my model (thanks also goes to EliteGuard01 for finding that logo design and recommending it to me). The inside was very hard to figure out, as most space furniture is for me. I decided on six computer stations and a desk for the commander. Another source of trouble was to make the building open cleanly and close without holes. The original set struggled with this, and it failed miserably - however I feel I managed to fix that issue. Inside of the rear with the commander's desk front and center. Blacktron hover tank "Havok" I modified 25 year old Star Wars set 7155 (Trade Federation AAT) into Blacktron I colors. Before that, the original set was very much a mess of too many colors, but now these two look elegant and refined in my opinion. Here is the rear of one of the tanks with turret rotated. The hatch is opened with control details visible and barrel elevated. Thoughts? Snub fighter added 1/21/26
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This is a MOC of the last Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad (also called the 'Katy') steam locomotive left in existence. The real 4-4-0 numbered 311 was built in 1890 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, and was heavily rebuilt in 1923. Among the upgrades at that time were: new steam chest with piston valves, new steel cab, and a new tender with an oil tank. (Basically only the 1890s frame survived!) In 1945, it was dressed up to look like an old Western engine as it pulled a four-car demonstration train called the 'Katy Flyer' in celebration of them "Winning the West" in 1870 by being the first railroad into what was then called Indian Territory, which is now the state of Oklahoma. The train toured the Katy system, and was later delivered under her own power in late 1952 to the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. It was later partially disassembled in the 1980s in a still-born effort to return the engine to operation on Museum property (after which a bunch of parts went missing), though they are trying to restore the loco cosmetically at this time. The MOC version is inspired by 2010 set 7597 (Western Train Chase), but was so heavily modified that basically nothing remains of the original set except the wheel arches over the driving wheels. The rear of the locomotive. I couldn't figure out how to do the shield logo on the tender, so I just let it off. The restoration of the real engine looks mostly complete. Thoughts? EDIT 5/23/26: Pictures updated to reflect the updated paint scheme of the real world engine and MOC.
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This late 1930s house started life being inspired by the look of set 43217, 'UP' house, although very little remains of it. In this version, I mirrored the general roof / wall arrangement, added my own bay window, revised the color scheme, and made the building a bit bigger. In addition, the chimney was moved to an exterior wall, I put in a breakfast nook, the front porch was shrunk, and the roof enlarged to match the bigger the new footprint. The building flips open 90 degrees and locks shut on a Technic pin, although it is a tiny bit difficult to get open again as there are very little places to grip to open it! The black car in front of the building is inspired by the rather rare real-world early 1940's Lincoln Zephyr automobile. The doors open, and the roof is also removable to put three minifigures inside - two up front, one in back. The front of the house without the car and owner. The rear of the house. Inside the front of the house. The inside of the rear of the house. Furniture for this MOC was inspired by the following sets: - UP House (set 43217) - Lilo and Stitch beach house (set 43268) - Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown (set 76108) - Pet Shop (set 10218) - Emmet's Dream House (set 70831) In addition, the grandfather clock was designed by my brother. Closeup of the car by itself. Most of this vehicle was made several months ago in early March (quite a bit before the yellow version I posted earlier was made), but I finally got the last part recently so I could take pictures. Since the vehicle was sitting for a while it was a bit dusty, which I did my best to remove as much of that stuff as I could before taking pictures. But as any person who's made an all-black model will tell you - it's nearly impossible to get it all off! The rear of the car. The doors do open, but I forgot to show that feature. With the roof removed, you can see inside the car. Two minifigs can be placed up front, while a third can go in the backseat. Thoughts?
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Late last year I bought LEGO Harry Potter set 76452 - Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream Parlor. I decided to turn the larger model into an antique store, complete with a new back half to the building and by tweaking the color scheme a bit in places. (like dark red becoming regular red) That antique shop version ended up not working out due to lack of space inside, so it became a haberdashery (that's a fancy word for hat shop) instead as it required less floorspace in the building for the items for sale. I recently got the model finished in the real world which you see above with the minifigure shopkeeper out in front of his store. The rear of the building. Here's view of the inside of the shop, with all kinds of hats for sale on display. As you can see, the shop folds open for getting at the interior details. This is the first of (at least) three models I made / am making based on Diagon Alley shop sets. The others currently in the process of parts-finding are a tailor made from Madam Malkin's robe shop in set 76439, and a LEGO store made from Weasley Wizard Wheezes in set 76422. (I'm still debating what to make with the brand-new Borgin & Burkes shop in set 76471, but I will probably think of something cool to do with it!) As it stands right now, the tailor is probably going to be the next building built, so keep your eyes open for its own topic when that happens! Thoughts?
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This late-1860's wood burning-style 4-4-0 steam locomotive model is modeled after the engine in LEGO set 7597 (Western Train Chase) from the Toy Story 3 line. I made the tender based on ideas in my head, and added working pistons and a swiveling front bogie truck to the engine. The four green coaches are also styled after the one in 7597 (Western Train Chase) but with cues from My Own Train set 10015 (Passenger Wagon) in several places. The whole train rounding a curve. The front of the engine. The rear of the loco. The four brand-new passenger cars are all identical except for the last one (the car closest to the camera) as it carries the train's rear marker lights. NOTE: Unlike the original sets this is based on, the cars have no interior details and the roof sections are not designed to be removable.
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During the second World War, the US Government controlled the railway locomotive builders, one of which was Lima Locomotive Works. The Southern Pacific railroad submitted a order to this builder for 16 new 4-8-4 steam engines, (known to the railroad as 'Daylights') which was turned down due to them being passenger-only engines. Southern Pacific reworked the blueprints to have little streamlining, and not feature the Daylight's color scheme of orange, red and black. These new dual-mode engines were painted in silver and black, and were also smaller. Lima finally built the order in 1943, but with one condition: Six engines would be taken from the order and given to the power-starved Western Pacific Railroad. Because of their smaller size and the fact they were built during WWII gave these engine the names 'Baby Daylights' and 'War Babies'. Officially, the Southern Pacific engines were called GS-6 and numbered 4460 - 4469. (GS meaning General Service or Golden State, and 6 because they were the sixth batch of engines.) Only one of the GS-6 type survives: 4460, often referred to as the Forgotten Daylight when compared to it's famous surviving GS-4 cousin 4449. This last GS-6 pulled the final steam-hauled SP train in October 1958, before being donated to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, where it resides today. You can read more about the engine on it's Wikipedia page. This LEGO steam loco model is the third iteration of this Southern Pacific engine that I've made. It was originally built over a decade ago in eight wide, then was slimmed down a year later in 2016 to 6 wide, and now has been completely torn down and revised to 7 studs wide in 2026, retaining only a scant few ideas from the original MOC. These includes the letters / numbers, streamlined nosecone, and a few other small things - the rest is totally new. As a side note: this engine's original version was the second loco I made from the museum's collection of artifacts, only beaten by the GM Aerotrain MOC from 2014 - nowadays I've got over 30 vehicles made from this location, and I'm starting to run out of things to build that I feel are worthy of inclusion or under-represented in LEGO. The rear of the engine. The ladder to the tender deck should be on the left and right sides, not the rear as has been constructed. I didn't realize this until it was too late in the design process. (Oh well!) Baggage / coach. (NOTE: This car and the rest of the train that follows below are not based on any specific Daylight passenger cars. I just built what looked good with the loco. Also, these 6-stud wide passenger cars are based off ones from when the engine was in revenue service - they are not from the Museum of Transportation!) Two (identical) passenger cars. The dome car. And finally, the observation car. EDIT: Just for comparison purposes, here is the real-world steam loco, as seen back in 2015. Thoughts?
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This steel frame locomotive shed is based off a digital MOC I made twelve years ago in March 2014, which was itself based on a technique I saw on a MOC by Eurobricks user @lightningtiger who made a smaller shed circa 2010 or so. The colors / look of my LEGO version is based off the two engine sheds at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri. While the real Roberts shed at the Museum has eight (maybe more?) tracks with a fancy clock tower in the middle of the roof, the Abbott building has just three tracks and is more plain-looking. Thus, my LEGO version is an amalgamation of both sheds. (sadly, I don't have comparison photos of the real sheds vs. the LEGO model, as they are just too massive to even attempt to get a proper picture of.) Side view. Yes, the (rather bright) red roof is prototypical for the Roberts shed. Looking down the length of the building. The two stall shed is just a hair over four tracks long, meaning all my currently-built engines fit under the canopy length-wise except for my 2-10-4, which is just a few studs too long. Sadly, there are also a scant few steam locos that are too wide to clear the roof support pillars... the BTTF time train is one that comes to mind here, although there might be more that I've forgotten. Here is my temporary current layout that features the train shed and my mountain tunnel in a arrangement somewhat resembling a tiny portion of my local train museum. This WIP version features almost all the trackage I have room for at this point... in fact, the rails end just out of frame to the right! Thoughts?
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This is the second one of these houses I've built based on this design, but this one is different in a lot of ways. I was originally inspired by pictures of LEGO Wednesday set 'Morticia's Cottage' (76786) to make my first version back in August 2025. I added a few things to this new version such as stairs and a conservatory that the original was lacking, along with majorly revising the color scheme and inside details. The house and car with the owner. The front of the house. The rear of the house features a back door and conservatory. The house opens up like a dollhouse in two sections to get at the interior, then locks shut using Technic pins when closed up again. In the right section is the following rooms: downstairs: living room upstairs: bedroom In the middle section is the following rooms: downstairs: entryway with staircase upstairs: staircase landing and hallway In the left section is the following rooms: downstairs: dining room and conservatory upstairs: music room (yes the table is wonky, I just noticed that... sorry!) I like the late-1930s car from 2015 San Diego Comic Con set 'Action Comics 1 - Superman', but don't particularly like the colors - or the insane price! So I used the instructions and built my own version in dark bluish gray. The car has a number of changes from the set, but it still seats one figure at the wheel. The rear of the car. Inside the car, featuring the drivers seat. ...That's all I got for this MOC. Thoughts appreciated!
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This MOC is finally finished after almost two years of revisions! Here is both my completed MILS segments for a planned collaborative display from a bunch of Gateway LUG members, which is being spearheaded by @SerperiorBricks. Both of my 32 x 64 stud modules have a pine tree forest, with one segment containing a modular railway switch tower overlooking two main line train tracks (I will be using the Gateway LUG's track segments there so these tracks are not shown), and the other has a rural house with a driveway. There is a 1940s car, a fountain, Marvin the Martian's spaceship (which is dropping off a robot duplicate to infiltrate Earth society), and Bill Cipher is also there in his stone form from the Gravity Falls TV show. This front side is the portion where dual track main line will be. These two unseen segments will not be owned / built by me. This side has the retention basin for rainwater along with the hovering Martian UFO. The rear side of the MILS plates isn't the prettiest view. For easier transport, the two left / right sections are not joined together except by pins - only the front / back segments are permanently conjoined, as shown above. Thoughts?
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I have a friend from my job who drives a black VW Beetle and knows I build LEGO models. She asked if I could build a model of her car for her or her to own, and I said yes. I then took my digital Herbie model I recreated from a Rebrickable MOC's video instructions and recolored it into an almost entirely black scheme. You can see the original Rebrickable MOC that I modified here. The vehicle can seat 1 figure at the wheel. The rear of the car. Thoughts?
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This rail vehicles is a type of railcar called a Galloping Goose, and is slightly inspired by seven real vehicles built and used by the cash-strapped Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railway back in the early 1930s. This tiny railroad couldn't afford to run a single steamer in the worst part of the Great Depression, so they made the Geese to deliver the mail, supplies, and people to the silver mines / camps around Durango and Ridgway, Colorado. In fact, the lucrative mail contract is what kept them afloat - when that went away in the early 1950s , the railroad was torn up. Six Geese still exist in original form, with one being a reconstructed replica. These machines are really something Doctor Frankenstein would love - a bus body or boxcar welded to a road vehicle (usually a Pierce Arrow limousine) for the front end, with train wheels added underneath. This is my third interpretation of this type of passenger doodlebug, which is numbered eight in my rail fleet, and was never owned by Rio Grande Southern. (The seven real-world ones originally had boxcars on the back for freight service as well as having seats for passengers up near the driver.) The rear of the rather odd-looking vehicle. As a play feature, you can open the doors to the drivers compartment and place a driver at the wheel. The back half of the vehicle is not meant to be accessible. My version of the Goose is slightly inspired by the front half of the second one made. As you can see in this 1940 picture, the railcars were referred to as Motors by the Rio Grande Southern. This was true up until close to the end of the first careers, about ten years after this photo was taken - though the public has seemingly always called them Galloping Geese. You can read more about these fascinating railcars here on Wikipedia. Thoughts?