I thought I’d take the time to show you my other passion that involves trains, LEGO. Who doesn’t love this toy brand. It a great toy for young kids that stimulates imagination, problem solving and helps eye and hand co-ordination. I’ve been collecting LEGO bricks for about 17 years now and have amassed a large collection which I store mostly in a large bucket and shelf system. It only makes sense that I combine my two favorite hobbies into one and make my own trains. The nice thing about LEGO is if you don’t like the way your creation is turning out, just take it apart and try again.
I have bought many official LEGO train sets and have a lot of track to run these but most of the time I leave the motors off my trains mainly because the motors detract from the appearance and aren’t prototypical to whatever I’m building. so these trains are primarily for display. Here’s my latest model I built based on the locomotives that H.K. Porter company built.
as well as some earlier ones from a few years ago.
Star Wars is my second favorite thing to model in LEGO. This took me about 4 weeks to finish.
More of these models can be seen on my flickr gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46711946@N07/
