Steve Jackson Shows Off the Texas Brick Railroad (Video)

Imagine game designer Steve Jackson and a bunch of friends building Lego trains and tracks and scenery, including buildings and other props. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? The group calls itself the Texas Brick Railroad. A lot of members have children, so their meetings tend to be family affairs. Plus, as they're doing here, they often display their train sets at public events where -- yes -- their trains attract children like crazy. This video shows off both current Lego trains and some of the classic, no-longer-sold Lego trains that members have collected over the years, including the highly-prized monorails. There's a transcript, but face it: This is basically visual material, and worth checking out on a computer or handheld that runs Flash if your normal one doesn't. (We've requested an upgrade from Flash-only video, but don't hold your breath. It might be a good while before we get it.)

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Meeting Steve Jackson

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to meet the man in person, he'll be at DEXCON in Morristown, NJ from July 3-7. dexposure.com

Hard-to-find Monorail? 3-D printing to the rescue!

[west]

I have to say, at least for the mono-rail track, 3-D printing seems the clear way to avoid prowling E-Bay for hard to find and expensive pieces.

I wonder if owners would consent to have their pieces scanned to produce a blue-print.

(Of course, then we'd see whether Lego wants to dare the bad publicity of preventing a trade in replica pieces that Lego no longer sells.)

Re:ho scale lay outs are cool and DCC tech does a

[TechyImmigrant]

Details of how to do it here: http://www.lgauge.com/trains/dcc/dcc.htm