N-Scale Lego Train

I found this one day on BrickShelf and thought it was totally cool - it's a Lego train set in N-scale. Obviously some hacking of bricks took place to get the engine working. Uses real n-scale track but the houses etc are all Lego.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=115907 

Take a look!

I also thought this n-scale bridge made from Lego was rather clever.

 

Beecroft Model Railway Show

This year, the show was very quiet with a well stocked second hand stall (see myearlier post!). I had never seen any of these layouts before and some of them were partuiclarly impressive - especially the scratch built O-scale model of New England - it was spectacular.

Marklin HO layout:

O-scale Narrow Gauge New England layout.

This amazing layout took the build team months of dedicated work based on actual field research in New England. Models were mostly scratch built and the layout is painstakingly put together. The water, in particular, was amazingly realistic. Most models were built from card and balsa.

My new Steam Engine

Just went to the Beecroft show and got a new engine - yeah! Fleishmann n-scale steam engine. It's a beast.

Videos in HD on youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/themendes

Runs perfectly and about half the price of the same one on eBay.