Cale Leiphart

  • Cale Leiphart wrote a new post 10 months ago

    Brickworld Chicago 2023 Charity Auction Train Brickworld is soon upon us and I’v been working on a little project for the charity auction this year to settle a promise I made in 2019. And […]

  • BMR’s model of the St Louis Refrigerator Car Co. 36ft Beer Car is commemorating the L-Gauge Modular Standard LEGO® train layout that will be on display at the NMRA 2022 National Train Show Premium Instructions. […]

  • Spoiler alert, this is a review of a non LEGO® product.

    Today we’re reviewing baseplates produced by Brickyard Building Blocks. These are what many might consider a clone brand, but their baseplates are a […]

  • It’s hard to believe, but Brick Model Railroader is 5 Years old this year. Launched on December 30th, 2016 as a LEGO train news and informations website, BMR has grown to include a YouTube channel, a line of […]

  • On February 5th and 6th, 2022 several LEGO® train builders gathered in Timonium, Maryland for the Great Scale Model Train Show to put together and display a L-Gauge Modular Standard (LGMS) train layout. The […]

  • We’re back with the final installment of our look at the cars from the Secret Santa Rail Car Exchange I participated with in 2020. If you are just joining us, take a look at part one, two, and three of this s […]

  • We’re back with part of our look at the cars from the Secret Santa Rail Car Exchange I participated with in 2020. If you are just joining us, take a look at part one and two of this series to catch up on the w […]

  • We’re back to look at a few more of the cars from the Secret Santa Rail Car Exchange I participated with in 2020. If you are just joining us, take a look at part one of this series to catch up on the what, how, […]

  • Last year I was invited to join a group of friends from the LEGO train community in a Secret Santa Gift Exchange. If you’ve never participated in one, a Secret Santa is a Christmas tradition in which members of […]

  • Hello everyone. It’s that Holiday time of year again. The air is turning colder, strings of lights are going up, and Christmas music is playing somewhere in the distance. Trains and the Holidays were made for e […]

  • Submissions for OcTRAINber 2021 are now closed. Thank you to all who have built a model, there has been some amazing work shared.

    In the next few days we will be compiling all the entries and setting up for […]

  • Hello train builders. October is here and you may have noticed that we’ve been a bit quiet on our annual OcTRAINber build challenge event this year. Life as, it sometime does, has kept us busy with things other […]

  • Hello everyone. The world has spent the last year in lockdowns and isolation while we’ve been fighting a global pandemic. All our favorite LEGO® Fan Events have either been postponed or moved online. And while […]

  • Yes. Instructions are included to power the locomotives. They use 2 Power Functions L-Motors, 1 PF Extension Wire, 1 PF I.R. Receiver, and 1 PF Battery Box.

  • Model Design by Chris Stone

    It’s been a long time coming, but the day is finally here. Today we are releasing our Premium Instructions for the EMD SD40-2 Diesel Locomotive. Available now in the Brick Model […]

  • Yes, we will be offering four different road names at first. Norfolk Southern, CONRAIL, BNSF, and Burlington Northern, each will have two different paint schemes available. We hope to release other road names in the future.

  • Cale Leiphart wrote a new post 3 years ago

    It’s finally time to reveal the winners of the 2021 Brick Train Awards. Today we’ll be taking a look at the Americas winners, but before that, to see all the winners from around the globe, head over to the BTA […]

  • Hello readers. Today we have two quick little items on some current contests going on in the LEGO® train community.

    Brick Train Awards

    If you haven’t been following, the Brick Train Awards is back for […]

  • Article by Sal Ciofani

    I have been using Kadee O-Scale knuckle couplers for almost ten years.  Because they are designed for traditional model trains, in order to connect them to LEGO trains, I had to l […]

  • Happy New Year to our followers and supporters. The Brick Model Railroader team hopes you had a wonderful holiday season.

    Today we celebrate our fourth birthday. 2020 was filled with many new experiences, […]

    • Am I understanding correctly that the SD 40-2 instructions will be per road name?

      • Yes, we will be offering four different road names at first. Norfolk Southern, CONRAIL, BNSF, and Burlington Northern, each will have two different paint schemes available. We hope to release other road names in the future.

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