Cale, I couldn’t agree more. I don’t recall seeing your original post, but it’s as relevant today as it was then. Really well written, too. Give it time and this blog play a big part in dragging the world “kicking […]

I love my little label maker! You can see some early results here:

This is a lovely carriage, but I’m excited about the stickers. The resolution is not great, but it’s good enough to outweigh the hassle of trying to match colours, which is what I currently have do do with paper […]

I’m interested in how you came up with 2.5 studs as the train wheel diameter. From memory (I don’t have a wheel handy to measure right now) I thought the tread diameter was a little greater than 2 studs, and the […]

Coincidentally, I put in an order for 100 of the bearings a few days ago. Can’t wait to try them out. Any tips for inserting them into the Technic hole?

If you build the Clishay 8-wide, what scale will that make it?

I really want to try the medium train wheels but the shipping cost of $20 to Aus (the same as the cost of 4 wheels) is hard to justify 🙁 Might see if I can talk some friends into a group order.

Great post Cale. It’s not surprising the PennLUG layout is one of the best in the world given the club’s commitment to quality and your level of organisation/forward planning.

I use a partially transparent checkerboard in Powerpoint to help with scaling. You can see an example here:

A tool like this means you don’t have to recalculate every stud dimension. You do the calculation once […]

8 studs to 10 feet is approximately 1:47. This is close to USA O Scale (or O gauge), which is 1:48. In the Victorian Railways L Gauge Modellers (Melbourne, Australia), we build in European O scale, which is 1:45. […]

Great idea guys – your motivation is spot-on, and you have a great team. This might just be the next big thing for the LEGO train community. I certainly hope so. Good luck!