Transit
Trams, Light Rail & Streetcars
Amsterdam "Blue" Tram
Berlinka Type K Tram / Streetcar
Hitachi Tram / LRV
PESA 120a Tram
Busses
Manshi City Articulated Bus
"West Coast" Bus
Metro & Subway Equipment
New York City Subway Cars 1 and 2
New York City R160 Subway Car
New York City Subway Cars 3
Bridges, Signals, and Other Train Accessories and Buildings
Bridges
Buffers
Control Tower
Crossing Gates
Engine Sheds
Pedestrian Overpass
Signals
Tunnels
Roundhouse and Turntables
Viaducts
Other Interesting Items
Blast Furnace
Ferry Boat
Great Ball Contraption
Assembly Reviews
Blast Furnace
Todd's Wishlist
the Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica's Centurion Fighter
Battlestar Galactica's Colonial Viper
Firefly's Serenity Starfighter
Coal Mine
Double Screen Washplant Shaker Deck
the Last Starfighter Starship
Tunnel Boring Machine
C17 Cargo Aircraft
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Transit
Metro / Subway / Trams / Trolleys / Streetcars / Light Rail / Busses
"Blue" Tram -- Amsterdam
Looking at the picture of the prototype, I think you would be better off buying two lead cars and modifying the second one to look like the trailing car....
Belinka Type K Tram / Streetcar -- Warsaw Poland
Only thing to be careful with on this one is the fact they use the word "mini" in the title, so this may not be a full size model.
Hitachi Tram / LRV -- Turin Italy
Manshi City Articulated Bus
Well, I'm a train AND transit fan, so I HAD to include this articulated bus in here.... expensive tho, even without the motors! :-)
West Coast Bus
New York City Subway Cars 1 - USA
Criticism - I grew up in New York, these don't look like any subway cars I've ever seen. All NYC subway cars have three pairs of doors on each side, and the sides are smooth. Older cars have a narrow center door on each end, with a small window to the left for the operator. These models are 8 wide, and the 2 car kit comes with 1019 pieces. The station by itself has 2458 pieces, the cars and station has 3569 pieces, and the subway cars with a pantograph contains 1631 pieces. These are listed together, because they are all from the same "ad" which gives you four options.
New York City R160 Subway Cars
This model of the R160 looks to be only 5 wide, and as such, lacks A LOT of detail. The wheel spacing probably will not fit on a regular Lego track. And those round tiles on the side are way out of proportion. The listing also does not state if the 1882 piece kit will build the four cars pictured..... I would pass on this model, not very well executed.
New York City Subway Cars 3 - USA
This kit offers the builder a 10 wide version of a more modern New York City Subway Car, pretty well detailed except for the pantograph on the roof - not even the commuter cars on Metro North or the LIRR use them. At least they made an effort to have doors that open. And you gotta love the "ECTO-1" license plate as a destination sign.... we all know what model that came from, right? :-) :-)
PESA 120a Tram - Warsaw Poland
Bridges
Buffers
Control Tower
Very well detailed model with 2229 pieces and a well detailed interior.
Crossing Gates
Engine House / Locomotive Sheds
An assortment of buildings to store your engines in!
Pedestrian Overpass
Roundhouses and Turntables
A seven (7) stall roundhouse, 3927 pieces. At $300, it may be a better deal than the 3-stall one below - more stalls, more detail on the roof, but the stalls appear to be shorter.
Available separately. Would make a nice addition to any L-Gauge layout. The turntable includes a motor, but the listing doesn't say anything about a controller. Two different listings are shown here, one is considerably more expensive than the other.... shop wisely! :-)
Signals
The first signal pictured is a fairly common build found in many train sets, such as Jie Star 59007, which is a "gold" crocodile engine that includes this signal.
Tunnels
Viaducts
Train Building Parts
This supplier supplies just about everything you need to start your build of locomotives and freight and passenger cars: wheel sets, motor bricks, controllers, receivers, chassis', couplers, side frames, buffers, and swivel plates. Only problem I saw was that the controllers look like they use IR tech, and are probably one speed controllers.
Blast Furnace
Very well detailed model with 2902 pieces. Contains three railroad sidings, and a gantry crane. Looks like it might even include two cars, including a "bottle" car. The pictures in the listing are confusing, because the black background picture shows a completely different (smaller) version???? So which one do you get? I also found a second listing featuring this model at a much higher price! :-(
So, update/review: I ordered the $153 dollar version, and did not get what is featured in the first picture below, instead, I received the more simple version. The PDF's, of which there are two, are both around 350 pages each! One reason for this, is that the writers limited each step to (say) adding 3 parts instead of a whole row of them. Another thing they do, for the railings, is divide the railing into three sections of 8, 8, and 14 studs in length - I just just cut one piece 30 studs long, making the end result look better.
Step 68 specifies 4 short pins, but the associated drawing does not show you where to put them.... they go in the trusses to strengthen the joints.
In step 288, they should call out a standard 2x2 plate, so that when the two sub-assemblies go to mate, the two pieces/sections of the walkway sturdily connects.
In step 813, as you are assembling the smokestack, they ask you to but the partially completed assembly on the lower smokestack section. It doesn't mate properly. I had to use a 2x2 round tile with a center stud to have something for it to grab, and it was not flush. I'm sure there is another way to get them to mate properly, but I didn't spend anytime trying to figure it out. Sorry, glue fixed the problem for me. :-) I also waited till the entire top section was done before putting it on the lower section.
I step 845, you're asked to build a pipe out of
Another thing they didn't do is use "X2" when making sub-assemblies of the same thing, so that adds about 5 extra steps for many parts.
Also, when I received the two bubble wrap packages in the mailbox, they were both sliced open, allowing parts to fall out. I complained about this in the feedback, and hope they will honor to replace the missing parts, which so far, I have had replacements for all but one -- update: I made up a 6 page list of missing parts, including suggested changes and problems with the assembly, sent to their snail mail address on the package, we'll see what happens.
The smoke stack does not use round pieces, instead, they use a convoluted method to create it, and left one piece out, which even follows thru in the instructions
And I know it is wrong, but one sub-assembly had to have just about every part glued - the multi-Y exhaust pipe at the top (red arrows). Assembly of it was ok, but when you needed to put it on the rest of the model, and then put the very top deck on (green arrow), it attaches to the vent piping, and is very delicate, and aggravating to assemble.... gluing took care of that for the most part.
AND, the track they supplied: OMG, where the hell did they get them from? It is awful, and not even a bad copy of the Lego track sections: the ties are further apart and NOT on standard stud spacing, so it won't fit to the baseplate!!!
I kind of wish I had ordered the more expensive version, cause it "looks" better, but I can no longer find it anywhere on the Ali website... guess I missed my window of opportunity, which goes back to me saying at the top of the page: If you see something you like, grab it while it is there, cause the next time you go looking, it may be gone!!!
Packages as received :-(
Ferry Boat with Tracks
The listing states this is a custom ordered MOC, doesn't mention the number of pieces, but maybe the "color" number proves that, at 3521 pieces? This would be a really nice addition for any city setting with a harbor. No mini-figs, no manual-you will have to print the manual yourself with an included link after purchase.
Great Ball Contraption
This is a silly little machine, that loads balls into a hopper car in one machine, the larger of the three, and unloads them in another, via a switchback mechanism. Looks like it can be set up in several different configurations. 4569 pieces.
Roller Coaster
Todd's Wishlist
If I had unlimited funds.......
Battlestar Galactica
Centurion Fighter Spaceship from Battlestar Galactica
Colonial Viper Fighter from Battlestar Galactica
Serenity Spaceship from Firefly
Coal Mine
Washplant Double Screen Shaker Deck
the Last Starfighter Spaceship
Tunnel Boring Machine
Mammoet PTC-200-DS Ring Crane
https://www.heavyliftnews.com/mammoets-ptc-200-ds-on-the-largest-floating-owf-video/
This is a real crane! See pix below.
C17 Cargo Aircraft
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