Category Archives: Instructions

6 Car Airport Shuttle

So what does a 6 car Airport Shuttle look like?  It looks like this!

This picture was taken last Sunday at the NCLUG meeting at the Cameron Village library.   The spirals were a quick hack job to demonstrate what we had done previously at NCLTC train shows.� All of the monorail track in the picture belongs [...]

LEGO Idea Books

I dug out my collection of Idea Books this morning, I am going to take them to the NCLUG meeting later today.  Idea books are a wonderful thing, it is really too bad LEGO doesn’t produce them any more.  I had forgotten how many of them I had – I have the following:
 
I also have [...]

Powering the 10173 Holiday Train

The question on how to add a motor to the 10173 Holiday Train has come up through the ILTCO Feedback link a couple times this holiday season.  LEGO sells a kit which combines the 9v motor and the 10173 Holiday Train but the included instructions don’t show how or where to add the motor.  I [...]

LHT Models

Flying to and from Europe last week I killed some time on the plane capturing a several models based on the LEGO Hobby Train palette. Two of these were models I had done during the original UTB project, the other two are new. I plan to upload all four to the LEGOFactory.com site [...]

Reaction to the 10183 LEGO Hobby Train

It has now been a couple of days since the Brick Journal image of the 10183 LEGO Hobby Train was released. ILTCO has posted a bunch of images of it too. Reaction has been all over the map. Some people really like while others are unimpressed. The biggest complaint seems to [...]