Tag Archives: train layout

AFOL A Blocumentary

While I dislike (despise?) the term AFOL, this video (direct link here) is very well done and worth 25-30 minutes of your time to watch.

AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo.
What is it about the term AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) that I don’t like? It is hard to put it into words but it [...]

Layout Planning with BlueBrick

I have been using TrackDraw for layout planning for years. My friend and former NCLTC member Cary Clark wrote TrackDraw and I authored many of the parts in the TrackDraw library so I had a vested interest in using it.  Compared to TrackDesigner, TrackDraw was a huge improvement particularly if you were planning a [...]

LEGOPalooza was Crazy Busy

My scheduled worked out and I was able to be at Morehead when the doors opened yesterday and the flood of people was overwhelming.  It was packed, so packed it was difficult to move around.
The train layout looks great, we had a bit of trouble getting the outer loop to run (it is really long) [...]

Final Layout Plan for LEGOPalooza

My area of the layout got tweaked a bit today as we finalize the layout plan.  In general the layout is a bit cleaner and it is by far the largest layout NCLTC has ever done.  I have a few things to figure out but for the most part, I think I am in pretty [...]