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Vendors
- LEGO® Pick a Brick
- This service has been expended in the past several years, and offers a wide selection of parts. Selection is limited to currently produced parts, with new parts listed monthly. Non-Bestseller orders are shipped from Europe and may take some time to arrive.
- Bricklink
- Originally *THE* fan community-created marketplace for reselling new and used parts, Bricklink is now run by the LEGO Group. This is still the main source where we buy LEGO bricks for our projects.
- BrickTracks
- BrickTracks offers wider radius curve tracks and switches, as well as train wheels and ball bearing wheelsets.
- Brick Train Depot
- BTD offers a variety of 3D-printed wheels and track components, as well as decals. They also sell instructions from several fan builders, including TBRR member Tony Sava.
- LifeLites
- Lifelites offers a variety of train-related accessories including magnet couplets and 3D-printed parts. They also sell Soundtraxx Blunami cards and compatible speakers and lighting.
- OKBrickWorks
- OKBrickWorks offers decals and fabrics, UV-printed bricks, and 3D-printed tracks.
- Bricky Prints
- Bricky Prints offers decals and UV brick printing with an extensive line of train decals.
- Brick Model Railroader
- BMR offers a variety of instructions for American rolling stock, decals, and wheel sets. They also sell LEGO-compatible Kadee® couplers.
- TrixBrix
- This Polish company offers a wide array of 3D-printed and injection molded track, including narrow gauge and monorail systems, and various other train-related structures and accessories.
- FxBricks
- This Canadian company offers a line of injection-molded metal rail tracks, and the PFx Brick, a multifunction light and sound solution.
- Bricks on Wheels
- This German company offers a variety of instructions, as well as 3D-printed wheels and steam engine rods.
- Breckland Bricks
- This British company offers a variety of 3D-printed wheels and steam engine rods.
- HABricks
- This Dutch company offers magnet couplers, wheels, and 3D-printed steam engine rods.
Ideas and Instructions
- L-Gauge Modular System
- LGMS is a modular layout standard, inspired by systems like N-Trak and Free-mo, developed to facilitate the creation of large, collaborative LEGO train layouts. LGMS layouts are hosted at various train shows and LEGO fan conventions around the United States.
- RAILBRICKS
- Railbricks was a fan-created LEGO train magazine produced from 2008 to 2014. Archived issues are now hosted by Brick Model Railroader.
- Open L-Gauge
- Philo’s Home Page
- This website contains extensive technical data on LEGO motors.
CAD and Coding
- Bricklink Studio
- Studio is the officially-supported digital LEGO-building platform that allows you to build and render virtual LEGO models and scenes. Studio uses a separate Studio PartsDesigner to create custom decorated or unofficial parts.
- LDraw.org
- LDraw is an community-created and maintained, open-source standard for LEGO CAD programs. It powers various community-created digital building programs such as MLCad, LEOCad, and LPub3D.
- BlueBrick
- BlueBrick is a community-created program with an easily customizable/expandable parts library that can be used to plan LEGO train layouts.
- Pybricks
- Pybricks is a free Python-based open-source LEGO robotics system that can be used with some recent LEGO electronic systems including the Powered Up City Hub that comes with current LEGO City train sets. There is an optional for-purchase block coding interface.
