Train Tsar Fun

I love the Santa Fe Train sets that LEGO made. Wish they would do something like this again with the possiblilty of getting individual cars and locomotives instead of sets only. Here in this video is another look at my old city under construction. New and better layout coming to TrainTsarFun and BrickTsar.

I will be doing more LEGO train videos. My goal is to get all the 12v sets (trains and locomotives – but not accessories). I love this era of trains.

The 12v track has a center rail that has 2 conductors to deliver the DC power to the motor pickups. It was designed so that 4.5v track could be used or upgraded to work with 12v. Of course, you still could not do reversing loops without having a short circuit (unless you modified it yourself).

So stayed tuned to see more updates of my LEGO train layout – the CA & ABS Railroad. I may change the name, but right now I like it. It has a double meaning. 1) CA and ABS are the 2 main plastics that were used by LEGO. 2) The letters represent cities or regions of sons of my favorite YouTubers. It’s the Columbia and Atlanta & Atlanta, Bayou, and Smithton. Those are actually 2 different Atlanta cities!

When I began taking YouTube seriously, I found like many others, it’s hard to get noticed and grow at first. I tried many different things. However, usually what I tried was already done. I noticed that most of the LEGO related channels stayed completely away from DUPLO. So I posted a few DUPLO train videos. This quickly became my most popular videos. My top ten from the last 2 years always included 8 or 9 DUPLO videos.

Sadly, others started to figure it out. Now that some of the more popular Russian and European channels have posted stuff, my views have suffered. It’s interesting that some posted videos a full 2 years after me, but now those videos are up in the search and mine are down. I’m going to be remaking mine and see if turnabout is FairPlay – lol

This is my old table and setup for my LEGO trains and city. This is about to get s major reorganization. I have my new area painted and set up. All that is left to do is paint the table and after the paint dries enough we can begin setting things up again. I also need to at some point change the fluorescent lighting to LED lighting, but that can wait for now. With my new set up the backgrounds and lighting should be much better!

Here is one of my early videos filming with a GoPro Hero 3+

I didn’t know about all the features and options on the camera at that time. I need to redo the video of this Lionel Thomas & Friends set – James the Red Engine. I love these trains. Will be featuring more Lionel trains in coming months. I will be remaking my review and play of this set.

Here are some scenes from the LEGO display that was at the 2013 NMRA Train Show. Most of the participants here are in the LUG I have recently joined (DixieLUG). I plan to be more active with the LUG and create my in MOCs to take to these shows in the future.

Percy makes a daring decision to jump track and get out of the traffic jam.

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