LEGO® Bricks and Lionel® Trains, Part 2, LEGO® Bricks Meets Lionelville®

e*Train Issue: Apr 2020 | Posted in: Operating & Layouts

By John S. Halajko, TCA 84-20653, and Jay Stuhl, TCA 70 3009 Spring 2020

One of the best combinations of LEGO® Bricks meeting Lionelville® is in Jay’s basement. He finally cleared out enough stuff to set up a LEGO® City with his collection of Lionel accessories as you can see in the photos which follow.

Not too much traffic right now, but just wait until rush hour!

Jay’s years of collecting produced this neat scene. Lots of different buildings have been offered by the LEGO Group over the years.

LEGO buildings are the prefect size for O-Gauge Trains.

This LEGO Series comes with detailed interiors.

This cook is hard at work in the kitchen.

The corner gas station serves all who come over. Once assembled you can’t see the interiors. They do come apart for interior viewing. Maybe someone will devise a way to get a miniature camera in to view the interiors. Alas, you need a way to get the camera inside the room, which was not in the original planning.

HO gauge was the first series of Lego buildings.

The LEGO Group started their city building series off in about HO size and then decided to make it larger to allow the LEGO guys to be used. Above are Jay’s first vintage Lego city buildings.

Now what are the LEGO Guys doing at Lionelville? Let’s see:

And at the Icing station work happens all day long!

Maybe more Lego guys will come into these pictures soon?

So now it is time for the challenge! Build your layout. Include trains, building block buildings and building block figures. Take pictures. Submit three of the best pictures to Trainscaping with Construction Blocks 2020. See the details below.

CONTEST RULES:

Send entry to [email protected].
A maximum of three (3) photographs of your layout will be accepted. Photo format must be able to be read by most browsers. Contest recommends using .jpg file format. No videos please.
Entry must be emailed no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on January 31, 2020.
Two winners will be selected. One from TCA Kids Club and one from TCA Teens Club.
Your eligibility will be verified against your member information on file.
Prizes will be provided by Coaster Dynamics.
eMail entry must contain youth’s name, TCA Kids Club member number (under 13) or TCA Teens (age 13–18) member number and youth’s T-shirt size. (See the TCA website to join TCA Kids Club or TCA Teens Club at www.nttmuseum.org/kids/index.shtml)
Only one entry per youth member will be accepted.
Entry layouts may use any and all gauges and manufacturers of toy trains, any and all building blocks buildings and figures, including the big-name brands and their “clones,” and anything else you wish to enhance your layout.
All entries become the property of the TCA and may be used in future publications.

LEGO® is a Registered Trademark of the LEGO Group.
Lionelville®is a Registered Trademark of Lionel Trademark LLC.

Shop Amazon and Help TCA

TCA members who shop at Amazon.com can have each of their normal purchases generate a modest payment to TCA! And it won’t cost you anything!

The Train Collectors Association is now a participant with AmazonSmile, which is a special website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com.

The difference is that when customers shop at AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), the AmazonSmile Foundation donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers.

The process is simple. Just search for and select Train Collectors Association when you sign up and shop at smile.amazon.com.

You use your regular Amazon.com username and password, but when you log in to smile.amazon.com, you’ll see that you are supporting TCA with your purchases:

Note that if you just log in to the regular amazon.com, this benefit does not operate.

There are no costs to either you or TCA, but TCA benefits!

This is a great way for TCA to earn extra cash to offset costs, so sign up today to help support TCA.

* Note: TCA is not a party to any of your Amazon transactions, and does not endorse any products or vendors.

Helping TCA with your ebay purchases when you use PayPal

If you’re an ebay user and have a PayPal account you use to make payments, you can designate a donation for TCA when you’re checking out — any amount, small or large.
If you’re a regular seller on ebay, you can pre-designate a percentage of your sales to be donated automatically in your name to TCA as long as the purchaser pays with their PayPal account.

In both cases, you will receive a donation receipt from the PayPal Giving Fund, and enjoy applicable tax advantages.

How to do it:

Click on the image above, or use this link. This will take you to ebay, where you will see the following page (log in to ebay if you are not already):

This offers TCA as an option. Click on the “Add to My Charities” button where indicated with the red arrow. Thereafter, when you make a purchase, at checkout you will be offered the option to make a donation to TCA in any amount of your choosing. Small amounts add up, larger ones are great! It’s always up to you!

The option will appear at the lower part of your checkout page, something like this:

If you’re a regular seller on ebay, you can allocate a portion of your sales proceeds to be donated to TCA. Look at the green arrow marked “Optional” above to see how to do it. Details on how ebay calculates the donation may be read here. This is a wonderful way to share the financial benefits of your hobby with the organization that promotes it!

An added benefit to TCA is that these donations are not subject to normal processing fees, so that makes your donation work harder!

* Note. TCA is not a party to any of your eBay transactions, and does not endorse any products or vendors. PayPal issues the receipts to you for your donation, not TCA.

LEGO® Bricks and Lionel® Trains, Part 2, LEGO® Bricks Meets Lionelville®

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