Celebrating Classics: A Tribute to the Blue Era

In 1966, LEGO released a small little train set to the European toy market, the first of its kind to feature track and a motor, titled "Motorized Train Set" (113). This little, admittedly ugly, locomotive and its blue-tracked predecessors paved the road for the Grey Era and the Golden Age of LEGO Trains in the 1980s, the hobbyist train sets that dominated the early 2000s AFOL market, the sleek and psuedo-realistic train sets of the Power Functions and Powered UP eras, and the massive communities of builders worldwide that love building their own models of trains out of an unconventional medium, LEGO bricks. My build is a combination of the features of several Blue Era trains (Train sets released during the 60s and early 70s, characterized by their blue rails) from the early days of LEGO train sets, given a sleek and realistic twist that is sure to please both fans of the heritage sets as well as the realism-focused side of the LEGO Train community.