Melbourne L-Gauge Train Club – AU - LUGS - Oceania 
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Loading...MLTC – presenting some of the largest and most amazing LEGO® fan train layouts in the southern hemisphere.
Melbourne L-Gauge Train Club (M>LTC) is a team of dedicated LEGO® fans that are committed to designing, building and presenting some of the largest and most amazing LEGO® fan train layouts in the southern hemisphere. Each of our members spends countless months creating buildings, bridges, Australian landmarks, vehicles as well as engines and rolling stock. We then develop innovative layouts that bring these amazing creations together to display at a variety of dedicated LEGO® fan shows and model train shows around Victoria that wow our audiences and attract many awards each year including “best in show” and “people’s choice”.
Started in March 2003, M>LTC has continued to grow in popularity and membership. Over the years, we have been a part of a huge number of shows including the Australian Model Railway Associations displays at Caulfield and Sandown, Inside the Brick’s dedicated LEGO® fan events and of course our huge, specially designed layouts at Brickvention each year. Recognised as a major drawcard, we are often placed strategically to ensure patrons can discover the amazing trains, cities and landscapes our club creates.
Our club membership is diverse, with many building ultra-realistic models that are designed to closely represent “real” trains. Several of our members focus on Victorian Railways, building the trains we remember from the early days of steam through to current metropolitan and country rail. We also build locomotives that are popular with the public such as Thomas the Tank Engine and the Flying Scotsman, among others. Current and past sets also appear on our layouts (often with a great deal more carriages), as we like to display how these, too, look great in a well-designed layout. Visitors to our displays love to comment and ask questions about the various trains on show, with questions ranging from, “Is that a set?” to, “How did you manage to build such a convincing R Class?”
The vast majority of our trains are run on the L-Gauge (or LEGO® Gauge) rails that are 6 studs wide. We use both the currently available system as well as the legacy systems that have since been discontinued. We have also developed a custom narrow gauge network that places tracks 4 studs apart on which we run some delightfully built narrow gauge locomotives, such as the popular Victorian tourist train “Puffing Billy”. We also have a large-scale Puffing Billy layout that incorporates a number of engines and carriages that are scaled treating the standard LEGO® train tracks as narrow gauge.
We love sharing our creations with the public and look forward to the many discussions we have with patrons and watching wide-eyed children marvel at our displays, telling their parents that they can’t wait to go home and build their own. It’s this enjoyment that strives to propel us forward and continue to develop our ideas for the future.
