Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks

Modular Downtown Buildings

These buildings were made for the BayLTC train layouts. Fellow club member Kenny Paul and I agreed on a standard for the placement of Technic pegs to connect the buildings together. However, with practice it turned out to be easier to not connect them, but to just place them next to each other.

The pegs are placed in a 1×2 Technic brick with peg hole, at the 7th and 8th studs in from the street, at the 3rd and (optionally) 8th brick heights. In addition, pegs may be placed at the rear, also at the 7th and 8th studs from the edge. The backs and sides of the buildings are incomplete because they are not visible; the rule is that from street level to the 6th stud, and everything above 12 bricks in height, must be decorated.

The tan building has a removable wall on the right side. This allows it to be a corner building or to be in the middle of a series of buildings. The removable wall features a fire escape.



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Row of buildings, top view 20040101-0056 20040101-0060 Row of buildings, shuffled Tan building fire escape
Yellow and blue house White building, front White building, right side White building, rear White building, left side/top
20040101-0064 Yellow and blue house, rear 20040101-0066 Tan building, front Tan building, left side/rear
Tan building, right side/rear 20040101-0070 20040101-0071 20040101-0072
Row of buildings, top view20040101-005620040101-0060Row of buildings, shuffledTan building fire escapeYellow and blue houseWhite building, frontWhite building, right sideWhite building, rearWhite building, left side/top20040101-0064Yellow and blue house, rear20040101-0066Tan building, frontTan building, left side/rearTan building, right side/rear20040101-007020040101-007120040101-0072

Migrated from my old blosxom blog, formerly at bill.wards.net/blosxom on 2026-04-24

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