The LEGO Trains Book

The LEGO Trains Book — page 7
Acknowledgments On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of LeGO trains in 2016 i published my first book LEGO Eisenbahn Konzepte und Techniken für realistische Modelle now the english version The LEGO Trains Book is available after Jake Mckee’s book Getting Started with LEGO Trains this is only the second book entirely dedicated to LeGO railways and building your own train models i could not have made this book without the support direct and indirect from many people that i would like to thank here First i must mention Gabriel neumann from dpunkt verlag who came up with the idea and gave me the opportunity to create the book another big thank you goes to Tyler Ortman and riley hoffman from no starch Press who worked hard to make this book available for the international audience This english version wouldn’t have been possible without ronald Vallenduuk’s translation and Michael Gale’s reviews Both contributed their expertise to make this book a great resource for all LeGO train fans Thanks also to the numerous LeGO fans around the globe who create their MOcs and present them online even as a longstanding LeGO fan i still regularly wonder how certain details were created and i am always fascinated to see new creations Thank you to BrickLink shops big and small who supply me with the raw materials and who by parting out many sets make it possible to acquire large quantities of certain parts Thank you to all the invisible volunteers in the LeGO fan community who contribute to the various databases such as the parts catalog on BrickLink and the programmers and parts authors who create and update the open source virtual building programs Without them it would have been impossible to create my own building instructions a personal thank you to the photographers who let me use their pictures to create a link with the real world These photographers are Jürgen heegmann ralf hiesgen steffen rau Luis rentero armin schwarz and siemens aG www siemens com press x