Tiny train stations hold a big place in my heart!

BetaNotus has been working hard to put together a lovely series of microscale LEGO train stations from along the Philadelphia main line. While the real life train moves through space, Notus’ builds bounce backwards and forwards through time to show off Philly’s architecture through the ages. Our first image spans almost 150 years of railroading history. Wynnewood and Bryn Mawr date back to the 1870s, while Merion and Haverford are dated to the 2000s (although Merion was actually built in 1918). Due to the micro-scale nature of these models, Notus has built with admirable delicacy. All the roofs of these stations are only a plate or two thick. The grand staircases up to Bryn and Wynnewood are built of half-plate-offsets

For these four, spanning about 117 years of Phillie history, I want to highlight the thought Beta put into the chimneys. It’d be very easy to make them throw-away details and build them all to a pattern, but Beta managed to put unique touches on each of them. Rosemont features 1×1 round studs near the top of the smokestacks where Radnor has 1×1 plates rotated to 45 degrees from the rest of the chimney. Devon station features 2-wide brickwork pieces with a single stud on top (and the left stack is actually mounted upside-down), while Berwyn’s chimneys are made entirely from inverted studs mounted on some sort of hidden bar. That’s all from us, but be sure to check out BetaNotus’ Flickr for some more stations we weren’t able to cover here. And if you love microscale, you can take a tiny peek at the archive for more teeny LEGO doses.

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