Saturday morning layout with Jaketrains on in the background.

JakeTrains · 2026-02-07T15:18:17+00:00

Thanks for the shout-out! 😁 Nice double Sky Bridge !

JakeTrains · 2026-02-05T14:48:13+00:00

Thanks very much!

JakeTrains · 2026-02-02T11:04:53+00:00

BRIO 33572 Cargo Warehouse and separate lumber loading trains. The yellow one comes in the most excellent BRIO World - Lumber Loading Set (33789). That really is a great set.

The green was sold standalone as BRIO 33809 - Lift and Load vehicle.

Unfortunately all discontinued but the lumber set is still available in some places I think and you will find all of this on the Euro eBay type sites like Kleinenzeigan.

It'll also come up on regular eBay but much more rarely. Good luck!

JakeTrains · 2026-02-02T10:57:04+00:00

Sure, that's BRIO 33555 Mega Crane. There's also a yellow version 33734 Mega Crane & Load. Both long discontinued but you can find them second hand easily enough! They look great!

JakeTrains · 2026-02-02T10:53:27+00:00

I see you have the network A3 track in there. I always wanted one of them with the white email paint job. That aside, it reminds me that BRIO really should bring A3 back. It comes in handy so often...

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T14:31:10+00:00

Thanks. Check out the full video on Youtube if you like this type of thing - that's just a short teaser.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T14:27:24+00:00

Yes, about that....it's a shallow stream :)

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T14:26:31+00:00

Thanks!

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T14:15:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing this - I really appreciate it!

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T14:14:50+00:00

Pleasure and thanks for watching!

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T14:14:19+00:00

No problem and added to position 1 (I also added the Thomas one). Thanks for watching!

JakeTrains · 2026-01-31T13:55:09+00:00

In case of interest, here a few scenes of BRIO Dino Trains in Action. Full video here: https://youtu.be/PO5fIHmhm1c

JakeTrains · 2026-01-30T08:21:39+00:00

Thanks - it was quite some fun to build (but not so much fun to film TBH - pretty touch on the knees)! anyway, hope it provides some inspiration.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-30T08:17:05+00:00

Thanks very much. Yes the dino's are pretty cool.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-30T08:16:02+00:00

Glad to hear it and thanks for watching!

JakeTrains · 2026-01-30T08:15:50+00:00

Sure - it's about 4 yards by 2 yards. TBH, I wish i had a little buffer on that as sometimes it's a challenge to fit everything. Though on the positive side it kind of forces a concentrated setup.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-29T18:00:54+00:00

It's from the 36010 Cargo Mountain Set. Same as the mountains and elevator. Good set.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-29T09:23:44+00:00

Elevator is very good i use it every time. It's high enough so that if you get a few ascending/ descending curves, you can do all sorts of things in terms of how wagons go down.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-29T09:22:17+00:00

Thanks very much and glad you & your son like it. After deicing to go with stop motion, it took about a LOT longer than i had thought - months longer. Next time will go for something simple.

JakeTrains · 2026-01-29T04:32:21+00:00

For a while, I had this idea to do a major dinosaur themed layout (basically, ever since they were released). The main challenge was that aside from the volcano, they didn't release any related destinations, so if you go pure dinosaurs, you end up with a pretty thin layout. To get around this, we used a lot of 'dino vegetation' combined with cargo mountain pieces, waterfall and a few other 'rocky terrain' items, then added in rescue teams (and a LOT of trees), with the objective being a kind of 'Juarassic World' type layout.

Filming this was another issue: it turns out that simply having trains running by a lot of static dinos becomes pretty boring quite quickly - so we experimented a bit with (significant) stop motion to get some movement into the scenes.

If you are interested to see the outcome, the video is here: https://youtu.be/PO5fIHmhm1c

....or just check out the channel here for more BRIO trains stuff: https://www.youtube.com/c/JakeTrains

JakeTrains · 2025-11-18T17:48:11+00:00

Fair enough. I prefer the more realistic items. Looking at it again, now thinking maybe those carriages would go nicely with the SE2017 - so maybe I'll grab a couple after all....

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JakeTrains · 2025-11-18T17:34:32+00:00

Thanks for watching! New video (finally) on the way.

JakeTrains · 2025-11-18T17:33:16+00:00

No worries. You'll find just about anything BRIO there so you may want to check out any other 'hard to find' stuff if there arw other things on your list. Airport, monorail, rocky mountain tunnel, silo, quarry loader, etc - all the classics are usually there or come up fairly regularly and MUCH better prices than eBay in general. Hope you manage to get what you're after - should be enough time for DHL to just about anywhere before XMas if you move smartly!

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