RenRail — RenLUG’s Train Division operating LEGO® train layout and railway display

RenRail Interactive — Interactive LEGO® Railway Experience Featuring Sensors, Automation & Real-Time Audience Controls

Any LUG can run trains in a loop. RenRail Interactive is the infrastructure and programming to run trains that respond, route, and adapt.

RenRail

Build the world. Then run a train through it.

RenRail is where LEGO trains meet collaborative world-building. At select RenLUG events, members bring their own locomotives, MOCs, and ideas together to build something that moves — literally. Waterfront cities, winter villages, theme park scenes. Every event is a different world, engineered from scratch.

What We Do

Trains are one part of what RenLUG does — we’re a broad AFOL community, not a train club. But at select events throughout the year, members bring their locomotives, MOCs, and ideas together and build a world from scratch. Then run a train through it.

Past layouts have included waterfront harbor cities with working trestle bridges, winter villages, zoo and city streetscapes, and theme park scenes. The train connects it all.

Not every show. But when we set up, we build something worth stopping to look at.

Every layout is different. Every one is built fresh.

A different world every time

There’s no permanent display, no fixed design, no blueprint you have to follow. Each layout is a collaborative build — which means there’s always a problem to solve, a gap to fill, a scene that needs something only you thought to bring.

The train runs through whatever we build together. That part’s the fun.

The winter village layout has appeared at multiple Enchanted Knights Festival events — a completely different visual personality from the city layout.

How a RenRail layout comes together

Every RenLUG train layout is modular by design — members build their own sections independently, bring them to the event, and connect them into a single cohesive world. No two sections have to look alike. The standards exist so everything fits together when it counts.

Members build on 32×32 stud MILS baseplates with a green top layer for city layouts, white top layer for winter village, or tan for western & Space Port 1999 — the shared foundation that makes any section connectable to any other. Our double mainline runs 9v track, which means any powered train system works on it. Tunnel clearances, train widths, and height limits are all documented so your build shows up ready to run without surprises on setup day.

Before each event, the layout coordinator sends a call for participation — how many baseplates are you bringing? That’s how the layout gets designed around the space. Show up with your section, connect it to your neighbors, and watch the whole thing come to life. Full Train and Track Standards →

Got trains? Bring them. Don’t have any? Bring yourself.

Several members bring large personal collections to every RenRail layout — locomotives, track, and infrastructure are covered. What makes a great RenRail build is people who want to make something worth stopping to look at.

Whether you’re a dedicated train builder, a city MOC builder who wants to see a train run through your street scene, or just someone who wants to help engineer something cool at a public event — there’s a place for you here.

RenLUG membership is free. RenRail comes with it. Join the crew ↗

Find us at events

RenRail appears at select RenLUG events across Central Florida. Check our events calendar to see when we’ll have a layout running next.