Just after Christmas a friend of mine forwarded me this article about a mutual aquaintance of ours from college. It appears that there is a whole world of model railroading out there I knew nothing about. Constructing model trains from specialized versions of Lego bricks. In this case he had constructed a running model of a Shay locomotive, which is apparently considered something of an accomplishment among his fellow modelers.
http://www.railbricks.com/railblog-categories/steam-locomotives/147-oh-shay-can-you-see-part-iii
The one thing I am not entirely sure of, is what MRR scale these creations approximate.