Interesting Lego train track

[snowvictim]

I found this video on YouTube in the "Related Videos" sidebar. Quite an interesting way of making Lego train tracks in my opinion, might come out cheaper than buying RC (but of course there's a bit of manual labour involved in assembling a layout and the fact that you can't change it around).

[UrbanErwin]

It has been posted before.

Still a very interesting idea

[obsidianheart]

My son watches a lot of videos from this user, and while their setup looks neat, I notice it derails pretty often. Which actually seems to be what they're going for at times.

[bjorkan]

I hate this train collisions, it always makes me quite sad. I never drop a brick intentionally from the table and I will NEVER understand this people, regardless type of tracks...

[harnbak]

Same here. What is the point of crashing them or driving trains into lego men? I didn't understand when my friends did it when I was 10 years (using my lego). Maybe, it is because of some sort of feeling of ultimate power or the power to decide fate or other's destiny... Anyway, it is better to live out that dream in lego than in real life ;-)

[zephyr1934]

For those of you not liking collisions, you better not watch this...

As for myself, the collisions make me cringe and I don't think I would deliberately do it, but it is always fascinating how others play with their lego. Meanwhile, after having way too many accidental table dives I also now know how robust Lego is and realize that these crashes are relatively low risk beyond the time it will take to rebuild.

[snowvictim]

I remember transporting my HE carriages across my room. The window pieces bent in and I lost grip, whole thing fell down. Had a mini heart attack.

You're right about the derailment, it happens a lot. But I noticed it happens mostly when the engine is running by itself.

[Redimus]

*All* of my table divers have been when the HE has bee under loaded. Built the loco, decided to give it a while before I built the coaches, right off the table it went. Due to space issues, ran it as a 2 power car (one powered) three coach set for a while, I over powered it in a corner, my mate forgot the points were against it and went the wrong way. Then I added a second motor, and a brand spanking new set of batteries, and drove it strait off the table again...

Since then, the batteries have dulled a bit and it's been able to maintain it's high speed over the curve safely, and anyway, due to it's awkward length and not liking multiple sets of Lego points since I fully articulated the whole rake of coaches, I've put it on static display for the time being.