At Bahndamm Drv.

[FiliusRucilo]

What the heck is going on in Snottingen? The Bahndamm Drive is just finished and immeadetly the yellow-citizens doing fun rides just there. What a scandal! Do they have noting better to do?

Today is a veried day for Operator Klaus Schrankenkurbler! Something's going on at his railroad crossing and Klaus feels like operating the world domination console.

A few hours ago Jacqueline from the Stadtwache has set up her radar trap type "Blitz-Dings"* near the noise protection wall. Several dreamy cardrivers already catched by the trap. Just now Jacqueline has stopped a very fast scooter and she's handing out "the mother of all speeding tickets".

Exactly 9 0'clock and 3 minutes. The train from Cross-Axleton is passing the rail crossing. Thanks god Snottingen Railways don't have to fight the four big enemys of Deutsche Bahn: Spring, Summer, Autum and Winter. In Bricks-Gau the weather is always cloudless an sunny. Today they drive the "Old Emerald" instead of using a newer diesel engine.

Familiar friends of Klaus waiting at the track barrier. Joe returns from the excavations of the archaeologists and Max Klebermann wants to go to the advertising column next to the crossing. Klaus wonder what kind of posters will be pasted today...

As soon as the train hass passed Klaus opens the barriers and traffic starts rolling. But what happens now? Jack "the chopper" Beilschleifer strikes again! The wonderful big spruce now lies across the railway tracks...

What a mess! Klaus alerts the fire department, helps himself to big mug of hot chocolate and then he'll do a nap after all this confusion. Hopefully the'll have removed the spruce from the tracks until the 01-15 train arrives...

Statistics

Oh ... my ...god! I don't really know how many parts this MOC have. It must be around 5200 over all. Additional the Emerald Night, Joes yellow vintage truck, Billposter Max and Jacqueline with her Blitz-Dings*.

I've created the MOC in November and December 2015 with LEGO LDD and built it in July and August 2016.

The barriers works and lights also. All steered by power functions. You can see it in the movie below.

The driver motor is placed in the electrical room below Klaus' operation room an linked to the barriers with cross axles and gears. The last centimeters of the way to the barriers i've used a rubber belt for saving space.

For putting the cables thru the lamp post, i've made a 2mm hole with a very very long drill. :-)

Link to the movie on Flickr.

*The german word for the MIB neuralizer.

Edited September 14, 2016 by FiliusRucilo

[Capparezza]

Wow. This crossing is awesome. Looks just like a real one somewhere in good old Germany (or is it called "Schland" now?). The bars even have that erratic movement as the real ones

The miniature model of the 7740 in Klaus' operator room is a nice little touch I missed at first, only spotted it later in your video.

Grüße, Cappa

PS: Please give Mister Beilschleifer some lesson on how to correctly chop down a tree... next time he might hit that "Old Emerald", and we don't want him to do that, do we?

Edited September 14, 2016 by Capparezza

[Man with a hat]

Stunning! What exquisitely detailed.

You made a brilliant crossing here. And the slow closing of the barrier is really well made and very realistic.

[Kodan Black]

A lovely and vibrant MOC. Great color choices and so much action throughout -- plus you wove a delightful narrative. Love it!