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Hi all, While working on planning and starting to build my 80s city, I was wondering. What do you all use to connect street baseplates together? Eventually perhaps small buildings or trees, but especially at the early stage it's quite annoying they move around, 2x2 tiles fixes it for now. Just curious if you have smart ideas on connecting them.

Ah that's a perfect solution, thanks. I'll get some 1x12's, ideally in light or dark grey. Thanks again

Thanks, I didn’t know 1x12 existed :) if you have a picture that would be great

Hi all, I've noticed that my track cross (7857) bends down when a train drives over it. Unfortunately there are no 'stud connectors' at the bottom to make it stronger/funded. Any best practices on fixing this?

Good news, I've almost finished my layout and started to build today (inner track first). There's one small issue, because of the switch points, I end up with missing half a straight section. Any ideas how I could solve this one? Ah never mind, I fixed it by using a different point (L vs R)

Thanks, always good to have a 2nd pair of eyes

Hi all, After buying a batch of new 2x2 tiles in light grey, I noticed that the bottom is different then most of my 2x2 smooth tiles. I dug up a bunch of them in different colors, to compare their backsides. My question is, do you think the grey ones (far right) are real or fake legos? Rebrickable and some other sites showed different variants that came out through the years. Maybe my light grey ones are one of the variants. Any input is appreciated.

Thanks @zephyr1934 will give it a shot. Do you maybe also know about the 2 tracks with one transformer?

Here's some creative copy/pasting to show you what I mean: http://www.sierracosworth.nl/img/7777-shed-turning.jpg

Thanks @Murdoch17. I wonder then why you can turn half of the shed, with cables. In the book it looks like they let a locomotive drive into the 2nd part of the shed, stop it, then manually rotate the 2nd half of the shed and connector it to the other rails. So it’s basically turned around but on a different track.

A bit late to the party, but how does the yellow shed that folds, actually works to turn the train around?

One more question, if it would keep 2 tracks separated from each other, would I be able to power them using a single transformer? With cables from the transformer going to both tracks

Wow, great. Thanks for the advice and examples. Clear on the curves not being 4 pieces each

I played around a bit with Bluebrick and came up with this layout: http://www.sierracosworth.nl/img/2024-04-03-layout4-test.jpg But somehow at the top left (the 2 yellow circles), it doesn't perfectly fit/connect. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Some context; I'm planning for a track with up to 4 switches, 1 or 2 crosses and 1 or 2 signal/ stop lights (currently have one). Total of 3 trains, 2 on separated tracks (by switches) and one at the station likely (where I'd put my for now single signal/stop light).

Do blue or yellow 12v motors/housings exists?