cimddwc Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 (edited) Well, the Maersk train needed a home, so I built her one on four big baseplates, including a crane bridge, a tool shed, a building with repair shop, office and control room, as well as two simple long container cars and an old short one (not much to build there) and some containers. Edit: If you can't see any images here, it means that MOCpages is down once again – that's why I now uploaded them to Flickr, too. Featuring my container raffle Classic Space container, as well as pallets (left of the shed) shamelessly, erm, inspired by LT12V's station. Removing the rolling stock to show more of the tracks and ballast – you know, this is an old place that hasn't been used for the recent past and hasn't received proper maintenance. Now that, as my story goes, Maersk has purchased it, it gets refurbished – the building and the crane are already done, the ground is almost cleaned, but the shed's roof still needs some fixing, and the track maintenance set, erm, crew hasn't been released, erm, arrived yet to clean/replace the ballast. The crane's spreader is probably built more complicated than necessary, but my supply of new style Technic parts is limited (well, except for a few big sets that I don't want to take apart). It grabs the containers using some rubber bands which works surprisingly well... This guy enjoys chopping off the corner of the crane's buffer stop (otherwise the Maersk wagons wouldn't be able to pass): And a painter is finishing his job (the talks about a painter on the upcoming modular Pet Shop inspired a good way to do with fewer Maersk blue bricks...) » More photos on MOCpages Edited August 7, 2011 by cimddwc Quote
lightningtiger Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Gee, I wish the bar wouldn't be raise as much as tonight, a couple AWESOME MOC's over in the Star Wars forum and now this - okay, word is AWESOME and I love it ! This is what is missing from that set somewhere in between the train and that little container tractor ! That building in the background is perfect and so is the container loader/unloader too ! Great work 'cimddwc' and K.O.B. ! Quote
WesternOutlaw Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Wonderful! Great scene for LEGO's fantastic new locomotive. I love the building. This deserves some front-page attention. I may just be building my Maersk today. Happy Easter! Quote
Frankie Roberto Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Really nice that. How do the controls for the crane work? Quote
dr_spock Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Great job. All that Maersk blue on the building and crane to drool over. Quote
henryhotspurs Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 A freight terminal to envy for sure! Great work! Quote
Blackknight112 Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Nice work. I guess your mearsk has a really nice home. Quote
Gareth Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 That's a nice yard, I like all the little details with the painter and roof on the old shed. Great MOC 'cimddwc' I'd love to see your complete train set up if you have one. Quote
LEGO Guy Bri Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 Awesome freight yard 'cimddwc'. Terrific work on the gantry crane, I love that! There are wonderful details throughout this MOC. Really great work Quote
Spike Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 I'm fan of your work !! I'v in my project to make "Emma Maersk" with an APM Maersk Rotterdam, and (or) so, with my Maersk Train. I'm really fan of your moc, it will be very helpful !! Quote
L@go Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 This is great. I really like the tiled brick design around the doors of the main building, and all the details - all that ballast, and the look of decay on that unused length of track. But really: Everything about this is great. Quote
Fuzzylegobricks Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Very nice job! I love the crane, and all of the tracks. I should build a garage for the tractor eh? Quote
vgsprites Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Nice MOC cimddwc.I love the crane! I wish I had enough Maersk Blue to build my own crane. I also like the yard and the interesting back story to it all. Great job! Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Wow! This is an outstanding creation! I like the crane and its long path on the 4 wide stud railtrack The control box is simply beautyful with that colors and old architetture style! I like the details ...all the scene seems alive! Brilliant work! Quote
Piranha Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Wow, great work here, I really like the Maersk Building, and the loader Also you have to love the Maersk Blue colors, I just want the train more now and I know I have to wait it just came out and I need to get older sets first I also really like the TRU Container, is that a custom made one or from the Truck? And the Classic Space container is nice too. Thank you for sharing this with us Quote
gogocar Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Wow, this is amazing! The crane is my favourite part. Quote
cimddwc Posted April 25, 2011 Author Posted April 25, 2011 Thanks, everyone! Really nice that. How do the controls for the crane work? Well, the claws of the spreader are connected with rubber bands and held apart a bit by plates behind them, so you can carefully push the spreader down on a container or the container upwards, and the claws snap on the container. You can see the mechanism a bit better on some photos on MOCpages. The crank operates two threads (with the rubber band providing the friction to keep everything from rushing down) which, unfortunately, can slip from side to side on the spreader; there's some room for improvement... Everything else is just pushed along. Great MOC 'cimddwc' I'd love to see your complete train set up if you have one. I don't have the space for a full setup yet; I'll have a dedicated Lego room (for a train+town setup) in my new apartment, but construction work on that has only just begun, so it will take some time. I also really like the TRU Container, is that a custom made one or from the Truck? I turned both the Lego truck and its TRU sibling into container trucks – though instead of making two TRU containers like I did with the Lego truck, I'm saving the remaining white panels for a future building. Quote
MetroiD Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Great terminal - please keep expanding it! This could become one of the coolest dock/terminal scenes ever. I'd suggest adding the seafront next; and perhaps some more rails and a shunter... Don't get me wrong, I love it as it is, but I really feel that this MOC has huge potential to grow into an even more awesome layout :] Keep on container shipping! Quote
cimddwc Posted April 25, 2011 Author Posted April 25, 2011 Great terminal - please keep expanding it! This could become one of the coolest dock/terminal scenes ever. I'd suggest adding the seafront next; and perhaps some more rails and a shunter... I don't think I'll build a seafront/harbour. There'll be a passenger station (with long platforms) and some extra rails, plus lots of modular-style houses, but even my future Lego room doesn't have unlimited space. :) Only thing missing? The Maersk ship. Guess where all the Maersk-blue parts come from... Quote
F0NIX Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 (edited) Oh! You just beat me to it! I recently bought both the Maersk train and the Maersk boat. The boat had a lot of nice Maersk blue bricks and I immediate was thinking of making a loading crane and building with those bricks from the boat. I just have to add that this was a really nice container terminal Edited April 25, 2011 by F0NIX Quote
cimddwc Posted April 26, 2011 Author Posted April 26, 2011 Oh! You just beat me to it! And I feared I'd have to say that to someone. Looking forward to seeing yours... Quote
mrblue Posted April 28, 2011 Posted April 28, 2011 hmm... no good no good... now I have to make a large order to bricklink to copy your wonderful container terminal!!! don't see this as a bad thing, just think that if lego would make a set like yours I'll be the first one to buy it!!! really, no kidding. I plan to make a similar terminal for my future layout and since I'm a bit on the lazy way during the last period, I'll may copy some of your wonderful ideas! too bad there is not a "container terminal building contest" because you could get the first prize with no doubts! have a nice lego train day mrBlue Quote
Scorpio Posted April 28, 2011 Posted April 28, 2011 As others have noted, you have also beat me to it. Mine is in the works to be ready for Brickworld. I'm still waiting on several Bricklink orders. But I did expand the length of my containers to match what would be standard in the US. Regardless, your MOC will serve as an inspiration for mine although I doubt I'll go with the Maresk blue. Quote
cimddwc Posted April 29, 2011 Author Posted April 29, 2011 Thanks, again! But I did expand the length of my containers to match what would be standard in the US. With containers that big (40 ft models or even longer?), that looks like it will be a substantially larger terminal... another MOC to look forward to. :) Quote
Vincent Kessels Posted April 30, 2011 Posted April 30, 2011 That is a great terminal. I like especially like the stone work around the window and door of the main building. The use of that engine piece in the stone work is simply brilliant! Quote
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