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Well, if we take out a couple of seats then there's room for a door and for example this kind of layout with two tables:

Thanks for your comments. As I mentioned the idea started from the roof and because I wanted to build the roof entirely of the windshield elements, the length of the roof had to be divisible by 6 (studs). 36 was too much but 30 was okay but not optimal if there were normal bogies on each end of the car. Then I got the idea to make a two car system with a common middle bogie, which allowed the 30 stud roof length and still I could use a 8x16 plate as the bottom plate. Finally I decided to place easily available standard house doors in the middle bogie and the rest was just finishing the details. I'm very satisfied with the roof construction. It's quite rigid, has no tendency to bend as some plate structures do and locks in its place easily but stays very good in its place and makes the whole structure robust. Here's a couple of photos of the quickly-built loco. It has no details and no easily openable cockpit. Lights I built in it though. I tried to build it as low as possible and the black cover made mostly of two black plates 4x4x2/3 is there to make a suitable cover for the electrical connector.

Hello all, Recently I have been building something with Legos every year around Christmas time and in most cases it has been some train-related stuff. I have tried to use bricks available at Pick-a-Brick so that it would be quite easy to get the bricks to build the actual model. The Lego windscreen part 58181 has been continuously available and I have been trying to find a good solution to use it to build a roof for a double-deck passenger car. Here is the result: a 70 studs long and 8 studs wide creation which has room for 31 minifigures: I also built quickly a simple loco with about the same color theme. Here is the creation on straight track: Passengers can get in and out using the doors... ... and there is plenty of room for luggage in the compartments on each end: The roof sections are detachable to give access to the upper floor: Also the lower cabin roof is detachable to enable easy access to the lower cabin: The lower cabin has seats for 10 minifigures: I'm quite satisfied with the construction of the roof using angle plates to keep the windscreen parts in place: This is how the roof looks underneath: I also built some details to the model. The stairs to the upper deck can be seen here: Each upper deck has a drink dispenser: On the lower deck there is a place for washing your hands ... ... a machine from where you can get some drinks and snacks - and also a set of decent speakers to play good music ... ... and another drink machine: And of course there must be a lavatory... ... which has a traditional "direct connection" to outside, but is also equipped properly for cleaning your hands ... Because the lavatory takes some space the seats in that cabin are mounted a little closer each other so that 10 minifigures can still be seated: Finally in the middle section there is one sleeping berth which can be accessed by removing the roof: The berth has also a hatch to ensure playability: And finally here's a picture of the middle section separated from the main cars: Comments and questions are welcome

Nice to hear. I wanted to make a layout with ability to run two trains on separate loops and also optionally use as much as possible of the total track length in one loop. I downloaded AnyRail trial version and started to study different solutions. Soon I found out that a 4519 crossing was needed and so I bought one from eBay. The 50 element limit in AnyRail trial version was somewhat a limiting factor in performing calculations for which track elements would be needed but I calculated that the track elements from the sets mentioned above should suffice. The other 7895 was needed mainly to get additional 4 curved track elements but because I now had two additional switches I decided to modify the layout to include a side track where you can park a train for loading/unloading passengers/cargo while another train can run on the main track at the same time. The side track is also handy for parking a train or wagons when running another train on the main track. When building the layout I could use almost all available track parts so that only one flex element was left over. And when I managed to have all this in the very limited space that was readily available for this purpose, I am quite satisfied.

Hello all train fans! I just posted my introduction in "Hello! My name is..." and now I decided to show some of my train-related stuff. I'm quite new with LEGO trains because I started with 7939 which acquired for Christmas 2010 and for last Christmas I purchased 7938. I made a slight modification to the 7938 to make it look more streamlined. Here's the result: I "streamlined" also the 7939 engine and built a tank wagon using the 7938 roof elements: I also designed a passenger wagon with LDD and ordered parts for 3 wagons. There's a plenty of room for luggage below the floor and on the roof: Here's also a quick view of my track layout that fits perfectly in the 2x1,5m space that I currently have reserved for this purpose. The layout uses parts from 7939, 7938, 7896, 7499, 4519 and 2x7895: Happy train-ing! - Olli

Thanks, I've browsed the train forum every now and then already. Here's a couple of photos of my two recent models built of "leftover bricks" so the colors are unfortunately not just optimal...

Hello forum members & readers, I plyed quite much with LEGO in the 1970's and now I have started again with my children. My main interest has so far been the trains. In the 1970's I had some HO-scale trains too but now I decided to proceed with LEGO trains. This is a quick snapshot of my current LEGO inventory: I'll post more photos of my recent creations soon... Greetings, Olli (from Finland)