zephyr1934

Welcome @L-Gauger, looking forward to seeing some of your MOCs. Your avatar hints at lots of details too small to see.

Oh, that's nice. If the geometry works that would be a slick solution. Then if you add the third 2x2 round brick on the bottom, to the left of your current assembly you are on to something. Remember that except at the ends, the bottom middle log is unseen so it gives you a small amount of space to hide your work. The round tiles in the middle of the logs will give you strength problems though. If you replace the 1x1 round plate with a 1x1 round brick you can do away with the tiles and it will be a lot stronger.

Back in the days of RailBricks, I had a column, "Reverse Engineering Challenge" that would present the result of a clever building technique for Lego train builders and challenge the reader to figure out how it was done. I am not building as much as I would like these days, but I will occasionally still come up with a clever trick or two. Last year I built this flat car for a static display my club put on. I was aiming for something that might have appeared in a Bill Peet book (e.g., the Caboose Who Got Loose). As built, the six logs just stacked on the car, which was fine for the static display. But I also wanted to be able to run the car hassle free, in other words, attach the logs so that they would not roll around or slide off. When viewed from the end, I wanted the logs to look like a clean stack in an equilateral triangle shape. As I quickly discovered (and am now sharing with you), building 60° angles in Lego can be a challenge. It took me quite some time, but I finally got it working in the past few weeks. This was handy enough I figured I'll share the joy and see if you can come up with some way of stacking six logs in this same equilateral triangle shape such that they are connected without looking too much like they are connected. There's no one right way to do it, but I'd enjoy seeing what you come up with. Please post your solution to this thread. Do not be inhibited if someone else comes up with a different solution or even the same solution as you did, share your work regardless. There is no prize beyond any meager glory this thread might offer.

Bravo!

Excellent to see more trains coming through BDP, and this is a great build

Since you are looking for tips, making a variant of the bridge that can span two tracks. Usually (but not always) stations only have a platform on one side of the track, with a common configuration being two tracks up the middle and a platform on either side of that. Another common configuration is a single platform between two tracks.

Always great to hear from more folks @domik, welcome aboard. And that's a very nice looking steamer that you submitted to the brick train awards

That narrow gauge sand train is truly a work of force. I think this is the first time I've seen a MOC use the hinge couplings too. Very resourceful.

It will be nice to have though. My first thought was: cool, too bad I don't have any dark red F-7's but that does open up older Soo Line and B&M. My second thought was, oh duh, I have the NS PRR heritage unit that would benefit greatly from these.

Wow! That's an impressive control system. Great work

Hum... this thread is on the new train sets in 2025, so it is not the right spot to ask about track layout software, but train tech is definitely the right forum. You could either start a new topic or post your question to the long running help thread: Please re-ask your question in one of those two spots (but since I'm already wandering off topic, I'll give you my personal answer here- I don't know of any good track layout for the Mac, but bluebrick says it is compatible with Macs) Meanwhile, welcome to train tech @Mattyn1

Another train bit in a city set in the "little bit of every sub-theme" 60473 The City Tower. Interestingly, it appears to have the metal axle wheels, but maybe that was just a CAD oversight on their part.

Oh wow, lots of tricky angles on that build. The curved slope wedges on the front are well played, I don't think I've seen that on a train build yet. Are those 1x1 rings around each light? Just one thing is missing, a render of the old next to the new.

The TV interview was great. The layout is top notch and it looks like it was a fun show.

Very nice, thanks @Toastie for the cross-reference

You are going to have a large 4-wide layout here soon. Top notch work. And on a practical side, looking at your models they really illustrate how much more space efficient transfer tables are compared to switches or a ladder track of switches. Of course they also limit how many cars or locomotives that can change tracks at one time.

You just keep knocking out these amazing builds!

That's a brilliant idea for a trains-city crossover set. And so well executed, the detailing inside and out is marvelous. Amazing work

Nice work @Kiwago

Notice the steam train mural on the 2nd floor patio/cafe, that's a nice touch. And a bonus surprise train in 76450 the HP book nook And its a 4 wide train too

It's got some interesting details... but I hate the name. A "central station" with only enough platform to load a single car on a single track?

That other straight track in 60470 is a re-railer. You can see it in some of the close up photos that were posted in the past few days. The set has now been posted on JB Spielwaren with high res photos. You can see the ramps on the outside of the rail to lift an errant wheel on the outside of the track And here's the lever part Looking closer at the rerailer, the outside ramps seems to come too early. The outside ramp starts one stud before the interior trap does, and the outside ramp ends one stud before the interior trap has pulled the wheel all the way to the other rail. Probably works fine when you have two standard wheelsets adjacent to one another- the first wheel pulls the second into place for the ramp, which then lifts the first wheel anyway. Could be an issue for wheels mounted on a technic axle or for roller bearing wheels are not tight on the axle, where the lateral force might pull the wheel off. I'm sure it works enough (probably more for simply putting the train on the track). At any rate, if it doesn't work great, it could be fixed with a few more bricks both between the rails and outside the rails.

Lots of great detailing inside and out. Though the union asks if there will be a bay window installed soon so that the station master can look down the line without having to step outside.

@Andy Glascott makes sense, still looks interesting and it would be neat to see layout photos of your shows that include some of these MOCs or would they be TOCs (their own creations)

Ah... Doh! Thanks for the catch