Fun Freestyle Train and LEGO build

Hi fellow Steemians and LEGO fans!

Had a really fun couple hours with our son building some awesome wooden train tracks as well as a really fun LEGO section. The weather here has been sunny thankfully but quite cold so once we cleaned the house, it was time to enjoy some building time!

Train Set Build

The first part we built were the trains. This one was pretty fun, we used 99.5% of our pieces, we seemed to have lost a riser, so that was unfortunate. We could’ve made another leg up somewhere!

This one was particularly cool because I’ve been trying to think of other ways to build them up instead of just the regular old track along the floor. I thought of it a couple weeks ago but haven’t had an opportunity to do it until now but we used some of the hundred or more books he’s got to have additional elevations and fun twists.

I thought it was also an awesome time to introduce the teddy bear to the mix! He provided some good height for the obstacle since his legs were just the right size to utilize a riser and a lower. Our son got a kick out of it too so that made it worth it to me.

Had to use all of the turns, we had lots of those left over after the end of the original layout was done. Can’t have spare pieces!

Teddy helping us out with his legs. Sorry bud!

Was fun to weave the tracks around the bridges. Would be cool to get bigger bridges so we can make ones that are a bit more intricate. Going to be on the docket for future presents for the little man!

The slow downward slope was cool to use, instead of just using a lowering piece. The books wouldn’t fit well together. We had to use something to help us out here, can you find it? First person to find it wins a little Steem for reading this, as well as finding it.

Legos build

The LEGO aspect of it turned out to be a lot of fun. I originally was going to do a bridge or something but changed my mind. I think what I did ended up being a lot cooler!

Wanted to have the right amount of height from the structure and the track below.

While I was doing a train track area build, he was making his building thats also got a cockpit lol.

I wasn’t entirely sure what the building would be. I only was thinking of a building outside of Boston, it’s a grocery store that is directly over a major interstate below it. Got some idea from that concept.

At this point I was going to make something for the trains below but I wanted to make sure I had the pieces to do it.

I found the awesome construction vehicle pieces that we used to build an excavator I think, not specifically sure which they came off of. Now I knew that I was going to make, a repair yard for the trains. The train yard was a little weird of a layout of two lines going to the same place so it was cool to get a spot for this. Go right for normal train stuff, go left if you’re broken!

The excavator pieces went well with the theme and I added some other features. There was a yellow and red light to signal a hazard area while people are working or a yield area when the trains are pulling up. That pipe pumps out the junk from the oil tanker cars.

The guys hard at work, really glad I was able to find some levers! This guys leaver controls a lot of things it seems, should have separated it out more. He’s got a switch below him that changes the machine he’s working with....

This guy has a lot of responsibility with the two levers. One moves the multi-arm up and down, the other one does the fine tuning of the fix-everything bit at the end of the arm. He also has a switch so he can then use the pump to the right.

Pretty awesome little device I think. Fixes anything you can imagine!

They have to have a little toolbox up in their space so they can fix anything that breaks. The bottom tool is this massive wrench, fell under the jackhammer now that I’m looking at it.

Building a new offshoot of the mechanical corner.

Our sons truck, connected by the very sturdy piece.

The foreman of the repair yard, he doesn’t do anything besides turn the wheel that turns his chair. He worked the yard for many years and doesn’t want to do anything besides give orders, so instead of a control panel he gets a wheel and a chair that spins.

The new addition to the crew. His tool is something that greases the wheels and joints of the cars. Grease guns are important!

The overall layout. The right side white thing is an X-ray machine. They use it to image the cars and trains to detect defects that need to be fixed by the big disc machines at the end. They fix anything wrong with futuristic technology.

The building has now become a spaceship where the pilot sits outside of the ship.

Little zoom out of the awesome LEGO and train repair station. Extra parts scattered as you would find in many repair yards.

Train incoming!

Let’s fix this thing, what seems to be wrong? The cargo car broke and dropped all of the radioactive rods into the river?

The foreman isn’t interested in that, he’s keeping the new guy on his toes on the left.

What do you think?

Let me know if you enjoyed the freestyle. We had a lot of fun building it, it’s fun being able to just use your imagination to put together random things. This was a combination of pieces from the Star Wars series, cheap dollar store stuff, LEGO city sets and lots of odds and ends. Share a build with me! I would love to see at least a picture of your builds, or a post.

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