Bridge on Miek Gieben

LEGO Vertical Lift Bridge

Sun, 30 Oct 2016 11:12:07 +0000

I’ve bought two LEGO 76057 sets and combined them to create a vertical lift bridge.

It still needs a load of finishing touches, but it is working, although the alignment of the towers and the lift element itself needs to be very precise.

Bridge from the side.

Bridge from above.

Enjoy some (wonky) videos of the whole contraption.

Building Inclines and Bridges

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:04:37 +0100

Referenced here as a kind of book mark:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080705054916/http://www.ngltc.org/train_depot/inclines.htm

Rules listed there:

Rule 1: The steepest slope should change the height by no more that 2 plates per piece of track.
Rule 2: The angle of the incline should change by no more that 1 plate per piece of track.
Rule 3: Don’t have points at an inclined angle, they need to be flat.
Rule 4: There should be at least one length of level straight track between any point and any inclined piece of track.

The exact brick count is as follows, where x.y means x bricks and y plates.

Building a Train Bridge

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:17:22 +0100

The LEGO arrived! My first ever designed LEGO build and it worked :)

Also I was right about those top beams, weird off-by-one error while putting it together, but it works perfectly. The whole thing it light and yet sturdy. And trains pass under and on it.

Shot of the LEGO bridge.

Train riding on the bridge.

Previous photo looks slightly different, found small piece that I though was missing and made the top beams more perfect.

Triangular Warren Truss Bridge in LEGO

Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:27:12 +0100

Lately I have been playing around with LEGO (again). To pretend that I am an adult I’m designing models with Lego Digital Designer. It took some getting used to, but it is a nice tool. Also it runs perfectly in Wine (on my Mac running Linux).

I’m toying with a plan to build a LEGO train triangular Warren truss bridge.

Triangular Warren truss bridge: front view.

Not having build it, I can’t really say if a train passes under it (think it does), and if it is structurally sound (again I think so).